New Mac Setup
2021 Jul 21
Setting up a new mac is hopefully a once in a blue moon activity. However when it does happen is hard to remember what's the minimum you need to get started. So here's my latest list.
Mac apps
- 1Password (
$$) - appcleaner
- spectacle app
- LICEcap
- Change text edit, to be plain text only, see instructions, How to Use TextEdit Plain Text Mode by Default in Mac OS X optional
- Alpaca speech (TTS)
- Download 'Alex' TTS voice from Mac preferences
- Set custom screenshot auto save folder.
⌘+shift+5-->options-->save to.- more info
- dropbox (
$$)
Browsers
Chrome extensions
- Picture-in-Picture Extension (by Google)
- Wayback Machine
- Wappalyzer
- Google Translate
- 1Password – Password Manager
get-youtube-text
Messaging
Dev
See your current branch in the terminal prompt
Git config to see current branch in terminal
Add this to your .bash-profile:
# See your git current branch in the bash prompt
parse_git_branch() {
git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}
export PS1="\u@\h \W\[\033[32m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $ "Dev - Chrome extensions
- React Developer Tools
- JSONView
- xcode command-line utility (for github)
- in terminal
xcode-select --install
- in terminal
- Homebrew
- in terminal
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
- in terminal
nvm- Git
- In terminal
brew install git
- In terminal