I’ve been trying to clear up space on my hard disk by moving files to CD-Rs and ran into a slight problem. I had a couple of large video files which wouldn’t fit on a single CD-R.

Here’s where HJSplit enters the picture. It’s a tiny (174KB!) freeware utility that splits a large file (up to 10GB) into smaller chunks. There are more elegant solutions for splitting video files but I love HJSplit’s simplicity. There’s an online manual but this really is an idiot-friendly program. Cons? The only thing I can think of is that you need HJSplit when rejoining the split files but the program is so tiny you can store it with the split files.