Asher Peruscini RedcoatAsher

New Computer Setup for Mac

The steps I use to restore a new mac to the settings and apps I like to use.

How Does It Work

All you have to do, to extend your trial period, is change number in TrialKey element in application.xml. This file is located in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop/AMT. You can navigate there with this command:

cd /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Adobe\ Photoshop\ */AMT

Then you have to open the file and edit it. You can use just TextEdit app.

open -a TextEdit application.xml

How Does It Work

All you have to do, to extend your trial period, is change number in TrialKey element in application.xml. This file is located in /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2018/Support Files/AMT/AI/AMT. You can navigate there with this command:

cd /Applications/Adobe\ Illustrator\ */Support\ Files/AMT/AI/AMT

Then you have to open the file and edit it. You can use just nano editor in terminal.

How does it work

All you have to do, to extend your trial period, is go to Date & Time preferences and set date before you trial period has started. Then open your Sketch.app and set your time back to atomatic.

But this can be really annoying do it over and over. And you can do it from your terminal too! All you need is date command. To set specific date you it with date parameter in following format +%m%d%H%M%y (MonthDayHourMinuteYear).

sudo date 0102030405

So command above will set your Date & Time to Sun Jan 2 03:04:00 +07 2005. Now when you open Sketch.app everything should appear as trial has not expired yet. But you don’t want to have your computer with wrong date & time. So to set it back you can use following command, which will set your time according to apple time server:

Download ngrok binary
- https://ngrok.com/download
- unzip to /opt/ngrok
Create /etc/systemd/system/ngrok.service
Create /opt/ngrok/ngrok.yml

	(*
	Description: Applescript to open/close picture-in-picture in Safari
	Supported Applications: Safari, IINA
	Author: Daniel Rotärmel
	Source: https://gist.github.com/danielrotaermel/201f549d5755ea886eb78bb660133722
	Instructions:
	Assign this to a global keyboard shortcut with better touch tool / hammerspoon etc. - suggested: cmd+ctrl+p.
	Make sure "Developer > Allow JavaScript from Apple Events" is enabled in Safari.
	Download the BTT preset here -> https://share.folivora.ai/sharedPreset/caa1198d-36dd-4aeb-89de-142bf39cc336
	*)

	B="brew"
	I="install"
	M="mas"

	# APPS CORE
	$B $I --cask iterm2
	$B $I --cask tunnelblick
	# $B $I openvpn
	# $B $I --cask openvpn-connect
	$B $I --cask slack

	(*
	Description: Applescript to open/close picture-in-picture in Safari
	Supported Applications: Safari, IINA
	Author: Daniel Rotärmel
	Source: https://gist.github.com/danielrotaermel/201f549d5755ea886eb78bb660133722
	Instructions:
	Assign this to a global keyboard shortcut with better touch tool / hammerspoon etc. - suggested: cmd+ctrl+p.
	Make sure "Developer > Allow JavaScript from Apple Events" is enabled in Safari.
	Download the BTT preset here -> https://share.folivora.ai/sP/3dd264e3-5d16-425f-8ab3-ce14877ec04f
	*)

	import json
	import subprocess
	import time
	from pathlib import Path
	import atexit
	import boto3
	import requests
	import datetime

	#path where you have extracted ngrok execution file. Follow readme file to install on Pi