My Mac Setup

Outline

• Recommend Mac Apps
  • PDF Expert - $80
  • CleanMyMac X - $34.99 Per Year or $89.99 One-Time
  • Sensible Paster - free
  • Rocket - free / $10
  • Magnet - $5
• Mac Development Setup
  • Xcode x Terminal
  • Terminal Custom Setup
  • powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme
    • Setup powerlevel10k for iTerm2
    • Setup powerlevel10k for Apple Terminal & VS Code Terminal
  • brew
    • Useful Commands
    • Useful Packages
  • Python Setup on Mac
    • Install Pyenv
    • Use Pyenv
  • PowerPoint to MD

Recommend Mac Apps

PDF Expert - $80

• Download:
  • Mac App Store: PDF Expert - Edit and Sign PDF on the Mac App Store
  • Developer's Website: https://pdfexpert.com/
• Price: $80
• My Review: Pricey BUT it does 100% of PDF-related tasks & does it well!
  • Do you need to read through huge PDF files for your college courses?
  • Do you need to edit PDF files constantly for your job?
  • Do you fill out countless of PDF forms of various quality with your signature?
  • This App is for you!
• Recommendations:
  • Get this app via Mac App Store & share it with your family via iCloud!

CleanMyMac X - $34.99 Per Year or $89.99 One-Time

• Download:
  • Mac App Store: CleanMyMac X on the Mac App Store
  • Developer's Website: CleanMyMac X: The Best Mac Cleanup App for macOS
• Price:
  • CleanMyMac X Yearly Access $34.99
  • CleanMyMac X One-Time Purchase $89.99
  • Included in Setapp Subscription - CleanMyMac X on Setapp
• My Review:
  • A MUST have Mac App to keep your machine working like a charm!
  • Powerful App Update & Uninstall tools!
  • Clear RAM easily & delete any files on your Mac!
  • Malware removal - Perform an in-depth check-up of your Mac for all kinds of vulnerabilities.
  • Privacy - Instantly remove your browsing history, along with online & offline activity traces.
• Recommendations:
  • Get this app via the Setapp Subscription!~

Sensible Paster - free

• Download: Sensible Paster on the Mac App Store
• Price: free
• My Review: 5/5; Best Japanese OCR App for Mac; Secure as the OCR is done locally!
• Real basic, but it works! It picks up most Japanese on my screen with high accuracy.
• Works on M1 & Intel Macs
• Japanese & English language support!

Rocket - free / $10

• Download: Rocket - the best emoji app for Mac
• Price: free or $10 upgrade
• My Review: 5/5; GET THE UPGRADE! It makes your life so much easier
• Rocket is a free Mac app that makes typing emoji faster and easier using auto-complete shortcuts
• Ex: start typing :thumbsup (👍) & Rocket will help auto-complete it - in any app!
• With Rocket Pro ($10) upgrade, add symbols, gifts, & custom snippets, to your Rocket shortcuts.
• Add phone numbers, custom texts, email starters for a powerful experience!

Magnet - $5

• Download: Magnet on the Mac App Store
• Price: $5
• My Review: 5/5; well worth the price!
• Magnet is a fantastic window manager for Macs!
• Recommendations:
  • Get this app via Mac App Store & share it with your family via iCloud!
• I use the following shortcuts to move windows between three monitors:

Magnet Preferences	Shortcut
Left	OPTION ⌥ + SHIFT ⇧ + [
Right	OPTION ⌥ + SHIFT ⇧ + ]
Up	OPTION ⌥ + SHIFT ⇧ + ↑
Up	OPTION ⌥ + SHIFT ⇧ + ↓
Next Display	OPTION ⌥ + SHIFT ⇧ + \
Previous Display	OPTION ⌥ + SHIFT ⇧ + Enter ↵
Maximize	OPTION ⌥ + SHIFT ⇧ + A

Mac Development Setup

Xcode x Terminal

• To Install Xcode for the Terminal: xcode-select --install
• To update:
  • softwareupdate --all --install
  • softwareupdate --all --install --force

