Over in the forums, rooSwitch Lite user, brokosz asked if there was a way to switch iTunes without rooSwitch trying to switch the contents of ~/Music/iTunes. At first I didn’t quite get the request, but after some clarification and now that I’ve played with this a little I see it’s quite powerful. What’s going on […]

I’ve got a number of secret pages that display things like sales data and download stats. My pages were ugly. As a fan of mint, I decided to see what would be involved in turning these ugly pages into private, roobasoft peppers (one “sales” pepper, one “downloads” pepper). Turns out, it’s quite easy (Kudo’s to […]

rooSwitch Lite shipped with a disk image that was created using FileStorm. Previously I was using DropDMG, which is great, but I wanted something that let me use a background and position 128×128 icons on it. FileStorm was pretty easy to navigate with the UI, but I wanted to have this scripted. I had a […]

A free version of rooSwitch is now available! rooSwitch Lite 1.0 is a free version of rooSwitch that does just about everything rooSwitch does, but limits you to which applications you can switch. I’m pretty excited about this release and really hope folks give it a try and find uses for it. A four minute screencast […]

Screencasts aren’t easy. I wanted to have this ready for the 1.1 release but didn’t. Here it is, 24 hours late (click to play - requires QuickTime 7 and is ~15MB):

This is the first of hopefully many highlighted use cases for rooSwitch. This was written by myself and exists in the forums here. Again, if you’re using rooSwitch in an interesting way please talk about it in the forums. My PowerBook is 10 months old now and instead of paying $300 for two more years of […]

I just published rooSwitch 1.1. As previously mentioned, the new features are: Fast switching by moving files instead of copying (copy is still the default)Per application preferences (move data for one app but copy for another)Automator action to switch. This is cooler than it sounds With this you can pass in multiple rooSwitch files […]

I’ve been using Hazel since I learned about it the week of WWDC. Hazel introduces itself as Hazel is your personal housekeeper. Set up rules for any folder that could use some organizing and cleaning. Hazel does its work automatically and quietly in the background letting you focus on the your real tasks. I have Hazel doing […]

It’s clear that I need to be publishing the different ways people are using rooSwitch. I’ve been waffling on how to do this: Blog?, Forum? or static page? Today I installed some forum software over at http://roobasoft.com/rooSwitch/forums. Give it a look. Register a new user and add something useful . The goal for the “rooSwitch […]

update 2006.09.05: SOLD! I’m trading in my PowerBook for a bottom of the barrel white MacBook (I plan to add a 7200 RPM drive and 2GB of RAM sometime after purchase). If you need a PowerPC laptop, give mine a gander over @ eBay: 15″ PowerBook 1.67 Ghz 80GB 1.5GB SuperDrive Airport If you “buy it now” […]