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How to remove language support?
Konica-Minolta is quitting the photography market
Unnecessary Language Resource Remover
Interesting comments
Flyakite


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How to remove language support?

From Eric Matthieu

Hi Charles,

A few months ago I bought a refurb G5 iMac, and have been quite pleased with it -- except for one thing. The previous owner apparently installed AsianLanguagesSupport.pkg, so in OS X services, an annoying (to me) Chinese Text Converter is ever-present. Do you know how to remove this? I thought about running the installer for that package in hopes of it allowing me to uninstall, but no joy. I also went into the International preference pane to try to tackle this, but I can't really do what I want there (merely toggle languages on/off, and that doesn't affect services). Can't find anything on Apple's Support page either.

Help! Granted, this isn't causing my computer any real problems, but I'd really like to keep my setup suited to me. Ought to be simple, no? Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Eric

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Hi Eric;

Mike Bimbich developed a little freeware utility to remove unneeded language support from OS X, but the Website says it has only been tested up to OS 10.3:
http://www.bombich.com/software/local.html

Another such utility is Monolingual 1.2.9, which happily supports Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Also freeware:
http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/

Charles

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Re: How to remove language support?

From Eric Matthieu

Well, I ran Monolingual and am happy to say I've reclaimed over 1.4GB of space on my HD. However, the Services menu still shows options for the ChineseTextConverter. I'll just live with it until I reformat the drive (if I ever do).

Thanks for your help.

Eric






Konica-Minolta is quitting the photography market

From Jason Lynch

Charles,

I hate to send you more bad news but, Konica-Minolta is quitting the photography market:

“Konica-Minolta today revealed it is to quit [the] photography business after more than 103 years.... Under a new deal with Sony, Konica-Minolta will hand over a "portion" of its digital SLR assets, along with its own-brand digital camera customer service operation, to Sony on 31 March. On that date, it will also stop selling digital and film cameras of its own.”

Story at The Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/19/konica-minolta_quits_camera_biz/

It's a whole new world in the photgraphy business, and I think that I am being left behind! Will there be any film SLR's left? Will I even be able to buy 35mm film in the future, much less get it processed?

-Jason

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Hi Jason;

That is sad news. Perhaps you, like me, were a photofraphy buff back in the '70s when Konica and Minolta were separate and competing camera brands. Now they're both gone.

As to your speculation about 35MM film, I've been wondering the same myself. On the other hand, I've had the same roll of film in my Olympus OM-1 for the past 18 months, and it's still not finished. Digital is very seductive.

I expect that 35MM film will still be available for years yet — at a price, but you may well not be able to buy it at the drugstore, or get it processed at a neighborhood mall outlet.

Charles





Unnecessary Language Resource Remover

From Dave Barnes

Macaroni (a $9 shareware program from http://www.atomicbird) already performs
"unncessary language removal".

I have used Macaroni for over 6 months and really like it.

Dave
http://www.marketingtactics.com

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Thanks for the tip and testimonial, Dave.

Charles






Interesting comments

From John M. Dennis

One of my co-workers last week asked me if I had seen screen shots of Vista. I told him that I had. He said that when Vista comes out that he may as well buy a Mac since they are looking more and more like a Mac all the time. I do not know if he will actually do this or not but interesting just the same.





Flyakite

From John M. Dennis

I was sent this link. I do not know much about this site or what they
are doing but the software launches on the site and you can ever launch
iTunes and listen to the music they have.

http://osx.portraitofakite.com/

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Looks cool. Thanks for the link, John.

Charles


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