(OmniFocus for iPhone approaches the podium, holding back tears as the stage lights momentarily flare in brilliance. The crowd! The crowd!)”I’m just so flattered. Thank you. I don’t know what to say! I’d like to thank the academy, my parents, their parents, Sir Laurence Olivier and Little Debbie snack cakes.”

Apple Design Awards 2008

(scroll to the bottom of the page for the iphone section)

That’s right… it appears that OmniFocus for the iPhone is both cutting-edge and well dressed. We’re super proud of this and can’t wait to get it out there so that folks can start using it. Let’s have a big round of applause for the team working on the iPhone app. They’ve been working serious amounts of crazy to get this ready and I am constantly picking my jaw up off the floor when they still, somehow, manage to find time to sneak in some really cool new feature.

For those of you that haven’t seen the OmniFocus for iPhone preview page, take a look now. More coming soon.

Well! After an invigorating morning yesterday watching the live WWDC coverage I think we’re all thinking the same thing: a script typeface, Apple? Really?

Oh, and apparently there’s been some iPhone announcements, something about 3D? I have to admit I got distracted by the awesome metal box. What’s in the box? What’s in the boooooooox?

(HER PRETTY HEAD!)

Anyway, we have our own bit of news, now that the Great App Store Reveal has officially taken place. As we mentioned back in March, we’ve been working on OmniFocus for the iPhone — a native, location-aware app with live, automatic sync and custom actions based on your whereabouts.

Behold: IT LIVES.

We’re still making some refinements, but OmniFocus for iPhone should be available on the App Store on or around launch time. Just one more reason to be counting down the days until July, people.

PS. Don’t forget, there’s an OmniFocus meetup tonight in S.F. at 6:30 PM. Come by and say hello if you’re in the area!

Before all the engineers here pop off to San Francisco next week for WWDC, we’ve managed to get another beta release of OmniGraffle 5.0.1 out the door, in much the same manner as a well-known archaeologist grabbing his hat at the very last minute before impending doom.

Well, at least that’s the way I like to think of it.

As for this release, there’s not much to say other than “work continues” (which is a phrase commonly uttered during weekly status update meetings). We’ve fixed up a couple more crashes, shored up AppleScript support for the new features in 5.0, and fixed a few other bugs.

As usual, the disk images are available for download at our OmniGraffle beta page, and as always we’ve documented the changes at the historical release notes page.

Cheers, and we’ll see you at WWDC if you’re headed down there as well.

Patrick (who is the nice gentleman who created Graffletopia) has let me know that he’s made a very thorough overhaul to the site.

For those of you who may not be aware of Graffletopia, it’s this completely awesome site that has all sorts of stencils for OmniGraffle available for download. So, you should really check it out if you haven’t, as stated above it’s awesome.

Alongside a total redesign, the new version of Graffletopia (dare I call it 2.0?) sports the ability to save Favorites, ratings for stencils, see the most downloaded stencils, tags to augment the existing keywording feature, and an overall better browsing experience.

For you stencil authors out there, two very handy new features are in place, there’s a Dashboard for managing those stencils you’ve created and listed at the site, and Graffletopia now offers hosting space, so you can have your stencils live there if you don’t have webspace of your own.

Please head on over to Graffletopia and have a look-see for yourself.

Excelsior!

For those of you planning on attending WWDC next week, clear your dance card for Tuesday evening, because Omni is throwing a HOT PARTY. Well, a MILDLY WARM party, anyway. Although, I guess it’s not technically a party . . . more of, well, a get-together for OmniFocus users and those interested in learning more about OmniFocus.

Yeah, that’s it: we’re hosting a product-specific meetup — that’s at least a few degrees above tepid! I hear Paris Hilton will be there.

Join us for a 90-minute OmniFocus discussion presented by everyone’s favorite productivity expert and innappropriate-balloon-animal artist, Merlin Mann, and our own resident Smarty McPantserton, Ken Case. They’ll be talking about new features in OmniFocus 1.1 (like Mac-to-Mac syncing), discussing other coming-soon items, answering questions (those which we can address without having to kill you, of course), and possibly performing a quick Russian squat kick dance for those who request it.

(No promises on that last one.)

Mark it on your calendars:

What: OmniFocus meetup
When: Tuesday, June 10th 2008, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Where: W Hotel (map), San Francisco • 3rd Floor, Workroom 2

Please RSVP. Max capacity for the room is 150, so make sure you arrive on time to snag a good seat.

Another round of bug fixes, including a couple of ornery problems we had exporting to the Visio XML format.

(Really, if you had run into the one bug you may very well have questioned your sanity. I sure did upon seeing it.)

We’re set for completion of all the localization issues for the next beta release, please bear with us as that’s taking a bit more time than we’d prefer.

Release notes and the beta download page can be found by clicking on the aforementioned links.

Enjoy!

Howdy, howdy, howdy! The title of this post does not lie. OmniFocus 1.0.2 is now available. It includes some pretty neat things like localizations and bug fixes. To find out specifically what was fixed, please take a trip over to the release notes. To download the new version, please visit the OmniFocus page.

And as always, work continues! Thanks to those brave souls out there for all your feedback on the sneaky peek. 

(Not to steal anyone’s thunder concerning a certain sought-after feature in some other application but…)

OmniGraffle 5.0.1 beta 1 is now available for download and it includes a very long list of bug fixes and the like. Much too long to go into depth here, but we’ve caught and knocked down the immediate and pressing issues that cropped up since the initial release of OmniGraffle 5.0.

A quick look on the horizon for further beta releases reveals more work in polishing up foreign language localizations, but for now please do download and check out the latest release.

Historical release notes

OmniGraffle beta page

If coding were furniture making, we’d have heard the sounds of intense hammering, sawing, planing, the tap tap tap of the chisel, and, I suspect, occasional splintering and smashing of prototypes from Tim’s office over the past few months. Sawdust would have piled high to the rafters and we would have stood outside the craftsman’s door, waiting for the masterpiece to emerge.

In reality of course we heard mostly the gentle sounds of typing, muffled wails and occasional high volume electronica beats early in the morning, but masterpiece is the right word for the result.

Here’s a shot of the prefs pane from the alpha build of OmniFocus that is, right now, this very minute, running on my desktop. I can now leave my laptop at home and have all my data sync up using not one, not two, but three different sync options.

Click the image below to view LIFE SIZE.

Still internal alpha for now, but we’re planning on having this in the public sneaky peek before the release of Duke Nukem Forever or whenever Ken gets tired of waiting for it to be done.

Oh happy day, the final release for OmniPlan 1.5.1 is here! We’d like to thank everyone who provided crash reports, bug reports, and feedback over the last couple of months. If you have not been following our betas there are a number of bug and stability fixes in this release, you can read all about them on our downloads page.

OmniPlan 1.5.1 is a free  and highly recommended update to all registered users of OmniPlan, so fire up your built-in software updater or head to our website and download OmniPlan 1.5.1 today!