Snowfall and Treemaps
I came across a couple of cool pieces of Mac software and thought I’d share them with the two Mac-using readers I’ve got.
Snowfall is a neat screensaver that basically has snowflakes falling down your screen. The cool bit is that the pictures of the snowflakes are not something drawn by an artist but are in fact from pictures of snowflakes taken from the archive of thousands Wilson Bentley.
The other is a utility called Disk Inventory X. This little applet is for those times when you’re trying to figure out where all of your hard drive space has gone. It will take a quick peek around your drive and tell you exactly where it’s gone, both graphically using the aforementioned “treemaps” as well as the usual text/list interface. Its a brand new app but I used it shortly on lots of data and it didn’t seem to choke.
I know about, and use, quite a few more little useful applets on the Mac and I suppose I might start posting about them a few at a time.