The Journal, by Emil

Improving OS X (from my perspective)

A very recent and unfortunate event made me re-install OS X Lion and start up fresh. Every last one of my routines went down the drain. Since this is the fourth time in under a year I've had to start fresh (3 new macs and 1 disk fail), I thought is was about time to jot down my preferences so I'd spend less time doing this the next time something unfortunate— or fortunate happened.

I put the whole recipe in a Markdown-formated file in my DropBox for future references, when it suddenly **appeared** to me that this would make for an excellent «Hello World» post on my new journal. By the way, I had to listen to my wife watching «Desperate Housewives» in the background. Spotify— thanks for breaking down on me. Not.

Enough about me, please read on for some great tips I've picked up!

Systemwide annoyances

  1. Remove warning for downloaded files

    defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO

  2. Show me the hidden files!

    chflags nohidden ~/Library
    defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
    killall Finder

Sublime Text

  1. Go to http://www.sublimetext.com/dev
  2. Install

  3. Packages

    Views > Show Console, then paste in the snippet below and press enter. import urllib2,os;pf='Package Control.sublime-package';ipp=sublime.installed_packages_path();os.makedirs(ipp) if not os.path.exists(ipp) else None;open(os.path.join(ipp,pf),'wb').write(urllib2.urlopen('http://sublime.wbond.net/'+pf.replace(' ','%20')).read())
    Restart ST2, then hit CMD + Shift + P and type 'package install'
    HTML5
    LESS
    SideBarEnhancements
    (Theese are my faves, you'll find your own)

Terminal

  1. Go to http://totalterminal.binaryage.com
  2. Install TotalTerminal
  3. Better bash
    Edit ~/.bash_profile (More info on bash flags: http://ibm.co/FAIR8) export PS1="[\w] > "
  4. Add SublimeText to commandline
    Edit ~/.bash_profile alias sl='open -a "Sublime Text X"'

Git + GitHub

  1. Install Git from http://git-scm.com/download
  2. Follow the guide @ GitHub http://help.github.com/mac-set-up-git

Footnote

I will be adding more tips to this list as I discover more epicness, and most certainly update it as soon as things change. If you have any good advice, don't hesitate to leave a comment. Cheers!

I'm Emil (@hiEmil) by the way, nice of you to drop by!