First, let me say thanks as well, as I like your product and have sent people your way when they ask about something like for local software.

If publishers want to make updating their software artificially hard there's not a lot we can do except trust that people will see what's going on and move to other products. Actually, until last summer that was about the only way for people to install Flash with a screenreader.

We also run to help visually-impaired people manage software. Our $9.99 home Updater product is just something to point home users at when they ask to donate to us. We save people from about 15 minutes of mindless installer work every second. Our website is completely free (and ad-free) for home users. On profits XOR good: We do make money, but we also work really hard to do good as in If those apps removed their toolbar offers people would still use Ninite to track updates and automate work. We actively uncheck toolbars for maybe 5 apps. Our value is keeping the catalog up-to-date and putting a nice interface around the updating process. In fact, if my editors let me use “Hell Yes” as an option, I’d say, “Hell Yes!” You don’t need to be an audiophile to recognize the sound difference in the higher-quality versions Spotify and Apple Music premium subscribers get, plus no ads and the freedom to listen to your music anywhere? Sold.First I want to say thanks! We love your work at and send people there whenever they ask us to add portable software.

Is it worth it to upgrade to a paid version? Spotify, meanwhile, is an all-you-can-eat streaming service with millions of top-tier tunes available, all for free if you don’t mind listening to a few ads. The iTunes Windows client notoriously sucks, but it gets the job done-and that job includes giving you access to a vast universe of premium music downloads and keeping your iPhone’s music library synced with your PC. For musical neophytes I recommend two programs: iTunes and Spotify. The exact music client you’ll want will depend on whether you’ve already bought into a service, naturally. Sometimes, blasting tunes is the only thing that makes slogging through a spreadsheet or a stuffed inbox even remotely tolerable.

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