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 [...]

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):

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 to [...]

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 [...]

rooSwitch 1.1 has been “almost done” for about three weeks now. Last night it became feature complete. I still have a healthy sized list of bugs to take care of. I’m pretty excited about this release. The new features, in order of coolness (I’m the judge), are: Preference to “move files” instead of the default [...]

Last night I moved roobasoft.com from Dreamhost to Pair (the DNS changes are probably still funneling through the tubes). The goal of this switch is to increase the uptime of roobasoft.com. Dreamhost has some great features (their control panel is pretty slick – sans it’s “this will take effect in 5-15 minutes”), and certainly a [...]

Quoting myself from the rooSwitch blog: rooSwitch 1.0 is available for direct download @ http://roobasoft.com/rooSwitch/download.php rooSwitch will run you a reasonable $14.95 and comes with a 30 day, unrestricted, free trial. http://roobasoft.com/rooSwitch has been updated with two new screencasts and a slightly tweaked look. Press releases go out later tonight or tomorrow morning. I’m pretty [...]

Over on the rooSwitch blog I talk about supported applications, request help to expand the list of supported applications and explain some of how the rooSwitch trial period will work. I’m in the final stages of rooSwitch 1.0 and am pretty excited. I’m currently fixing some last minute bugs and waiting for Kagi to wire [...]