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Who doesn't love downloading software? More than 2 million people visit this site regularly each month to download games, cookbooks, screensavers, drawing programs and everything else--lots of it for free--for Windows, Mac and Palm computers. VersionTracker also sells a $50 desktop program that alerts users to new updates of their existing software. That might sound like a luxury, but for the cognoscenti it can be a necessity: such updates often resolve conflicts and glitches that can cause computers to crash frequently.


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