![]() ![]() However, it seems to be a bit of a pain to move from one machine to another, copy-protection wise. Mathematica - I don’t install this everywhere. I sync the papers between my Macs using Dropbox. Papers2 (and Open In Papers Safari extension) - When I find a journal article I want to read or a spec I need to keep track of, or even an Intel manual, I stuff them into Papers 2, which is kept in sync with my iPad whenever I remember. PandoraJam - Great app if you listen to Pandora. My computer audio goes through the Sonos in my office, so this is necessary for me to get sound turned on. Sonos Desktop Controller - I’ve got Sonos all over my house. And, that's going to take a few hours to sync.Īt this point I opened the Mac Mini box about 1 hour ago, just to keep track of how long all this is taking. However, I can't really start using it until my data syncs down from Dropbox, since that's where all my encrypted info is maintained. It's a great app and makes all my info available on my iPhone, Macs, Windows boxes - everywhere. So are my credit cards and all kinds of other important information. My passwords are too complicated to remember and they're all stored in here. ie: ln -s "~/Dropbox/AppSync/Delicious Library" "~/Library/Application Support/Delicious Library 2" I really couldn't get online without 1Password. Like for Delicious Library 2, I’ve got a ~/Dropbox/AppSync/Delicious Library folder and I use a symbolic link to point Delicious Library 2 at the right spot. Sometimes to sync an app’s content you need to use some symbolic link action. Important images like copies of my passport and license, etc. Various files for projects I’m working on. I use Dropbox to sync my papers for Papers2, my 1Password data, my Delicious Library content, scans of important documents. When I installed it, I got a weird error that said “URLs with the type ‘nwnode:’ are not supported.” but everything still seems to be working fine, so no big deal. If i need more space I’ll sign up for the pay version, but so far it hasn’t been a problem. I store all kinds of stuff, sync, app state, store my 1Password info. Next step is to get my essential apps:įirst, the ones that aren’t in the App Store and are therefore a pain to get:ĭropbox is completely essential to my computer use nowadays. ![]() So now I’ve got my mail, calendars, and contacts. It’ll take a while to get my whole account. I can use the up and down arrow keys, thanks.Īnyway, at this point run Software Update to get system updates and run App Store to get updates for preinstalled apps. In the more gestures pane, turn on app exposéĪs an aside, regarding Mission Control, I am really not a fan so far.Turn off Scroll direction: natural in the scroll & zoom pane.Turn on tap to click and secondary click with two fingers in the point & click pane.Turn on remote login (sshd) and screen sharing.Home network was easy to set up during initial setup.I wish I could pair it to my mobile me account or something, but that’s not available. One other detail here is that I want to have my tripit calendar sync, so I have to actually open up iCal to set this up.Wasted about 3 minutes on that foolishness. Tried, but I guess that was wrong… Ah ha. Fail! It popped open Mail.app and needs me to enter settings manually. “Mail couldn’t discover the account settings for the Mail server “”. This new control panel makes it pretty easy to set up sync for these accounts, but Add my mobile me account for calendar and mail here, then add my gmail accounts for mail and chat… Doh! First snag.Say replace information on this computer when asked. ![]() Check Bookmarks and Contacts, enable Back to my Mac and move on.
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