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From: chris on 13 May 2010 10:44 On Thu, 13 May 2010 13:58:03 +0100, David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > chris wrote: >> >> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ >> >> I hadn't heard of most of them... > > You've lead a very sheltered life... My Mac is not my main machine and I spend most of time in Terminal or Firefox. That may (or may not) explain my sheltered experience...
From: Flavio Matani on 13 May 2010 10:47 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > 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. Same here. Haven't used it for years. -- flavio matani guitar tuition http://www.flaviomatani.co.uk http://fflavio.com
From: Flavio Matani on 13 May 2010 10:47 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 use most of them regularly, except Burn. -- flavio matani guitar tuition http://www.flaviomatani.co.uk http://fflavio.com
From: David Sankey on 13 May 2010 10:51 In article <1885371369295449713.924443me18-privacy.net(a)news.individual.net>, 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. But find and du do all that already? Ducks, Dave
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 13 May 2010 12:28
On Thu, 13 May 2010 15:43:05 +0100, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: >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 :) That's very similar to GrandPerspective. Just did this on the Air, which was down to 8gig free. Turned out most of the space used - 27gig! - was a temp file that VMware had made while converting a hard drive image, and not deleted due to me killing it (for good reasons). Whoops. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Frankly, I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" - Arthur C. Clarke |