What is Tucows?
A huge archive of freeware, shareware and demo software, all of which can be downloaded from this one website. Tucows also reviews the software by giving it a brief overview and a rating between one and five cows.
So what?
Well rather than go out and spend hundreds of ... Read review
Advantages: free, quick, easy to use Disadvantages: no user rating, search always takes you to main site
What is Tucows?
A huge archive of freeware, shareware and demo software, all of which can be downloaded from this one website. Tucows also reviews the software by giving it a brief overview and a rating between one and five cows.
So what?
Well rather than go out and spend hundreds of pounds on the latest software apps, there is normally a free product that does the same thing on Tucows. It also saves searching around ... ...Tucows instead.
What about download speed?
Tucows has hundreds of mirror sites setup around the globe; so you can pick a mirror near to where you are and nearly always get a good download speed. Infact the mirroring with Tucows is done in a very clever and painless way. You go in to Tucows, search for your product, choose to download it and then you choose which mirror to download from. The mirrors are also rated by how often ... more
What is Tucows? A huge archive of freeware, shareware and demo software, all of which can be downloaded from this one website. Tucows also reviews the software by giving it a brief overview and a rating between one and five cows.
So what? Well rather than go out and spend hundreds of pounds on the latest software apps, there is normally a free product that does the same thing on Tucows. It also saves searching around the web for software; just simply do a search at Tucows instead.
What about download speed? Tucows has hundreds of mirror sites setup around the globe; so you can pick a mirror near to where you are and nearly always get a good download speed. Infact the mirroring with Tucows is done in a very clever and painless way. You go in to Tucows, search for your product, choose to download it and then you choose which mirror to download from. The mirrors are also rated by how often they are updated each day.
Is it just for windows? No, not at all, you can currently get software for Linux, BSD, win 9x, win 2k, win16, Mac, os/2 and PDAs. You can download Linux distributions, games, office software, Internet software, network software and just about anything else you can think of.
Is it easy to use? Very straightforward to use, you can simply search on the front page or go into a category for an OS, which will direct you to a mirror that only has software for that OS.
Any criticisms? There are only two criticisms I have of Tucows. The first is when you choose a category and you then chose your nearest mirror, if you perform a search from this page, you are directed back to the main server instead of staying on your mirror server. This tends to be time consuming and a little annoying. Secondly, Tucows lacks any user opinions of products and although it offers detailed reviews on featured products, it would be useful to have them for everything
Conclusion Tucows is a very useful website and is usually the first place I go to for new software. It is easy to use, very quick and has a huge amount of software to download. It could do with having user opinions and ratings, but I guess we have Ciao! for that. If you haven't tried Tucows yet, I thoroughly recommend giving it a go.
Advantages: You can get all the software you need here Disadvantages: Nothing
There are many sites that offer shareware and freeware , but TUCOWS is one of the granddaddies of them all. It has been around since I've been using the web and lives up to it's contrived acronymic name (The Ultimate Collection Of Windows Software).
~~Where is It?
www.tucows.com , but there are many mirrors throughout the world, so wherever you are based you will be directed to a local site that will provide you with fast downloads.
~~ What Has ... ...the following main headings:
Windows 2000
Linux
Games
Windows 95/98
PDA
Themes
Windows NT
HTML
Tukids
Windows ME
Macintosh
Office
Windows 3x
BeOS
Net Casino
Unix Themes
OS/2 So whatever operating system you are running, TUCOWS will have something for you. Whether you want it or not is a different matter. The site is well laid out and allows you to drill down each category to find what you want. Obviously Mac software does not run ...
mikeydred 17.04.2001
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Advantages: excellent site Disadvantages: there are none
Around the internet there are many downloads sites. If you re looking to update the way your computer looks, you could spend hours searching for the right site! Whilst browsing around aimlessly I found that there is a site dedicated to software that will help you change the way your computer looks, as well as a huge archive of music and other software! WWW.tucows.com!
*layout*
Tucows is set out to look like a search engine! It has your search bar, ... ...The text is all easy to read, and relevant to the software download theme! The dominant colour is blue, this helps to show where each section begins. On the left hand side of the page is a section called "Toolbox". This is a section that enables you to contact the makers, sign up for newsletters and generally find things out. Beneath that is a scetion called "cool stuff". This has all the things you need to give your computer a new look. Screen savers, ...
demongit 07.03.2001
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Advantages: good range of downloads Disadvantages: navigation a little strange
...and don't read on. Tucows.com as you might think, well I thought it anyway!, about Cows, damn shame, it is actually an internet download resource centre much like Download.com (provided by CNET). In many ways this is a very similar site, apart from the fact that it has cows in its logo, cool!
~~What can you Download?~~
This is a good question to ask, for a short answer you can download a load of software! For a longer, more in depth answer please ... ...and different parts of the Tucows.com website to get news etc...
~~Regions~~
When you start searching for software the first thing that Tucows.com does is to ask you which region of the world you are in. From this you can select the country which you reside in and then select a mirror site from which to download from, to my surprise there was one located just down the road from me, cool!
~~Searching~~
The searching facility that is provided on ...
ia_young 17.04.2001
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Advantages: Fast site lots of mirrors, Great web design Disadvantages: No Drivers
Well my first experiences of Tucows.com was very good, very good indeed. They certainly know how to look after the general net user. I would not say that this site was for total beginners but for anyone with even slight net knowledge will find this site more than usefull. This site has everything you would expect from a download site. It has shareware, tools, utilities and themes. everything the more "major" download sites have. I have not yet found ... ...me or not I say this is not major only because I only heard of this site well after Zdnet and Cnet which are more reconised throughout the net comunity. What I really love about this site is the amount of Mirror sites it has. The UK has loads of mirrors and the rest of the world is covered aswell, with sites in Africa and Asia, this may be no use to you but it shows how dedicated to qulaity the team at Tucows are. I think that this is because of ...
thepanther 20.09.2000
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Advantages: Very fast searh and download Disadvantages: Little in the way of "homegrown" software
Tucows is a great search engine for finding downloads that companys have but samples or freeware software on so the general public can compare different software. I tried using after a had a few recomendations for tucows from freinds who said it was good. Although the layout is very easy to use, and it allows you to choose your download server making the system faster i have found that the range of amateur software available is limited, and with ...
Moke 23.07.2000
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