Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Microsoft, Shareware, Freeware
SpaceMonger - drive space treemap with labels
by Jason Clarke Jul 28th 2007
We've long been big fans of using WinDirStat on Windows computers to determine where all of our hard drive space had gone. But DLS reader Brian commented on our recent post about WinDirStat and mentioned that there is actually a predecessor called SpaceMonger that has been doing treemaps of Windows file systems since the days of Windows 95. While WinDirStat is certainly the more beautiful application, SpaceMonger is arguably more usable. SpaceMonger puts text labels right in the tree map that show you exactly what you're looking at in a glance. Whereas in WinDirStat you have to mouse over a box to see what it represents, in SpaceMonger you can clearly see.
The other great thing about SpaceMonger is its size. The freeware version, which works great on Windows XP, weighs in at only 212KB, and needs no installer. There is also a shareware version which adds the ability to customize the colors SpaceMonger uses to represent files and folders, as well as a number of other features and active support if you purchase a license.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
