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“Developers are starting to distribute binaries that will run on Intel-based hardware as well as PowerPC Macs. This will add about 30% to the size of the executables. To recover the disk space, you can remove the unneeded code using the command-line program ditto.

For example, suppose Foo.app is a fat application bundle installed on a PowerPC Mac. While logged in as an admin user, you would open a Terminal window and type something like:
ditto –rsrc –arch ppc /Applications/Foo.app /Application/Foo-ppc.app
Now you have a new application called Foo-ppc.app. Test it. If it works, you can delete the original and rename the stripped version. To strip PPC code from binaries on an Intel Mac, you would change –arch ppc to –arch i386 in the above command.

In case it’s not obvious, keep in mind that this operation is not reversible. Once you strip the code for a particular architecture from a multi-architecture executable, it will no longer run on that architecture. So keep a backup copy.”

(Via macosxhints.)

VacuumMail:

“Apple Mail Slowing Down? VacuumMail Can Probably Help” VacuumMail, which can be used as a regular application or automated through the included LaunchAgent for use with Launchd. I also took a few minutes to document the script and provide some information about Launchd and how to manage LaunchAgents and Services. The download package has three files: VacuumMail, the launch agent (which is just a .plist file), and a page of documentation.

(Via musingsfrommars.)

MacForge: Open Source for the Mac Community: “Welcome to MacForge

MacForge is your source to find open source projects out on the net that work on the Mac, or are likely to work on the Mac. Thanks to MacForge, there’s no need to sift through huge listings of open source that you can’t use.”

(Via macforge.)

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• Apple Developer Site – Apple’s Macintosh Programming Pages
• Apple Developer Connection News – developer related technical, business, and marketing information direct from Apple, includes info on MacOS, Java, internet, hardware, etc.
• Apple’s AppleScript page – Free scripts, utilities, source code, and more!
• AppleScript Central – over 300 AppleScripts are here for OS 8-X
• Cocoa Dev Central – tips, tricks, and tutorials (and more) for the "newbie" cocoa developer
• GNU Mac OS X Public Archive – Tools for the OS X Package Installer/Maker and a port to a lot of Free/Open Source installer related software
• Localization Team – specialists in Macintosh software translation
• MacDevCenter – a great resource centrer brought to you by O’Relly!!
• MacDX – a product for porting Direct-X for Mac OS
• Mac Game Development – Apple libraries and resources to make it easier to create games for the Mac, including Apple Game Sprockets
• Macintosh C Programming – great tutorial and reference for C programming on the Mac ON-LINE!
• Macintosh Programmer’s Link Library – links to large variety of shoftware development environments (unfortunately last updated 4/18/00)
• MacHack – the Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers, still held in Dearborn, MI
• ResExcellence – If you miss Desktop Madness, you’ll love ResExcellence. Customize your Macintosh desktop! ResEdit required, not for the faint of heart!
• ScriptWeb – AppleScript and Frontier resource
• SourceForge.net – largest resository of Open Source code and applications on the Net
• StepWise – NextStep, OpenStep, and Mac OS X Server news, software, and links