What is "other" in disc space?

My start up disc is almost full, and in researching this I've found "other" to be the major space hog!  I've tried deleting unused downloads and apps, cleaned out the trash ( even in iphoto and mail), and even deleted browsing history and cache on safari. I'm loosing my patience here!  According to the storage section on "about this mac", my music and photo's arent taking up that much room and I'm at a total loss as to what to do now!  (I even trashed other "languages" stored on this).  Any help would be appreciated! 

Click on your desktop HDD icon COMMAND I (as in the letter i).  This will generate the following display which will show you how much space you have available:
From this you can determine if you have a storage problem or not.  If you think you do, consider installing a larger HDD or transferring some files on an external HDD.
Ciao.

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