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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Simple, Free Drive Space Monitoring With Tray Disk Free

Size isn't everything when it comes to useful downloads, and Tray Disk Free is a perfect example.

The 29k Windows only app goes resident in your system after launching and monitors the free space of any drive on your system. You'll barely notice the 1mb of ram it consumes.

Click the tray icon and Tray Disk opens its main window behind your other apps. Its taskbar button gives you a full display of free bytes on your drive and a percentage of total drive space.

Tray Disk supports command line arguments that allow you specify the drive to monitor, color of the display bar, and the number of seconds between updates. You can spawn multiple instances to keep tabs on other drives. It works well in the system tray but overwhelming on your taskbar. I'm guessing that the tray indicator will provide enough detail for most users.

Tray Disk is released under the GPL, and is for Windows only. Vista users will need to drop MSVBVM50.dll in the same folder as Tray Disk's executable.

Filed under: E-mail

Take back disk space from your e-mail

While more and more people (including most of the staff at DLS) are starting to keep all of their e-mail online, using services like GMail, Windows Live Mail or an Exchange hosted account, there are still plenty of people who prefer using an offline mail client.

While the advantage of storing mail locally is that you can access messages at any time -- whether you are connected to the Internet or not -- that also means that, well, all your mail is on your hard drive. Depending on how much e-mail you get, that can add up to quite a bit of space.

Boing Boing posted a great reminder/tip for all Thunderbird users, make sure you run File --> Compact Folders from time to time. You might not save 20 GB like Cory Doctorow, but you can still claim some space.

Outlook 2007 users can save space/clean up their e-mail boxes by selecting Tools --> Mailbox Cleanup. From there you can choose to archive old messages, empty deleted items folders, find messages of a certain age/size and delete duplicate or alternative versions of messages.

When was the last time you cleaned-up your mail program? If you can't remember, now might be a good time to archive old messages and clear out those deleted items.

Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Web services

Omnidrive, a complete storage aggregator

omnidrive online storageOmnidrive is an online storage service offering 1GB of free space that can be accessed from a Windows app or web interface (Linux and mobile clients are in the works). The system allows users to store photos and files from their desktop similiar to a regular OS, and choose to share their files or keep them private. If you find yourself always transferring files back and forth from device to device or sending a lot of files and photos to people, Omnidrive files can easily be shared and accessed by the individuals you choose. When sharing files with a person, the shared file will instantly be dropped into their Omnidrive account, and a notification email sent to them. Omnidrive also has the ability to publish files to the web with a unique URL that anyone can access. There is also a music player that song files can be played through without downloading them first. The Omnidrive dashboard can be accessed either from a web client in any browser, a Windows client, or Mac client application. Omnidrive is a really simple online storage area. Its clean design makes navigation and working with files easy.

Check out some screenshots of Omnidrive in action after the jump.

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