Find out which files and folders are eating up hard drive space

March 4, 2010 Leave a Comment

How is it possible that the 1TB hard drive you bought a few months ago is already running out of free space? Find the answer with Disk Space Fan!

This simple tool analyzes your hard drive in just a few seconds and then displays its contents in a colorful, interactive pie chart. Clicking the different areas in this chart lets you browse files and folders until you discover which ones are eating all the space.

Disk Space Fan works fine. It does what it says on the tin, takes just a few seconds to scan the whole disk and uses really attractive charts. Disk Space Fan is also very easy to use – in fact it doesn’t have any configuration options.

On the downside, Disk Space Fan lacks advanced features that you find in other similar tools, such as exporting the scan results to a file, and analyzing networked devices or external devices.

Disk Space Fan is a visually appealing disk space analyzer that helps you find the largest folders and files on your hard drive.


Minimum requirements:
* .NET Framework 2.0

Languages:
English

OS requirements for Disk Space Fan:
* OS: WinXP/Vista/7

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Firefox with a Vista-aero Theme

March 2, 2010 Leave a Comment

If there’s something positive about Vista, that’s its visual appearance. The Aero style, packed with jaw-dropping 3D effects and transparent windows, makes an eye-catching operating system. And now you can add that style to Firefox too!

Simply install this theme and select it from the Tools – Add-ons menu, and you’ll tweak the browser’s interface so that it perfectly matches the Vista design. In fact, the skin uses IE7 buttons, which I must admit suits Firefox well. However, I didn’t like having all those extra Favorite buttons on the tab bar and not being able to remove them.

Needless to say, you can use this theme even if you don’t have Vista, but it doesn’t look quite as nice.
Languages:

English
OS requirements for Vista-aero Theme:
* OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista
Minimum requirements:
* Firefox 3.6 – 3.7a1pre

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Convert, divide and combine video files with TubeHunter Media Center 4.1

March 1, 2010 Leave a Comment

TubeHunter Media Center is a complete media suite that meets all your conversion needs. It supports all popular formats and can also work with DVD and iPod.

When launching TubeHunter Media Center you’ll be presented with a nice, green interface from where you can access the program’s different tools. Each of them work as an independent app and run separately from the main interface – something that may please some users, but which I find a bit uncomfortable.

Strangely enough, the apps included in TubeHunter Media Center don’t share the same look and feel as the starting window. Instead of having a smooth, green skin, they display a gray, blocky style that seems to have been directly imported from Windows 3.1.

This weird look, together with the surprising lack of preview window and an annoying registration message that pops up every time you use the program make the whole TubeHunter Media Center experience a rather unpleasant one.

TubeHunter Media Center does support lots of formats for video conversion, but fails to provide a decent working environment.
Languages:

English
TubeHunter Media Center supports the following formats:

FLV, SWF, AVI, MPEG, DivX, XviD, MP4, M4A, MP3, 3G2, DVD, MOV
Limitations:

* The trial version converts or rips a maximum of 300 seconds in DVD Ripper, Video Converter and Video to iPod; it converts a maximum of 20 pictures in Video to Images; and it rips a maximum of 30 seconds of each song in CD to MP3.

OS requirements for TubeHunter Media Center:

* OS: WinXP/Vista/7

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