Tuesday, June 08, 2010

DirGraph

DirGraph provides a graphical view of the space used by your files and directories. It allows you to navigate around this view - zooming in to see greater detail and zooming out to see the bigger picture.

It also supports colour coding its display by file dates, so you can see at a glance how much of the space used is occupied by files that haven't been accessed for an age [and that should therefore have been committed to back-up storage long ago].

It can be quite interesting to look at your system in this way: for instance did you know your games and mp3 directories was taking that much of you over-all drive space?!! No wonder there wasn't room to install the latest version of PaceMaker...

[via frwr_news]

When I ran it, I discovered that Microsoft Encarta was taking up a half a GB of space on my hard drive. I didn't even realize Encarta was even installed. And sure enough, Encarta runs. Though I don't know if I would use it with wikipedia around..

Wondering whether Encarta is now available on the net, apparently not the encyclopdedia. However a dictionary, thesaurus, and translator are available online.

Encarta as a retail product has been discontinued.

Read all about it on wikipedia. (Where else?)

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