Simon

I'm pleased to announce the general release of an update of my website and server monitoring app for macOS: Simon version 5.2.

⚠️ This is a critical update for anyone upgrading to macOS 27, as that OS version no longer supports Intel apps; previous versions of Simon still used a couple of Intel-only components. I recommend updating Simon before the OS to avoid disruptions.

This update also improves the Web Page service, Tests list, Preview, variables, and several other improvements and fixes.

Support for Tahoe

• Updated the app to work better with macOS Tahoe (26.x).
• Now requires macOS Monterey…

Surprise! It’s been three years since the previous update of Simon, my pro-level website and server monitoring tool, but here’s the first beta release of version 5.2.

This update includes support for macOS Tahoe, including making all components universal, so they work on Apple silicon and Intel-based Macs. Plus improvements to the Web Page service, the tests list, the Preview pane, and several services, filters, and notifiers, amongst other changes.

This is a beta release, but should be safe for anyone to install. If mission-critical, you might want to hold off for now, though, or install on…

Dejal Simon is a powerful and flexible website & server monitoring tool. One of the reasons it is so flexible is that in addition to the many built-in services, filters, notifiers & reports, you can extend it by using or writing custom scripts (or port sessions).

Simon comes bundled with many examples of such scripts; check out the Services, Filters & Notifiers lists and look for the items with a "Script" subtitle. You can inspect and edit those to customize them to suit your needs, or use them as inspiration for your own.

As an additional resource, the Simon site has an Extras page, which…

Time Out comes with a number of built-in sounds that you can play as part of the Break Actions, plus it lists all sounds you have installed on your Mac, which includes system default ones, and any you have added to the standard sound folders.

It's worth noting that you can also have Time Out play any music from your Apple Music library, too.

Find more sounds

To add more sounds, you first need to find and download them from a website.

There are many sites that offer sounds of varying length, quality, themes, etc. Some for free, some as paid offerings. Usually with previews so you can listen…

The Simon app has pages for filters, notifiers, reports and auto pause times while editing a test. These can be reordered very easily, by dragging them to the desired order.

The order really only matters for filters, since subsequent filters can refer to the output of previous ones, though others might look better in a custom order.

Simply click and drag anywhere outside a control to move a filter etc to a new position.

Here's a looping video example:

I’m pleased to announce the general release of an update of my website and server monitoring app for macOS: Simon version 5.1.1.

This update includes just a few — but important — fixes:

• If not signed in to iCloud, Simon now doesn't offer syncing, with a message explaining that, instead of assuming it's available and sometimes crashing.
• Fixed a crash when dragging to reorder filters, notifiers, and reports in the test editor.
• When loading the default data when first using the app, the services, filters, and notifiers are now organized into groups (this was previously only done when updating the…