Recently, we have made available for free download the DownloadTube website toolbar. It provides to DownloadTube users rapid access to the latest published information in the main website categories: Linux, Windows, Mac, Mobile, Drivers and News. DownloadTube Toolbar is compatible both with Mozilla Firefox web browser, as well as Microsoft Internet Explorer. (more…)

Downloadtube is probably for most of you “just another software directory”, one of the many you may find on the Internet. Well, things change. Soon you’ll have to admit Downloadtube is special. In the good sense of the word!

The first steps have already been made. Starting today, all the new softwares being reviewed by the Downloadtube’s team are thouroughly tested with two of the best antivirus engines, and the scan reports are available for anyone to see or copy to their website.  See here an example.

It’s been quite difficult to choose the antivirus engines from the many available on the market, but we finally managed to pick two of them, the ones that are most likely the best - Kaspersky and avast!. Why two antivirus programs? Choosing only one wouldn’t have been enough, choosing three would have been probably more than enough, the best two of them are just enough to provide a reliable report.

But that’s not the greatest part, yet. Downloadtube comes with something really special. Flash-based video presentations for the reviewed and tested softwares, showing in a clear way how that program installs and works, how its interface looks like, how fastly it loads and runs, etc. Why? Screenshots just aren’t enough to provide the user with accurate and reliable information about the program he/she intends to try. The Flash-presentations are simply the best option. They load fast enough, they show the user all what’s needed to be seen, they can be easily used by the software producers to promote their applications, etc.

You may see an example here - for the powerful yet freeware batch image processing (resizing images) and slideshow maker Imgares.

You might thing… “yeah, whatever, everybody brag about what they do”, everybody praise themselves”, etc. We’re not. We’re only presenting facts so far. But we’ll brag soon too, don’t worry

PS: Many thanks to those users and software producers who already noticed our new changes and appreciate what we are trying to do.