Last tested using Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
- Backup .ssh folder to avoid having to regenerate codes for services such as Heroku and Github.
Copy Dropbox folder from previous drive to user folder
Install Dropbox
Remove unused items from Dock
Add Applications folder to dock and set it to display as "Grid"
Manually add in-progress project folders to Finder sidebar
Mission Control: Set Mission control to fn key (laptop only)
Mission Control: Set Mission control to Mouse Button 4 (Logitech mouse thumb button)
Mission Control: Set bottom right corner to "Show Desktop"
Desktop & Screen Saver > Screensaver > Hot Corners: Bottom left starts screensaver.
Spotlight: Disable Spotlight keyboard shortcuts
Dock: Automatically hide and show the dock
Trackpad: Turn off "Scroll direction: natural"
iCloud: Turn on "Back to My Mac"
Bluetooth: Turn off "Show Bluetooth in Menu Bar"
Date & Time: Clock > Don't Show the day of the week
Date & Time: Clock > Show date
Date & Time: Clock > Announce the time on the hour
Users & Groups: Set account photo to not be an animal, plant, or piece of sporting equipment
General: Show "Hard disks" and "Connected servers" on the Desktop
General: "New Finder windows show:" Dropbox folder
General: "Spring-loaded folders and windows" delay to "Short"
Sidebar: Disable the following
- All My Files
- AirDrop
- Documents
- Movies
- Music
- Pictures
Sidebar: Enable User Folder
Advanced: "When performing a search: Search the Current Folder"
- Cloud
- Fantastical
- xScope
- Evernote
- Slicy
- Xcode
- Harvest
- LiveReload
- Flint
- Reeder
- BetterSnapTool
Install 1Password
Tell it to use the existing file in your Dropbox
Install Browser Extensions
Install Alfred
Activate Powerpack
Enable 1Password Bookmarks and "Show in default results without keyword"
Set "Alfred hotkey" to Cmd-Space
Appearance: Hide menu bar icon
Advanced: Set "Settings Folder" to use Dropbox/Config/Alfred
Install SublimeText
Install Sublime Package Control
Install Soda Theme via Package Control
Install Emmet via Package Control
Create symlinks for preferences:
ln -s -f /Users/cmalven/Dropbox/Config/sublime-text/Preferences.sublime-settings /Users/cmalven/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages/User
Create symlinks for key-bindings:
ln -s -f /Users/cmalven/Dropbox/Config/sublime-text/Default\ \(OSX\).sublime-keymap /Users/cmalven/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages/User
Create symlinks for color scheme:
ln -s -f /Users/cmalven/Dropbox/Config/sublime-text/Solarized\ \(dark\).tmTheme /Users/cmalven/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages/User
Add terminal shortcut:
ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/subl
Install TotalFinder
Turn on Visor
Set Visor activation keyboard shortcut to option-tab
Turn off animations for Visor
Tweaks: Show System Files
Tweaks: Folders on Top
Tweaks: Hide icon in Menu Bar
Safari > Preferences > Advanced: Show Develop menu in menu bar
Install Xcode via the Mac App Store
In Xcode > Preferences > Downloads install Command Line Tools
In Xcode > Preferences > Downloads install iOS Simulator
Install Homebrew ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
Install Git brew install git
Install node.js
Install Meteor
Install RVM & Rails \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails
Set default RVM Ruby and Gemset rvm use 1.9.3@global --default
Install zsh: curl -L https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh | sh
Download Solarized and open /solarized/osx-terminal.app-colors-solarized/osx-terminal.app-colors-solarized
Create a symlink for your zsh theme: ln -s /Users/cmalven/Dropbox/Config/zsh/cmal.zsh-theme /Users/cmalven/.oh-my-zsh/themes
Create a symlink for your .zshrc file: ln -s -f /Users/cmalven/Dropbox/Config/zsh/.zshrc /Users/cmalven
Open Terminal preferences and select Solarized Dark as color scheme.
Position and resize the open Terminal window to set the default.
Shell > Use Settings as Default
Download and install Adobe Application Manager
Using Adobe Application Manager, install the following:
- Photoshop
- After Effects
- InDesign
- Illustrator
- Adobe Acrobat
Add Photoshop and Illustrator to the dock.
Preferences > Units: General > Pixels
Preferences > User Interface: 100% Light
Collapse Toolbar to single column
Combine and dock palettes to right edge of screen in this order:
- Appearance / Attributes
- Stroke (Show Options ON)
- Color (Show Options ON)
- Swatches
- Transparency (Hide Thumbnails ON)
- Symbols
- Pathfinder / Align / Transform
- Layers / Artboards
On Desktop screen, every pallette should be expanded at all times. On laptop screen they should be collapsed to a single column of icons.
Window > Workspace > New Workspace > cmal
Edit > Color Settings: Under Working Spaces set RGB to Monitor RGB - Display. Under Color Management Policies set RGB to Off. For Profile Mismatches choose Ask When Opening.
Quit and reopen Illustrator to look in Preferences, otherwise it will reset them when it inevitably crashes.
Download and install Bjango Actions
From Layers palette, open Panel Options and disable Expand new Effects and Add "copy" to Copied Layers and Groups
Edit > Color Settings: Under Working Spaces set RGB to Monitor RGB - Display. Under Color Management Policies set RGB to Off. For Profile Mismatches choose Ask When Opening.
Photoshop > Preferences > Units & Rulers: Set Units to Pixels
Download FontExplorerX
Check "Organize Font Files" and set location to /Dropbox/Config/FontExplorer X/Font Library
Preferences > General: Open FontExplorer X Pro automatically at login
Drag /Dropbox/Config/FontExplorer X/Font Library/ into FontExplorerX to add font collection.
On a previous computer/drive copy /user/Library/Mail to your new computer.
On a previous computer/drive copy /user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist to your new computer.
Copy these folders to the respective locations on your new Mac/Drive.
Open Mail
Mail > Preferences > Viewing: Show contact photos in the message list