DriveSpacio Finds What’s Filling Up Your Hard Drive

Lifehacker:

“Windows only: Analyze your hard drive usage and find out what’s eating
up your disk space with freeware application DriveSpacio. Similar to previously mentioned WinDirStat,
DriveSpacio sets itself apart with a different approach to displaying
your drive usage. Many users will likely prefer the bar graphs and pie
charts of DriveSpacio to WinDirStat, but the biggest drawback is
that—unlike WinDirStat—it doesn’t currently allow you to directly
delete or launch a folder from within its interface. That means that
once you find something you want to delete, you still have to navigate
to it manually in Explorer to delete it. Regardless, the freeware,
Windows only DirveSpacio is a great alternative when you’re looking to visualize your hard drive usage. Mac users, check out previously mentioned GrandPerspective.”

DriveSpacio [via Download Squad]

Official: HBO arrives on iTunes, standard pricing be damned

Engadget:

“It’s official. HBO content just entered the digital halls of iTunes
with variable pricing. Episodes of Rome and The Sopranos pop for $2.99
while The Wire and Sex and the City (yes the complete series) go for
the iTunes “standard” pricing of $1.99. We just fired-up iTunes and
confirmed it just like the rumor predicted. With Apple backing down from its strict,
flat-rate pricing policy, don’t be surprised to see additional content
from previously iTunes-shy providers arriving in succession.

Update: Deadwood ($2.99) and Flight of the Conchords ($1.99) are also available with “much more” apparently in the works.”

YouTube Comment Snob Filters Stupid Comments

Lifehacker:

“Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension YouTube Comment
Snob filters comments on YouTube videos that don’t meet your snobbish
standards. It does so using a combination of criteria, like a
user-defined threshold of spelling errors (using Firefox’s
spell-checker), excessive punctuation, and excessive capitalization.
You can enable or disable any of the filter options if you don’t mind
no capital letters, for example, and you can view any hidden comment by
simply clicking Show. It’s a pretty saucy little extension, but now
it’s hard not to want a full-on Internet Comment Snob.”

YouTube Comment Snob [Firefox Add-ons]

Advanced Run Opens Programs as Another User

Lifehacker:

“Windows only: Freeware application Advanced Run is a replacement for
the traditional Windows Run dialog that can run any program as another
user without logging you out of your account. Aside from that, Advanced
Run does all the same things your regular Run dialog does, and Advanced
Run will launch in place of it whenever you hit Windows-R or Start
-> Run. It also adds a Run As option to your right-click dialog, so
you can launch any program on your desktop as another user. Advanced
Run is freeware, Windows only (go to the Downloads tab to download).”

Advanced Run [via Shell Extension City]

PandoraBoy Brings Streaming Radio to Your Desktop

Lifehacker:

“Mac OS X only: Free, open source application PandoraBoy pulls the
popular streaming internet radio site Pandora out of your browser and
integrates it with your Mac desktop. With features like global hotkeys,
support for your Apple Remote, and even integration with Growl,
PandoraBoy looks to be the ultimate Pandora companion for OS X.
PandoraBoy is free, Mac OS X only. Windows users looking for a similar
solution, check out PandoraBrowse or our bevy of other ways to get more from Pandora.

PandoraBoy [Google Code via TidBITS]“

Track Your Domino’s Pizza Order from a Terminal

Lifehacker:

“Now
you can truly see why our commenters dubbed Python the programming
language that “can do anything.” One intrepid (and hungry) hacker,
possibly named Nick Jensen, put together a small script that tracks
Domino’s Pizza orders from phone call to door bell ring. Download and
launch the script (with instructions at the link), plug in your phone
number, and you don’t have to get up until that cheese-covered saucer
is at the door. It’s just another true sign of how life-changing the
command line can really be.”

dominos.py

RapidoSerial Tracks Software Serial Numbers

Lifehacker:

“Mac
OS X only: Freeware application RapidoSerial stores and secures your
software licenses in an easy-to-access database. When you dig into your
pocketbook to pay for a great software package, the last thing you want
to do is lose the license key you purchased. RapidoSerial aims to make
sure that you don’t. For a web-based alternative, check out previously mentioned Keyfiler. If you’ve already got a tried-and-true method for storing your software licenses, let’s hear it in the comments.”

RapidoSerial [via Cool OSX Apps]

VMware Releases Fusion 2.0 Beta 1

Lifehacker:

“VMware makes the first beta of Fusion 2.0 available to download and try for free.
The next generation Windows-on-Mac virtualization software includes
support for multiple displays (up to 10!), better printer drivers,
networking, and USB support, and improvements to Unity (which runs
Windows applications integrated within OS X). The beta is a free
download for brave testers only—here are the release notes.”

AVG Free Anti-Virus 2008 Released, Much Improved

Lifehacker:

“Windows
only: Popular freeware anti-virus application AVG Free recently updated
to AVG Free 2008. Aside from a general interface overhaul and faster
performance, the updated anti-virus scanner has added several new
features with a focus on web security. AVG is always at the forefront
of the freeware anti-virus category, so unless you don’t run anti-virus software, it’s a great alternative to crappy Windows software.”

AVG Free Anti-Virus 2008 [via MakeUseOf]

Slipstream Service Pack 3 into Your Windows XP Installation CD

Lifehacker:

“Next time you wipe your PC’s hard drive clean and reinstall Windows
with that old installation disc, you don’t want to connect your fresh,
unpatched and vulnerable system to the internet only to download 176
new updates from Microsoft. If your XP installation CD is older than
2004, once your system is online, you’ll have to wait for hefty service
packs to download, chained to your mouse while pushing the Next button,
watching progress bars, and rebooting multiple times. Wouldn’t it be
better to start your installation, head out to run errands or grab
coffee, and come back to an up-to-date system before your
system gets online? It’s possible, using some free software and a blank
disc. After the jump, I’ll show you how to create an automated,
customized XP installation CD or DVD, that includes Microsoft’s
official-but-not-released Service Pack 3 for Windows XP.”

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