Long overdue, the about page has been updated. Hopefully it better explains what ControlPlane does. In case you’re wondering, you can chat with other ControlPlane users and get help at the ControlPlane Google Groups page over at http://groups.google.com/group/controlplane-support or you can submit Read more…
I’ve gotten a couple of reports now that ControlPlane isn’t fully working under OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). This is to be expect for a couple of reasons. First, ControlPlane uses some private APIs for some actions. It is well Read more…
ControlPlane 1.1.7 is now available and it’s main focus is dealing with crashes involving the menu bar icon. If you are hiding the menu bar icon there was a higher chance of it causing ControlPlane to crash, I hope that Read more…
I’m seeing a definite increase in crashes within ControlPlane related to the menu bar icon. This is an issue that has day one and I can’t track it down. If you are seeing ControlPlane crashes please get me any information Read more…
Tedium has been released and you can find it on its own site at http://www.tediumapp.com/. Tedium allows you to configure a number of Time Machine backup destinations and when combined with ControlPlane, switch them automatically. To use ControlPlane with Tedium Read more…
A common feature request for ControlPlane has been changing time machine destinations. I’ve avoided adding this feature for some time because I felt it was a bit beyond the scope of ControlPlane. Such a feature would really require its own Read more…
Some of the most common requests I get for ControlPlane involve more elaborate rule and context systems. Requests for negative or NOT rules and context groups are not going unheard but you can certainly voice your opinion over on Github. Read more…
An updated version will be released tonight that includes fixes for the Shell Script action and WiFi evidence source. ControlPlane 1.1.4 introduced a more capable shell script action but broke support for script arguments. The WiFi evidence source contains a Read more…
Recently I linked to Nick Schmidt’s piece on using ControlPlane to switch Time Machine profiles (http://geekyschmidt.com/2011/12/29/dual-time-machine-wielding-backups). There was one thing that Nick missed that is important on the OS X side and that is that tmutil may require you to Read more…
ControlPlane 1.1.4 is a maintenance release that fixes multiple issues related to stability. You can download the latest version at http://www.controlplaneapp.com/download/1.1.4 or if you are already running ControlPlane simply pick the Check for Updates option in ControlPlane’s menu.