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By: Johnny Karp

Johnny Karp — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:02:47 +0000

Daniel, I’m not a philanthropist but a journalist. But if you consider what they pay me for that you can say I’m a philanthropist, you might be right

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:30:31 +0000

Hey Johnny,

U r a philanthropist. Keep it going , bi for now.

By: Johnny Karp

Johnny Karp — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:54:13 +0000

Daniel, thanks for the kind comment. I’m not a programmer, software is just a hobby for me. I’m a journalist covering human rights and social issues and stuff like that

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:13:58 +0000

Hey Johnny,

U Know what, I really liked your site a lot….. It gives such a good information about all the most used software …that too free. I really appreciate ur work. Its such a good thing ur doinig to the world. I could get information about almost all the software which are mainly useful. Thanks once again on behalf of everybody whom i Knew. Are you a programmer, I mean r u working for any IT company, or its ur hobby. Just curious.

By: Johnny Karp

Johnny Karp — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:52:50 +0000

@Daniel
I agree that both programs have flaws but overall I think that Software Informer is better, maybe just for the fact that it detects almost all the programs that are installed in my PC, which Update Notifier obviously doesn’t.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:25:41 +0000

Hey Johnny,

You know what, from the tests that I have done through Software Informer, I have noticed that its showing 8 wrong updates, which are Lenovo system update, real player, Google talk, Internet explorer to name a few. When I googled after seeing the updated version numbers, those are related to either Windows Vista or some other version whereas I am using WXP on my Lenovo laptop. For example, I have real player 11… something and its showing as 12… I went into the real player site to see the latest version and its rite thee is no 12 version there. I do not know which version it picked and showing in the result. Another example is google talk, its showing as 1.00.05 where as google has launched only 1.00.04 and same for power manager lenovo update, its showing vista’s version of power manager. I could figure it after going into the lenovo’s site and verified the versions with wxp version its the latest. YOu know what its not even showing the skype update whereas filehippo is showing an availble skype update (beta), i have checked show beta versions in software informer. So both the packages have flaws in them . Do let me know if you have any concerns.

By: Johnny Karp

Johnny Karp — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:38:42 +0000

@Daniel
If you ask me FileHippo’s updater is not even in the same league as Software Informer…

By: Patrick B

Patrick B — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:44:04 +0000

I found Update Notifier to be more thorough and flexible than FileHippo, Secunia’s PSI, or SUMo. However, I found 5 days ago that cleansofts.org website is not responding. I hope that is a temporary situation.

By: daniel

daniel — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:49:47 +0000

Hey guys,

I used to have filehippo earlier, after readin this page. I have just downloaded software informer to check, and I couldnt believe it got 23 updates out of which I knew 8 of them and dint update, but still it could show 23-8=15 new updates which the filehippo couldnt figure out. So filehippo guys, if u check this page, u need to work smarter