This is my own howto to setup new machines, but you might find it helpful as well.
## General settings
- In Finder -> Preferences set it to show your home folder, hard drives, external drives, filename extensions, etc.
- Make Finder show Library: run
chflags nohidden ~/Library/within a terminal - Disable holding key pressed to display accents and enable repeat keys: defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
- In Preferences->Dock Select "Scale Effect" in the "Minimize Using" field and deselect the "Animate Opening Applications" option.
- Remove unused dashbaord widgets: Go to dashboard and press and hold the Option key. Remove widgets.
- Disable Lion's window animations: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO
- Show all files in Finder: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1
## The basic stuff
- Install iterm2: http://www.iterm2.com
- Download and install gcc (w/o xcode): https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer or go ahead and install xcode from the app store
- Create the directory
/usr/local/as your user, otherwise it will ask for sudo during homebrew installation and the directory will be owned by root, causing errors - Install homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation (gcc is fine, no need to install XCode)
$ brew install git$ brew update$ brew install ack$ brew install wget- Install rvm: http://beginrescueend.com/
- To complete the installation follow the instructions of the install script, in my case I created the file ~/.profile and pasted the following:
[[ -s "/Users/alberto/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "/Users/alberto/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # This loads RVM into a shell session. - Reload:
$ source ~/.profile - Install rubies: $ rvm install 1.9.2 $ rvm install 1.8.7 $ rvm --default use 1.9.2
- Install bash-completion:
$ brew install bash-completion (and follow the instructions) - Install sqlite:
$ brew install sqlite
brew install mongodb, follow the instructions for automatic startup/shutdownbrew install postgresql, follow the instructions to create the DB, automatic startup/shutdown or install from PKGbrew install imagemagick
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Firefox
- VirtualBox + images for IE8 & IE9
Follow the instructions described in the internal wiki
- Libreoffice
- Balsamiq Mockups
- Tunnelblick: http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/
- Dropbox
- Spotify
- Adium
- Skype
- Teamviewer
- Twitter Client
- Github for Mac
- Source code directories
- ~/.ssh directory (keys, config)
- Dotfiles: ~/.vimrc, ~/.profile (or maybe you already use a repo for your dotfiles...)
- Install projectplus for Textmate: http://ciaranwal.sh/projectplus
- Textmate bundles from ~/Library/Application Support/Textmate
- Fonts in ~/Library/Fonts
- Copy the config files for tunnelblick: ~/Library/Application Support/Tunnelblick/Configurations
- Music/iTunes Library