It's been a few weeks since our last "This week in Inner Space" segment, and we've got plenty of new stuff to cover for you!

First of all, I would like to announce that our new Inner Space build as of yesterday (November 10th, 2008) now supports The Lord of the Rings Online (in DirectX9 mode), with our improved launcher functionality. So if you recently tried Inner Space to see if LOTRO would work, feel free to send me an email about it for a new trial. Other games that Inner Space previously failed to attach to may now work as well.

... and on we go.

Picture-in-Picture with WindowSnapper

WindowSnapper is a few weeks old now, but we haven't yet featured it here on our front page. WindowSnapper is a blazing fast Picture-in-Picture solution for Inner Space. So fast, in fact, that we added special features like a rollover zoom feature -- move your mouse over a PiP window and it will instantly zoom the window -- and wheelswitcher, which lets you hold down a configurable key such as Ctrl, and use the mouse wheel to quickly rotate between windows. WindowSnapper now also includes autolayout functionality, which means EzMode for WindowSnapper. It can automatically lay out your PiP windows on any edge of the screen, even on an outside edge of your main monitor if you've got a dual monitor setup that doesn't take a performance hit when you move windows between monitors. That's priceless, and WindowSnapper is in fact free and open source -- all you need is your Inner Space subscription.

WindowSnapper works for many games, including EverQuest II and The Lord of the Rings Online! The image to the right shows a World of Warcraft main window, Lord of the Rings Online, and EverQuest II, but this will work for most games Inner Space supports!

Keyboard and mouse replication with Repeater

Repeater is also a few weeks old now, and is used for duplicating keystrokes or mouse movement and clicking in other game sessions, on the same PC or on other PCs. Flip on repeater, press whatever keys you need to happen in all windows, click wherever you need to click in all windows, and it's all instantly duplicated for you! Repeater supports white and black lists, so that you can select which keys will or will not be duplicated. Mouse positioning will work best with all game windows being in the same resolution, so that clicking on a certain button in one window will click on the same button in another window.It also works pretty well with mouselook. Repeater is also free and open source, all you need is your Inner Space subscription.

Other keystroke sending functionality

Repeater isn't the only way to send keystrokes to other game sessions -- Inner Space has a flexible and powerful system of binds and aliases, which can be combined to create nearly any key sending functionality you need! Round-robin or sending different keys to different windows, for example, can be done with binds (or GUI windows like ClickBoxer) and aliases, rather than with Repeater -- much the same way that binds and aliases are used in some first-person shooters for similar purposes. In the coming weeks, expect to see new applications for Inner Space to help you create and manage setting up specific keys to do these things. Setting up your multi-boxing team is getting easier and easier!

Real-time chat for help multi-boxing with Inner Space

We regularly help new users get started, and in fact some of the experts sometimes want help with their more advanced setups as well. Feel free to join us in #isboxer on irc.lavishsoft.com! (Click the link to join the chat in your web browser)  I or other users such as yourself will be happy to answer any questions you may have, whether you already purchased or you have some questions before you try (yep, you can apply for a FREE 7-day trial!) or buy. If you need extra help getting set up, don't feel bad! The more questions that get asked, and the more people who come for help, the better and easier we can make the process! Besides, people who got helped when they got started sometimes like to return the favor by helping someone else in turn, and they may be waiting for you in the chat channel now.

Other useful resources may include our multi-boxing with Inner Space guide, and Zanthor's post with his setup on dual-boxing.com.

Stay tuned, this gets better every week!