However, the Xslimmer developers have created and maintain a blacklist of known applications that are effected by slimming. Xslimmer can, however disrupt some applications and make them potentially unusable. When you are ready to slim your list of applications, simply press the “Slim!” button in the lower right hand corner and wait while Xslimmer does the work for you. When you launch it, you simply drag the application (or applications) you would like to slim down and it begins to analyze the amount of space it can save. Xslimmer makes the process amazingly simple. This takes your applications on a strict diet- and for someone who has upwards of 300 applications, the difference can be very noticeable- especially if space is tight. Applications like Adium can have up to 20 differnt languages bundled within. However, Xslimmer does more than just removing the unnecessary binary code- it can also remove unnecessary languages. Logic Pro 8: 335MB Slimmed to: 95MB Garage Band 3: 179MB Slimmed to: 60MB The unnecessary code Xslimmer removes would otherwise do nothing but take up space on your computer! By going through all your applications and removing the Universal Binary code, you will start seeing a significant amount of space coming back. Xslimmer is an application that scans through the code of your Universal Binary applications and determines, based on your computers architecture (be it Intel or PowerPC), what is unnecessary, and removing it. So depending on the complexity of the application, by being a Universal Binary, the file size is increased hence the nickname of ‘Fat Binaries’- a term left over from Apple’s transition from 68K to PowerPC. Applications that were Universal Binary were natively compatible with both Intel and PowerPC architectures, and any application that wasn’t Universal Binary could be translated on the fly using Rosetta (like Classic for Mac OS 9) on the new Intel architecture. When Steve Jobs announced the transition to Intel Processors at WWDC in 2005, the Universal Binary was born. Today’s review is about Xslimmer from LateNiteSoft. Mac OS X loves RAM and having 4GB will also improve your iMacs performance.Continuing a series of reviews on how to save space, today we are looking at another valuable piece of software for Mac OS X. They are caused by Apple not updating the reference list correctly and won't go away even after the 100th repair.If you have 2GB of RAM or less you should consider upgrading to 4GB. Don't mind those mismatches listed after the second run. Best practice is to run it twice, once for fixing permissions, another time for control. I found it having no noticeable impact expect the Hard Drive space you gain.The only other thing I can recommend is to Sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/īut those changes might be reversed with the next Software Update.Another tweak often mentioned is to strip languages and universal code from Apps using tools like Monolingual or Xslimmer. Sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/.plist Sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ Other tweaks include deactivating things you don't need like AirPort and Bluetooth.One could go as far as unloading unneded system daemons too, for example:Bluetooth Sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/ Those via Terminal before deleting the plist file: Just be aware that some of them are necessary for Applications to work properly:System Preferences > Users > Startup Items You can find them at the following locations. Like on Windows you can look through your startup items and background services running. While there are a few things you can do the benefits are only minor.
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