new-mac
New Mac
New mac, who dis
Bunch of checklists to do when setting up a new Mac. There must be a way to automate this; I just had to work on what I have to make the setting up happen.
Wallpaper from Birmingham Museums Trust via Unsplash
S E C T I O N S
Tl;dr
This will install apps available in Homebrew. See files to be installed
bash -c "`curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arisacoba/new-mac/master/setup.sh`"
Applications
First things first
- Google Chrome: web browser. If don't like Chrome, get Firefox
- Vimium: enables Vim key strokes in browser
- Pocket: save-later app
- Pushbullet: push notifications, links, and files from your phone to your browser and vice-versa
- ColorZilla: color picker
- WhatFont: font inspector ✨Highly recommended
- Grammarly: powerful grammar and spelling checker
- ImageSize Info: checks image's size, width, and height on browser
- Fireshot: takes screenshots of your browser
- Images under cursor: get the images and background under the cursor, in URL or file
- New wallpaper from Unsplash
- Change user avatar
- Download npm
- Install Homebrew
Design
- Figma: browser-based design and prototype app, with collaboration
- Nudge amount: 8
- Enable
Use number keys for opacity
- Principle (with fee): animate interfaces made in Sketch or Figma
- (Optional) Sketch (with fee): design and prototype app
- Responsively App: mirrored user-interactions on various devices
Productivity/Communication
- Slack
- Notion: powerful note-taking app
- Zoom: video conferencing tool
- Telegram: instant-messaging app
- (Optional) Viber: instant-messaging app
- Dropbox
Dev
- iTerm2: terminal emulator for Mac
- Firefox Developer Edition: web browser with powerful dev tools
- Vimium
- Pushbullet
- ColorZilla
- WhatFont
- Fireshot See extensions' descriptions in #first-things-first
- Responsively App: mirrored user-interactions on various devices
- Fig: Terminal autocomplete ✨New
Mac specific apps
- Spectacle: easily resize windows in Mac
- Principle: see in #design
- Kap: screen recorder for Mac
- Sketch: see in #design
- Caption: drag and drop subtitle search
- HazeOver: focuses active window ✨New
- Raycast: High productivity launcher (Spotlight/Alfred alternative) ✨Highly recommended
- MeetingBar: lists your calendar meetings in menubar ✨Highly recommended
- Aerial Screensaver: a macOS screensaver that lets you play videos from Apple's tvOS screensaver
Menubar apps
- Contrast: a WCAG 2.0 standard contrast ratio guide/picker
- Vanilla: hides icons in menubar(with paid version)
- Numi (with fee): minimalist and highly funcitional calculator
- Rocket: emoji picker and shortcut
- RunCat: tracks CPU, disk, memory usage of your computer with running gif/symbol
- Aware: tracks how long you've been actively using the computer
- Amphetamine: keeps your Mac awake
- Mounty: re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes
- MeetingBar: lists your calendar meetings in menubar ✨New ✨Highly recommended
- HandMirror: Hand mirror, for Mac ✨New ✨ Recommended
Misc
- Logitech Options: application to configure your logitech devices
- Spotify: only the music and podcast streaming you need
- MacDown: markdown editor
- Obsidian: powerful markdown editor
- Keycastr: keystroke visualiser; useful with Kap ✨New
OS Configuration
Change computer name
System Preferences → Sharing
Change user avatar
System Preferences → User & Groups
Keyboard app shortcuts
System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts
Google Chrome and iTerm2: to lessen the probability of accidental quitting the application
Trackpad configuration
System Preferences → Trackpad
System Preferences → Accessibility → Mouse & Trackpad
Mouse configuration
System Preferences → Mouse
Open Spotify only on the second desktop
On dock → Right-click Spotify → Options → This Desktop
Terminal Configuration
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Install Homebrew
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Install zsh
$ brew install zsh -
Install oh-my-zsh
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Configure ~/.zshrc
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Install yarn
brew install yarn -
Configure ~/.vimrc
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Install Fast CLI
npm install --global fast-cli
Made by @aris_acoba
2021 • aris.acoba@gmail.com Updated Dec 2021
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