Hi there. Here's a fine new little console-based perl script that lets you control your Tor, monitor circuits as they happen, issue commands like changing your identity etc, and forward critical events to a chatroom using the PSYC protocol.
I found vidalia too heavy and arm too confusing and didn't see a simple tool that would leverage the Tor control protocol without excessive nuisances, just a bit of noise reduction and text coloring. Also I like notifications to show in my chat client.
The notification feature works with a psyced running on the same host. I just committed a "remotor" chatroom which is preset to receive messages from the tool, all you need to do is install psyced and use your IRC client to join #remotor.
You can git remotor and the rest of the perlpsyc library from
torify git clone git://cheettyiapsyciew.onion/perlpsyc or git clone git://git.psyced.org/git/perlpsyc
If you're a lucky owner of a Gentoo system, you can emerge both Net-PSYC and psyced from http://youbroketheinternet.org 's overlay. remotor should work pretty much out of the box.
For a quick little glimpse into the perl script, click http://perl.psyc.eu/navigate/bin/remotor
If anyone is interested, I can easily add the ability to control the Tor node from the chatroom.
http://perl.psyc.eu tells you of the other tools included such as git2psyc for commit notifications in your developer chatroom, syslog2psyc, psycfilemonitor, psycmail, psycmp3... you get the idea. There's also a tarball for download, no wait, it's a zip.