New Computer Setup jul 25, 2017

My department provides new graduate students with a new laptop. I got the new (2017) 13” mac, and wanted to record my installation steps for myself to hasten future installations and share some interesting programs that I have found to be useful. Anything that is not free has been noted accordingly.

free apps

• flux colorer, red-shift screen shader
• caffeine, doesn’t let computer sleep
• spectacle, application window snapping
• hyperswitch, global window switcher
• karabiner, map caps lock to esc
• todoist, task manager
• vlc media player

paid apps

• 1password, good password manager
• adobe creative cloud, media editors
• camtasia, video recorder and editor
• quiver, simple note organizing tool
• alfred launcher, workflows, theme
• xee, faster picture viewer

development

xcode-select --install
cd && mkdir Code && cd Code
git clone https://github.com/jeremywrnr/dotfiles.git
git clone https://github.com/jeremywrnr/util.git
util/srcdot

• xcode
• dotfiles
• sublime
• homebrew
• ohmyzsh
• arduino
• iterm2
• duti

configuration

defaults write com.apple.Terminal AppleShowScrollBars -string WhenScrolling
defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 10
defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1

• hide terminal scrollbars
• lower key-repeat times:
• show file extension finder
• initial osx walkthrough
• tab through all input options
• setup ssh keys

…and finally rest