This is the first in my new “Daily Digest” series, which is basically a daily collection links and anything going on in the world or my personal life that I don’t have time to do full posts out of. It will go online every day at 8PM, and here’s today’s:
- It’s Earth Day! If you really want to go green and live in New York, get ConEd Solutions for 100% clean energy in your house.
- MacApper breaks the news about Panic’s new app without their permission: Tisk, tisk tisk, MacApper. See MacUser tomorrow for an op-ed by co-editor Derik DeLong.
- Yesterday is the one year anniversary of me being hit by a car. I also almost lost my backpack yesterday on a city street, which had, amongst other things, my address and keys. April 21st is cursed.
- Set up my new blog homepage!
- Set up Twitter Tools on my blog, which is awesome (props to Austen for help on getting it not to mess up Sidebar Modules).
- Went on my first bike ride of the season with Austen.
- Set some more stuff up in Ubuntu.
Too bad my hacking experience=0.
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Note: This applies to Mac users only. If you run Windows, buy a Mac or install Ubuntu. If you run Linux, good for you.
If you’re a Mac user and start to notice that your hard drive’s getting clogged, there’s a few things you can do. One is get an extra drive. Or, if you don’t want to cough up the cash, you can just go through your hard drive and clean out all of the unnecessary junk. Of course, this is easier said than done, so you can get some programs to help. One, OmniDiskSweeper, is a free app that simply gives you a folder hierarchy in order of the amount of space each folder/file takes up. While this works well, some people may want to visually see how much space their data takes up. That’s where GrandPerspective comes in.
GrandPerspective is simple: the free app scans any drive or folder, and then creates a grid of squares with proportional sizes to much drive space they take up. You can also change how squares are colored (the default is by folder), and what the color palette is. Overall, GrandPerspective works very well and is a great aid to cleaning up your hard drive.
[via MacUser]
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