FolderSize Displays What’s Eating Your Hard Drive Space [Downloads]
My Clippings October 21st, 2009 by System
Automatically pulled from Google Starred
Windows only: Free portable application FolderSize quickly analyzes the contents of any hard drive or specific folder on your computer to help you hunt down your hard drive hogs and free up space.
(Click the image above for a closer look.)
FolderSize is another in a relatively long line of similar tools (our favorite is the previously mentioned WinDirStat), but it boasts a couple of nice features that sets it apart from most.
First and foremost, it’s portable, which means it’s the perfect app to throw on your PC repair kit thumb drive. Second, where some of these tools can take a while to analyze your hard drive usage, FolderSize seems to run really fast and light. On the downside, it’s not as feature rich as most of the alternatives, and you can’t drill down through the results or even open folders in a new Explorer window from its interface. You can, however, zoom in and out on the window for a closer look at folders using your mouse’s scrollwheel.
If you’re going to do some serious file analysis where you can install something, I’d suggest going with WinDirStat. If you just need something fast you can carry on your thumb drive, this app seems like a good option. FolderSize is a free, open-source download, Windows only.
Make EMC Retrospect Email on Events
Code September 15th, 2009 by Shai Perednik
Are you backed up?
EMC Retrospect 7.6 has a built email notification option. However, its premetive and doesn’t allow for custom messages, alternate ports, or TLS/SSL.
So after much digging and hacking I through together the script below which does the job. This is based on the example vbs script supplied by retrospect, so cudos to them for the initial work.
Download retroeventhandler.vbs
Also, note that you will need to change your settings according in the last part of the script.
Tags: backup, blockquote, email, emc, event handler, Information, IO, Mac, Microsoft, retrospect, script, ssl, tls, XP
iPhone Hoodie: Love It or Leave It?
My Clippings August 14th, 2009 by System
Automatically pulled from My Clippings on NewsGator Online
Is your iPhone so chill, so casual that it would sport a hoodie? The iPhone Hoodie ($18) from Urban Outfitters is hoping it is.
Certainly, a sweatshirt for your iPhone is a dressed-down alternative in the cell phone case world – kind of the antithesis to an overly fancy case. Is it too dressed-down for you?
