We got our first Macintosh. Here are some things I'm considering doing.

• Get Chrome (Login and sync.)
• Disable the dashboard with

  defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES; Killall Dock

• System Preferences:
  • Tap-and-drag: System Preferences → Universal Access → Mouse & Trackpad → Trackpad Options and enable 'Dragging (with/without) Drag Lock' (the second checkbox) to restore the old behavior.
• Appearance
  • Place scroll arrows: At top and bottom
• Mouse
  • Make tracking speed much faster!
  • Enable Secondary click for the right mouse button
  • Get SteerMouse (linked below) to stop wheel acceleration (Or Logitech V200 LCC)
• Dock
  • Position on Right
  • Automatically show and hide dock?

• Startup Sound (Make it quieter before Lion!) Adjusting Startup Chime after Lion.
• SteerMouse to change ScrollWheel rolling to constant 3x instead of accellerated
• DTerm for quick one-off terminal commands
• Property List Editor for giving Minecraft more memory.
• Google Notifier (Two-step Authentication instructions)
• GTD: Taskpaper or Things or Omnifocus
• MagicPrefs for finer tuning of the Magic Mouse
• Delicious Library: Keep track of my physical media.
• Code Editing
  • XCode
  • TextMate
  • BBEdit (or TextWrangler)
  • EditRocket (Eventually read the comparison of Python IDEs)
• Quicksilver: Reach any program with a few keystrokes. (Eg., Control+space, M for Mail)
• Paint program
  • GIMP (Can I find something powerful, free and user-friendly?) X11 is frustrating.
  • PaintBrush
  • Pixen
  • SeaShore No levels adjusting.
  • PaintDS No layers.
  • ArtRage

Danelope suggests these Image Editors:

• http://gimpshop.com/
• http://pixelmator.com/

• Show hidden files with

  defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall Finder

• Configure mail to use Gmail.
• Cofigure iCal to sync with Google Calendar.
• System Preferences:
  • Keyboard
    • Command Key: Control Panel → Keyboard → Modifier Keys… → swap Command and Control keys
      • Except that it doesn't persist past logging out.
    • Make Your Keyboard Keys Repeat Properly When Held Down in Mac OS X Lion.

Here are iPhone/iPod apps I really want to make.

• Sokoban
• A Scrobbler
• A new Plurk client

Sokoban: Plenty already exist. What matters here is an intuitive (to me) user control.

What matters here is the ability to scrobble what I've played to last.fm directly from my iPhone/iPod.

The existing official client could stand improvement.

aps, todo