Clearing out 'other' memory

I would like to do a little cleaning of my HD. I feel like the 97.23 GB of 'Other' is kind of alot.. Any advice to what this 'other' is and how to manage it..
P.s. I had a similar problem recently on my iphone 4. I had 7.5 GB of 'other' so i decided to clear everything from my iphone, and then restore it from an icloud backup.. the 7.5 GB of 'other' went down to 2.5 GB.

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I have just upgraded the software on my iphpone 4 and spent ages trying to remove over 8gig of 'other' memory that arrived after the upgrade. I couldn't sync most stuff due to insufficiant memory
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Good day all,
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