Omnigroup Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The Omni Group's Ken Case talks with TUAW at Macworld iWorld 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 26th, 2012)

One of the most innovative and longstanding software development firms in the Apple ecosystem is The Omni Group. The company originally developed software for Steve Jobs's NeXT in the 1990's, created some of the first OS X software in the 2000s, and has gracefully made the transition to iOS with ...

The Omni Group releases Lion update stats

by Steven Sande (Jan 11th, 2012)

While many Windows users are content to live with older versions of their software, Mac users have generally been quite responsive to version upgrades. Sure, you'll still find the occasional person running OS X 10.4 Tiger (like the client I upgraded last week), but a lot of Macs are now running ...

OmniFocus gains TUAW Best of 2011 award for iPad productivity app

by Steven Sande (Jan 5th, 2012)

"What? I thought you already named a winner for the TUAW Best of 2011 in the iPad productivity app category!" Yes, yes we did. But there were some nomination and voting irregularities, not to mention that a number of TUAW readers let us know that our previously named winner had some serious ...

OmniOutliner for iPad is now available

by Dave Caolo (May 12th, 2011)

The Omni Group has brought OmniOutliner to the iPad. The app is more of a collection of functions that allow you to gather, categorize and later reference a variety of information. In fact, you can use OmniOutliner for spreadsheets, documents and even photo management. Putting all of that power on ...

How to: Capturing iPad video with audio narration

by Erica Sadun (Apr 26th, 2011)

Recently, Mike Rose asked me to check out an ongoing discussion over at the Telestream forums to see if I could assist one of the posters. Mike knew that Steve Sande and I were working on testing out a variety of iPad-to-computer screen capture solutions. He thought I might be able to help out ...

OmniGraffle for iPad 1.4 out now

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 10th, 2010)

For those of you who don't know, OmniGraffle for the iPad (also available for the Mac) is a tool that helps you turn complex ideas and processes into clear, easily understood drawings, diagrams, charts, and the like. Basically, it's a great tool to illustrate stuff that would otherwise take too long ...

Omni Group commits to Mac App Store development

by Sam Abuelsamid (Oct 24th, 2010)

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the Omni Group has jumped aboard the Mac App Store train. Omni has long been a popular creator of Mac applications and has done pretty well for itself with the iOS apps that it has already released, with more on the way. On the day after the Back to ...

Hands on with OmniGraffle for iPad

by Erica Sadun (Apr 14th, 2010)

Long a Mac desktop staple, OmniGraffle for OS X offers an interactive editor for laying out charts and diagrams. It's a useful tool for planners, managers, and designers. I have not been a serious user of the product, nor do I own the latest OS X version, but I have used the software enough to ...

Things coming to iPad, updates to 1.3

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 17th, 2010)

At the end of his latest blog post, Cultured Code's Jürgen Schweizer revealed that the company is working on a version of Things for the iPad. The announcement isn't that surprising, especially given that The Omni Group announced at the beginning of February that its software suite, ...

Omni Group bringing the Omni apps to the iPad

by Aron Trimble (Feb 2nd, 2010)

Famed OmniFocus developer The Omni Group has given a brief peak at their development roadmap. The Mac Observer reports that Omni will release OmniFocus, OmniPlan, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner and OmniGraphSketcher for the iPad. The Omni Group is pretty excited about what all the iPad has to offer ...

Friday Favorite: OmniDiskSweeper helps you track down where all your disk space went

by TJ Luoma (Oct 23rd, 2009)

"Where did all my disk space all go?" When I was in college, each student was allotted 4 megabytes ('mega' is not a typo) of disk space for both email and files. Granted, this was back in the early '90s, before anyone had heard of "www." or had even thought of ".mp3" or ".mp4". In 1995 I acquired ...

OmniFocus for iPhone finally has reminders, but implementation is awful

by Jason Clarke (Jul 24th, 2009)

[Update] Ken Case comments below, addressing some of the concerns listed here. It looks like a future version of OmniFocus on the Mac will be able to directly update the OmniFocus reminders on the server, removing at least one of my complaints. Ken Case from The Omni Group has been twittering for ...

OmniFocus 1.6 checks off bugs and adds new features

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 13th, 2009)

The Omni Group just released OmniFocus 1.6, and it's a big, big update. Current users are going to be pleased, even if they don't bother to page through the extensive list of new features and fixes in the release notes. I've never said anything to the contrary, but this is proof that Omni is ...

OmniGroup makes several apps freeware

by Mat Lu (Feb 25th, 2009)

OmniGroup has announced that they have decided to release several of their previously shareware applications as freeware. These are: OmniWeb, one of the first Mac web browsers with roots going back beyond even OS X; OmniDazzle, a fun screen effects application, potentially useful for presentations ...

OmniGraffle 5 shipping now

by Mat Lu (Mar 6th, 2008)

The Omni Group has announced that OmniGraffle 5 is final and available for download and purchase. OmniGraffle is a brilliant template-based diagramming application that makes it a snap to draw up a flow-chart or schematic. As we noted when the first beta of version 5 was released, the latest ...