If you're the proud owner of a MacBook Air, or if you have an older MacBook or iMac and you're running out of disk space, then there's one product you definitely need.
It's called Xslimmer.
It does one thing, and one thing only, and that's slimming down OS X applications so they take up less room on your drive.
And every megabyte you free up is a megabyte you can use for your own documents, photos, and music.
So how does it work?
Two ways. Most OS X applications these days ship as Universal Binaries, which means that they can run on newer Intel systems as well as on older PowerPC-based Macs. What that also means, however, is that there's a lot of code out there that your computer will never, ever touch, and as such is just wasting precious space.
Xslimmer also removes unneeded language files. So if you're never going to run Mail in Dutch or German, those embedded resources can be zapped as well.
How much room can you save?
Quite a bit, actually. I ran Xslimmer on my Air's 3.41 GB application folder, and it took it down in size to 1.2 GB.
Freeing up 2.21 gigabytes of space. Two gigabytes.
And with the only real drawback being that I can never transfer a slimmed application file over to a PowerPC machine.
I can live with that.
Xslimmer is Leopard-compatible, but also works in Tiger and Panther.
Best of all is the price, equally slim and trim at just $11.95.
So visit www.xslimmer.com and check it out.
Another great FREE application to help regain valuable hdd space is Monolingual. This tool can remove unneeded language files from any application that has been installed to the system.
The first time I ran the utility it freed up nearly 7GB of space. What do I need with Simplified Chinese help files? or any other language other than my native tongue of English? The same principle goes for anyone else. Why would someone who speaks French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic or any other language need language support files of another language?
To download the file go to:
www.monolingual.sourceforge.net
Keith
Posted by: Keith Deininger | April 01, 2008 at 05:40 PM
A really great app. And yeah we dont need applications in arabic and help article from chinese. Xslimmer is awesome
Posted by: erika | April 14, 2008 at 10:21 PM