New OmniGroup application tomorrow

Via Twitter, Ken Case reveals that a new OmniGroup application is coming tomorrow:

All he has revealed:

Yes, a new product which works well with both OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner.
Also, it’s a Mac app which will cost less than $30.

Stay tuned tomorrow for the OmniGroup reveal!

OmniWeb 5.9.x, 6, and Safari 4

The OmniGroup blog had this interesting tidbit today:

We’ve also gotten pretty far with integrating the new Safari 4 beta engine: it’s now integrated into our internal builds of OmniWeb 6, and we’re bringing that work back to OmniWeb 5 so it can make it into the 5.9 sneaky peek builds.

Pretty awesome for a product they are giving away free!

OmniGroup giving away OmniWeb (and more)

OmniGroup moved OmniWeb, OmniDazzle, OmniDiskSweeper, and OmniObjectMeter to freeware status.

SDK for iPhone

Apple’s Hot News page has a post from Steve Jobs regarding the release of a SDK for the iPhone and iPod Touch come February:

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.


The post touches briefly on the framework around delivery and ensuring the code is solid. There is not enough info to answer any questions but it at least lets us know we shall soon have our 3rd party applications. I can live with Apple ensuring the apps are quality having suffered through some really bad apps on the Palm and Windows Mobile.

Here’s hoping OmniGroup will do some sort of application to sync with OmniFocus!