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5.5 aces test; Omni teases you once again

posted by Linda on 07.12.06 @ 12:48 pm

Well! Apparently our OmniWeb 5.5 beta whooped some butt in a recent browser test.

I’d love to tell you exactly why OmniWeb was so darn fast, but uhhhh….we’re not exactly sure. It might have to do with something called garbage collection, which I would explain in great detail except I have no idea what it means. Also, benchmark tests are maybe not 100% indicative of what your own personal browsing experience will be, so take it all with a large grain of salt, but…go, OmniWeb, go!

OmniWeb 5.5 is still in ‘private’ beta (not exactly PRIVATE when it’s in a benchmark test, I guess), but we’re shooting for a public beta next week. Hang in there, OmniWeb fans!

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In other news, Omni has a Brand New Secret Product in the works. Before you ask, we are absolutely still working on our other apps – there are, let’s see…11 engineers here who are assigned to various projects, in addition to product managers and support folk and sales and QA and of course, the espresso machine – and we still plan to provide you with updates for those (yes, like OmniWeb! And OmniGraffle! And…everything else! Except Oni; you Oni people need to CEASE and DESIST).

Anyway! We are getting very close to opening the kimono on Brand New Secret Product, if you’ll forgive me for using a cheesy dotcom-VC-wooing term from 1999. Would you like some hints? SURE YOU WOULD.

Hint the First:

Some of you have asked for this product. Repeatedly.

Hint the Second:

Here is an annoyingly blurred image of the product’s application icon:

Hint the Third:

It is NOT a replacement for Mail. Or a word processor.

(I know, I know. Pre-release hype kills kittens, etc. “Remember the Segway”, etc. I know.)

Now for the fun part: if you guess what Brand New Secret Product is, we’ll get you on a private beta to start looking at it. You’ll have to be sworn to secrecy – on pain of…well, maybe not death, but cake? cake or death? – but you’ll be among the ELITE, the BRAVE, the, um, BUGGY BETA BRUTE SQUAD!

Or…wait, did I not make that sound attractive enough? What I meant to say is, if you guess correctly, you’ll have an early, exclusive sneak peek at our biggest new product of the year. Cooooool.

HIE YE TO THE COMMENTS SECTION, make your guess, and don’t forget to include your email address.

(Update: in order for me to have a snowball’s chance of going through everyone’s guesses, comments are now closed. Thanks for all your interest, folks!)

is it an information manager, like devonthink or yojimbo….

Specialized outliner off-shoot for managing GTD.

Notes/Information manager to compete with stickybrain and yojimbo.

It’s either an address book or an autographed copy of the Yellow Pages.

Its OO with some sexy KGTD implementation or something of the sort, aint it?

A blogging outliner?
Podcast reciever?
Marital Aide?

Guess the first:
A steamroller and a jackhammer.

Guess the second:
Some sort of sticky-note, personal data tracker.. thing.. yeah.

Guess the third:
An annoyingly blurry application.

I think it’s a copy of the yellow pages, but really burry.

A project tracker that integrates with iApps. WIll contain “note program” functionality (yojimbo) but only as a secondary (or teriary?) function.

Its some sort of note taking Application. It looks like a legal pad and a pen

Oh, oh, I know!

It’s name will begin with “Omni”.

It is a usenet client

Cake?! Did you say cake? I want cake. Please send me some cake. Chocolate would be great!

Wait, that must be a hint about Brand New Secret Product. Well, the only cake related software I remember was Cakewalk. So, I’m guessing this Brand New Secret Product is related to music.

Maybe its a sound effects app, because someones among us need to produce new sound sets for Xounds.

It is an pixel based image editor.

I think it is an information manager.

It is OmniLaserYourBreadWithJesusForAHolyBreakfast!

I even found a supersecret image from Omnigroup on the interweb!
http://files.atrenko.com/omnilaser.png

I see a screwdriver on the left and what could very well be a black cockroach on the right. We will however pretend the mystery item on the right is another piece of power tooling. And they both rest on what appears to be a plaque with checkboxes.

I want to say it is a utility for repairing damaged OmniOutliner files but something tells me I’m way wrong…

Okay, here goes.

1) it has to be document-based, even blurry the icon shows that.

2) What’s strange is that the “tool” seems to be behind and somewhat overlapping the “document”, so it’s something about grouping/searching/gathering documents.

So either something to manage informaiton you store ala Yojimbo or, better yet… something to manage groups of documents you generate. Something to compliment KGTD and let you manage all the files associated with a project you’re working on.

Obligatory KGTD guess (’cuz I’d want to beta tests this)… a specialized version of OmniOutliner for Getting Things Done.

