Alpha Technical Solutions » Alternativeto.net http://www.alphatechsolutions.co.uk/blog Making Technology Easy Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:02:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Tip of the Week: Finding Software with Alternativeto.net http://www.alphatechsolutions.co.uk/blog/2009/11/tip-of-the-week-finding-software-with-alternativeto-net/ http://www.alphatechsolutions.co.uk/blog/2009/11/tip-of-the-week-finding-software-with-alternativeto-net/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:47:47 +0000 robert http://www.alphatechsolutions.co.uk/blog/?p=29 Here’s the scenario and it is one that every computer user has faced at some time or another. You need some new software, but you have no idea what to get. I mean how can you be sure that what you are about to buy or download will be any good? This is where alternativeto.net comes in. At its simplest alternativeto simply collects user votes for their favourite software, in similar fashion to the way many shops offer customer reviews. However this is not the genius of Alternativeto. That part comes next. You see for every piece of software on the website there is a list of alternatives to it. This way you can see who has voted for what and you can see alternatives that may very well suit you better.

It’s a one stop software discovery shop.

Alternativeto covers software for WIndows, Mac, and Linux.  It also has a cloud computing section for web  based applications. Giving it coverage of all major software platforms (excluding smartphones).

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