How do I delete items from the hard drive?

Im trying to make more space in my hard drive and want to delete items that I no longer want or need. How do I see everything I have in my hard drive and delete it?

Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on the hard drive. Also Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
There are a few utilities for scanning the drive. One good one that is free - OmniDiskSweeper.

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