💻🎁 New Computer Checklist 🎁💻

A checklist and list of scripts I should run when getting a new computer or reinstalling OSX. I'll feel like a super fast, new machine!

This was made on OSX10.11 by Grant Timmerman

Imagine your MacBook was stolen tomorrow. Or you started a new job with a new machine fresh off the press. Would you be able to recover your favorite settings?

Getting Started

To get started, simply fork this repo and customize your settings.

You should have the following user/pass combinations ready
- Wifi password
- Apple ID
- LastPass (Password manager)
- iPhone/android phone (2FA)

Performance

Computer performance is extremely important. To do our jobs faster, we try to balance two things:

Use of applications/existing software/HOFs to make our lives easier
Performance/Efficientcy to make our lives faster

System Preferences

🍎 General

Appearance: Blue
Highlight color: Other (gray)
Show scroll bars: Automatically based on mouse or trackpad
Click in the scroll bar to: Jump to the next page
Default web browser: Google Chrome.app
Ask to keep changes when closing documents
Close windows when quitting app
Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices
Use LCD font smoothing when available

🖥 Desktop & Screen Saver

Message: Start after: 1 hour, [x] show clock
Hot corner: bottom-left, put monitor to sleep
Screen Saver: Bahamas blue

🚢 Dock

Size: 10%
Magnification
Position on screen: Right
Double-click on a window's title bar to zoom
Minimize windows into application icon
Animate opening applications
Automatically hide and show the Dock
Show indicators for open applications

🖲 Mission Control

Automatically rearrage Spaces based on most recent use
When switching to an applications, switch to a Space with open windows for the application
Group windows by application
Displays have separate Spaces
Dashboard: Off
Mission Control: Ctrl + Opt + Cmd + Up
Application windows: Ctrl + Opt + Cmd + Down
Show Desktop: F11
Show Dashboard F12

🌐 Language & Region

Preferred languages
- English - Primary - 简体中文 - Chinese, Simplified
Region: United States
First day of the week: Sunday
Calendar: Gregorian
Time format: [x] 24-Hour Time
List sort order: Universal

🔒 Security & Privacy

General
- Require password for 1 minute after sleep or screensafer begins
- Disable automatic login
- Allow apps downloaded from: Mac App Store and identified developers
Privacy
- Allow the apps below to control your computer: (when downloaded)
  - Google Chrome (https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/features.html)
  - Moom (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moom/id419330170?mt=12)
    - Allow the app to control your computer via System Preferences > Security & Privacy
  - RescueTime (https://www.rescuetime.com/get_rescuetime)

🔍 Spotlight

Only the following:
- Folders
- PDF Documents
- System Preferences

🔔 Notifications - Nothing special

📺 Display

Default for display
Rotation: Standard
Refresh Rate: 60 Hertz (NTSC)
Underscan: Off
Show mirroring options in the menu bar when available

🔌 Energy Saver

Automatic graphics switching
3 hrs
Put hard disks to sleep when possible
Wake for network access
Enable Power Nap while plugged into a power adapter
Show battery status in menu bar

⌨ Keyboard

Key Repeat - 2nd to fastest
Delay Until Repeat - 3rd tick from left
Use all F1, F2, etc.
Adjust keyboard brightness in low light
Turn off when computer is not used for: Never
Show Keyboard, Emoji, & Symbol Viewers in menu bar
No other unique keyboard settings

🖱 Mouse

Tracking speed: Fastest
- (you can increase it beyond this by doing this http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/15210/how-to-increase-tracking-speed-beyond-the-maximum)
Scrolling speed: 4th tick from left
Double-Click speed: 2nd tick from right
Primary mouse button: Left

⬜ Trackpad

Point & Click
- Look up & data detectors
- Secondary click
- Tap to click
- Tracking speed: 2nd to last tick
Scroll & Zoom
- Scroll direction
- Zoom in or out
- Smart zoom
- Rotate
More Gestures
- Swipe between pages
- Swipe between full-screen apps
- Notification Center
- Mission Control
- App Exposé
- Launchpad
- Show Desktop

🖨 Printers & Scanners - Nothing special

🔊 Sound

Nothing special
Show volume in menu bar

☁️ iCloud

🌐 Internet Accounts (try not to add anything unless needed here)

iCloud
- Photos
- Contacts
- Safari
- Keychain
- Find My Mac
None besides that

💎 Extensions

DON'T DOWNLOAD DRIVE OR DROPBOX
Actions: Not enabled
Finder: Not enabled
Share Menu: Mail, AirDrop, Messages
Today: Not enabled

🕸 Network

Show Wi-Fi status in menu bar
Advanced
- Nothing really different besides default
- DNS Servers
  - 192.168.0.1

📲 Blootooth

Turn Bluetooth Off
Show Bluetooth in menu bar

👫 Sharing

Nothing should be on

👤 Users & Groups

Grant Timmerman - Admin
- Avatar: Owl
Other Users - Guest User - Off

👨‍👧 Parental Controls - none

🛍 App Store

Automatically check for updates
- Download newly available updates in the background
- Install app updates
- Install OS X Updates
- Install system data files and security updates
Automatically download apps purchaes on other Macs