PLEASE, PLEASE be Omni-based project/ task management software. I hope that my ealier requests for this are what you are referring to in this blog.

Yes, I will gladly take it for a test drive for you.

Jason

I’ll put my wager on a specific GTD application. It would seem logical to take your outlining expertise and all the user testing from the KGTD setup and try and come up with a specific application

A softphone app. Maybe Skype integration.

Or possibly as everyone else on the planet is guessing, a GTD-specific app.

It’s an image processing application, lets you create new images and modify old ones, since there’s really no good low-end solution for OS X!

Oooorr…
As people have already guessed, a GTD-integrated note application. I would love that.

Oooorr…
A web-page creating application, a la Sandvox

Oooorr…
A project manager, a la Marware’s mythical Project X (http://www.projectx.com/).

Oooorr…
A new application! That’s gotta be right! It’s something that I can put in my dock, and launch when I want to use its particular functionality. It will incorporate standard Cocoa widgets as well as perhaps some custom ones. It will look pretty and do exactly what it was intended to do. That *must be it.

Can I include two guesses?

Guess one: A project/task manager. (Jumping on the bandwagon, there.)

Guess two: A newsreader. Obviously not just ANY newsreader, but a really good one.

I think the first guess is more likely, tho.

It’s some sort of project manager. Think kGTD on steroids with a healthy mix of Yojimbo.

Starting with the second clue I’ve used a little detective work, to determine what the icon most likely represents. The black foreground bowling pin-shaped object looks a lot like a Shmoo (http://www.deniskitchen.com/thestore/bios_shmoo.html). Now, I’ve only seen pictures of white shmoos but since this one is black, I’m assuming that it is most likely an African shmoo. Africa has a lot of sun so the high saturation of the yellow rectangle casting a shadow behind the shmoo suggests that it is a mirror but that there is some atmospheric haze since the shadow is blurry (a dusty haze from the African savannah?) The angle of the shadow is rather severe so that suggests early morning or late afternoon but the dusty haze implies late afternoon.

Now going on to the other clues:

“Some of you have asked for this product. Repeatedly.” Not many people have seen Shmoos for some time now so this is why the request for the product is limited to “some of you” rather than “everyone” or “most of you.” “Repeatedly” implies that no other company has as of yet realized the opportunities in developing applications relevant to this subject matter. Another piece of the puzzle falls into place.

“It is NOT a replacement for Mail. Or a word processor.” Note that this clue does not say that the application cannot do at least some word processing nor that its contents cannot be used in an email application.

So what we have is a subject that many are not familiar with; an icon that combines subject matter with a sense of time in an exotic locale; and an application that does not send email and is not specifically I word processor. Since this still leaves some small room for error, I’m going to hedge my guess a little by suggesting two possibilities: an application for tracing Shmoo geneaology or for analyzing Shmoo taxonomy for Shmoo ranchers. (And, knowing the good OmniGroup people always seem to provide value-added in their products, I wouldn’t be surprised if this application would not also useful for unicorns, bandersnatches, etc.in addition to other great features.)

I prefer the prize money in cash, small denominations. Thank you.

A project/task manager seems most likely to me, given Murphy’s Law and the fact that I just today decided to lay down the cash on Yojimbo, in order to make my life easier. Though I haven’t quite laid down the cash just yet, Omni folks… hint, hint!

I’m going to jump on the GTD bandwagon. Holy crap, would that be awesome.

That’s an exclamation point!

It’s an Oni map editor! Finally!

I’ve got it! It’s OmniExecutiveTransvestite, isn’t it?

Cake or death!

Ooooh! No, it’s a CoreImage enhanced Oni, with a dozen new levels you snuck out of Bungie’s back door, and the big walking mech is finally there! And the mech is piloted by Eddie Izzard! In high heels!

My best guess is that it is a WYSIWYG website designing/layout app.

If we are allowed multiple guessed, my second guess(That is most likely wrong) is: A Media Center/player

I got it its nothing, this is just a trick to see want we want you to make and then you will make it, ok if not its another awsome product that I will want to buy but then not and regret it. I love you Omni!

OmniSketch

It’s either a standalone KGTD-type program, or a dessert topping. Or possibly a replacement for Stickies (the yellow colour gives it away…)

A mobile phone syncronising app.

Can I have my prize now?

Can’t wait to use Omni’s version of MacJanitor!

It’s OmniBlur!!! An application for making blurry icons. Of course the icon looks like a bee that hit the windshield at 80 mph.

