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Trim the excess fat off your Universal Binary applications. Who says you need to carry around the extra weight of PPC architecture when all you ever need is the Intel code? Download a copy of Xslimmer [via]and nit-pick through your apps trimming the excess fat where needed.

Xslimmer is a new, fun way to size down your Universal Binary apps, without losing any of their functionality. How is this possible?

It is achieved by removing the code inside the Universal Binaries that does not fit with your machine’s architecture, a code that never gets executed and just wastes your disk space.

The process is simple. Open Xslimmer, drag applications into the window, and watch as Xslimmer analyzes and trims away the excess from your Universal Binary apps. Be careful what you trim (turn on backups in the Preferences). Don’t get a little too overzealous deleting “unnecessary” files. Your applications may not run as they used to.

Examples of Xslimmed apps: Pages: 258MB to 230MB; Transmission: 1.05 to 804KB; Transmit: 8.37MB to 5.69MB; Unarchiver: 3.11MB to 2.31MB; TextMate: 27.3MB to 22.9MB; NetNewsWire: 22.2MB to 13.2MB; Garageband: 47.8MB to 32.1MB.