Sunday, May 27, 2012

Conloco: Batch-Download & Install Free Software And Check For Updates....GOOD ONE !

How often do you have to reinstall your Windows OS? If it’s one of those tasks that you frequently need to perform, then you must’ve gone through the process of downloading and installing all your favorite applications and system utilities. Wouldn’t it be convenient, if you could download and install all your favorite programs from a single place? Conloco is an open-source program, designed to keep an eye on latest (and most popular) free software, displaying a catalogue from wherein you can download them in batch. In addition, it also keeps a check on latest software updates and notifies you if a newer version of the program is available – thus saving you the headache of manually updating each program. Details to follow after the jump.

To get started, launch the application and you will be presented with a simple looking UI, showing a list of available applications on the left side. All the applications are present in  Catalog section, click on an application and you will see its brief Description, Author name, Website as well as Current and Installed versions. You can install all the selected applications in one go. Just mark the applications that you want to download and click Download and Install on the quick access bar (or select Actions > Download and Install from the menu bar) to start the process.
Conloco
A dialogue window will pop up, displaying the currently Running Jobs (i.e. applications that are being downloaded). Just sit back and wait for the process to finish or you may halt it anytime by clicking the Cancel button.
Running Jobs
As of now, Conloco doesn’t have a massive list of applications. The only worthwhile we found were Firefox, Gimp, Notepad++, VLC, Thunderbird etc. Hopefully, developer will add more applications to the list in future updates. The program works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Download Conloco