O.K. My real guess. I’ll go with the crowd and say it is some sort of junk drawer app like Yojimbo that integrates very well with OO, OG and OmniWeb.

Is it an alarm clock style alert system for Stickies?

A RSS reader?

A little bit of image munging and scaling and it looks like the same layout as the OO3 icon. The black snowman throws me for a bit of a loop though

http://static.flickr.com/56/188328863_f8ff951598_o.gif

I gotta go with the kGTD thing. The mind reels…..

I think it’s a workflow/scripting application.

It’s Oni 2 :-))

“If I’d known you were coming, I’d have baked a cake.”

Sounds like a project/task manager to me.

It’s a Spreadsheet application.

OmniBook

“OmniLaserYourBreadWithJesusForAHolyBreakfast”

This is a great idea. My little family could sit down for breakfast and have the father, the son, and the holy toast. And my wife - let’s not forget about her.

It’s a vector illustration app.

Or a database app, maybe a front end for locally run SQL.

I guess I’m not the only one asking for an Oni update

I will cease and desist…

If it IS a new GTD focused app, I’ll definitely lay down the cash.

I’m gonna guess a GTD app

Well, I’ve asked you guys to replace Lotus Improv just about every time I’ve seen you for the last four years… I think I’ve also asked you to replace Intuit’s product line, but they’re making some great improvments lately.

-jcr

That black shape reminds me of a tivo remote.. so maybe some kind of DVR/Media Player type app?

It is a synchronization application. Sync two folders/drives/disks together.

Obviously it’s OmniCommunicator. Think Star Trek: The Next Generation…

Energize, Numba One.

I’m thinking it’s a note-taking/organizing program.

It’s got to be a kGTD implementation… unless it isn’t. Actually, cake sounds pretty good as well.

•Spreadsheet
•PIM
•multimedia organiser

Mad props for the Eddie Izzard reference! Cake, please!

Oh, right, my guess. Umm…a digital junkdrawer?

It’s an organizational tool — a replacement for all those yellow sticky notes that detract from the zen-like minimalist quality of my MacBook.

How about a WYSIWYG editor for MySpace pages? No?…

Finance management, like MS Money or Quicken.

I have to go with the information/data manager app. Like StickyBrain or Yojimbo but integrating the Address Book and enabling the quick sending of data to phones and email.

A supercool MMORPG that will make World of Warcraft like Doom!

I’m going to guess what I’d like it to be: a spreadsheet.

Though I think an information organizer would be more likely.

1. It’s an application that blurs other application’s icons!! Uber-meta.

2. It’s anything related to GTD, *please* let me test it!

I think it’s a GTD related application that can handle projects and tasks.

The yellow makes me think it is sticky note or legal pad. Another brain-dump/notes program? I hope not but I’ll surely test it

What I hope is that it is some kind of PIM/Calendaring/whatever app. That would be awesome.

One word: OmniOrganizer (a.k.a. SOHO [crap] Organizer killer)

Hope against Hope…

Project tracking System!!!!!!

cross fingers.

I’m also think that it is some sort of Project/Information Management system. Hopefully with good iCal/Entourage/Mail/whatever else you want to use integration. And here’s to hoping that it will be neatly integrable with Quicksilver.

Martha Stewart Omnimedia or #36 of the free-form DBs. Watch out DEVONthink/DEVONnote, SOHO Notes/Stickybrain, Yojimbo, Journler, VoodooPad, Mori, MacJournal, iOrganize, Hog Bay Notebook… dare I even say OmniOutliner? Hell, I already own five of them so why not one more? Welcome addition to the pack. It will be very interesting to see how competiton will have these evolve.

OmnikGTD

A brand new outliner app with clones?

It’s an iWeb/RapidWeaver/Sandvox type web site creation app.

… unless it’s a software based magnet that attracts Cheetos.

I strongly believe this is some sort of Note-taker/information manager. Very freeform. But has a lot of templated workflows possibly. The yellow blob looks a little like a legal pad. So maybe it’s designed to be like a legal pad of paper.

Is it OmniPinkDreamcastBroadbandAdapter? That would make at least one Omni Person very happy…

It’s a web design app

1) Blog building app
2) RSS reader

Blog editor with a backend for notes. Kind of Yojimbo or Sticky Notes with full blog functionality.

It is a personal organizer

As a follow-up to my project/ task manangement guess, I would like to say that the icon looks like a legal pad (w/ 3 viewer panes) and an hourglass on top. - I guess you can see anything you want if you believe in it enough.

Come on OmniPM!

An organizer of some kind (hopefully it will work with my treo).

It’s a roll of film. The app will be a photo library organizer, one like Apple’s iPhoto. … that or it’s the Cheat from homestarrunner.com.

