My holiday project has been deploying store.roobasoft.com. It’s Andy Kim’s open source Ruby on Rails store, Potion Store. I’ve known about Potion Store since Andy first opened it to the public. Since my current PayPal standard solution was working, and sales weren’t great, I didn’t see any need to change things. However, the PayPal standard […]

rooSwitch 1.2 is available now. The only feature that made it into this release is the ability to switch profiles from the dock menu. The other major improvement is a fixed hang seen on Leopard. Here’s some quick status on the rooApps: rooSwitch The 1.2 release was started many months ago and took way too long to finish. […]

At the 1h 24m mark of Macbreak Weekly episode 51 Mr. Merlin Mann gives rooSwitch a pick of the week nod and Leo then talks up rooVid a bit. It’s always great to hear and see others talk about your work in a positive way. Thanks guys

There are plenty of uses for rooSwitch that I will never think of. That’s why I love finding blog posts from users explaining how they’re using rooSwitch. What’s better than a blog post? A screencast! Earlier this week, I found a user generated screencast showing off rooSwitch managing multiple profiles for Final Cut Pro. I got […]

Tonight was Apple’s annual design award’s ceremony. rooSwitch took runner-up in the Developer Tool category! I’m obviously pretty excited about this and am glad I made it to WWDC this year. It’s really awesome to have something I made be recognized by Apple. On with the thanks. I’ll start by thanking my wife and our two girls. They […]

In less than 3 hours I’m hopping on a Southwest flight from Boise to Oakland. I land in Oakland at 8:05 and will be greeted by my father-in-law (thanks!) who will drive me to Moscone to get my badge and queue up for the Keynote. In-laws in the SF area are very helpful when you’re […]

I’m late to this party, but here goes: MacSanta is: Thanks to MacSanta, you can save 20% off applications from all 77 companies below! Just use coupon code MACSANTA to save through December 25th. The number 77 is probably higher by the time you read this. Apps are being added daily. Since I didn’t have a way to accept […]

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 […]

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):