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The latest release of Simon is version 5.1.1.

• Added an E-mail notifier plug-in. It is similar to the Speech notifier, with a text area for the body of the e-mail, that supports variables. It also has fields for the addresses and other headers. The Subject and optional extra header value also support variables. The To and Cc fields can utilize Mac OS X's Address Book: type part of an address or person's name, and the field will auto-complete with the first match, and others can be listed by clicking on arrow of the combo box (or pressing the Down Arrow key). The plug-in also has a panel to allow using multiple SMTP servers or Sendmail tools.
• Added a Launch notifier plug-in. This allows launching an application by itself (equivalent to double-clicking on the app in the Finder), launching a document with its default application (equivalent to double-clicking on the document in the Finder), or launching a document with a specified application (equivalent to dropping the document on the application).
• Now determines whether or not there is an active internet connection before performing a site check. If not, it displays "offline" in the Next Check column and flashes a special symbol in the Status column and on the Dock icon. It keeps looking for an internet connection, and performs the check as soon as it is available. Useful for dial-up users, people who sleep their computers while Simon is running, and DSL outages, to avoid false failure reports.
• Added a Flag column that displays a yellow flag icon when a test changes. The icon is removed when the test is subsequently selected, or the site viewed. When one or more tests are flagged, a yellow sunburst badge is displayed on the Dock icon, behind the status triangle. This is useful to help you keep track of which sites you have looked at since they changed.
• Added a Marked as Flagged command to the Edit menu, and a corresponding Toolbar button for the Monitor window (which is not included by default). This feature allows you to manually toggle the Flag column icon on and off, if you wish.
• Added a checkbox to the Add/Alter Notifier sheet to make a recovery notifier only be used if a failure notifier of the same kind has already been used for this failure. Used in conjunction with the checkbox to only use the failure notifier once per failure, this will allow, for example, being notified after 15 errors, and not receiving a recovery notification if the test recovers before the 15th check.
• Added Show Simon Monitor, Show Notifiers, and Check All Now commands to the Dock menu, and renamed the pause command.
• Added a Feedback toolbar button to the various windows, and a Provide Simon Feedback menu item to the Help menu. They display a feedback form in your browser. Please use it to tell us what you think of Simon, to report any bugs, or make feature requests!
• Added a splash window in the shape of the Simon icon's "screen", that fades in and out. A nice Cocoa effect. Desirable as loading the Simon Monitor window can take a noticeable amount of time when there are a number of tests.
• Added animated "static" on the Dock icon when starting and quitting, just for the fun of it.
• Added a checkbox to the Add / Alter Test sheet to allow excluding specific tests from being checked when choosing the Check Now command with no tests selected, or on startup (if the preference to check all on startup is on).
• Now remembers the positions and widths of the columns in the Simon Monitor window.
• When a test is paused, the status column now changes to a pause symbol.
• The previous status of paused tests are now not included when determining the status for the Dock. Also, when all tests are paused, the Dock icon changes to a pause symbol as a reminder.
• Replaced the application icon with a much nicer looking edition.
• Rearranged the Speech notifier user interface to make it work better on smaller screens.
• Changed the keyboard equivalent for the Preferences command to ⌘, which is the new standard for Mac OS X 10.2.
• Renamed the File ▸ Pause Testing menu command as Pause Test.
• Updated the credits in the About Simon window.
• Improved the wording of the beta release startup alert panel.
• Clarified a wording inconsistency in the Software Update mechanism, where running a Beta release with the preferences set to indicate you are only interested in General releases would report the previous General release as a newer version.
• Fixed a bug where the notifications weren't being cleared when using the Reset Statistics command.
• Fixed a bug where notifications weren't being logged (but were still performed) for a newly-added test, until after Simon was restarted.
• Fixed a bug in the logic for failure notifications, that could have resulted in some missed notifications if you have more than one notifier for a test.
• Fixed a bug where stopping checking of a site that was previously down would mark the test as recovered (just the status icon). Now more correctly restores the previous status.
• Fixed a minor cause of console log messages.
• Fixed a rare bug in extracting the changed text for display, that could cause a test to appear to be continuiously tested when it is in fact done.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the scrollbars in the notifiers tables on the Add/Alter Test sheet from activating when there are more than four notifiers of a given type.
• Simon now requires a minimum of Mac OS X 10.2. If you run it under a previous OS version, an alert panel will remind you and offer to download Simon 1.0, which works under OS X 10.1.x.
• Rebuilt with the December 2002 developer tools.
• French localization and User Guide updated to reflect the changes in version 1.1.