I often find myself wondering if there is a freeware application of something I may be looking on any particular day. I’ll Google hunt, but sometimes I can spend more time than I want looking for the application than it’s sometimes worth in the end. I can also search some of the mega-download sites but then I get peppered with shareware. I just need something easy and I’ve found it. The new way for me to find freeware is to use Eagle of Liberty’s XTastes.

With XTastes, you can browse categories and then drill down to a specific application. At this level, you can see its latest version number, size, the date it was updated, and you can leave a five star scaled rating if you’d like. More information about the program is just a simple click away with full details on the app including a link to the authors website.

XTastes also allows you to use CoverFlow if column view ain’t your thing. In this mode, you get a large icon of the application with a drop down drawer containing application information…in French as it were for us. Hopefully us English speakin’ folk will get an update to that real soon.

So if you’re looking for an easy way to find some freeware and you don’t wish to open your browser and wouldn’t mind a snazzy interface to do it in, whelp, hit the XTastes, baby. Oh ya, it’s free.