JDiskReport is a nifty freeware tool that will analyze your HD and tell you where all your diskspace is going.  With the proliferation of large hard drives it’s easy to leave large files around w/o even realizing it.  The tool is completely ad and nag free.  Being Java based, you’ll have to install JRE first.

Check it out: http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html

I’ve currently got an iPod 30GB Photo and correspondingly uses iTunes.. But I also have a media center.  Biggest pain in the butt is tryign to synchronize the song rating information between the WMP and iTunes.  Both apps store song rating information outside of the actual files, in their own proprietary library meta-data files.  The result? Song ratings in iTunes+Ipod aren’t recognized by WMP on my MCE… not cool.  You would think that rating information would be standardized in the MP3 header along with the other ID3 tag information.

I stumbled upon this thread over at The Green Button, where some dude created a neat little app to sync song data between iTunes and WMP.  AWESOME.

Update: The software’s creator has just updated it as of Oct 6th to add some cool features. Notably, command-line operation and my own requested feature of not sync’ing ratings for songs where the rating hasn’t changed.  The latter is important if you have any playlist that is derived from “last changed” date of songs.

App is a little buggy, but it does the job.  I have already provided him feedback to make sure on subsequent runs of the tool, that he only updates/touches songs where the ratings have actually changed.  This makes a difference for those of us that use smart playlists based on song changed date. 

Note: Make sure you have WMP setup to “Maintain my star ratings as global in the media files”. This basically tells WMP to store ratings information inside the MP3 itself.  This helps when you want to copy your music to other computers, because if you don’t do this, your songs ratings won’t be present on the target machine.