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How many languages does your Mac need?

By Steven Coburn ⋅ June 2, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

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I don’t know about any of you guys out there, but I only speak two languages. (English and Spanish) Your Mac, on the other hand, can speak dozens. I doubt that i will ever try learn to speak Finish, Russian, Thai or any (other non-romance language for that matter) so all this support for tons of languages on my Mac is useless to me. Like some human brains, your Mac may also need space for some other things. Well, there is little chance that you will ever need to use you’re Mac in Swahili… that’s where Monolingual comes into play.

Monolingual is one of the neatest and most useful utilities for OS X that I have come across yet. Once you download it, it will give you a list of languages and what you want to delete, including architectures, input menus, etc.. After your done selecting everything you want to delete, Monolingual will take a while deleting all the information that you will never need. Once its done, you get a nice little box saying that Monolingual is done, and how much its deleted. Its amazing how much space you can save… the first time I ran it I saved something along the lines of 40 gigs!

There is little reason that you shouldn’t download this right away. I mean, who doesn’t want to save insane amounts of memory that they won’t ever miss?

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