My new macbook air has lots of storage space used up by "other"

Ive only got a 64gb hard drive in my macbook air and i want to make the most of it but when i go into the system utilities to see how where my storage space is being used i find that 28gb is used up under the "other" section, i can understand that documents may be included in this but its brand new and ive not got any files as such other than my music and photos which have there own disk space covered so what is in this other, the OS i assume but 28gb?? it cant be that big.
im worried ive transfered some massive file from my PC somewhere and cant find it, is there a way of looking more in detail where my storage is going?
what is covered under the other section of hard disk usage?
I'd appreciate if any of you mac genius could help as I'm new to all this
Many thanks
Kim x

I read the article you posted but I wasn't able to find anything that I was able to delete based on the advice from that website. I took my Macbook to the Apple store and they were convinced that my computer's mail account was taking up all the memory. We unlinked my account and it cleared up about 10 gigs. Unfortunately, "other" space is back up to 28 gigs (over half of my memory). Please help! The Apple store has no other solutions and I am continually running out of startup space. Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

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