June 19, 2007
- upgraded the advanced search with more functionality and new look.
- featured listings now display on front page randomly as premium featured listings
- featured listings now display on all product pages, if there is a featured listing in the corresponding category then the featured listings in that category will show, if there are no featured listings found in the category, five random featured listings will be displayed.
- featured listings now appear first in advanced search results. Sample Link
- Direct homepage and screenshot links have been added to featured listings
- logo updated
- We've decided to sell four copies of our download site technology, we are only selling four copies. Click here for details.
May 29, 2007
- Pad Poller built, all listings updated. Screenshots + Icons are now stored on our server for fast loading.
- Screenshot added to every product page
- Releated same-category products list now available on all product pages
- Most Popular Product same-category products list now available on all product pages
- Site search replaced with google site search, incoming links from google searches will now log the users query.
Feb 26, 2007
- Public Product updater upgraded to prevent injection attacks by spammers.
Feb 21, 2007
- Visitors can now update out-dated products by clicking the update tab on a product details page, this will pull data from the pad file in the database and automatically replace any old information.
Feb 20, 2007
- Celebrated our 4 year anniversary on Dec 20th, 2006
- Completely redesigned all our product pages and added category tracking to all pages
- Revised submission rules
- Listing owners now have the option to remove all the advertisments from their product pages when they purchase a featured listing
- Members menu has been redesigned and placed more prominently
- Advanced search upgraded
- FileKings.com launched, this gives users direct downloads to every product in the filecart.com database.
- Front page redesigned
- "My File Cart" finally implemented, users can now add any product to their own file cart for later downloading
Jan 18, 2007
- Cosmetic overhaul. We've added some slick graphics to our layout, let us know what you think.
Jan 15, 2007
- New text ad advertising system, we have launched our very own text advertising system, cpm starts at just 20 cents! Click here for details.
Jan 11, 2007
- New network site: www.geekfonts.com
- No more adult related content will be available on this site, anyone attempting to submit such a product will be denied.
Jan 8, 2007
- Free File Hosting, all software companies can now upload their files to our dedicated file hosting server
- Server upgraded, no more downtime.
Dec 15, 2006
- Macintosh & Mobile operating systems are now supported, you can view the categories on the front page.
Dec 12, 2006
- All cached files now update every 15 minutes instead of 1 hour.
- www.letmepast.com has been acquired by Transit Network - it's a very popular free public proxy. Can't get to that site you love at work? Go here!
Dec 11, 2006
- File Cart & Sister sites acquired by Transit Network - Transit Network is a company founded by Jordan Harding, the founder of filetransit.com 9 years ago. File Transit was sold by Jordan in 2000 and then he started softwaretransit.com - a successful software review service. File Transit was once the 7th highest ranking download site in the world, and he plans to do the same and better for File Cart and sister sites. File Cart currently ranks #26 by google and we plan to make the top 5.
- New Avanced search, click here to test.
- All top level categories now have statistics based on the listings in their sub categories, click here to view
- A category variable has been added to all url's leading to the product details page, resulting in a proper breadcrumb allowing visitors to navigate to parent categories the product is placed in.
- New submission/modification rules in place to ensure quality content
- Software companies can now have ads removed from their product details page for an annual fee
- Network sites list has been added to front page and all details pages
- All products now have a related tags section on their details page from which the user can perform a search based on that tag for each one
- Webmasters can now link to product pages or add rating codes to their web site using code provided on the details page
- Product certifcation system is now in place, please allow us three days after each new submission to test the product. If it passes the following image will be placed on the details page, if not, the product will be removed from the site.

Software companies are encouraged to display this certification image on their web site, linking back to the details page for verification.
- A bug where accessing the details page of a product that has been removed would time out is now fixed.
- All sql queries have been optimized for speed.
- Our administrative section has been revamped to allow us the ability to respond to clients needs instantly.
April 4, 2006
- All content now hosted on same server, resulting in much faster loading pages.
- Navigation redesigned for usability
Feb 17, 2006
- Significant server hardware upgraded
- New advertising options available
- Overall engine core upgraded for speed.
Nov 11, 2005
- New Freeware-Only download site launched, visit www.absolutefreeware.com to check it out!
- New online store! visit my.filecart.com to have a look!
- Front page redesigned to give better placement to premium listings
Oct 28, 2005
- Front page redesigned, many other small design enhancements have been implemented
- All duplicate user accounts and listings have been removed, and technology has been setup to block future duplicates from occurring.
- Featured listings now have advertisements disabled on their pages...
Oct 11, 2005
- Queries Cached... We have decided to run an hourly caching engine that will take our biggest queries and store the results in html files... this significaly decreases server load and speeds up page loading. We have applied this to our stats, search logs, and front page lists...
- You can now see how many times a product has been viewed. This will only increment on the details of the product, the product listing in a search result will not increment the counter.
- New Layout - built for speed... as you probably noticed, we have a new layout... the pages load extremely fast now compared to our old layout, let us know your comments on it!
Sept 15, 2005
Sept 14, 2005
- Software Index redesigned
- Software Store redesigned
- All category pages redesigned
- search results redesigned
- Featured listings redesigned
- New Filtering available on all listings
- Advanced Sorting now available on all listings
- Various bits of code optimized or upgraded.
Sept 8, 2005
- Exclusive Buy Now page developed for buying products
- Searchable software store developed
- A new simple theme has been added for ease of use.
- Download page redesigned to prevent ie blocking.
- Search box repositioned to provide sponsors better exposure.
- Monthy Highlights section added to File Cart (testing success rate)
- More url's have had mod_rewrite applied.
- Software index code optimized for faster loading.
- Regnow and Regsoft have been added as affiliate options.
- Regnow vendor-to-vendor transfers now accepted as a form of payment.
August 27, 2005
- Newest Products page redesigned
- Featured Software page redesigned
- Popular Software page redesigned
- Top Rated Software page redesigned
- Updated Software page added
- Software Index redesigned, bug fixed.
August 25, 2005
- Coupon codes have been integrated into the advertising order form.
- All url's have been reformatted with mod_rewrite for search engine optimization.
- It is now possible for members to delete products.
August 20, 2005
- Financing is now available for our download site clone. Payments can now be made monthly over 12 and 24 month terms. Interest is 10% of the total for 12 months and 20% of the total for 24 months. See our exclusive section for more details, click here.
- Page Tracking system has been rebuilt for optimization, potential advertisers now know which sections of our sites are most popular based on realtime data. See here
- Top Rated products and Latest updates have been added to the front page.
August 9, 2005
- Search engine has been upgraded to greatly increase relevant results.
- New exclusive section has been designed for our engine clone sales center.
- Members now have access to the "member offers" section with great discounts on a variety of products & services.
- Advertising price structure is now based on realtime network traffic.
All previous news is no longer available, sorry for the inconvenience.
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