Project Manager

My bet is on a 3D drafting app e.g. for designing your house, or a backyard shed,…

I have to go with web site creation, although the world could really use a good Cocoa based spreadsheet with LinkBack.

info/music/media - organizer/manipulator/futzer. Oh Crap, just let me test it!

Hopefully it’s a dedicated implementation of kGTD with heapings of Omni-magic!

I’m going to guess that it’s a GTD app, if only because I’d really like to test that.

Some form of project management/task management software.

I’d bet my Great Aunt Petunia’s fortune that it is a killer Getting Things Done app.

Randy

Guess 1: Some sort of iCal replacement
Guess 2: A VoIP App

I would guess it is some kind of GTD application. OmniOutliner + kGTD = OmniOrganized!

Upon further inspection, the icon looks like some kind of paw (perhaps a bear?) grasping a tumbler of urine.

So I’m revising my previous guess to OmniUrinalysis. Or OmniUrinaffle. Whatever.

OmniWeb. OmniGraffle. OmniOutliner.
Not Email. Not Word Processor.

It’s a tablet-looking thing. OmniNotebook-freeform-stuff-holder. On steroids.

Please, please… be a Quicken killer.

Some type of blogging/podcasting software?
An app that makes your whole screen get annoyingly blurry?

I’m throwing in with the Organizer/GTD/SOHOnotes-killer crowd. But done better. Because, if it isn’t, it wouldn’t be OMNI.

/shameless eddie haskelling

I’ll tell you what it is - OmniAwesome. According to my sources, not only is the new application better than both science *and* religion, but it’s also better than OmniGroup (which is of course, impossible).

I have a feeling it could be a GTD-ish project app, and therefore it MUST be called *OmniDone* - because it means ‘All Done’.

But that would be strange, because OmniOutliner is *already* a GTD-ish project app, *AND* a knowledge management program (that I personally prefer 100x to Yojimbo). It’s just smart folders and clones away from kicking everyone’s asses at everything, so why would OmniGroup abandon it?

The blurry black thing clearly (alright, blurrily) isn’t an hourglass, it’s a pair of sunglasses. I’m thinking that this is something that we haven’t seen before. I have the feeling that if it’s not a project management or something of that nature it will be a program that makes something that programmers can do easily accessible to non-programmers.

its an rss reader.

I’m guessing that it is a database application that makes use of CoreData, but not just any database application. It will have some geewhiz feature like the ability to see your tables graphed out in 3D.

I hope it’s a gtd/organizer thing.

Hello, I’m a french fan of omnigroup and I will love to test the new product ! I can help you to fix “bugs” for the french version too.

I’m betting on a Quicken-killer. Imagine, the first time since 2002 that any Mac news site has an article containing the word “killer” prefixed by something other than “iPod.”

Just look at the icon! It’s obviously some kind of… yellow thing… with a blackish thing, which leads me to conclude that either it’s a notebook filled with finances and a pen next to it or a badly squished and rotten banana.

However, a finance planner isn’t exactly the most beta-test friendly of applications, so I’m probably completely wrong, but it does seem like a lot of people have requested a Quicken competitor with that Omni spice to it.

I’m hoping for GTD as well…

It looks yellow, like a phone book. And the blur on the right looks like either a screwdriver handle or a grenade. Maybe the app blows up phone books!

Or maybe they’ve finally made OmniDraw, so I will never have to pay for Photoshop again, integrated with the Gimp code-based, but given a very Mac-ish style to it.

Or maybe they are ditching OmniDictionary and coming out with OmniReference, with integration to phone directories, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, etc.

I am also hoping it will be a Cocoa-based personal finance management app — a Quicken killer, and one that supports multiple currencies. At least it has been repeatedly requested, many times.

I bet its a life organizer (notes, addresses, to do, etc.)

Could it be a recipe holder/organizer?

My guess, because it’s the only good guess that hasn’t been taken:

A Colaborative editing / presentation platform for uber-cool groups to use while brainstorming, etc. Import it into omnigraffle and your meeting is done!

OmniCrypt perhaps?

Then again it looks like a legal pad with a pen laying over it, so OmniNotes? Who knows.

Let’s see what people have written its NOT:
Information manager, website designer, spreadsheet or rss reader, because there are enough of those in this world. And it’s hard to stand out from the crowd.

I hope for a project management software or GTDish thing, my project and time management sucks, hopefully Omni is coming for the rescue

i betcha it’s some new type of automobile…

a website creation app, omniweave?

audio recording app

I also think it’s for GTD. Ethan of kGTD fame has been mysteriously silent recently. Maybe there’s some secret partnership in the mix? I would love (and gladly pay for) an OmniTerrific implementation of GTD goodness.

