Common Configurations

App Store Speed up in Chines

Add the following DNS to your network

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
114.114.114.114

Your network DNS is located at System Preferences > Network > Wi-Fi > Advanced > DNS

Recommended Softwares

Input Sources

  1. Sogou Pinyin Input
  2. Sogou Wubi Input
  3. Baidu Mac Input

IM

  1. QQ
  2. WeChat
  3. RTX

Mail Clients

We recommend the default Mail Client distributed along with MAC OS.

Office and Writing

  1. Office
  2. Evernote
  3. OneNote
  4. Marxi.co

Achive and Unachive

  1. The Unachiver

    You can install it at App Store.

Screenshot

Default Screenshot features

  1. shot the whole screen

    Keyboard Shorcuts: Command+shift+3
    The screenshot will be saved to Desktop in png format by default.

  2. shot a specified active window

    Keyboard shortcuts: Command+shift+4+Space

  3. shot a custom area

    Keyboard shortcuts: Command+shift+4
    Using your mouse to make a selection and click to shot.

By default, the screenshots will be saved to Desktop. Combine the control key to the shortcuts if you wanna save the sceenshots the system clipboard.

Third-party screenshot softwares

  1. Snip

    Cool free sceenshot software distributed by Tencent, which supporting making screenshot on browser’s scrolling window.

Free Proxy for Chineses

Google or Baidu Lantern please.

System Cleanup

  1. ClearMyMac

Disks enhancement

  1. Mounty

    Support reading and writing to external disks formatted in NTFS.

Modify Account, HostName, and Computer name

  1. Account info

    System Preferences > Users & Groups > Right click on the current user > Advanced Options

  2. HostName

    sudo scutil --set HostName MacBookPro
  3. Computer Name

    sudo scutil --set ComputerName MacBookPro

.DS_store

  • Fuck off .DS_store

    defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE
  • Restore .DS_store

    defaults delete com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores