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A PAD file is Portable Application Description file. It 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 112 websites where to let the public know about your program and where to get it. Sorry, you need Java 1.5+ to run this Applet.

If, submitter, the above Mini Pad Submitter signed Java Applet does not work…

  1. This signed Java Applet needs Java 1.5 or later, best version 1.5.0_22 or later, version 1.6.0_17 recommended and a recent browser.
  2. You should see the Applet above looking much like the screenshot. If you don’t, the following should help you get it working:
  3. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, try another browser. Seriously. Microsoft has taken great pains, over and over, to screw up Java and every other multi-platform standardisation.
  4. If you are using Internet Explorer 7 or 8, you must allow blocked content permission for Active X to run. This also gives permission to Java to run. Click the Information bar, and then click Allow blocked content. Unfortunately, this also allows dangerous ActiveX code to run. However, you must do this in order to get access to perfectly-safe Java Applets running in a sandbox. This is part of Microsoft’s war on Java. Don’t put up with it! Use a different browser.
  5. For this Applet to work, you must click grant/accept to give it permission to talk to various servers on the net and to be able to recall what you have already submitted between sessions.
  6. Optionally, you may permanently install the Canadian Mind Products code-signing certificate so you don’t have to grant each time.
  7. If the above Applet appears to freeze-up, click Alt-Esc repeatedly to check for any buried permission dialog box.
  8. If you have certificate troubles, check the installed certificates and remove or update any obsolete or suspected defective certificates. The only certificate used by this program is mindprodcert2009dsa.cer.
  9. Especially if this Applet has worked before, try clearing the browser cache and rebooting.
  10. To ensure your Java is up to date, check with Wassup. First, download it and run it as an application independent of your browser, then run it online as an Applet to add the complication of your browser.
  11. If the above Applet does not work, check the Java console for error messages.
  12. If the above Applet does not work, you might have better luck with the downloadable version.
  13. If you are using Mac OS X and would like an improved Look and Feel, download the QuaQua look & feel from randelshofer.ch/quaqua. UnZip the contained quaqua.jar and install it in ~/Library/Java/Extensions or one of the other ext dirs.
  14. If you still can’t get the program working click HELP for more detail.
  15. If you can’t get the above Applet working after trying the advice above and from the HELP button below, have bugs to report or ideas to improve the program or its documentation, please send me an email atemail Roedy Green.
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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.

PackageVersionReleasedLicenceLanguageNotes 
submitter
Submitter
5.2 2009-11-03 free Java
summaryfactsscreenshotbrowse source repository for the current version of Submitter. Submit ASP PAD program description file to 112 websites.
download Submitter Java source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as an application or Applet.

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 “user 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 Submitter.

Submitter is free. Full source included. You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified in commercial programs that you write and distribute. Non-military use only.
   
