Well, the final release of OmniGraffle 4.1.2 has come and gone. I, much like Wim, feel that the 4.1 branch is now dead to me. This has been a very cautious release than ones past—From the initial 4.0 release to the rush of getting the universal binary version of 4.1 ready in time to patching up that release in 4.1.1, it was actually somewhat relaxing to take a slow approach this time.
Lots of little nit-picky issues and regressions that got introduced in the rush of 4.1 are now addressed and fixed, problems with inspectors corrected, Intel-specific problems cleaned up.
We hope you enjoy it.
Bug Fixes
- Diagram style preferences are now accessible to AppleScript and can be named without specifying the full path to the style.
- Fixed the use of the Enter or Return key in the Text Position Inspector on Intel machines.
- Clicking in a different input field in the Text Position Inspector will now act the same as Enter or Return on PPC machines.
- Escape key should now allow user to back out of the zoom field, restoring previous zoom setting.
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Troy was complaining that his sync wasn't working with .Mac today, I suggested that it was a clog, as the internets is just a series of tubes, after all. Wim stepped in and recommended dietary supplements to unclog said tubes, such as fiber to the home.
Bill's correct: The proper pronunciation of ZOMG is “twenty milligrams”.
Graffletopia rocks. A great interface for browsing and getting OmniGraffle stencils, and Patrick says he'd definitely like to add other extras down the road.
Check it out.
As some of you may have read, I like me some coffee.
Imagine my dismay when I saw this:
Thankfully, due to my last post on the subject, Omni user Ralph was kind enough to send us some coffee from New Orleans:
But what to make it in, if the machine is broken? Why, what's this? A small brewer!
Almost there…
Omni enjoys some freshly brewed coffee in the face of adversity!
Thanks, Ralph!
Whoomp! Here it is:
Gantt charts, schedules, summaries, milestones, and critical paths – oh my. People, the public beta of OmniPlan has officially been released.
Enjoy. And thanks, everyone.
Project management has been called the ability to create the impossible, with the unwilling, against insurmountable odds, under budget and on time.
That's actually a pretty good description of our process for creating Brand New Secret Product.
(Well…sort of.)
Introducing OmniPlan. Our brand new project management application.
(Totally not an inkwell!)
Please stay tuned, folks! We're shooting to release a public beta of OmniPlan next Wednesday, July 26th.
• Now a Universal binary
• Based off a slightly customized version of WebKit.*
• Supports user defined style sheets
• Gets whites whiter, plumps when you cook it
* Greatly improved website compatibility, speed and stability. Many rendering and compatibility issues users have been experiencing should now be addressed.
Go forth and download, OmniWeb fans!
Hey, folks, just a brief note today to tell you we're looking for a Systems Guru.
(I just noticed that the description reads, in part, “You need to be comfortable supporting people who have differing levels of technical expertise”. Ha! I think they're talking about me.)
Tell all your geeky Guru-y pals, Omni's taking resumes.
You know, I thought we'd get maybe 20 guesses or so on what Brand New Secret Product is. Not HUNDREDS. Holy, uh, fiddlesticks.
So this is one of those occasions when us marketing weasels have to decide between silence, subterfuge, or straightforwardness. And other terms that begin with the letter “S”, like “snake oil” (as in, Our powerful, extensible solution creates a paradigm shift in infrastructure core competencies).
We're going with a large serving of straightforwardness, with a hint of silence on the side and a sprinkling of delicious, bacony subterfuge. (There's a reason we're called weasels, after all.)
Some of you guessed correctly about what Brand New Secret Product is. Some of you are clearly insane and made us laugh until we sprayed Jamba Juice out our collective nostrils. And some of you – check that, LOTS of you – guessed that we're building some kind of GTD app.
Brand New Secret Product is not a GTD app. However, we have been talking very seriously about building a GTD app, and collaborating with our friends Ethan and Merlin, and hearing so many of you tell us that you're interested in that kind of software…well, we would really, really like to come up with something. We have some awesome ideas for how it could work.
In a couple weeks we're sitting down with some folks here in Seattle and brainstorming what this GTD app might do, and how we might be able to get it out the door in a timely manner. We do have a lot on our plates these days, and we're not a big company; we just don't know yet if we have the resources. But! If you would like to send us ideas, feature requests, or just a plea for us to make it happen, please email omnitask-planning@omnigroup.com, in the next week if possible. (OmniTask is our code name. Shhhhhh.)
There: some straightforwardness.
Now for the subterfuge! Well, not exactly, but here's another annoying image of Brand New Secret Product – not blurred this time, but clipped so only a piece of it shows. Go nuts, CSI-enhancers.
And the silence: we're not going to tell you what B.N.S.P. is just yet. But very, very soon we will have more info and a public beta. I think some of you (no, we're not saying how many!) are going to be really happy.
P.S. Yes, those of you who guessed correctly will be hearing from me shortly about the private beta. Booyah!