update-your-computer.md

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lesson	Update your computer	Run all the updates on your computer to make sure everything you have is the most recent, secure version.	true	title before Update MacOS & App Store apps Make sure you have all the updated versions of MacOS for security and all the updated versions of any App Store applications. ```  > App Store… ```  *Install all the available updates and restart your computer as necessary.*  title before Update Atom Get the newest version of Atom to make sure you have the fastest, most feature-full version. ``` Atom > Check for Update ```  ### Update Atom packages Then make sure that all the packages are up-to-date to be compatible with your version of Atom. ``` Atom > Preferences > Updates ```  title before Update GitHub Desktop Make sure you have the most recent version of GitHub Desktop for the most compatibility with GitHub. ``` GitHub Desktop > Check for Updates… ```  Download the most recent version of GitHub Desktop and restart the app.  title before Update Google Chrome Google Chrome does update itself when you quit it, but sometimes it stays running and never gets updated. So let’s check for updates anyways. ``` Chrome > About Google Chrome ```  Make sure you have the most recent version—if not install and restart Chrome.  title before Update Firefox Firefox does update itself when you quit it, but sometimes it stays running and never gets updated—or it just hasn’t been open in a while. Let’s check for updates anyways. ``` Firefox > About Firefox ```  Make sure you have the most recent version—if not install and restart Firefox.  title before Update Opera If you’re not an Opera user, you probably haven’t opened Opera in a while—so it’ll be very outdated. ``` Opera > About Opera ```  Make sure you have the most recent version—if not install and restart Firefox.  title before Update Adobe Creative Cloud apps For Web Dev, it’s important that you at least update Illustrator & Photoshop to the newest versions—they’re constantly changing their web exporting tools. Open the Adobe Creative Cloud app and go to the `Apps` tab. *Press the `Update All` button.*  title before Update VirtualBox VirtualBox has updates every little while so let’s make sure we have the newest version. ``` VirtualBox > Check for Updates… ```  *The VirtualBox updates are pretty manual—they usually just download a new installer to your `Downloads` folder that you’ll have to run.*  title before Update image minifiers We always want to compress our images as small as possible—so let’s update ImageOptim & Spritebot to get the best smushing abilities. ### Update ImageOptim - [*If you don’t have ImageOptim—download it here*](https://imageoptim.com/mac) ``` ImageOptim > Check for Updates… ```  Make sure you have the most recent version of ImageOptim or install the new one.  --- ### Update Spritebot For Spritebot you’ll have to update it manually—it currently doesn’t have auto-updating capabilities. [**For Spritebot go download a new version from the website.**](https://github.com/thomasjbradley/spritebot)  title before tasks Final checklist Double check you’ve updated everything on your computer. *Here’s a checklist to help out:* MacOS AppStore apps Atom Atom packages GitHub Desktop Google Chrome Firefox Opera Adobe Creative Cloud apps VirtualBox ImageOptim Spritebot