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rooSwitch Lite: Multiple profiles for Mail and other iApps

RooswitchrooSwitch Lite offers multiple profiles for most of Mac OS X’s iApps including Address Book, iTunes, iPhoto, Mail.app, Safari and Stickies.

As the developer Brian Cooke explains:

rooSwitch makes it easy to keep your favorite apps data safe and also makes it easy to manage profiles for different situations. A good example of this is are “at home” and “at work” profiles.

rooSwitch Lite is the freeware, restricted version of rooSwitch (shareware, USD 14.95). It doesn’t have the range of apps that the shareware version offers or the Automator and AppleScript support, but it does offer unlimited profiles and fast switching between them.

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In addition to keeping home and work settings separate, rooSwtich’s profiles are great for beta-testers and developers who need to work with multiple preference and application support files.

Brian has made a movie which demonstrates the app in action and another movie of the shareware version gives additional tips on how to use the app to maximum advantage.

rooSwitch Lite is freeware and available from Brian’s web site . mail.app, apple mail, ical, address book, productivity, profiles, preferences, Safari

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2 Responses to “rooSwitch Lite: Multiple profiles for Mail and other iApps”

  1. Jeff FLowers says:
    September 27th, 2006 at 12:30 am

    Personally, I find Mac OS X’s Fast User Switching to be perfect for this kind of thing. Obviously, though, this is a little easier.

  2. olmy says:
    November 24th, 2006 at 2:28 am

    amongst other things, I found that the standard version of rooSwitch (not the lite version) was great for switching back and forth between multiple yojimbo profiles — in essence, simulating multiple yojimbo documents (something that application currently can’t do on its own).

    I can now have 1 yojimbo doc for work and 1 for home. with a little applescripting, I was able to do this w/ very rapidly w/ quicksilver triggers.

    a very nice addition to make yojimbo a more productive tool for me.

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