Lots of news today, people, so I’m going to try and keep this short so you can skip straight ahead to the part where you sit back and bask in that new-software smell.

Updated: OmniFocus! OmniFocus 1.7 is now available for your downloading pleasure, and includes a bevy of interface improvements designed to make everything just a little more smooth and simple. We also re-worked Perspectives, hopefully making the process of working with them much easier. Overall sync performance has been improved (yay!), and you can now view a list of the attachments in your OmniFocus document, and delete them as necessary to speed up document syncing even more.

Also updated: OmniGraffle! OmniGraffle 5.2 includes support for support for portables with Multi-Touch trackpads, so you can now pinch to zoom in or out, resize a selection, or rotate a selection. We also added fixes to tables, shared layers, and dealt with some stability issues.

Also also updated: EVERYTHING ELSE. OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, OmniWeb, OmniPlan—hold on, typing cramp . . . okay—OmniGraphSketcher, OmniDiskSweeper and OmniDazzle have all been updated with support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

You do not EVEN want to know what time the engineers went to bed last night, is what I’m saying.

Everything can be downloaded from our handy-dandy Snow Leopard status page. Enjoy!

If you missed our announcement earlier today or this Macworld article, here’s the latest from Omni HQ: OmniWeb, OmniDazzle, OmniDiskSweeper, and OmniObjectMeter are now available as freeware. That’s right: they’re free. You can go download them right now if you want. FOR FREE.

Go ahead, we’ll wait.

In anticipation of some curiosity as to why we made this decision:

So . . . uh, why?
We’ve been thinking about this for a while, especially with regards to OmniWeb. Because we’re a small company and we don’t have unlimited engineering resources, by necessity certain projects are going to take up more of our attention. Instead of continuing to charge for these four applications, which aren’t getting updated as frequently as our other titles, we felt it would better serve the community to make them available at no cost.

Wait! Does this mean you’re discontinuing these products?
No. We aren’t ruling out future updates at all, and we’re keeping our options open. We have lots of ideas for what we’d like to add to these products, and it’s possible that at some point we’ll have more resources to allocate to them.

Is Omni . . . going out of business? OMG!
Absolutely not. We just had our best year ever, and we’re continuing to grow. In fact, we’re hiring right now! Tell your talented developer friends!

You SAY free, but I bet I have to fill out a form or send in personal information or otherwise be subjected to some sort of annoying marketing activity to get these apps, RIGHT?
Nope. Just click that fancy “download” button, and you’re good to go.

If you have any actual questions that I didn’t just make up, please, feel free to leave them in the comments — we’ll try to address everything we can.

This release hopefully addresses all of the Leopard compatibility problems that were reported.

Download it.

Version 1.5.1 wouldn’t launch on 10.3. Version 1.5.2 addresses that.

Who knew there were so many 10.3 users needing their disks swept?!

No new changes since 1.5.1 beta 2!

Download it!!!one!

The release should fix a problem with SMB volumes not showing up under Network.

Download it!

In case you missed the mind-bending breathtaking riveting mildly interesting news, we released a new version of OmniDiskSweeper a short while back, our first non-beta update since….um….well, since 2003.

Hush up, we’ve been busy. Dammit, people, we’re a software company, not miracle workers! Or magicians! Or…bricklayers.

Anyway, the current version includes the rich, creamery Universal binary goodness, and what I typically refer to as “a number of improvements” because reading release notes makes my left eyelid twitch.

Happily, DiskSweeper 1.5 also now offers a revolutionary documentation technology called online help. And the refreshing smell of mint.

“Wait,” you may be saying, one hand methodically stroking your goatee as you gaze thoughtfully off into space, “can’t I just use the Finder to find and delete files?”

Uh, yes. Yes you can.

(My marketing fu is very strong.)

However! DiskSweeper highlights the biggest files on your drives, so it’s super handy for finding gigantor space-hogs like all those Numa Numa videos you downloaded. Since that was soooooo 2005, you should probably make room for the “Snakes on a Plane” trailer, you know?

In conclusion, the new version is here. Enjoy!