Xslimer
Most applications for the Macintosh currently are shipped as Universal apps. This means that they contain code to allow us to run them either on PowerPC machines or on Intel machines.
Xslimmer will delete unneeded code as one way to get back space on your hard drive.
Another way is to strip out unneeded languages from various applications.
Some users have reported applications loading in almost half the time.
Some examples of space savings are:
* BBEdit 8.5, from 33.6Mb to 23.5Mb (30%)
* GarageBand 3.0.4, from 103Mb to 30.4Mb (70%)
* Grapher 2.0, from 68.2Mb to 18.6Mb (72%)
* Google Earth 4, from 101Mb to 52.8Mb (47%)
Xslimmer is compatible all the way from Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) through 10.5.x (Leopard).
You can use the demo for free to save up to 50 Mb of space. After that it is only $12.99. Of course, there are free apps that will do some slimming features, but this is the first one I have seen that removes languages from applications.
See it here.
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