Out of curiosity, if it is a GTD thing, and so many people have guessed that it is, do they all get to be Super Secret Beta Testers?

It’s a Yojimbo GTD web browser toaster manager that imports Quicken files and converts them into podcasts

spreadsheet

I’m crossing my fingers for a seamless app that incorporates Ethan’s collection of applescripts known as kGTD. I’ve been using the kinkless system for the past year, and Ethan’s MIA status the past 2 months on the forums certainly lends credence to a possible partnership with Omni for a new app?

It sort of looks like Bart Simpson with giant headphones.
With that in mind: Usenet/RSS reader with a built in blog editor (like MarsEdit) that can control iTunes.

Now where is my prize…

It’s obviously OmniOmni, the ultimate in everything.

It’s some sort of iPod content synching app. Maybe you’ll call it OmniPod.

BTW, Graphic looks like a black glove holding some sort of device.

OmniCalc - the spreadsheet with a heart!

Please, oh please let it be an affordable, lickable spreadsheet application. Please?!?

My guess (hope?) is that it’s a spreadsheet app.

I also agree that it’s a project/personal/time/info manager thing. Or maybe it’s OmniOffice.

I’m going to say some sort of blog writing software with maybe a feed reader built in. That black thing reminds me of sun-glass’ and bloggin is popular.

I’m guessing it’s an application that will blur application icons.

That’s a yellow notepad/notebook with two post-it notes on the cover, but I don’t know what that might indicate, perhaps a sketchbook program?

OmniProject!

I would say it is a [think-different-type-of] project management tool, a M$ Project killer! Hehehe… This is what I dream of from OmniGroup anyway.

It’s a photoshop blur filter!
(that uses core image)

Content Managment System (CMS). For Websites.

Please, please let it be a GTD app!

Let’s see:

Omni currently has a To-Do/Checklist app, a diagraming app, a special effect app, and a web browsing app.

Quite a wide range or products.

I’m guessing a RSS Newsreader/Blog Posting app. That’s one part of my life that I need Omni-tized. Not saying that NetNewsWire and MarsEdit aren’t good products, but that Omni could make the whole process easier and better looking.

OmniSaber makes your mouse cursor sound like a light saber whenever you move it. Optionally each click of the mouse button elicits an audio CP30 quote. “Oh Dear!”

Project Management Program or Spreadsheet Program

Based on your hints, I would have to agree with alot of the folks here that it is some type of Information Manager. I would say it would be something like OD4Contact where there is an integration of the iApps. What I hope is that the product would allow me to pull up Mail of a contact in my Address Book as well as events, notes, todo, and documents attached to a contact. In fact, maybe you bought OD4Contact and are going to release OmniContact!

As one of the Omni Fanbois at Ars Technica, and the person who started the thread on this unknown app, I can tell you I would love for it to be:

*OmniFrame

But I am certain it’s not OmniCalc. Who’d want to be on the same tracks where both Microsoft and Apple are running trains? Eww.

I’m inclined to go with a project/idea organizer of some kind, but, man, that’s a crowded field these days. So is the personal finance market, but there’s no strong contender like DevonThink or Yojimbo with which to contend.

Hmmm … isn’t the point of all this to delight us with the obviousness of your decision? A correct guess would spoil that delight.

So I choose not to guess.

address book

(a Website Builder
(b some sort of organizer

OmniRecipe

or maybe an OmniEBook, but thats more of what i want than what i think it is.

I wish, wish, wish it were a replacement for Quicken (which doesn’t handle yen, for those of us in Japan) / GnuCash (which is X-based).

However, I believe it’s a GTD app based on what appears to be a notebook and an hourglass.

In either case, I’m equally excited, since I’m desperate for both of these.

Now how cruel is this? I am ready to plunk down the cash for Yojimbo and now I see this.

This is killing me.

It looks like a podcast production app. The dark area on the right looks like a blurry microphone (just like the mic icon in OmniOutliner), so it must be an app to record something. The hottest thing right now is podcasting. I’m guessing it will be called OmniCast.

OmniSpreadsheets. Clearly.

I’m going to guess that the thing on the left is a speaker, the thing on the right is a mic, and the thing in the middle is a script.

My wager is it’s a podcast creation program. Maybe OmniShow or OmniPodcast?

It’s a utility app that “locks” (password secures) folders.

Looks an awful lot like a manilla folder. Perhaps some accounting software. A Quicken killer (not that it would take much).

