How do I find 'Other' when it comes to my hard drive so I can delete unwanted files?

Can someone please help me with this problem?
When pulling up my system profiler, the catagories under storage are:
Audio
Movies
Photos
Apps
Backups
Other
How do I find where the files that are located in the 'Other' group. So I can delete unwanted files from there?
It seems to be taking up a lot of space on my hard drive, so I would like to know whats in it?
My computer is a 2010 MacBook Pro 15" 2.4GHz Core i5, 64GBSSD, OSX Lion, let me know if you need more information than this?
Thank you so much to anyone that can help me please.
Scott

Download OmniDiskSweeper from the Internet (free) and open it.  It will produce a display i a sequential format showing what you have on your MBP and the space each item is taking.  This should assist you in identifying all of your disk space 'hogs'.
Ciao.

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