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Thanks to hints and help from James Robertson, I'm now posting this from my new iMac box (er, uh, blob). Here's the blow by blow of how to do it.
First of all you download and uncompress the folder. I just put the folder on my desktop. You have to create a folder called "Bottom Feeder.app" in your /Applications folder. But just creating a new one, won't get the "bundle" bit set right. And having another app there helps to get the tree structure right too. So do something like:
cd /Applications
cp -R Safari.app Bottom\ Feeder.app
cd Bottom\ Feeder/Contents
cd MacOS
rm -rf *
cd ../Resources
rm -rf *
cd ..
cp /bottomFeeder .
Now you have to edit the PkgInfo and the Info.plist files. The info.plist file is an xml-ized dictionary. You need to change references of Safari (or whatever .app you cloned) to bottomFeeder (in particular the name of the "executable"). I have not yet experimented with just how many of these Info.plist entries are mandatory. The PkgInfo file is easy. It just needs to read APPL???? on one line.
That done, you can go back to your original folder, and double click on the bottomFeeder.im file. It won't have an application associated with it yet, so you have to "choose application". The tricky part here (for me) was that it would not highlight Bottom Feeder until I changed it from "Preferred Applications" to "All Applications".
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