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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 13 May 2010 09:24 On Thu, 13 May 2010 14:12:11 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: >chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ >> >> I hadn't heard of most of them... > >I have all of them apart from burn and a newer version of stuffit (which >hasn't been that useful in years). Always hated Stuffit, back from Classic. The Unarchiver handles pretty much anything I've ever thrown at it, except when 7zip added a new compression scheme. Cheers - Jaimie -- "In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded." Terry Pratchett
From: zoara on 13 May 2010 09:51 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2010 13:44:35 +0100, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ > > > >I hadn't heard of most of them... > > I've used almost all of them - DiskSweeper is the exception, for which > I prefer the visual simplicity of GrandPerspective. I use OmniDiskSweeper and GrandPerspective for slightly different things. GrandPerspective is great for finding that one big file (or folders with half a dozen biggish files) whereas OmniDiskSweeper is good for finding folders that take up a lot of space but are full of many small files. Both can be used for both tasks but each has one task it's better at. I quite often run both at the same time when having a clearout. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 13 May 2010 09:51 chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ > > I hadn't heard of most of them... > I've got eight of them installed (including Burn, which didn't work but I never bothered to uninstall). -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Jim on 13 May 2010 09:59 On 2010-05-13, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> >> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ >> >> I hadn't heard of most of them... >> > > I've got eight of them installed (including Burn, which didn't work but > I never bothered to uninstall). Looks like Burn is either bering updated or has been recently. The version I have will crash if you tell it to burn a video file as a DVD *and* you tell it to put a menu on. No menu, no crash. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: chris on 13 May 2010 10:43
On Thu, 13 May 2010 14:51:45 +0100, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >> On Thu, 13 May 2010 13:44:35 +0100, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ >> > >> >I hadn't heard of most of them... >> >> I've used almost all of them - DiskSweeper is the exception, for which >> I prefer the visual simplicity of GrandPerspective. > > I use OmniDiskSweeper and GrandPerspective for slightly different > things. GrandPerspective is great for finding that one big file (or > folders with half a dozen biggish files) whereas OmniDiskSweeper is good > for finding folders that take up a lot of space but are full of many > small files. > > Both can be used for both tasks but each has one task it's better at. I > quite often run both at the same time when having a clearout. > I just did this kind of thing as I was down to my last 10Gb of free space :( I used Disk Inventory X, which a nice graphical representation of what's hogging the space :) |