CNET’s TechTracker can help you keep your installed softwares up to date.

Earlier we mentioned about AppFresh, a fantastic looking software updater, that’s only available for Mac users. It’s greatly functional and handy. So when I came across TechTracker, which is available for both Mac and Windows I thought of bringing it to your attention – particularly to those of our readers who use Windows.

TechTracker, from CNET, is a free software that scans your computer for installed softwares and let you know of any new updates available for those softwares. It doesn’t have that many bells-and-whistles when compared to AppFresh but it does a decent job of finding the softwares that are out of date.

Visit CNET TechTracker website and register for an account with them if you don’t have an account or you can use Facebook Connect to login.

Once signed-in you can download and install the TechTracker app.

Once installed TechTracker automatically scans your computer for installed softwares. It was surprisingly fast to come up with the list of installed softwares.

TechTracker lists all the installed softwares along with the version numbers, the date the latest version got added to CNET Downloads and a clear indication of whether the software is “Out of Date” or “Up to Date”. If it is “Out of Date” then it provides you an option to download the update from Download.com.

You can use the “More Info” button to find out more about the popularity of the update, the file size, the total number of downloads etc.

You can use the “Settings” button to subscribe to email alerts for a particular software.

Or you can use the “Software Alert Preferences” to receive email alerts when new software updates become available for the installed software. Ideally this should be done automatically but at least getting an email alert about your out of date software is not a bad alternative.

Even though TechTracker is no way in a position to be compared against AppFresh the advantage that this brings in is mostly for the Windows users. It does a similar job of what AppFresh do but can do the same job on both Mac as well as Windows platforms.

Download TechTracker.

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