What I do after I do a fresh install. Things are sorta grouped by type.

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New Machine

What I do after I do a fresh install. Things are sorta grouped by type.

General Config

1. Start downloading Xcode
2. Disable auto-bright and turn brightness all the way up
3. Turn up trackpad tracking
4. Disable trackpad pinch open & close
5. Control-F7 to enable better tabbing
6. Setup MobileMe syncing
7. Remove sync from menubar
8. Disable energy saver dimming and up sleep times
9. Clean up dock
10. Remove Bluetooth from menubar
11. Remove sound from menubar
12. Turn on auto-hiding dock
13. Move Dock To The Left Side
14. Change default Finder sorting
15. Snap desktop items to grid
16. Remote stupid MyBook drive sudo sh -c "echo UUID=diskutil info /Volumes/WD\ SmartWare/ | grep 'UUID' | awk '{print $NF}' none hfs rw,noauto 0 0 >> /etc/fstab"
17. Setup MagicMouse and configure tracking speed
18. Put Time Machine in the Menu Bar
19. Put Lock Screen In The Menubar
20. Put "Displays In The Menubar"

Install Apps

1. Install Growl
2. Set "Music Video" as the default notification type.
3. Install Dropbox
4. Change Dropbox menubar color
5. Install Chrome and make default browser
6. Install JSON extension
7. Setup Chrome sync
8. Install FireFox
9. Install FireBug
10. Install Launchbar
11. Setup Launchbar
12. Change Spotlight shortcut
13. Install Terminal Visor Plugin
14. Install Spotify
15. Install Transmit
16. Install Sequel Pro
17. Setup Mail.app
18. Setup iChat
19. Install Chax
20. Configure Chax
21. Install Cloud App
22. Install HTTP Client
23. Install AppZapper
24. Install ScreenFlow
25. Install Tweetie
26. Install iStat Menus

Install Unix Stuff

1. Install Xcode (hopefully it's done downloading by now)
2. Create and own /usr/local $ sudo mkdir /usr/local $ sudo chown -R jakemarsh /usr/local $ sudo chmod -R 775 /usr/local
3. Create /usr/local/bin $ mkdir /usr/local/bin
4. Download TextMate
5. Setup TextMate mate command
6. Run Software Update
7. Install Xcode
8. Change Terminal fonts
9. Install Homebrew $ curl -LsSf http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | sudo tar xvz -C/usr/local --strip 1
10. Install Git $ brew install git
11. Install my dotfiles and use zsh $ chsh -s /bin/zsh $ cd ~ $ git init $ git remote add origin http://github.com/jakemarsh/dotfiles.git
12. Ignore everything in home (add a * line to the ~/.git/info/exclude file)
13. Install rvm $ bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )
14. Install Enterprise Ruby 1.8.7 $ rvm install ree

Install TextMate Plugins

1. Install MissingSidebar $ curl -Lo MissingDrawer.zip http://github.com/downloads/jezdez/textmate-missingdrawer/MissingDrawer_2010-08-23.zip $ unzip MissingDrawer.zip $ open MissingDrawer/MissingDrawer.tmplugin $ rm -rf MissingDrawer.zip MissingDrawer
2. Install SASS TextMate plugin $ git clone git://github.com/fluxsaas/sass-textmate-bundle.git "Ruby-Saas-Alternative-Syntax.tmbundle" $ open Ruby-Saas-Alternative-Syntax.tmbundle
3. Install SCSS TextMate plugin $ git clone http://github.com/chriseppstein/SCSS.tmbundle.git $ open SCSS.tmbundle
4. Install Less TextMate plugin $ git clone http://github.com/appden/less.tmbundle.git $ open less.tmbundle
5. Install Railscasts TextMate themes $ git clone http://github.com/ryanb/textmate-themes.git $ open textmate-themes/railscasts.tmTheme $ open textmate-themes/ryan-light.tmTheme $ rm -rf textmate-themes

Install Rails Environment Stuff

1. Set REE as default Ruby $ rvm use ree --default
2. Install Bundler $ gem install bundler --pre
3. Install PostgreSQL $ brew install postgresql $ initdb /usr/local/var/postgres
4. Run Software Update again

Install Disc Apps

1. Install Creative Suite 5
2. iLife
3. iWork
4. Run Software Update for the last time

Done. Yays.