Ninite installer in action
Here’s a great tip to save time and effort if you want to install or update your regular (freeware) apps all in one go: try Ninite!
Ninite is a free service that offers one simple installer for your selected apps, all in one installer. No questions asked, no hassle, no unwanted adware or spyware.
You can download it from Ninite.com, where there’s even a Linux version available.
They encourage users to send in tips about more free software to add to the Ninite installer, so if your app isn’t on the list right now, it might be if you let them know about it.
Web Browsers:Firefox Chrome Opera Safari |
Runtimes:Silverlight Flash Flash (IE) Java .NET Air Shockwave |
Security:Essentials Avast AVG Malwarebytes Ad-Aware Spybot Super |
Messaging:Skype Windows Live Messenger Pidgin Digsby Google Talk Thunderbird AIM Yahoo! |
Imaging:GIMP Picasa Paint.NET IrfanView XnView Inkscape FastStone |
File Sharing:uTorrent eMule |
Media:Spotify Winamp VLC iTunes Songbird Hulu KMPlayer AIMP foobar2000 Audacity K-Lite Codecs GOM CCCP MediaMonkey QuickTime |
Documents:SumatraPDF Office OpenOffice Reader Foxit Reader CutePDF LibreOffice PDFCreator |
Other:Steam Google Earth Dropbox Evernote KeePass Everything Mozy |
Utilities:ImgBurn CDBurnerXP TeamViewer CCleaner Auslogics Defraggler RealVNC TeraCopy Recuva TrueCrypt Revo Launchy Glary Speccy InfraRecorder |
Compression:7-Zip WinRAR |
Developer Tools:FileZilla Notepad++ PuTTY Python JDK WinSCP Eclipse |