One word - Omniscient.

It knows all!

I, too, think it’s an information manager. Please, let me know before my Yojimbo demo runs out and I buy it!!

It’s a one-dimensional drawing app.

Or… it’s OmniProject/OmniTime. I think the black blob on the right is an alarm clock, or a coffee cup full of sharpies/pencils/rulers or something. (Though you’d think the legal pad would be sideways…)

Who cares what it is? If it is as fine as OmniGraffle Professional I will buy it. In fact I will have 2.

On the subject of BETA testing. Count me in!!

I see a pint of lager held by someone wearing black gloves!
OmniYou’reMyBestFriendYouKnowThatDon’tYou?

OmniMindMap … integrates with OO3 and doesn’t cost as much as Mindjet software (but is much better, obviously)

GTD? Yes please, but with the work Kinkless is doing …?

OmniInThePalmOfMyHand - OO3 on a PDA! With a conduit. And fried onions.

Just _not_ an information manager like DevonThink, PLEASE!
(Guess who just bought DevonThink Pro?)

OK, my guess would be that it is a note taking and meeting organizer/platform similar to OneNote. The large black thing on the right is a Micro cassette recorder, to show that you can record meeting notes and audio and the thing on the left is a pen, for typical note taking.

It’s a blogging application which will interface with all the other Omni Apps. Making the lot a sort of OmniLife.

I’d say it is a project/task manager to maintain your stuff. (Similar to GTD scheme maybe).
Day to day crap that is begging to be organised.
I’d pay bigbucks for a seamless GTD app. Big Bucks.

I think it is a Front Row/Media Central killer. Looks to me like a tivo with a popcorn bucket in front of it

GTD app.

umm…an RSS agregator?

It’s a Usenet client. Please let it be a usenet client. Please?

I also vote for a GTD app, because I’m in love with kGTD and making a specialized version of it would be awesome.

…an app that weaves my GSM into the whole OS X experience in a seamless way (like bluephone elite but on steroids)

I would like to see functionality à la MS Entourage Project Center, but implemented in a less cumbersome way - I really liked the ideas behind that application, just not the way it forced me into using entourage. So…

A project/information manager called omniProject?

Is it a project management application?

It is a spreadsheet application. Since it has been rumored that Apple will release one with iWorks you guys figured it was time tom come out the closset with your own.

I’m grateful that the icon isn’t blue

Finally, somebody has the courage to release a product with a blurry icon. Perfect icons are so 2001…

Definitely GTD app

I think it is a project management tool. I pray that it is a project management tool. I currently use OmniOutliner Pro + kGTD to keep my life in order, but with large time-line based projects at work and a complete paucity of strong productivity enhancing project management tools the thought of an Omni tool to ease my pain makes me all hot and flush with concentrated excitement.

Although it looks like a Swedish Mail Box, I hope it is a workflow application that makes it easy to create Internet based tests.

I’d love to see a good project management software or a replacement for yojimbo.

Get me in the test team!

OR a good and easy to use CRM soft!

Magazine or Comic Archiver

The black thing is def. a remote control.

Sign me up! jolivierld AT gmail DOT com

I too think it is a PodCast creation application. One that can records/edits the audio, maybe upload podcast to server and create RSS feed. omnicast, omnipod are most likely names.

I’ll jump on the bandwagon: GTD app thingy.

Sign me up as well.

I’m sending that blurring icon the folks at CSI with the instruction… “Enhance this”. They can make ANYTHING clear, I’ve seen it.

I’m with the GTD/Outliner combo.

I have two guesses:

A) Along with a vast array of others, I’m guessing a GTD standalone program. Mostly because Ethan has been very, very quiet lately …

2) If not, I’m guessing it’s a new, incredibly improved iCal replacement. With decent PDA synching.

III) failing that, it’s a HPDA, and you’re putting a big one over on us.

It will come with a glare of light to the darkness of our garden of information desorientation…

Not to repeat other comments, but people on the OmniOutliner forum/listserv are always asking for OmniProject. (And we’re never wrong :), so send me the beta!)

Oh no! Omni has been bought out by Symantec!

Self fulfilling prophesy I hope; slick GTD/project organisation.

If that isn’t so I bet any eagle eyed software developer with an eye to their next dollar will put it top of the list for the next, next big thing…

Then or now, I’ll give it a try.

For all the folks putting a plug in (that pun was *not* intended) for a GTD app, may I ask what’s wrong with kGTD?