Terminal Custom Setup

• Background Hex: #630436
• Text Hex: #FFFFFF
• Font: MesloLGS NF Regular 15
  • brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
  • brew install --cask font-hack-nerd-font
• Selection Hex: #00C9C1

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

Setup powerlevel10k for iTerm2

for your iTerm2

1. Make sure you installed ryanoasis/nerd-fonts

   brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
   brew install --cask font-hack-nerd-font

2. Install romkatv/powerlevel10k

brew install romkatv/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k
echo "source $(brew --prefix)/opt/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme" >> ~/.zshrc

1. Go through the p10k configure configuration wizard
   • 
   • Type in the choice you want.
   • Example: Choice [12345rq]: ...
     • 1 ~ 5 are the options
     • r is for restarting the configuration wizard
     • q is for quitting without saving

Setup powerlevel10k for Apple Terminal & VS Code Terminal

1. Install these four tff files to install fonts manually
   • MesloLGS NF Regular.ttf
   • MesloLGS NF Bold.ttf
   • MesloLGS NF Italic.ttf
   • MesloLGS NF Bold Italic.ttf
2. Double-click on each file and click "Install". This will make MesloLGS NF font available to all applications on your system.
3. Configure Apple Terminal to use this font:
   1. Open Terminal → Preferences → Profiles → Text
   2. Click Change under Font
   3. Select MesloLGS NF family.
4. Configure Visual Studio Code Terminal to use this font:
   1. Open File → Preferences → Settings (PC) or Code → Preferences → Settings (Mac)
   2. Enter terminal.integrated.fontFamily in the search box at the top of Settings tab
   3. And set the value below to MesloLGS NF.
   4. 
5. Run p10k configure to generate a new ~/.p10k.zsh. The old config may work incorrectly with the new font.

brew

• Homebrew or brew is a package manager for MacOS. brew.sh
• It is helpful to manage packages like font-fira-code, git, python, or node.

Useful Commands

Function	Command
Install a package	brew install <formula>
Uninstall a package	brew uninstall <formula>
List all the installed formulae	brew list
Update Homebrew & packages	brew update
Display the Homebrew version	brew --version
Check for potential system issues	brew doctor

Useful Packages

Package	brew	Note
Node.js	brew install node	JavaScript server environment
Git	brew install git	distributed version control system
Pandoc	brew install pandoc	Markdown ↔︎ Word Docx
ryanoasis/nerd-fonts	brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts brew install --cask font-hack-nerd-font	Fonts including Fira Code & MesloLGS NF
tonsky/FiraCode	brew cask install font-fira-code	Great font for coding

Python Setup on Mac

• pyenv/pyenv: Simple Python version management

Install Pyenv

Steps: https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv#getting-pyenv

# Install Pyenv via brew
brew update
brew install pyenv

# Add the following to ~/.zshrc
echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.zshrc

# Restart the terminal
exec "$SHELL"

Use Pyenv

Current Python versions:
Download Python | Python.org

Install additional Python versions:
For example, to download and install Python 3.10.4, run:

pyenv install 3.10.4

List of Python versions:

pyenv install --list

Switch between Python versions:

To select a Pyenv-installed Python as the version to use, run one of the following commands:

Python Version Scope	Command
Just for current shell session	pyenv shell <version>
Current directory (& subdirectories) Setting	pyenv local <version>
Global Setting	pyenv global <version>

Verify Python version:

python --version

PowerPoint to MD

pptx2md is a tool to convert PowerPoint to Markdown.

Install: pip install pptx2md

Usage: pptx2md filename

Options:

• -t [filename] provide the title file
• -o [filename] path of the output file
• -i [path] directory of the extracted pictures
• --image-width [width] the maximum width of the pictures, in px. If set, images are put as html img tag.
• --disable-image disable the image extraction
• --disable-escaping do not attempt to escape special characters
• --disable-wmf keep wmf formatted image untouched (avoid exceptions under linux)
• --disable-color disable color tags in HTML
• --min-block-size [size] the minimum number of characters for a text block to be outputted
• --wiki / --mdk if you happen to be using tiddlywiki or madoko, this argument outputs the corresponding markup language