One of the worst things about starting fresh with a new reinstall of Windows (or a new computer) is that you have to hunt down updated installers for the software that you use.  I just stumbled across this great site which streamlines looking for software and installing it into one super quick process.

There’s really not too much to say about it honestly.  You go to their website, put a check mark next to the applications you want to install, hit the “get installer” button and then a small app runs (doesn’t even install itself on your computer)

It grabs all the software and silently install them for you.  I installed over a dozen apps in under 10 minutes!

Here a list of all the software they currently support or just go and check them out for yourself:

Web Browsers

Google Chrome Browser 3.0.195.27
Safari 4.0.3
Opera 10.00
Firefox 3.5.3

Messaging

Skype 4.1
Windows Live Messenger 2009
Pidgin 2.6.3
Digsby
Google Talk 1.0.0.104
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.23

Media

iTunes 9.0.1
Songbird 1.2.0
Hulu Desktop 0.9.8.1
VLC 1.0.2
The KMPlayer 2.9.4
AIMP 2.51
Audacity 1.2.6
Spotify 0.3.20

Imaging

Paint.NET 3.36 (requires .NET 3.5)
Google Picasa 3.5
GIMP 2.6.7
IrfanView 4.25
XnView 1.96.5

Documents

Microsoft Office 2007 Standard (Trial Version)
OpenOffice 3.1.1 (JRE recommended)
Adobe Reader 9.2
Foxit Reader 3.1.2.1013
CutePDF Writer 2.8

Anti-Virus

Microsoft Security Essentials
Avast Antivirus Home 4.8
AVG Free Anti-Virus 9.0

Runtimes

Flash Player 10 for other browsers
Flash Player 10 for Internet Explorer
Java JRE 6 update 18
Microsoft .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Silverlight 3.0

File Sharing

uTorrent 1.8.4
eMule 0.49c

Other

Dropbox 0.6.557
Evernote 3.1.0
BumpTop 1.1
Google Earth 5.0

Utilities

ImgBurn 2.5.0
CCleaner 2.24.1010
Launchy 2.1.2
Revo Uninstaller 1.83
Defraggler 1.14.159
RealVNC Free Edition 4.1.3
CDBurnerXP 4.2.6 (requires .NET)
Recuva 1.31.437

Compression

7-Zip 4.65
WinRAR 3.90

Developer Tools

Python 2.6.3
FileZilla 3.2.8.1
Notepad++ 5.5.1
Java JDK 6 update 18
WinSCP 4.1.9
PuTTY SSH client 0.60
Eclipse IDE for Java 3.5 SR1 (requires JDK)

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