Frankly, what I like about kGTD is that it is a specific application of a more general purpose program, in this case OmniOutliner. I know it’s the *nix way and all to have dozens of small programs doing dozens of small things, but I’m a bit old-school, I guess, in preferring GP apps that have plug-in architectures et cetera that allow me to use them in various ways — rather like the way every one in Mac world is currently falling over Textmate. Call it the Emacs syndrome. Or something.

Oh, I know it’s probably too late to be one of the super secret beta testers, but I really am terribly good at breaking things, so please sign me up for the next round.

it’s a PIM/Sync tool!

or may be another web authoring tool/webpage creator

I don’t know why, but while reading trough the comments one thing that I was thinking of was a Reference Manager. I am not too sure of my guess, it may be just the thing I am longing for most of all as EndNote is painfull to use…

The icon looks to me like a folder with a black flashlight sitting upright next to it. So my guess is a finder/spotlight replacement; something that does a much faster/better job of searching documents, etc.

P.S. Black Forest cake is cool.

A compression tool that doesn’t suck.

Well, I’ve asked for it twice, but it’s Omni’s superior implementation of Snippets (PC) and Webstractor. These let you highlight/drag/pull data/sources from web pages in chunks and save the associated URLs and/or references to the data. It also caches the URL and updates the material if changes are made.

This is tremendously useful for research and reporting purposes, so it’s an add-on for, of course, what’s mentioned at the top of the blog? OmniWeb 5.5 of course! Though it can also function as a standalone app and run within any Mac browser, including IE and Safari.

I know this ain’t it. But a researcher can dream, can’t he?

Looks like I’m not the first one who heard about this and immediately thought “omniGTD: gimme gimme gimme!” - chuck in a spot of Stickybrain (or Yojimbo, whatever’s yer poison) and I’m in ’streamlining my indispensible apps’ heaven…

(failing that, omniPorn Manager… no?)

A music playback app?

I am going to jump on the GTD system for two reasons:

1) It is a great idea and would sell very well and has no real competition (something that OmniGuys like)

2) Eric (who built the orginal kGTD) has done NOTHING in months which leads me to believe they are working together.

It’s a financial manager that rivals quickbooks for small buiness, but is sleeker and easier to use, and a 4th of the price. God I hope I’m right!

…taking a look at the icon again this morning (hoping you would update us on who was getting the closest w/ their guesses) it looks like an old-fashioned phone.

So, I could use contact management software from Omni too- along with new the OmniPM of course.

OmniTunes?

Guesses in order:

1. I think it is an omniGTD application as well. Perhaps with iCal integration? (maybe even Tracks integration?)

2. If not, maybe a Yojimbo-style personal information manager.

3. A financial manager would be the third guess, as the market is still unsettled in the mac arena and someone with the resources and know-how could make a lot of money trying to kill Quicken.

4. Project management application similar to Basecamp or ActiveCollab but in Cocoa-deliciousness!

An app that allows you to carry passwords on your iPod, that a stranger can’t access if you lose your iPod. With a great Mac desktop component.

It’s OmniBus, a Project Gutenberg browser.

a lot of guesses here.. havent read them all, my guess, is a powerpoint/keynote competitor.

or maybe not

Is it obligatory to include a guess that it is GTD related?

PM program would be great, MS Project is just to MS.

The black blob(s) remind me of microphones… I wish it was an audio notes recording app that interprets your speech, and indexes it for spotlight, however, it’s a lot more likely to be a podcasting-type app.

No, it’s OmniVole, a mouse emulator.

I hope it’s an address book / contact management link to Outliner. If you can do that, you’re very close to having the perfect all-round PIM and Document management / outliner solution. PIMs now - think Chronos Organizer - don’t handle the notes and attachments well. Outliner does. Combine and address book, calendar and KGTD and you’ve got it! (I hope.)

OmniVore - a recipe organizer for eXtreme cooking!

OmniPotent: V1Agra* for hot overseas loving lucky!

hmm…
*Address Book on steroids?
*Remote Control program type of thing?

I think it’s a project/task management app. I know I’ve requested something like a number of times. I like the name someone posted above. OmniBook. Cool.

Screenshot/cast tool?

It’s an image editor, dedicated to blurring icons.

KGTD+++! done Omnistlyes…. hey there’s a brand if I ever heard it.. “Live your life OmniStyles®!” Whatdaya think? Beta test? si vous plait (I think that means PLEASE!)

Guess #2:
Otherwise I’m hoping for something along the lines of Yojimbo. Something that can manage your sensitive info, general docs, notes, but in a task based style. And more intuitive than Yojimbo. “Organize the things in your life with OmniLife.”

