Monolingual

One of our readers recently wrote in and asked us how he could slim down his i tall of OS X. One simple way is to get rid of all those languages that you don't use which are i talled by default with OS X (if you hit 'Customize' while i talling OS X you can really cut down on the bloat by only i talling the languages and print drivers that you will use).

Monolingual is a freeware a that deletes all those other pesky languages from your Mac (just be careful not to delete the language you use because the only way to get them back is to rei tall OS X).

I just ran it on my Macbook and it freed up 2.4 gigs of ace, though it did take about 30 minutes to run.

Update: Be careful to only remove the extraneous languages from your Mac using this program (as I did). Uncheck all the 'Architecture' optio , otherwise you'll break Rosetta and blame me (and no one wants that).