 
The Mini Pad Submitter submits your PAD to 112 websites for the general public to learn about it. It comes with Java source so you can extended it to other websites. If you come across any other hassle-free submission sites that don’t require a security code or login, please pass along the URL toemail feedback to Roedy Green so I can add them to the list. It submits to all the hassle-free sites listed below:
Hassle Free PAD Submission Sites
AbabaSoft1.AbabaSoft
ABDownloads2.ABDownloads
AbsolutelyFreeSoftware3.AbsolutelyFreeSoftware
AbsoluteShareware4.AbsoluteShareware
ActiveMerge5.ActiveMerge
AivSoft6.AivSoft
AllApp7.AllApp
AlphaDownloads8.AlphaDownloads
AmazingDownloads9.AmazingDownloads
AmazingFiles10.AmazingFiles
AppDown11.AppDown
AtomicDownload12.AtomicDownload
BestFreewareDownload13.BestFreewareDownloadfreeware only
BestSecurityTips14.BestSecurityTips
BestSoftware4Download15.BestSoftware4Download
BestVistaDownloads16.BestVistaDownloads
BetterWindowsSoftware17.BetterWindowsSoftwareno gambling, no sex, no drugs, no alcohol, no …
BobSoft18.BobSoft
Bull19.Bullaka download.com.ph in the Philippines.
Dalexis20.Dalexis
DiamondsLastForever21.DiamondsLastForever
Digimodes22.Digimodes
DownBroad23.DownBroad
Download3K24.Download3K
Download4You25.Download4You
Download500026.Download5000
DownloadArsivi27.DownloadArsiviThey translate your PAD to Turkish
DownloadBy28.DownloadBy
DownloadChoice29.DownloadChoice
Downloadery30.Downloadery
DownloadFrenzy31.DownloadFrenzy
DownloadItNow32.DownloadItNowThey send you emails telling which fields in your PAD recently changed. They don’t poll your pads. You have to resubmit whenever your pads change.
DownloadoManiac33.DownloadoManiac
DownloadReady34.DownloadReadyYou may be surprised to find your PAD already listed. They go out huntin for them.
Downloadry35.Downloadryfreeware only.
Downloads236.Downloads2
Downloads2k37.Downloads2k
DownloadShareware38.DownloadShareware
DownloadSoftwareSearch39.DownloadSoftwareSearch
DownloadSpin40.DownloadSpin
DownloadStation41.DownloadStation
EliasSoftDownloads42.EliasSoftDownloads
EnterHelp43.EnterHelp
EuroDownload44.EuroDownload
FileCluster45.FileCluster
FileDomain46.FileDomain
FilesGuard47.FilesGuard
Filevolution48.Filevolutionmust scroll to bottom of a long page to enter the URL.
FreeFileSeek49.FreeFileSeek
FreeShareWeb50.FreeShareWeb
FreeSoftwareApps51.FreeSoftwareApps
FreeSoftwareSharewareDownloads52.FreeSoftwareSharewareDownloads
Freeware153.Freeware1
FreewareArchiv54.FreewareArchiv
Geeez55.Geeez
GeneralFreeware56.GeneralFreeware
GetAllSoft57.GetAllSoft
Gooooggle58.Gooooggle
HamSoftware59.HamSoftware
HotFileDownload60.HotFileDownload
iFreewareDownload61.iFreewareDownload
Mayzer62.Mayzer
MySharewares63.MySharewares
Newsoft200664.Newsoft2006
OzySoftware65.OzySoftwareIn Australia
PadfileInfo66.PadfileInfo
PadFM67.PadFM
PadRepository68.PadRepository
PadRing69.PadRingAfter you submit, they send you an email. You must click a link in it to verify it was you who submitted the program.
PC24Hours70.PC24Hours
PeachSeed71.PeachSeed
PlusPro72.PlusProAka ProSoft.
ProgrammersHeaven73.ProgrammersHeaven
PublishMe74.PublishMe
ResourceDB75.ResourceDB
RetailerDeals76.RetailerDeals
Share3277.Share32
ShareApple78.ShareApple
ShareSoftware2479.ShareSoftware24
SharewareBay80.SharewareBay
SharewareKing81.SharewareKing
SharewarePower82.SharewarePower
ShellTips83.ShellTips
Soft32184.Soft321
SoftAllWare85.SoftAllWare
SoftCrown86.SoftCrown
SoftDB87.SoftDB
Softholm88.SoftholmMost of the site is in Russian.
SoftLookup89.SoftLookup
Softlow90.Softlow
SoftMerge91.SoftMerge
SoftwareArchiveIsGreat92.SoftwareArchiveIsGreat
SoftwareDownloads93.SoftwareDownloads
SoftwareHorizon94.SoftwareHorizon
SoftwareLocator95.SoftwareLocator
Softwarelode96.Softwarelode
SoftwareMass97.SoftwareMass
SoftwareSizzle98.SoftwareSizzle
SubmitPadFile99.SubmitPadFile
SuperDownloads100.SuperDownloads
SuperWebHunt101.SuperWebHunt
Top4Download102.Top4Download
Trialware103.Trialware
TryingBuying104.TryingBuying
TwoBrothers105.TwoBrothersthey bar you if you submit a PAD more than once,even if it has changed.
Vadino106.Vadino
Vonna107.Vonna
Webzf108.Webzf
WestDownload109.WestDownload
WillemsSoft110.WillemsSoftin Belgium
Windows7Download111.Windows7DownloadSoftware must run on Windows 7.
ZDown112.ZDownaka online.fr
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