Simon

Okay, so Simon monitors your tests, detecting changes, failures, and recoveries. And it displays this information in the Monitor window, Dock icon, and Status...See more » Okay, so Simon monitors your tests, detecting changes, failures, and recoveries. And it displays this information in the Monitor window, Dock icon, and Status menu. But you're a busy person, and sometimes want important events to really catch your attention. You're in luck: Simon also has a notifiers feature, with several ways of telling you about things you want to know. Each test can use any number of notifiers, with separate notifiers for each type of event. So, for example, you could play a sound and go to the web page when your favorite blog changes, but e-mail a text message to your cellphone when it goes down. Further, you can share notifiers between multiple tests: set up a notifier once, and use it for as many tests as you like. For additional flexibility, variables allow customizing the notifier with test names, URLs, times, etc. Available notifiers include: * Action: Bounce the Dock icon, activate Simon, display in your web browser, and other actions. * APC Masterswitch: Toggle an outlet on an APC Masterswitch power device. * Calendar: Add events or tasks to iCal, or events to Google Calendar. * E-mail: Send an e-mail message to you at work, a friend or client, or your cellphone. * Growl: Use the popular third-party Growl notification service to display small floating panels on-screen. * Launch: Start or switch to an application and/or document. * Mount: Mount or dismount a local, AFP or SMB volume. * MySQL: Add an entry to a database to log a change or failure. * Sound: Play a sound; several extras are provided. * Speech: Simon talks to you! * Twitter: Send updates or direct messages to yourself or others via the popular Twitter service. Want to do something else? No problem: you can add custom notifiers by writing an AppleScript, shell script, or Perl, Python etc script. Like the Script service, the Script notifier plug-in allows a virtually infinite range of notification options. You can also create notifiers based on port connection sessions via the Port notifier plug-in. But as useful as notifiers are, sometimes you don't want to be bothered... perhaps during a meeting, or while you sleep if your computer is within earshot. As with tests, notifiers can be automatically paused for specified time and day ranges.See less »