Palendrome generator: OmninmO

It’s an RSS/Atom/News reader-tool-thing? Even a little? Surely is uses syndication in some way…

Gotta be a GTD thingus. Surely it is. Perhaps with some sort of net-publishing capacity.

Omni’s icons are always incredibly detailed and descriptive. The icons themselves fully capture what the app does.

So the black thing definitely looks like a hand (hold up your left hand, pretending to be holding something). The black part on the left is your thumb, the black part on the right is your three middle fingers, and the black part on the bottom is your pinky.

So the question is, what is the yellow thing? It consists of darker yellow and some lighter blotches. The darker yellow is a bit too dark to be a standard legal pad color. It is more of the YellowPages color.

This little analysis doesn’t get me anywhere though. The whole hand thing, however, leads me to think that it is some sort of a “handling/managing” type of app.

It’s a spreadsheet

[…] The crew at Omni has created quite a stir with their latest software release tease. Many are guessing that it will be some sort of KGTD-on-steriods app. Somehow, I don’t see this being the case. […]

some sort of VoIP - app?

Is it a podcasting application? Or maybe a complete personal information management tool. Yeah, that’s it.

Moe.

I’d have to go with organizer/project management too. There isn’t a decent one I’ve found on Mac, and the online stuff is average. Looking at the Omni website, it’s what occurs to me - boy, I wish they made a…
That’s how I found this page, browsing for something like that!

I STILL WANT ONI!!! OH AND DID I MENTION ONI ALREADY? I WANT ONI, NOW! GIVE US BETTER/FINAL/NON-CRASHING ONI…. I’ll never beg but this time…

An audio recorder/editor.

it is either some type of Information Manager or an awesome GTD app.

Okay, let’s look at the clues:

It’s NOT a Mail replacement.

It’s NOT a word processor.

It’s probably document-based, as it has a similar icon to OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle.

By the same logic, it’s probably something for productivity (like OO and OG), and not for more general use (like OmniWeb) or for, um, cool sparklies (like OmniDazzle).

It is NOT a variant of OmniOutliner; if it were it would have a lightbulb instead of a dark…mass of some kind. (Doesn’t mean it’s not a standalone app for kGTD, just that it’s probably not in the OmniOutliner family.)

It is NOT for podcast creation or audio recording. Microphones are (usually) silver in icons, not black, and if it were for podcasting it would probably have a cooler color than yellow, like the purple Apple uses for the podcasts icon in iTunes.

I’m down for guessing it’s for project or time management, since that bright yellow color seems awfully officious and a project management app would fit in nicely with Outliner and Graffle.

But if I’m wrong can I help beta test it anyway?

I think it’s a PDF editor, let’s you type text and highlight on PDF files, like PDFPen but better.

It must be GTD-related. If not, it’s a spreadsheet. Either way, I want in!

I vote for a project management application. Send me a beta copy!

It has to be a financial manager!

Hmmm..
..It’s clearly OmniProject or OmniTask - a beautifully iconned project manager app, to take on and crush MS Project beneath its pixels !!

Muhahahahahahahahahahahhaahhaha..

Why not ??
I remember reading somewhere that OmniGraffle was done by people involved in Visio, before it was a MS app - and look how OmniGraffle tramples over Visio.

Peter

Definitely a consumer/individual money managing application, since noone I’ve ever met likes using Quicken, especially on the Mac.

FTP-App like Transmit but better!

Either an advanced information managing app or integrated management app.

I believe it’s an application for controlling coffee makers over the Internet.

More seriously, the black smudge on the right looks like a bootprint. And although the Doctor would remind us that a bootprint doesn’t look like a boot, I’m going to run with it anyway, and suggest that it’s OmniJackBootedThug, a secure file deletion utility.

I see a pen, an inkpot and some yellow paper in that blurry icon. Can it be OmniPost-it® ?

It’s OmniFinder, of course.

OmniProject - project management software with nice links/linkback to OmniGraffle & OmniOutliner

I think it is a GTD app using Kinkless because his blog has been quiet since April, so I think he has gone in with Omni after their promotion of it

I’m in the GTD related camp as that is what I’d want most.

[…] Teaser Omni did it, so I’ll give in to peer pressure and do it too (I’m very suggestible). Here’s the (tentative) icon for my next upcoming application, which I really hope to have in beta before WWDC. I’m just not busy enough with three projects (yah, right!), so I need a fourth. […]

[…] Omni tease you once again: Die Entwickler der OmniGroup kündigen ein neues und geheimes Projekt an. Wer den Zweck errät, bekommt eine Betaversion. Dann rätselt man schön… […]

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5.5 aces test; Omni teases you once again

posted by Linda on 07.12.06 @ 12:48 pm

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