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Installation and Setup Guide

MacManual

Installation and Setup Guide for Mac

Requirements

Before getting started, make sure you have a 🍎💻. If you don't have one yet, you could buy from Apple Shop or awesome eBay (for a better price).

Must-have Applications

Productivity

Price	App	Intro
🆓*	Alfred	An application launcher and productivity application, which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords and text expansion.
💶	Bartender	Lets you organize your menu bar apps, by hiding them, rearranging them, or moving them to the Bartender Bar.
💶	ForkLift	The most advanced dual pane file manager and file transfer client.
🆓	muCommander	A cross-platform, lightweight, open-source file manager.
🆓	The Unarchiver	A small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files.
💶	Divvy	A utility to quickly resize and position your windows.
💶	Magnet	Declutters your screen by snapping windows into organized tiles.
💶	Paste	Keeps track of everything you've ever copied and lets you access your clipboard history anytime across.
💶	Unclutter	A new handy place on your desktop for storing notes, files and pasteboard clips.
💶	Fantastical	A calendar app let you quickly create new events and reminders with natural language input and more.
🆓*	Evernote	Collect, nurture, and share ideas across desktop and mobile platforms with it.
🆓*	Wunderlist	A simple todo list and task manager app that helps you get stuff done.
💶	OmniFocus	A personal task manager designed to quickly capture your thoughts and allow you to store, manage, and process them into actionable to-do items.
💶	OmniGraffle	A diagramming and digital illustration application for creating beautiful, precise graphics.
🆓*	Pocket	When you find something you want to view later, put it in Pocket.
🆓	Simplenote	An easy way to keep notes, lists, ideas and more. Light, clean, and free.
🆓*	1Password	Put Passwords In Their Place.
💶	1Keyboard	Type on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV using your Mac's keyboard.
🆓*	Dropbox	Bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and keep your files safe.
💶*	PDF Expert	Read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images. Fill forms and sign contracts like never before.
🆓*	Anki	A friendly and intelligent flash cards program which makes remembering things easy.
🆓	KeepingYouAwake	A Caffeine clone, prevent your Mac from entering sleep mode.
🆓*	Memory Clean	The ultimate app for optimizing your Mac's memory.
💶	Duet	Lets you use your iPad or iPhone as an external monitor.

Utilities

Price	App	Intro
🆓	Munki	A collection of open-source tools used to manage installation of software packages on macOS client machines.
🆓	Mounty for NTFS	A tiny tool to re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes.

Media

Price	App	Intro
💶	Xee	An streamlined and convenient image viewer and browser.
🆓	VLC	A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files.
🆓	IINA	The modern video player.
🆓	Kodi	A free media player that is designed to look great on your big screen TV but is just as home on a small screen.
🆓*	Spotify	A digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.

Internet

Price	App	Intro
🆓	Chrome	A fast, secure, and free web browser built for the modern web.
🆓	Firefox	A fast, private, secure, and compatible web browser.

Social Networking

Price	App	Intro
🆓*	Sparrow	An email client, had been acquired by Google and was ceasing continued development.
💶	Tweetbot	An award-winning Twitter client.
🆓	YoruFukurou	A powerful native Twitter client.
🆓*	Skype	An instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services.

Developer Tools

Price	App	Intro
🆓	Homebrew	The missing package manager.
🆓	RVM	Ruby Version Manager.
🆓	JDK	Includes a complete JRE plus tools for developing, debugging, and monitoring Java applications.
🆓	iTerm2	A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm.
🆓	Oh My Zsh	An open source, community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
🆓	Powerlevel9k	The most awesome Powerline theme for ZSH around.
🆓	Alacritty	A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator (the fastest in existence).
🆓	Hyper	A terminal built on web technologies.
🆓	TextMate	A graphical text editor.
🆓	Atom	A free and open-source text and source code editor.
💶	Sublime Text	A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
🆓	SourceTree	A free Mercurial and Git Client.
💶	Tower	A beautiful, efficient, and powerful Git version control app.
💶	Kaleidoscope	The world's most advanced Mac diff tool.
💶	Monodraw	An ASCII art editor.
💶	Quiver	A notebook built for programmers.
🆓	Docker	An open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications.
🆓*	Dash	Gives your Mac instant offline access to 150+ API documentation sets.
💶	Charles Proxy	A proxy / monitor enables a developer to view all traffic between their machine and the Internet.
🆓	Postman	The complete toolchain for API developers.
🆓	Cocoa Rest Client	A free open source, native Apple OS X app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints.
🆓*	Insomnia	A powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication.
🆓	Xcode	An IDE containing a suite of software development tools for macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS.
🆓	Network Link Conditioner	A tool to simulate various kinds of network environments.
💶	Reveal	Advanced visualisations, comprehensive inspectors and the ability to modify applications on the fly.
🆓	Android Studio	The Official IDE for Android.
🆓*	Genymotion	The most powerful Android emulation platform for app developers & testers.
🆓	VirtualBox	A free and open-source hypervisor for x86 virtualization.
🆓*	IntelliJ IDEA	A Java IDE.
🆓	Visual Studio Code	A code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
🆓	CCMenu	Displays the build status of projects on a continuous integration server as an item in the Mac's menu bar.
🆓	Etcher	Burn images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.

Design Tools

Price	App	Intro
💶	Sketch	The ultimate tool for designing user interfaces, websites, and icons.
💶	Affinity Photo	The fastest, smoothest, most precise professional image editing software.

Note:

• 🆓 - free app
• 💶 - paid app
• 🆓* - free app but with paid features

Homebrew Packages

• tree
• wget
• node

dotfiles

• My dotfiles
• Your unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub
• Mathias’s dotfiles
• thoughtbot dotfiles
• Paul's dotfiles

How-To

• Hide Spotlight inside Bartender (on macOS Sierra)

  • Reboot into Recovery Mode (hold ⌘+R when hearing the startup chime);
  • Go to Utilities -> Terminal, run command csrutil disable, then reboot;
  • Hide Spotlight inside Bartender app;
  • Reboot into Recovery Mode again;
  • Go to Utilities -> Terminal, run command csrutil enable, then reboot.

• Missing app icon on Dock, and failing to "Check for updates" (due to Gatekeeper Path Randomization on macOS Sierra)

  • Run command: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Your.app;
  • Drag app back onto Dock;
  • Reboot Mac.

• Authorized Restart (to bypass FileVault 2 pre-boot login screen)

  sudo fdesetup authrestart