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Apple
We got our first Macintosh. Here are some things I'm considering doing.
Configuration
- Get Chrome
- Set up sync: Preferences → Personal Stuff → Sync
- Configure mail to use Gmail.
- Cofigure iCal to sync with Google Calendar.
- System Preferences:
- Keyboard
- Command Key: Control Panel → Keyboard → Modifier Keys… → swap Command and Control keys
- Except that it doesn't persist past logging out.
- Tap-and-drag: System Preferences → Universal Access → Mouse & Trackpad → Trackpad Options and enable 'Dragging (with/without) Drag Lock' (the second checkbox) to restore the old behavior.
- Appearance
- Place scroll arrows: At top and bottom
- Mouse
- Make tracking speed much faster!
- Enable Secondary click for the right mouse button
- Get SteerMouse (linked below) to stop wheel acceleration (Or Logitech V200 LCC)
- Dock
- Position on Right
- Maybe automatically show and hide dock?
Tips
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Command+space | Spotlight (Very handy!) |
| Command+W | Close the window. |
| Command+Q | Quit the application. (Closing its windows isn't enough.) |
| Command+click | Open the link in another tab. |
| Command+Tab | Switch between applications. |
| Command+` | Switch between windows within the application. |
| Command+Opt+Esc | Force Quit the application |
| Shift+Opt+Command+V | Paste without formatting |
Software to Get
- Startup Sound (Make it quieter!)
- SteerMouse to change ScrollWheel rolling to constant 3x instead of accellerated
- DTerm for quick one-off terminal commands
- Property List Editor for giving Minecraft more memory.
- Google Notifier (especially for GMail)
- MagicPrefs for finer tuning of the Magic Mouse
- Delicious Library: Keep track of my physical media.
- Code Editing
- BBEdit (or TextWrangler)
- EditRocket (Eventually read the comparison of Python IDEs)
- Quicksilver: Reach any program with a few keystrokes. (Eg., Control+space, M for Mail)
- Paint program
Danelope suggests these Image Editors:
iOS Apps
Here are iPhone/iPod apps I really want to make.
Sokoban
Sokoban: Plenty already exist. What matters here is an intuitive (to me) user control.
Scrobbler
What matters here is the ability to scrobble what I've played to last.fm directly from my iPhone/iPod.
Plurk
The existing official client could stand improvement.
Keywords
aps, todo
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