Barton Springs Software (www.bssware.com) announced today its entry into the Mac software development market by releasing its first product, Switchblade. Barton Springs Software was founded with an attention to non-invasive UI design and a desire for simple, purpose-driven applications that pack all the features they should and none that they shouldn’t.

Today’s release, Switchblade, is a new take on application switching. Switchblade provides a simple menu item that watches your application usage in the background and presents your most-used applications in a small menu and doesn’t add extraneous features such as those that slow down other popular switchers.

Switchblade complements Apple’s Dock by allowing users to keep their most used applications within easy reach on the Dock, and allowing quick access to everything else without taking up precious Dock real estate. Switchblade, which is accessible both via a menu item and a user-definable universal hotkey, is highly configurable, allowing users to filter applications based on last use, frequency of use, presence in the Dock, and a number of other factors. Switchblade also allows users to hide specific applications and mark others as favorites, exempting them from filtering. Switchblade can can also be enacted entirely via the keyboard.

Switchblade requires Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” and is available today for a 14-day trial. Users can register Switchblade for $8 at www.bssware.com.

Barton Springs Software LLC, is based in Austin, Texas, and takes its name from the beautiful natural springs along Barton Creek and the Colorado River, where Texans have long congregated for a refreshing respite from the oppressive Texas summers, and aims to provide software as refreshing as a mid-summer dip in Barton Springs Pool.

Press Contact
Jeremy Derr, CEO
Barton Springs Software, LLC
jeremy.derr@bssware.com
512-996-8951