"Other" is taking up all my memory

Every mac that I go on, doesnt have as much "Other" used up on the computer as my MacBook Pro, Im not sure why, but it keeps building up and takes all of my memory. Here is a picture of it: http://puu.sh/1RuBr
PLEASE HELP ME! I have tryed OmniDisksweeper, and that did not work, I have looked into the console, and searched through terminal and found nothing. I have recently deleted about 100GB of items on my laptop in order to make room so I can put on the new iOS (havent bought it yet), but this is just rediculas, I need help with my problem.
My current software is: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
Thankyou for your concideration,
Nelson95

I have tryed OmniDisksweeper, and that did not work
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste (command-V) into the Terminal window. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means.
When you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal.

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