The Omni Group

So, I have professional OmniOmni licences[1].  I keep them on my laptop because it's mine and so

are the licenses. 

My employer gave me a PowerMac to use[2] and I'd like to use those same Omni applications with network licensing. 

How do I get network licensing? 

Does it hurt? 

Can you get it from touching things and

sticking your fingers in your mouth?

Cheers,

Matthew

[1] Well, except for OmniPlan & OmniFocus & OmniObjectMeter. 

[2]  OK, they didn't give it to me.  It's just been sitting

in a lab for 2 years unused and I'm a little sick

of Solaris.

So many questions:

- When is OmniFocus coming out and who do I have to kill to be on the beta?

- Are you worried about all the other “Omni” products and companies?

- Can you give us some hints about OmniWeb 6.0?

- Do you like it when we call you guys “OmniDudes”?

BZ

Here are a few:

- What's planned for OmniWeb 5.6

- When will a beta be out of the door

- What about OmniFocus?? No beta in sight??

- Why didn't you guys make Oni Universal Binary ;-)

- How many cats do you guys have?

- Are cat hair a problem in your computers?? Don't they get absolutely everywhere?

PS: the amount of lipid is one thing, the type of lipid really matters actually. Some do a lot more harm to your system than others, eg: transfat are not your friends… You need 0 grams of transfat a day as far as I understand it. They should be on top of the bioterror list of Homeland Security (they sure kill a lot more people than anthrax :-> )

Is Rachael really invisible, or was there some smoke and mirrors going on at WWDC?

I'm playing through Oni at the moment, and I've found a few bugs. If I report them, do they have a chance of ever being fixed?

Is omnifocus anywhere near coming out? I know you want to make sure it has omni quality before letting it out of the bag, but I've got my money ready and I need a gtd app yesterday. I'll only be able to wait so long before turning elsewhere, and I doubt I'll look back. Of course, if you let me be a beta tester for omni focus you'll have my undying love :)

* Are all of your cats licensed or do you support pirate cats?

* Do any of your cats, pirate or otherwise, wear eye patches?

* Have you ever tried 'upgrading' one of your cats?

“When is OmniFocus coming out and who do I have to kill to be on the beta?”

I second that question!  I think that Omni is the only company whose product announcements (or previews) are even remotely as exciting as Apple's. ;-)

Is there any sort of official list of ideas and feature requests for future releases?  Have you ever thought of doing something like an “OmniProduct Focus Group,” or is this something that would be completely unnecessary?

Thanks so much for the response. I was expecting my question to be deemed less important than the lipid-licious ones. How bout I'll start counting up from 1.0.0 to 5.5.2 and then you'll release it?

Can I resize multiple columns (at the same time) within oo so they are the same size?

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In a less tech-supporty and more, um,  philosophical vein: many Mac developers have moved away from the use of drawers (especially now that Apple has taken them away from Mail) but you guys still feature drawers-a-plenty. What do you like about drawers? Have you thought about any other ways of implementing the functionality that drawers give you?

I see the OmniOutliner works OK with subversion from a previous comment. (Actually I do this all the time, some times embedded graphics that have been deleted give me trouble though as SVN want to hang on to them.) However, I have had no luck at all with storing OmniGraffle documents in Subverson.  The icon seems to contain an illegal character or something. ( '0x0d' in path '/Users/sam/safe2/Projects/CourseWare/JavaClassRefactored/diagrams/testing-the-ui.graffle/Icon)

Ideally, at least in my ideal world, Omni products that have documents would support SVN the way VoodooPad does. I jave have to pick “Subversion Commit” and I am done. I don't need the add, delete or other svn controls in the app itself as I can manage that elsewhere,  just commit. 

Thanks for the consideration.

Do you guys plan on fixing RSS anytime soon? Its a sometimes it work, sometimes it doesn't work symptom. Usually I have to relaunch OmniWeb to get it to recheck RSS feeds- it doesn't do it by itself even though I have it set to recheck the feeds every hour.

You are not the only one loving this ‘fob off the hard questions on other Omni employees’ gig - at the very least I am too, as I got a cool, useful answer to my last poser - which I really appreciate.  So cool, infact, I think I'll ask another one (at the risk of wearing out my welcome).  In OmniOutliner, it is rather easy to inadvertently past graphic images into outline in TIFF format. Seems like the Mac clipboard favors TIFFS or something (Apple's Grab utility definitely does).  Anyway, this is all fine until you try to export your outline to HTML. (I use dynamic HTML) What happens then is the pasted graphic gets output as a TIFF. Even this is OK as long as you browse the output in Safari (I know, boo hiss - I bought an OmniWeb license) because Safari supports TIFF images. However, you guessed it, neither MS Exploder and FireFox render TIFF images. I found this our the hard and painful way - I exported a dynamic html page for a class I am teaching. Sadly, few of the students are using Macs and when they tried to view the output, I looked dumb and felt it. Anyway, long story short: the ability / option to convert TIFF to JPG (or any commonly support image format on the web) when generating HTML from outlines would most welcome. Making sure a pasted graphic is not in TIFF format is a real pain.  Thanks in advance.

So what is the story behind the OmniWeb nailgun?