Comments on: WhatSize: Helping Nerds Overcompensate Since 1992 http://macapper.com/2007/04/28/whatsize-helping-nerds-overcompensate-since-1992/ Mac Apps, Reviews, Previews, Interviews, and Giveaways. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:29 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: MacMacken http://macapper.com/2007/04/28/whatsize-helping-nerds-overcompensate-since-1992/comment-page-1/#comment-37912 MacMacken Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:27:57 +0000 http://macapper.com/2007/04/28/whatsize-helping-nerds-overcompensate-since-1992/#comment-37912 Unfortunately, WhatSize is no longer freeware, it went commercial and became nagware a few months ago … :( Unfortunately, WhatSize is no longer freeware, it went commercial and became nagware a few months ago … :(

]]> By: How I Saved Time and Disk Space with WhatSize | MacApper http://macapper.com/2007/04/28/whatsize-helping-nerds-overcompensate-since-1992/comment-page-1/#comment-6854 How I Saved Time and Disk Space with WhatSize | MacApper Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:01:11 +0000 http://macapper.com/2007/04/28/whatsize-helping-nerds-overcompensate-since-1992/#comment-6854 [...] though we reviewed WhatSize before, I didn’t realize it’s usefulness until now, when my hard drive started acting [...] [...] though we reviewed WhatSize before, I didn’t realize it’s usefulness until now, when my hard drive started acting [...]

]]> By: dave http://macapper.com/2007/04/28/whatsize-helping-nerds-overcompensate-since-1992/comment-page-1/#comment-3863 dave Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:29:35 +0000 http://macapper.com/2007/04/28/whatsize-helping-nerds-overcompensate-since-1992/#comment-3863 http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ grand perspective blows my mind - i was an avid user of whatsize for a long time until i found it...it is faster, and the visualization of your hard drive as colors and size shapes makes it ridiculously easy to find junk, like old downloads you forgot about, old giant files, etc..used it to find and purge about 4 gigs of crap that was buried inside folders... it is also completely free, and i strongly suggest you give it a look - you may like using them both together, one for visualization the other for straight listings..however, grand has a quick 'reveal' option that makes it easy to get the junk out... http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

grand perspective blows my mind – i was an avid user of whatsize for a long time until i found it…it is faster, and the visualization of your hard drive as colors and size shapes makes it ridiculously easy to find junk, like old downloads you forgot about, old giant files, etc..used it to find and purge about 4 gigs of crap that was buried inside folders…

it is also completely free, and i strongly suggest you give it a look – you may like using them both together, one for visualization the other for straight listings..however, grand has a quick ‘reveal’ option that makes it easy to get the junk out…

]]> By: Nick Young http://macapper.com/2007/04/28/whatsize-helping-nerds-overcompensate-since-1992/comment-page-1/#comment-3784 Nick Young Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:05:09 +0000 http://macapper.com/2007/04/28/whatsize-helping-nerds-overcompensate-since-1992/#comment-3784 Another cool hard drive monitoring app that I've been using is <a href="http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/20/disk-inventory-x-review-hard-drive-usage-monitoring/" rel="nofollow">Disk Inventory X</a>. I still like WhatSize for quickly looking at directory structures and finding what needs to be cleaned up. Another cool hard drive monitoring app that I’ve been using is Disk Inventory X. I still like WhatSize for quickly looking at directory structures and finding what needs to be cleaned up.

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