![]() Hipchat - we use this at aTech for chatting during the day and generally sharing banter. I use this for sharing screenshots all over the internet.Īdobe Creative Cloud - I love Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and other things. ITerm2 - a replacement for the built-in Terminal application.ĭropShare - a great tool for uploading files & screenshots to an SFTP service. We use this at aTech to store our active project files - things like PSDs and documents which don’t really belong in a Git repository. I use (and you should too) use a different password for every service which asks for one and 1password keeps them safe for meĭropbox - everyone’s favourite file sharing service. Google Chrome - I enjoy the syncing of data between different Chrome instances.ġPassword - an excellent password manager. $ ruby -e " $(curl -fsSL ) " $ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-caskĬask makes it really easy to install OS X applications without going to every vendor’s website and downloading the files yourself. Begin by installing Homebrew and Homebrew Cask. It’s bloody brilliant and will save you a huge amount of time. There may be some other settings you want to do (like auto hiding the Dock or adjusting the spacing of icons on the desktop). If your laptop gets stolen, you don’t really want someone reading all your data so easily. Turn on FileVault to encrypt your hard disk. Require a password immediately after after starting a screensaver or sleeping. There’s nothing cool about Adams-Macbook-Pro.local, I much prefer something short like adam-mbp.local. You never know when you’ll need to get back into your machine from elsewhere.Ĭhange your hostname to something less crazy. I will be using a different screenshot tool and would like to use this shortcut within that app.ĭisable the Guest user under User & Groups.Įnable Remote Login (SSH). I will be installing Alfred later on which I want to map to the same keyboard shortcut.Įnable tab to move between All Controls rather than just text boxes.Ĭhange the default screenshot shorts from Shift+Cmd+F4 to Shift+Cmd+F5. Whack the key repeat rate and delay until repeat values to fastest and slowest respectively.ĭisable the Spotlight search keyboard shortcut. Input Device Configurationĭisable natural scrolling on the trackpad and/or mouse. All of these are carried out in System Preferences. ![]() Once OS X is booted, there are a few things I like to configure within OS X itself before I install anything. It makes it easier when you need to open your home directory at /Users/adam or when you want to login using SSH. There’s not much to do during the initial OS X setup wizard however I do make sure I set my account name to something simple like adam rather than my full name. I thought a quick post about how I configure everything I need to do my work. I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my trusty Macbook Pro from Mavericks to Yosemite and taken the opportunity to give the machine a bit of a cleanup. ![]()
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