A Fresh Start with OS X Lion

After some problems and frustrations, I finally just wiped out my mac, took it to the Apple store and asked them to reinstall the OS for me. I didn’t have a Lion disc and didn’t feel like paying for one, soo.. yeah. Anyway, I’m sitting at the salon waiting on my wife while she gets a haircut, I have about half an hour of battery left so I decided to configure this “new” mac as quickly as possible.

Here’s what I got done in about 30 minutes. I’ll update this list with changes I make to it throughout the rest of the week, both so I have a list of what to do with new machines in the future and in the hope that someone else will gain something out of seeing what I work with.

The first 30 minutes

  • OS X Lion
  • Chrome
  • Textmate
  • Spotify
  • Transmit
  • MySQL
  • Sequel Pro
  • MySQL Workbench
  • Configure Mail
  • Configure Apache
  • Configure terminal
  • Configure hot corners
  • Sync chrome
  • Dropbox
  • KeePassX
  • Download Smashing Magazine’s wallpaper of the month
  • Adium

Things I did later

  • Configure dropbox
  • Twitter
  • Reeder
  • Skype
  • TinyGrab
  • Wunderlist
  • Photoshop
  • Skype
  • VLC
  • Handbrake
  • Propane
  • Firefox
  • Opera