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The mini PAD (Portable Application Description) Submitter is for submitting PAD files to public submission sites. A PAD files contains contact information about the author, details about a program you wrote for sale and its price. It can also describe a free program. The Mini Pad Submitter applet below will submit your PAD to 66 PADsites where to let the public know about your program and where to get it. The advantages of Mini Pad Submitter over other similar programs are:

• You are not required to install any software on your machine, (though you can optionally).
• CMP (Canadian Mind Products) checks all the submission websites daily with Xenu/BrokenLinks to make sure they are still operational and removes any deadwood from the list. Unfortunately, some sorts of malfunctioning site can slip through that process. If you find any, please let me know.
• No hassle setting accounts or passwords or key any hard-to-read captcha security codes.
• All is completely automatic. All you need to supply is the PAD url.
• This program avoids submitting to sites that have onerous restrictions such as demanding a back link.
• The program is free.
• The program is open source (full Java source code provided for you to study or modify).

There were at one time over two hundred hassle-free PADSites, but they have, one by one, gone out of business. I think part of the problem is the new ASP (Association of Shareware Professionals) centralised control of PADs (Portable Application Descriptions) has removed competition.

To resubmit, submit to only selected sites, or submit without using a browser, download Submitter and use the companion SubmitBatch program.

Java Requirements and Troubleshooting

See this list of response codes to interpret the results.

If you turn on the Java console, you can view the log of how the various websites responded. Normally you just get to see them until you submit another PAD.

You can also manually submit to this list of important distributors. Normally you should only have to submit only once. The website will check your PAD periodically for any changes.

If you download, there is included a batch version of the program called SubmitBatch that lets you submit a large list of PADs unattended. See the documentation on how to use it.

Rant

The pad submission sites in general are outrageously rude and go to extreme lengths to pointlessly hassle programmers trying to help them by giving them software to list. They waste programmers time with all sorts of means to defeat automation, including Captchas, proprietary category schemes, forcing the programmer to pointlessly rekey fields already in the PAD. This is insulting and demeaning and in incredible waste of time of highly skilled people. Programmers have much better things to do that play mother may I mind games. Sites demand payment. They demand back links. They defeat the point of PADs by inventing their own validation rules.

They are making money off the programming efforts of others but act like Queen Elizabeth I wanting everyone to kowtow to them. Without programmers, they would have nothing to list. They would have no visitors and no advertising revenue.

The sites the mini PAD Submitter uses are the considerate ones that don’t go out of their way to make submission difficult.

Download information for Mini PAD Submitter

Package	Version	Released	Licence	Language	Notes
Mini PAD Submitter	26.3	2017-03-30	free	Java	❘ precis ❘ screenshot ❘ browse source repository for the current version of Mini PAD Submitter. Submit ASP PAD program description files to 66 PADsites. 4.1MB zip for Mini PAD Submitter Java source, compiled class files, jar and documentation to run on your own machine either as an application or an Applet. Runs on any OS that supports Java e.g. W2K, XP, W2003, Vista, W2008, W7-32, W7-64, W8-32, W8-64, W2012, W10-32, W10-64, Linux, LinuxARM, LinuxX86, LinuxX64, Ubuntu, Solaris, SolarisSPARC, SolarisSPARC64, SolarisX86, SolarisX64 and OSX. First install the most recent Java. To install, extract the zip download with WinZip, (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often J:\ — ticking off the use folder names option. To check out the corresponding source from the Subversion repository, use the TortoiseSVN repo-browser to access submitter source in repository with [Tortoise] Subversion client on wush.net/svn/mindprod/com/mindprod/submitter/. After you have installed the jar, you can run it as an application. Type: java -jar J:\com\mindprod\submitter\submitter.jar adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is. download ASP PAD XML program description for the current version of Mini PAD Submitter. $1989.00 US donated so far. If the CMP utilities solved your problem, please donate a buck or two, or donate to one of the charities featured in the footer public service ads throughout the website and get a tax receipt. Mini PAD Submitter is free. Full source included. You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified in free/commercial open source/proprietary programs that you write and distribute. Non-military use only.

PAD Sites with No Hassles

PAD Sites with No Hassles
Logo	#	Home	Submit	Notes
	1.	2Software
	2.	AbabaSoft
	3.	ABCDatos		In Spanish.
	4.	ABDownloads		Languages supported include Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukranian.
AllSoftWares	5.	AllSoftWares		nologo
	6.	AppDown
	7.	AskedFiles
BigDreamSoft	8.	BigDreamSoft		They have not customised their site with a logo.
BizPep	9.	BizPep		They have not customised their site with a logo.
DeSoftList	10.	DeSoftList		In German.
	11.	DownloadBy
	12.	DownloadReady
	13.	DownloadSpin
	14.	DownloadTyphoon
	15.	Download100
	16.	Download11		Ranked in the top 100.
	17.	Download3K		Ranked in the top 30.
	18.	Download3KDe
	19.	Download3KEs
Download3KFr	20.	Download3KFr		In French.
	21.	Download3kRo		In Romanian.
	22.	Download4You
	23.	DownloadoManiac
	24.	DownloadsArea
	25.	Downloads2
	26.	EuroDownload
	27.	Evocero
	28.	FastShareware
	29.	Fd4a		Ranked in the top 100.
	30.	FileCluster		Ranked in the top 30.
	31.	FileDir
	32.	FileProfile
	33.	FilesGuard
	34.	FindSoftNet
FindSoftwareeu	35.	FindSoftwareeu
	36.	ForMac		Macintosh only.
	37.	FreeSafeSoft
	38.	FreeSoftwareSharewareDownloads
	39.	Freeware1
	40.	FreewaresZDown		Freeware only.
	41.	ImFreeware		You must select a proprietary category for the PAD. You can leave out the proprietary category, and it still works.
	42.	MyDownloadPlanet
	43.	PlanetSofts
	44.	RaritySoft
	45.	RecoveryReview
RuSoftList	46.	RuSoftList		In Russian.
	47.	Sharewareville
	48.	SoftFolder
SoftListWs	49.	SoftListWs
	50.	Soft112		Site was off the air for a while, but it is back.
	51.	Soft321
	52.	Softholm		Ranked in the top 100. In Russian.
	53.	SoftwareBee
	54.	SoftwareKB
	55.	SoftwareWagon
SpotPig	56.	SpotPig		They have not customised their site with a logo.
	57.	StandaloneInstaller
StyleXP3x	58.	StyleXP3x		They have not customised their site with a logo.
	59.	Swdb
	60.	TelechargerZ		In French.
TeraByte	61.	TeraByte		They have not customised their site with a logo.
	62.	TwoBrothers		Not recommended. MalwareBytes says it is malicious. They bar you if you submit a PAD more than once, even if it has changed.
WebContentSolutions	63.	WebContentSolutions		They have not customised their site with a logo. might not really be a padsite, even though it has pad submit form
	64.	Windows10Compatible		Windows 10 only
	65.	YankeeDownload		Ranked in the top 100.
	66.	ZDown

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