{"id":171,"date":"2009-02-25T07:57:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T14:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-02-25T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T16:31:25","slug":"omniweb-set-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/omniweb-set-free\/","title":{"rendered":"OmniWeb Set Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My one-time favorite Mac web browser is now free. It was my favorite until I waited those 12 historic hours to lay my hands on one of the first iPhones. Then bookmark syncing between the browser on my iPhone and my desktop overuled any loyalty I had for OmniWeb.<\/p>\n<p>I started using OmniWeb during my OSX Public Beta days, even buying a license at that time, and I&#8217;ve renewed it ever since. <\/p>\n<p>The folks at OmniWeb replied to my emails requesting dynamically updated Safari bookmarks and said they were working on it, but it never came to fruition that I saw. That would have kept me using OmniWeb on my desktop.  <\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.omnigroup.com\/2009\/2\/25\/omniweb-omnidazzle-omnidisksweeper-and-omniobjectmeter-now-freeware\/\" target=\"new\">this blog<\/a> the good guys at Omni make their announcement, including a handful of other applications. Linda, who writes this particular post, anticipates some questions. Questions like, &#8220;Wait! Does this mean you&#8217;re discontinuing these products?&#8221; The answer: No. We aren&#8217;t ruling out future updates at all, and we&#8217;re keeping our options open. We have lots of ideas  for what we&#8217;d like to add to these products, and it&#8217;s possible that at some point we&#8217;ll have more resources to allocate to them. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s business-speak for &#8220;yes, we are discontinuing these apps, but who knows? At some point we may choose to bring them back into development if it becomes economically feasible.&#8221; Shut it down but keep the door open. <\/p>\n<p>They are not killing off OmniWeb; it will simply go off to live with other browsers at this browser farm where it can roam free. OmniWeb, you have served me well. <\/p>\n<div class=\"iblogger-footer\"><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">[Posted with <a href=\"http:\/\/illuminex.com\/iBlogger\/index.html\">iBlogger<\/a> from my iPhone]<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My one-time favorite Mac web browser is now free. It was my favorite until I waited those 12 historic hours to lay my hands on one of the first iPhones. Then bookmark syncing between the browser on my iPhone and my desktop overuled any loyalty I had for OmniWeb. I started using OmniWeb during my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}