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OmniDiskSweeper Helps You Easily Reclaim Disk Space

10:00AM Whitson Gordon | Mac only: We’ve all experienced full hard drives, but figuring out where all your hard drive space has gone is never easy. Freeware program OmniDiskSweeper easily shows you which files and folders are taking up space so you can free it up. More »
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FolderSize Displays What’s Eating Your Hard Drive Space

9:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free portable application FolderSize quickly analyses 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. More »
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Best Of The Best: Tools And Apps, Third Quarter 2009

5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | The third quarter of 2009 was filled with all sorts of useful communication tools, time saving applications and software to help you get things done. Here’s a look back at the winners in each of the categories. More »
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Use A Separate Partition To Speed Up Windows 7 Upgrades

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | PC World was, like us, slightly amazed at how long a Windows 7 upgrade can take on a Vista system crammed with data. They recommend a good overall geek tip as a fix: creating a separate “data” partition. More »
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Five Best Disk Defragmenters

2:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Your computer’s a busy beaver, rapidly accessing and utilising files all in the name of bringing you what you want, when you want it. Sometimes it needs a little help tidying up, and that’s where these five disk defragmenters come in. More »
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Drive Manager Provides A Detailed Overview Of Your Drives

1:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: There are a plethora of tools available for checking drive information, status and health. Drive Manager conveniently rolls a multitude of features into a single application that covers a variety of needs. More »
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Aussies Addicted To External Hard Drives

11:00AM Angus Kidman | There are lots of options if you’re looking to make a backup — burning to DVD, copying to a USB key, pushing everything into the cloud — but it seems that Australians are particularly keen on external hard drives. More »
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Hawkscope Gives Access To Hard Drive Contents Via Popup Menu

1:30AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac/Linux: Navigating through your hard drive contents can be slow and tedious at times, requiring double-click after double-click as your drill through your filesystem. Hawkscope addresses that by showing the contents of your drive—quickly—via a dynamic popup menu. More »
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Five Best Alternative File Copiers

2:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you do any serious file copying on a Windows system, you’ll quickly discover that there are substantial limitations to the default file copier. Ease your file copying frustrations with these five alternative copiers. More »
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Separate Data From Windows On A Standalone Partition

2:00AM Gina Trapani | With Windows 7’s release just around the corner, now’s a great time to get your PC ready for the new operating system. First step: separate your data onto a dedicated partition. More »