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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) is next week (August 7-11). To honor this exciting week I’ve knocked 33% off of rooSwitch. The offer ends at the end of the day (Pacific Daylight Time) August 11th, 2006. To get the discount, visit http://roobasoft.com/wwdc. Get it while it’s hot!

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 [...]

rooSwitch beta 4 is available for download @ http://roobasoft.com/rooSwitch. Changes are listed on the rooSwitch blog. I hope this to be the last beta before I release 1.0. If you have any issues let me know via feedback@roobasoft.com.