ControlPlane is a very useful application developed as a fork of the MarcoPolo project. MarcoPolo brings context-aware computing to your portable Mac computer.
ControlPlane allows your computer to determine its context through gathering evidence from your environment (evidence sources), using flexible rule-based fuzzy matching to make an educated guess (rules), and then performing arbitrary actions upon changing context (actions).
ControlPlane's concept of contexts is a generalisation of a location, and encompasses more than just where your computer is. A context might represent what you are doing, or what else is going on around you.
ControlPlane quietly stays in the status bar at the top of your screen (right-hand side of the menu bar), from where it can be configured to your own needs.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New:
· Toggle Remote Login (ssh)
· Toggle FTP and TFTP servers
· Toggle Web Sharing
Improvements:
· CoreLocation evidence source will again show the map
· Much friendlier names for rule types and actions
· Updated documentation
· Much much faster Bonjour Evidence Source
· ControlPlane now issues a system notification that the context has changed, useful for developers who want to know about such things