Disk Space Analysis

Have you ever wondered what ate up all the disk space on your hard disk?

This neat little utility gives you a graphical report of which folders are consuming how much space and much more.

JDiskReport

Entertainment Update

1. Jaane Tu ... ya jaane na soundtrack is very good. A. R. Rahman in great form.
2. Sarkar Raj. 7/10. Somewhat chaotic till the climax when it all comes together. Aishwarya Rai is not really essential to the plot. Abhishek Bachchan doesn't get a lot of scope to act while Amitabh Bachchan has played his part really well. The supporting actors Dilip Prabhavalkar (Rao Saab), Rajesh Shringarpore (Sanjay Somji) and Ravi Kale (Chander) have acted well too.
3. Grey's Anatomy ended on a positive note. Lots of kisses in the season finale and a great song (The Quest by Bryn Christopher).
   
4. House's season finale was spectacular. It was a two part finale and the first part reminded why this show is so great.
5. The last season of Battlestar Galactica is proceeding well now. After a few filler episodes, things are beginning to pick up the pace.
6. Tashan was horrible. I had a headache by the time the movie ended. Why should accomplished actors like Saif Ali Khan, Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor act in a movie like this?
7. Heyy Babyy was a decent film for its genre. Not my type though.
8. Curse of the Chalion was an average read. I expected better from Lois McMaster Bujold.
9. Finally watched Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. I felt it completed the story arc from the previous movies appropriately with no loose ends left dangling.
   

Aux Input

There is nothing fancy about an auxillary input for your car audio system. It's the simple input jack that allows all MP3 players to be connected. My car audio system didn't have it till now. When I first bought my car audio system to replace the one that came by default, I chose the JVC KD-G720. I chose it because it could play MP3/WMA files on a CD and through a USB input.

The USB input is great. I can connect a USB flash drive and it can play any song that is present on the drive. It can navigate folders and it even works with a 30GB external hard disk with a USB connection, although the advertised compatibility is only 1 GB.

This is all fine and dandy but I kept having to partition the hard drive on my Creative Zen Vision W into two parts. One partition for songs to play through the earphones and the other for playing via the USB connection on my car audio system. Essentially, I was duplicating content. Not an ideal solution at all.

I feel that the aux input, as it is called, a simple 3.5 mm stereo jack should be default on all car audio systems. For some reason it's not and I had to go ahead and purchase a special adapter (JVC KS-U58) to get that.

Installing it was fun though. I had to remove the dashboard fascia in my 2006 Hyundai Elantra and had to do some arm and finger contortions to get it done properly. The instructions from here and here helped tremendously. Moreover, the installation manual for the car audio system was invaluable.