🗣 Dictation & Speech

Dictation All Off

🕒 Date & Time

Date & Time: Set date and time automatically
Time Zone: Set time zone automatically using current location
Clock
- Show date and time in menu bar
- Time Options: Digital
- Date options:
  - Show the day of the week
  - Show the date

🕰 Time Machine: Off

💬 Accessibility

Display
- Invert colors
- Use grayscale
- Differentiate without color
- Increase contrast
- Reduce transparency
- Display Contrast: Left-most tick
- Cursor Size: 2nd tick from left
- Shake mouse pointer to locate
Zoom
- Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom
- Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom
- Smooth Images
- Zoom follows the keybaord focus
- Zoom Style: Fullscreen
- More Oprtions...
  - Maximum Zoom: 0
  - Minimum Zoom: 0
  - When zoomed in, the screen image moves: Continuously with pointer
VoiceOver: Disabled
Descriptions: Disabled
Captions: Default
Audio: None
Keyboard: All disabled
Mouse & Trackpad
- Spring-loaded delay: middle
Switch Control: Default
Dictation: None

☕ Flash Player/Java: Default

Flash: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?fpchrome
- Allow Adobe to install updates
Java: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index-jsp-138363.html

🖥 Applications

Any application that you have pinned constantly should be converted to a native app

https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier sudo npm install nativefier -g
Applications +(Less tabs, more isolation), -(Links don't work)
- Google Calendar: nativefier "calendar.google.com"
- SoundCloud: nativefier --name "SoundCloud" soundcloud.com

📂 finder

in folders, right-click, View > as List
Finder > Preferences
- Sidebar
  - Favorites
    - All My Files
    - iCloud Drive
    - AirDrop
    - Applications
    - Desktop
    - Documents
    - Downloads
    - Movies
    - Music
    - Pictures
    - granttimmerman
    - Shared
    - Back to My Mac
    - Connected Servers
    - Bonjour computers
    - Devices
    - Grant's MacBook Pro
    - Hard disks
    - External disks
    - CDs, DVDs, and iPods
    - Tags
    - Recent tags
- Advanced
  - Show all filename extensions
  - Show warning before changing extension
  - Show warning before emptying the Trash
  - When performing a search: Search the Current Folder

⬛ shell

iTerm - Terminal
- Download my settings here: https://github.com/grant/iterm-profile
- General
  - Startup
    - Use System Window Restoration Setting
  - Closing
    - Quit when all windows are closed
    - Confirm closing multiple sessions
    - Confirm "Quit iTerm2 (⌘Q)" command
  - Magic
    - Instant Replay uses [4] MB per session
    - Save copy/paste and command history to disk
  - Services
    - Add Bonjour hosts to Profiles
    - Check for updates automatically
    - Prompt for test-release updates
  - Preferences
    - Load preferences from custom folder or URL
  - Selection
    - Copy to pasteboard on selection
    - Copied text includes trailing newline
    - Applications in terminal may access clipboard
  - Window
    - Smart window placement
    - Adjust window when changing font size
    - Zoom maximizes vertically only
    - Native full screen windows
  - tmux integration
    - Open tmux windows as native windows
    - ...
- Appearance
  - Tabs
    - Tab bar location: Top
    - Theme: Dark
    - Show tab bar even when there is only one tab
    - Show tab numbers
    - Show tab close buttons
    - Show activity indicator
    - Show new-output indicator
    - Show tab bar in fullscreen
  - Panes
    - Show per-pane title bar with split panes
  - Screen
    - Auto-hide menu bar in non-native fullscreen
  - Window & Tab Titles
    - Show window number
    - Show current job name
    - Show profile name
  - Dimming
    - Dimming affects only text, not background.
    - Dimming amount: 1/4 Minimal
    - Dim inactive split panes
    - Dim background windows
  - Window
    - Show border around window
    - Hide scrollbars
    - Disable transparency for fullscreen windows by default
- Profiles
  - General
    - Basics
      - Name: ?
    - Command
      - Login shell
    - Working Directory
      - Reuse previous session's directory
  - Colors
    - Use the defaults for everything besides the following
    - Selection: ff8000
    - Minimum contrast: min
  - Text
    - Cursor
      - Vertical bar
      - Blinking cursor
    - Text Rendering
      - Draw bold text in bold font
      - Draw bold text in bright colors
      - Blinking text allowed
      - Italic text allowed
    - Defaults for other things
  - Window
    - Transparency: 1/4 from left
    - Blur: 1/2 from left
    - Defaults for everything else
  - Scroll
    - Scrollback Lines: 50000
    - Defaults for everything else
  - Session, Keys, Advanced
    - Defaults
- Preferences
  - Terminal
    - Shell Integration
      - Insert newline before start of a command prompt if needed
      - Show mark indicators
Homebrew: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
- brew install tree
npm
yarn
https://github.com/grant/dotfiles
Git config (https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git/):
- git config --global user.name "YOUR NAME"
- git config --global user.email "YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS"
- git config --global commit.gpgsign true
  - https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-gpg-key/

