Comments on: rooSwitch Giveaway: Three Licenses up for Grabs

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 06 May 2007 14:26:13 +0000

I can think of a million ways to use this software. But what if find most useful it would allow me as a photographer to separate my work projects from my personal projects in Lightroom. How great would that be?

Other, many before mentioned is use with iCal and iTunes to seperate my stuff from my wife’s stuff.

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 06 May 2007 03:45:53 +0000

Hmm…I’m not sure if it works like this, but it would be great if I could have an iTunes profile with music on an external HD and another one with music on my INTERNAL HD. That way, I could get rid of some of the superfluous stuff eating at my HD.

What do you think? Does it work like that?

By: Craig (mars-hill)

Craig (mars-hill) — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:46:57 +0000

I’d use rooswitch to easily seperate my stuff from my wife’s. I’m especially thinking about mail.app, vienna or net news wire lite (rss readers that we waver between), ichat and actiontastic.

Especially rss and actiontastic…that’d save us a lot of confusion and hassle.

By: Nate C

Nate C — Sat, 05 May 2007 19:52:23 +0000

I think i could really use rooSwitch for downloading documents, files, songs, etc. I mean, it would be helpful to seperate my downloaded games, from files and documents. i would probably put two profiles of Acquisition, and xTorrent, so that i can easily seperate my downloads/torrents.

By: Oliver Klein

Oliver Klein — Sat, 05 May 2007 18:21:31 +0000

@Brian Waldo
I did not come up with it, its just the truth.
(pick me for winner)
/me throws up peace sign

By: James Wong

James Wong — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:06:43 +0000

my sister occasionally use my firefox and adium. By using rooswitch, i can simply create two distinct profiles for the aforementioned applications without the need to create an account in my Mac. Thus, saving me disk space and time (switching back and forth between user accts is no fun)

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 05 May 2007 05:08:01 +0000

Q: What would be some good uses for rooSwitch that you might use on a daily basis.

Different Safari settings- Normal and Work (to minimize distractions).

By: Brian Waldo

Brian Waldo — Sat, 05 May 2007 01:27:11 +0000

^ I was just kidding

@Oliver Klein
Where did you come up with that?

By: Brian Waldo

Brian Waldo — Sat, 05 May 2007 01:25:08 +0000

If that was possible, I would own every copy of rooSwitch!

By: Oliver Klein

Oliver Klein — Sat, 05 May 2007 01:20:07 +0000

There is only one use for rooSwitch.
I would use it to go back in time and then rooSwitch would teach me how to fly.
Duh.

By: John

John — Fri, 04 May 2007 21:58:58 +0000

I’d use it for:

(1) iPhoto – it would make it much easier to manage personal and work photography without having to jump through hoops

(2) Safari – so my partner and I, who share a computer, could have our own look-and-feel to the browser, keep our bookmarks separate, etc.

(3) Address Book – to keep work and personal contacts separate (with different card templates, etc.

(4) iCal – to keep work and personal calendars separate

(5) Apple Mail – to keep work and personal e-mail separate (it gets to be a pain, and very slow, having too many mailboxes… not to mention the potential for sending a business e-mail out using a personal e-mail address by accident)

(6) Loads of other things I haven’t even thought of!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 04 May 2007 20:09:47 +0000

At school I really do have a sort of schizophrenia going, between a productive self and a procrastinating self. If I could manage two sets of preferences for Safari, for example, I’d keep all of my distracting bookmarks out of the way when I really need to get stuff done.

I also need two sets of Quicksilver preferences – one with game .apps hotkeyed to my function keys and one with folders for my classes. This would actually be sort of diabolical: “Oh man I’m gonna destroy some punks on Prey right now.” *hits F9* *economics folder opens* “Shooooooooot.”

