Sep
18
2008
No matter how fast the hard disk drive technologies are improving and no matter how you imagine about how big your hard drive now, time will always come that you will feel your disk space is not enough. If you are into collecting music, photos, video files and movies, and computer games, you’ll definitely eat your hard disk’s free space more rapidly than anyone who does only chatting and working with office programs. Plus, if you have a mobile life, a regular secondary hard disk won’t do, or a typical USB flash drive — they’ll not be enough. In this case, I recommend that you assemble an external mobile SATA hard drive. It’s big, it’s fast, and you can take it anywhere.
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Aug
22
2008
Oh, it has been months since the last time I visited a computer shop to buy something. I am pretty sure that my computer system, my devices and gadgets are now behind the new releases. The pace of technology indeed is very frustrating and costly to chase as newer devices proliferate with better lineup of features in just a number of days or months since you last bought the latest product.
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Jan
10
2008
Few days ago, I wrote a post about Paint.NET, the amazing opensource graphics editing program meant for Windows operating system. After I wrote that, I realized I’ve gotten in love with opensource applications so here I am bringing you another nifty program: WinDirStat!
To tell you: WinDirStat is not new, but probably this could be the first time you heard about this program. WinDirStat basically will solve your hard disk mysteries by letting you see your hard disk’s contents in a “bird-eye” view. If ever wondered where your space has gone off or if you want to know which file is eating your space away, this program will help you identify it. Yes, no more hard disk mysteries, bar none.
The first screen you’ll encounter is the hard disk selection (shown in a list above). You will see multiple entries if you have more than one hard disk drives. In my case I only have one, and there is less than three gigabytes remaining space on my 80 GB laptop hard disk drive. This is where the mystery kicks in: how come my hard disk is almost full? I will let WinDirStat solve this for me.
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