MAMP only runs for the user who installed it.

The fix:
Fire up Terminal and change the ownership by typing:
sudo chown -R new_owner /Applications/MAMP

Do it again to change back on the other account.

I use the wonderful application Omnifocus by the Omnigroup. I use it at work to keep track of projects and I use it at home to keep my other things together.

I've been longing for .Mac syncing, but I recently discovered in the general preferences, you can change the location of the database. Set it to a folder on your iDisk, and set your iDisk on both machines to sync automatically and there you go!

Use Time Machine to move your data from one computer to another. You'll be happy you did.

Yesterday I had to move all my information from one machine to another to send the old one in for repair (you know, the classic G5 whining noise thing). In the past this has been a nightmare, in the last few years Apple at least provided a Migration Assistant Application, but it didn't do a complete job. I wanted to change computers entirely and have it be transparent.

I've been struggling with this dilemma for a while now: I have backed up my entire hard drive about three times and on each backup I have my iPhoto library. Most times I backed up because I was traveling or was in a hurry and didn't think about how to get some of the info off of the hard drive. The last time I did a clean install I decided that the 60 gig hard drive in my laptop was just not enough, so now I keep all my music and photos on an external 350 gig drive which works great, except that my photo library reaches only as far back as a few months ago.

I just found this awesome OS X service called LipService X, by Rosborough Technology Co. It will generate Lorem Ipsum filler text at sentence or paragraph increments in any OS X application that supports services (almost any app). Just press Command+' or Command+Shift+' in any text area.

Great for designers or developers who use this filler text daily.

Photo by SaltyGrease

One more thing about smart playlists: the more information you give it to work with, the smarter it works. Until just now I've always set out in creating a smart playlist to do something specific such as playing the newest podcasts in the order I receive them. But just now I wanted to put on some good songs and not think about picking anything. So I created a smart playlist that would assemble a list of songs I have rated four stars or above, and have been played more then 5 times.

Dashblog, written by June Tate, is a Mac widget, that allows you to blog to any blogging platform that supports the Blogger API, and in short, allows you to flick your mouse, press F12 (or however else you get to dashboard), type your post, and publish it to your site. No browser or other software required!

Finally! I've found the audio editor for the Mac to do all those little things like trimming, noise reduction, and more. Amadeus Pro, from Hairesoft, is just what they say, the swiss army knife of sound editing.

It loads fast, is intuitive to use, appears stable, the noise reduction works great, and has some nice features such as multitrack support, batch processing, markers, and more. Free demo, $40 to purchase.

iChax, the one stop shop add on to iChat has been updated to now work correctly alongside the Safari 3 Beta. iChax, made by Kent Sutherland, adds a lot of features to iChat such as tabbed chats, notifications and more.

I am constantly impressed by the quality of photos that tend to pop up on the photosharing website, Flickr. Now there is an easy way to grab photos hand picked by a group of Flickr fanatics, and automatically have them appear as your desktop. It's called DeskLickr and it's a little app for the mac written by Aaron Wallis, and is free (with the option to donate of course).