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Last tested using Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Before Wiping Original Install
Setup Dropbox
Copy Dropbox folder from previous drive to user folder
Install Dropbox
General Setup
https://yellowfactory194.weebly.com/blog/how-to-view-mac-apps. 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
System Settings
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
Finder Preferences:
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
Sidebar: Enable User Folder
Advanced: 'When performing a search: Search the Current Folder'
Install from the Mac App Store:
Setup 1Password:
Install 1Password Mac app store apps not updating.
Tell it to use the existing file in your Dropbox
Install Browser Extensions
Setup Alfred:
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
Setup SublimeText:
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 Allow apps from unidentified developers on macos 10.14.
Add terminal shortcut:
ln -s /Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/subl
Setup TotalFinder:
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
Setup Dev Environment:
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
Setup RVM:
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
Setup Terminal:
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
Setup Adobe Creative Suite
Download and install Adobe Application Manager
Using Adobe Application Manager, install the following:
Add Photoshop and Illustrator to the dock.
Setup Adobe Illustrator
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:
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.
Setup Photoshop
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
Setup Fonts
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
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Drag /Dropbox/Config/FontExplorer X/Font Library/ into FontExplorerX to add font collection.
Setup Mail
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
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