Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

File system visualization

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

My 120GB notebook hard drive is almost filled up - but why? This tedious task can easily be solved with WinDirStat, a clone of the Linux application KDirStat.  The file system is visualized with colored blocks in different sizes. The colors represent the file type and the block size the memory a file uses. At a glance large files and huge directories can be identified.

WinDirStat in action

Embed iTunes artworks in ID3 tag

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Some might hate the way iTunes 7.x stores the downloaded artwork, and some like it. There were already big discussions which is the right way to do it. Personally I prefer to store the images directly in my MP3 files as ID3 tag. There is a trick to manually embed all the images in the MP3 files, but actually I’m not so bored that I’ll update all my MP3 files by hand. What I need is a automatic script for this tedious task.Fortunately a simple NASA rocket scientist has written a handy script suite for this and many other tasks - and it’s running under Windows. If you are an Apple user you can use Doug’s script for the same task.