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Apple

We got our first Macintosh. Here are some things I'm considering doing.

Configuration

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES; Killall Dock

System Preferences:
- 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
- Consider Scroll Reverser to have natural scrolling for trackpad, but reversed for the mouse.
- Get SteerMouse (linked below) to stop wheel acceleration (Or Logitech V200 LCC)
Dock
- Position on Right
- Automatically show and hide dock?

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

Current info at Wikipedia: OS_X#Versions

Codename	Version	Notes
Snow Leopard	10.6	iMac
Lion	10.7	MacBook Air (allows dragging on all window borders)
Mountain Lion	10.8	Current

If you want IPython, you probably have to install readline, too: sudo easy_install readline ipython
Startup Sound (Make it quieter before Lion!) Adjusting Startup Chime after Lion.
TotalFinder for some intuitive Finder features.
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 (Two-step Authentication instructions)
GTD: Taskpaper or Things or Omnifocus
MagicPrefs for finer tuning of the Magic Mouse
Delicious Library: Keep track of my physical media.
Code Editing
- XCode
- TextMate
- 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
- GIMP (Can I find something powerful, free and user-friendly?) X11 is frustrating.
- PaintBrush
- Pixen
- ~~SeaShore~~ No levels adjusting.
- ~~PaintDS~~ No layers.
- ArtRage

Danelope suggests these Image Editors:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall Finder

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.
  - Make Your Keyboard Keys Repeat Properly When Held Down in Mac OS X Lion.

Here are iPhone/iPod apps I really want to make.

Sokoban: Plenty already exist. What matters here is an intuitive (to me) user control.

What matters here is the ability to scrobble what I've played to last.fm directly from my iPhone/iPod.

The existing official client could stand improvement.

https://panel.preyproject.com/ for when the device goes missing. (Or is stolen by a thief.)

aps, todo