Istat menus 6 license number email9/2/2023 Install Basic Apps for Writing and Thinking LastPass for shared password management (we recommend offline edition of 1password for personal and banking password management).optional: USB Overdrive or other click to scroll software.Spectacle, default configuration is fine except when using some video editing or high end photo programs who might use some of the same shortcuts.Shared team online text expansion would be great but I have to ask Ergonis to add it (outside of iCloud of course). Note: one only needs to pay once and if one wants to renew updates after two years you can pay again. Witch or alternatively change the keyboard shortcut for switching between application windows to option-tab.ClipMenu: install at bottom of this thread.Install and configure iStat Menus on programmer level computers.įoliovision Standard iStat Menus configuration for Mac Pro Adding Text Expansion and Multiclipboard Utilities.Install Geekbench 4 and check your CPU.do manual trim if benchmark giving poor results.enable trim with terminal command (El Capitan and higher): sudo trimforce enable.Make sure that in System Preferences:Sharing that nothing is allowed.Turn off automatic updates in System Preferences:App Store.Add mail account in System Preferences:Internet Accounts.Check System Preferences:iCloud to make sure you are not signed in.set computer sleep for half hour or one hour.System Preferences:Energy Saver: turn off “Wake For Ethernet network access”.From DuckDuckGo, Google is always only a !g away turn off all Search suggestions and switch to DuckDuckGo if not Yandex.Follow MacRumors guide for Safari privacy including allowing cookies only from websites I visit and turn off location services and website tracking.Spotlight Suggestions and Allow Spotlight Suggestions in Look Up (screenshot) Turn off (in System Preferences:Spotlight) indexing of your search queries, i.e.turn off Automatical allow downloaded signed software.turn off allow built-in software to receive incoming connections.Turn on System Preferences – Firewall (no incoming connections allowed).better would be to create a custom profile for the App Store but that’s hard work.when you need the App store ( Blackmagic Disk Speed Test for instance), turn off Little Snitch briefly and then turn it back on.add Little Snitch 3 (preferably from USB key so you don’t have to go online before doing so).some dialogues (restarting) still come in German after deleting German.add a new language in Regions preferences.refuse to share any info with Apple or log in to iCloud (to make sure you don’t get sucked in early).Install Basic Apps for Writing and Thinking.Adding Text Expansion and Multiclipboard Utilities.Just get rid of networking unless you really need it. Otherwise most of our networking takes place on the cloud and in the SAAS applications we use. For the number of times we have to move a large file, it’s usually big enough these days that the fastest way to move it would be sneakerware. So if one machine goes down, the issue remains isolated. On the other hand, neither can any hackers. Of course this means you can’t do any home networking or intranet networking in the office. One major step which helps is to turn off all Sharing services (System Preferences:Sharing) and to turn on your Firewall. Just ask the beautiful Jennifer Lawrence how iCloud turned out for her (I had no idea she was so sexy until those pics showed up). If you really want to be secure, don’t use the app store at all and download your OS X updates. If you want to be a little bit secure, you have to avoid iCloud completely. Still one can make a good effort to make one’s computer far less chatty. Coincidentally Apple joined Prism in 2012. OS X 10.5.8 may be the last really secure full version of OS X ever created. I’ve often been asked about our special sauce for securing Macs and deploying them quickly so I’ve publishing this as a starting point for others.ĭespite the title stating that this covers how to set up a Mac securely on OS X, it hasn’t really been possible to secure a Mac since the App Store came into being (OS X 10.6.6 I believe). So I’ve updated our guide on deploying new Macs. We’ve recently upgraded our computer stock with a bunch of new (old) Mac Pros. These are the last computers which Apple built which can be upgraded (storage, memory, GPU, CPU in order of complexity).
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