How do I delete files to make room on my start up disk?

My husband used to maintain my computer and now that I'm alone I'm having to discover things for myself. I keep getting a message saying "Start up disk nearly full. Delete some files to make room." I save everything to my iDisk by connecting to it via "Go"on the toolbar. There is also a Mac HD icon on the desktop that I have dragged my folders into as well, so I don't know where to go from here. It seems I have only 564KB of memory left on my machine and I presume it is related to the start-up disk message. Advice in simple steps would be greatly appreciated please. Thanks.

Download and run Monolingual, and delete unneeded items from the /Library/Printers/, /Library/Packages/, and /Library/Updates/ folders. Monolingual should not be used to delete architectures on an Intel Mac, as some of these are necessary for Rosetta.
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1. See Lion's Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
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Move items you don't need on it, such as the iTunes and iPhoto libraries, to another drive, verify they work in the new location, and then delete them from the internal drive. If you don't need something at all, drag it to the Trash and empty it.
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Hi...
Help here > Freeing Up Hard Disk Space - Mac GuidesFreeing Up Hard Disk Space - Mac Guides
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure there's a minimum of 15% free disk space.

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