Ever wondered why your hard drive was so full? Ever wondered what was taking up so much space? Wouldn't it be great to have a visual representation of all of your files at once?

The best open source media player we've found, has finally been fully released (version 1.0). The VLC Media Player ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ) can play just about any kind of media file you can throw at it. Even FLV files. If you're tired of not having the right codec to play video and audio files, you need to check out VLC.

While looking for an open source publishing tool (such as Adobe InDesign or Microsoft publisher), I came across this site which lists popular comercial software and it's counterpart in the open source world:

http://www.osalt.com/system-utilities

It seems that there are a lot of very powerful open source applications out there! Open source software can be great when you're in a pinch, or need something simple to do the job, without costing you. But some times the comercial software is still the more powerful option, or sometimes even the only option.