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Disk Art visualizes hard drive space usage

by Erica Sadun (Apr 20th, 2012)

When an email from the Clean Cut Code, the makers of Disk Art, showed up in our inbox yesterday, I jumped at the chance to take a peek. I'm a huge fan of Grand Perspective's space visualization software and am always happy to try out another app to see how it compares. Disk Art, which is ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me manage my Dropbox

by Erica Sadun (Mar 1st, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I really love my Dropbox account, but sometimes I get frustrated trying to manage my space. I'm at 3.75 GB max storage right now and I'm hovering near the top end of that. Can you suggest any OS X tools that can help me figure out which files to keep, and which to recycle out of ...

Mac 101: Six steps for tracking down hard drive space hogs

by TJ Luoma (Mar 10th, 2011)

More Mac 101, our ongoing series of tips, tricks and helpful hints for new Mac users and curious veterans. "Your startup disk is almost full." This simple sentence can trigger all the stages of grief: denial ("That can't be right!"), anger ("This is a 500 GB drive!"), bargaining ("If I delete ...

Easy visualization with Daisy Disk

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jul 14th, 2009)

Daisy Disk is the perfect example of one of those tools that should be built right into OS X. It's the latest in disk visualization utilities -- software that scans your hard drive and lets you know which files are being hard drive hogs (in my case, World of Warcraft - no big surprise there). ...