Windows only: If you're looking to quickly get a snapshot of which folders and files are eating up your disk space, Primitive File Size Chart can help. We've covered other tools that help you see ...

When you ask most non-geeks how many "bytes" are in a "kilobyte", after thinking about the root of the prefix "kilo" they might tell you "one thousand", and be both right and wrong at the same time.

When you get information on a file in the Finder, you can see numerous attributes including the file size. Under some circumstances, however, the size reported in the information window of the Finder ...