Macbook pro out of memory!

bought a MacBook Pro 13 inch in november 2011 and it is now telling me my start up disk is full, so is there any way i can either free a lot of space or upgrade the memory capacity?

Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
See Lion's Storage Display.
You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
If you cannot solve the problem sufficiently then you need to replace the drive with a larger capacity drive.

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Hardware Information:
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          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro11,1
          1 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
          16 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel Iris - VRAM: 1024 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021) - Uptime: 0 days 0:3:55
Disk Information:
          APPLE SSD SM0512F disk0 : (500.28 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.42 GB (181.52 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
          Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Configuration files:
          /etc/hosts - Count: 9
Gatekeeper:
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Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
          [loaded] com.barebones.textwrangler.plist Support
Launch Agents:
          [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
          [running] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
          [loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
          [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
User Login Items:
          iTunesHelper
          Google Chrome
          Dropbox
Internet Plug-ins:
          AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.206 - SDK 10.6 Support
          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
          AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
          AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
          Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.206 - SDK 10.6 Support
          AdobeExManCCDetect_x86_64: Version: AdobeExManCCDetect_x86_64 1.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
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          Destinations:
                    Time Machine 1 [Local] (Last used)
                    Total size: 465.31 GB
                    Total number of backups: 4
                    Oldest backup: 2014-05-03 13:08:51 +0000
                    Last backup: 2014-05-04 03:51:14 +0000
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               1%          Creative Cloud
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I don't w where to take my anger. And I don't know what to do with my frustrations. It's difficult to find an email adress to someone in Apple who can help, so now I will try and post my story here to see if anyone have any suggestions.
In october 2007 I bought a MacBook Pro 15". It ran perfectly, until it died a few years later, of course after waranty ran out. I was in the middle of exams, I lost a lot of my notes in the computercrash so I didn't have time to take it anywhere or do anything. My boyfriend took it to the local dealer and was informed that it was a dead motherboard - I already suspected it but tried everything recomended for a black screen. The computer turns on, somtimes chime, the light goes on, fan starts running, the cd spins, but totally black screen. The dealer said it was out of warenty, and I had to pay myself, so I borrowed a computer and bought a new mac as soon as I could - this time with apple care 3 years!
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The Apple support in Denmark told me I had 3 options. Take it to court, try and ask Nvida (even though Apple bought the components apparantly custumors are responsible for chasing coverage of them) or I could pay for a new motherboard myself. Is that really all I can do? Is there somewhere in Apple I can take this or is court really the only way to communicate??
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Rasmus Storm
Denmark

I have a simple answer for you, but you are not going to like it.
Do Not Buy another Apple computer or any other Apple products.
You are IMHO completely correct in that Apple should either repair all of these computer that they put the NVidia card in no matter when it fails. In fact IMHO all of these computer should of been recalled when Apple found out about the bad graphics card. Auto manufacturers can't get away with this type of thing, mainly because when a defect is discovered most people stop buying their products and they are forced to have a recall to fix what is wrong on cars already sold.
There is nothing wrong with a PC and with most PC notebooks from any manufacturer you can get parts for them on either the used market or leftovers from when a particular model was discontinued. You can not buy major parts for Apple computers except from Apple and they do not sell them to the general public.
Good Luck.

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