By: JimShoe

JimShoe — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:56:09 +0000

I am going to give it a try with firefox, and adium. Setting up a different profile with proxy setting. Then start up my ssh tunnel, and bam! encryption on firefox and adium without having to worry about data being sent unencrypted at startup.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:36:04 +0000

I’d definitely use this for iChat……not having to go through all the preference changes every time to log into a different account would be really nice

By: alexgti

alexgti — Fri, 04 May 2007 16:32:28 +0000

I’d most probably use it for changing iPhoto profiles, so I had one for my own photos, and one for imported photos. It’d make it easier to organise them. I’d also use it for finding my favourite configuration for more RAM hungry apps (Garageband etc…)

By: Jeff Eaton

Jeff Eaton — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:53:22 +0000

Everyone knows it’ll change the way we use iTunes (and other ‘bin O’ data’ apps like iPhoto. I’d love to use it with Komodo IDE, my web development app of choice. Setting up the proper debugging and testing environment can be a pain, and rooSwitch sounds perfect for swapping between different project profiles for various clients…

By: Infoshrew

Infoshrew — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:36:53 +0000

It doesn’t make much sense to me to have multiple users on the same user account, simply make them their own account. But there are still many great uses for this application. As catnmouse mentioned, it’s great for seperating your work preferences from your personal/play preferences.

I’m a photographer and I do this kind of thing all the time to seperate shoots, or types of shoots (like wedding from nature shoots). Well…. I’ll be using this method until I have the extra money to spend on Aperture =)

One idea that really appeals to me is the freedom it gives you for testing. You can use one profile as your stable backup version, and however many other profiles as your experimental ones; this allows you to goof around with the applications settings and mess with it’s configuration files and things without risking your important data.

There’s just so much you can do with this concept that I’m somewhat surprised Apple doesn’t build this feature into OS X…. though I suppose it is more of a power user feature.

By: Sjaq

Sjaq — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:24:41 +0000

I would use it as dock switcher. That’s really nice when developing. just make 2 profiles for Camino and my Dock or so, so I can change in to “developer” mode on my iMac…

By: Fraser Drew

Fraser Drew — Fri, 04 May 2007 14:55:31 +0000

RooSwitch can be used to keep MacBook users with small HDD’s happy So that the full library can be kept on a tasty karge external HDD, while the favourites remain for all eternity inside for listening everywhere!

By: David

David — Fri, 04 May 2007 14:38:21 +0000

I would use it to keep my Address Book contacts in order. Using it for the browsers might be useful as well.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:22:34 +0000

I second using with devon think, itunes, iweb. Basically it is useful for anyone who uses an app for more than one reason. I’d likely use it with iWeb and iTunes the most.

By: albert

albert — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:41:57 +0000

Using rooswitch will allow for my girlfriend to use my MBP instead of her windows machine and not having to create her own auser account.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:19:56 +0000

Couldn’t rooswitch be used to manage multiple iWeb sites? For those who heavily use iWeb, that would be very useful. It would be for managing different RAM configurations in Photoshop, which otherwise has to be done manually if you’re running Parallels or the like (VMWare, etc…) and don’t have your full amount of RAM, which for me is 2GB.

By: mdmunoz

mdmunoz — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:05:44 +0000

If it works the way I think it does, it would be extremely helpful with X11. I could have one profile set up for fullscreen gnome, another for kde, and another for normal, non-fullscreen X11 apps that are used alongside OS X.

By: tanc

tanc — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:35:08 +0000

I would definitely use this app with iTunes on the main house iMac, allowing everyone in the house to have their own iTunes libraries.

It could also be useful for a variety of business applications. For instance, I sometimes work with a participatory video charity and they have multiple editors working on a single machine. rooSwitch should allow them to set up their video editing software exactly how they want it on a per user basis.

I know many companies have multiple employees using a single computer and I’m sure there would be many uses for rooSwitch.

By: Maciek

Maciek — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:31:59 +0000

Hey, this tool could be nice companion to my DevonThink Personal, which doesn’t allow to have more than one documents database!

Ooooh, that might be REALLY useful, I want one!

By: catnmouse

catnmouse — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:31:00 +0000

I’d use rooSwitch to keep my work preferences and play preferences separate at the office. I usually eat lunch at my desk and surf; it’d be nice not to have to deal with having to remember all my favorite bookmarks from home!