gHacks technology news » system tools http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Visualize your hard drive consumption with SpaceSniffer http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/27/visualize-your-hard-drive-consumption-with-spacesniffer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/27/visualize-your-hard-drive-consumption-with-spacesniffer/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:20:08 +0000 Daniel Pataki http://www.ghacks.net/?p=12389 spacesnifferNo matter what hard drive size you have, if you spend a lot of time on your computer, you will fill it up eventually. A lot of times I have 1Gb stuff which I don’t need and can safely throw out, I just never bump into these because they are outside my normal file browsing habits. If you want to save some space by deleting the larges unwanted files, or just want a cool way to visualize your hard drive, give SpaceSniffer a go.

With no install needed, just run it, select a drive and watch as the table structure fills up with folders and sub-folders. You can double click on any folder to bring it into main view (cool animation here), so you can see more detail. If you’ve zoomed in on a folder you can click the name again to zoom back out, or you can use the forward and back buttons like on a browser.

There are options to show unknown space, free space, but apart from that this app is a simple hard drive space analyzer, but a really very well made one. It is beautiful, it is elegant and it gives you the information you need in a form very easily digested by the human mind. I simply love this app, if you can and you like it too, please consider donating to them. (via Freeware Genius)

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