TUAW's Daily Mac App: Disk Alarm

Well Disk Alarm and Disk Alert are settled now... you won't find DiskAlert any more in the above mentioned link.

Why would someone rip off this app and post it in the comments here?
What's the point of doing that? You don't have $3 and/or you have
nothing better to do than copy someone else's app pixel-for-pixel?
Not cool man, not cool. Go get your own ideas.

Very Basic. I would not suggest… Bad call TUAW

Now for an app that alerts you when the number of background utilities gets to a certain level. :-)

Folks,

the whole point with Disk Alarm is that it would check automatically (like every minute)

Like Sam mentions it in his article it should save you time and headache.

Do not hesitate to visit http://diskalarm.com if you'd like to see how it is, before you buy - and you can also always contact me via the "support" link!

Cheers.

Four US dollars for an app that only tells you, how much space you have left on your main volume? No, thank you.

I wrote this perl/applescript in a couple minutes that will only alert you when your system is > 90% full.

You could throw this into a crontab that checks in whatever frequency you like it to check. It won't do anything unless your system is > 90% full.

Let's see if this won't get mangled:

# start
@parts = split(/ +/m,readpipe('df /')); $percent = int(100 - $parts[9] / $parts[8] * 100); if ($percent > 90) { readpipe( 'osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"' -e "activate" -e "display dialog "Your system is ' . $percent . '% full." with icon stop buttons {"OK"} default button 1" -e 'end tell''); }
#end

An App? How about right clicking the desktop, choose Show View Options and enable Show item info.

An alternative is SpaceControl http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spacecontrol/id422328403?mt=12&ls=1 - which I just noticed is on sale right now at $0.99.

The interface is a bit uglier, though, and the window warning you when you reach your set limit is - uh, quite pink.