📝 Sublime - Text editor

Install package control
JSX Emmet (http://wesbos.com/emmet-react-jsx-sublime/)
DocBlockr
Settings

📝 Webstorm - Web IDE

Keymap scheme: Mac OS X 10.5+
IDE Theme: Darcula
Editor color and fonts: Darcula
Enable opening files and projects from the command line

⚡ Messenger

🌐 Chrome/FF - Web browser

Log in to Chrome profile
Chrome Extensions (chrome://extensions/)
- AdBlock
- Boomerang for Gmail
- Checker Plus for Gmail
- Checker Plus for Google Calendar
- Cookie Inspector
- Currently (new tab screen)
- Full Page Screen Capture
- Grammarly for Chrome
- Hacker News Collapsible Comments
- Isometric Contributions
- JSON Formatter
- LastPass: Free Password Manager
- Octotree (Code tree fro GitHub)
- React Developer Tools
- Save as PDF
- SoundCloud Button
- SpeakIt!
- Video Speed Controller
- WhatFont
Open email in Gmail instead of Apple Mail
- Display density: compact

↔️ Moom - Window management

General
- Launch on login
- Show perferences on launch
- Run as faceless application
Keyboard

↔️ QuickSilver - Global hotkeys

Create global hotkeys for apps

🗣 Slack - Communications

🖼 Licecap - Create GIFs

🐺 Firefox

⏰ RescueTime

🚢 Dock

Remove all but the following:
- Finder
- Launchpad
- Messenges
- iTerm
- Downloads
- Trash

🚀 Launchpad

This will be cluttered, but uninstall anything not relevant.
Put all pre-installed apps in folders

❓ Optional

Golang
IntelliJ
RescueTime
http://gitup.co/
Heroku Toolbelt (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli)

📝 Scripts

git
- git config --global push.default matching
json
- sudo npm install -g jsontool # | json
OSX

## All scripts not effective until Finder and Dock are restarted (see below)

## Make screenshots save to custom directory:
cd ~;
mkdir screenshots;
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Documents/screenshots;
## Speed up exposé animation
defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.12 && killall Dock
## Show hidden files in finder
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES && killall Finder
## Disable animation for Get Info window
defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true

## !!! Commit changes by running the following
killAll Finder && killAll Dock

## View images from terminal (must use iTerm and follow Shell Integration setup above)
curl -L https://iterm2.com/misc/install_shell_integration.sh | bash
# Then `imgcat ~/Downloads/IMG.JPG`

🕸 Websites

Google Drive: In settings, disable sync offline mode.

🖥 Hardware (Ideal dev computer (as of 2016))

iMac
Quad-core >=4.0GHz Processor
32GB DDR3
512GB Flash Storage
4GB Video Memory

🛃 Rules

Don't install anything else in an effort to increase performance.
- Dropbox
- Drive
- Adobe Suite (Flash, Photoshop, Acrobat, ...)
- GoToMeeting
- Keybase
- Kindle
- Dash
- Tableau
No games. Use a different computer
- Steam
- Battle.net/Blizzard
- Wineskin
- Thalmic labs

Tips and tricks

https://blog.sindresorhus.com/macos-tips-tricks-13046cf377f8#.bw4vdg7q4

barexam/new-computer-checklist

💻🎁 New Computer Checklist 🎁💻

Getting Started

Performance

System Preferences

🍎 General

🖥 Desktop & Screen Saver

🚢 Dock

🖲 Mission Control

🌐 Language & Region

🔒 Security & Privacy

🔍 Spotlight

🔔 Notifications - Nothing special

📺 Display

🔌 Energy Saver

⌨ Keyboard

🖱 Mouse

⬜ Trackpad

🖨 Printers & Scanners - Nothing special

🔊 Sound

☁️ iCloud

🌐 Internet Accounts (try not to add anything unless needed here)

💎 Extensions

🕸 Network

📲 Blootooth

👫 Sharing

👤 Users & Groups

👨‍👧 Parental Controls - none

🛍 App Store

🗣 Dictation & Speech

🕒 Date & Time

🕰 Time Machine: Off

💬 Accessibility

☕ Flash Player/Java: Default

🖥 Applications

📂 finder

⬛ shell

📝 Sublime - Text editor

📝 Webstorm - Web IDE

⚡ Messenger

🌐 Chrome/FF - Web browser

↔️ Moom - Window management

↔️ QuickSilver - Global hotkeys

🗣 Slack - Communications

🖼 Licecap - Create GIFs

🐺 Firefox

⏰ RescueTime

🚢 Dock

🚀 Launchpad

❓ Optional

📝 Scripts

🕸 Websites

🖥 Hardware (Ideal dev computer (as of 2016))

🛃 Rules

Tips and tricks