How to Find Out What is Eating up my HD space

Help! I have a MacBook that is just a little over a year old and it is almost at capacity. When I bought the thing I wasn't doing much with photo editing and now I am doing a lot. My 80G HD is full and I can't figure out what is eating up my space. Is there an easy way to see what is hogging all of the space on my HD? I have 14G in music, another 12-13 in photos- those I can identify. I just can't tell what else is eating up my space. I need to purge stuff but am just not sure where to start. I have an EHD that I can move stuff to but I want to get rid of whatever I don't need.
Is there a way to create a list in order by file size so I can see where all my space is going?
Thanks in advance for your advice.

Hi JennKRE,
you can use application called what size to see what inside your macbook:
http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/
you can use monolingual to get rid language you don't use:
http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/
use appdelete to delete application you no longer use:
http://reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com/appdelete
Use Onyx to delete cache files, repair permission and optimize your HD:
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
Good Luck.

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