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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 Daniil Silantev via Unsplash

S E C T I O N S

• Applications
  • First things first
  • Design
  • Productivity/Communication
  • Dev
  • Mac specific apps
  • Menubar apps
  • Misc
• OS Configuration
  • Change computer name
  • Change user avatar
  • Keyboard app shortcuts
  • Trackpad configuration
  • Mouse configuration
  • Open Spotify only on the second desktop
• Terminal Configuration

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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

Design

• Figma: browser-based design and prototype app, with collaboration
• 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
  • Pocket
  • Pushbullet
  • ColorZilla
  • WhatFont
  • Fireshot

  See extensions' descriptions in #first-things-first

• Responsively App: mirrored user-interactions on various devices

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

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
• Horo: timer app
• MeetingBar: lists your calendar meetings in menubar ✨New ✨Highly 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 ✨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

• Install Homebrew

• Install zsh

    $ brew install zsh
  

• Install oh-my-zsh

• Configure ~/.zshrc

• Install yarn

    brew install yarn
  

• Configure ~/.vimrc

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Made by @aris_acoba

2021 • aris.acoba@gmail.com Updated Mar 2021

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