I remember hearing about it some months back, but for the life of me, I can't remember what it was called, and searching for it hasn't been fruitful.

It's a tool for queuing up downloads, for use after reformatting a computer. It's pretty much an auto-executer, where you can tell it what to download + install, start it up, and go to bed.

Has anyone heard of this, or know where I can grab it?

Thanks!

[Edited on July 28, 2011 at 5:22 PM. Reason : .]

7/28/2011 5:22:13 PM

http://installpad.com/

this was like 2006:
http://lifehacker.com/211373/geek-to-live--automatically-download-and-install-your-favorite-software

[Edited on July 28, 2011 at 5:43 PM. Reason : .]

7/28/2011 5:42:17 PM

http://ninite.com

This is good for new computers.

7/28/2011 6:32:54 PM

I recently subscribed to Ninite Pro and don't think I could ever live without it. Cached downloads of all their apps saves so much fucking time.

Residential consumers should look into their new Updater app. It's like 10 bucks a year and automatically keeps everything up to date. Namely your big exploit prone apps: flash, reader, java, etc

7/28/2011 7:19:24 PM

there are three programs that also do this and are free

CNET TechTracker (makes you go to a slow-loading TechTracker page and bombards your e-mail with alerts, but does allow scanning as often as once every 4 hours)

FileHippo Update Checker (makes you go to a website to see your updates)

Secunia PSI (auto-downloads the updaters and even sometimes installs the updates for you, but only does security-related updates and has some serious lag time after the updates become available)


CleanSofts UpdateNotifier also once did this but stopped updating its own database

7/28/2011 8:36:23 PM

Thanks guys!

7/28/2011 8:38:43 PM

I just found another one: http://patchmypc.net/

7/31/2011 8:29:40 PM