Wooden Brain Concepts

Added global option to set RSS Instant news items to coalesce (defaults to off).
Added new notification: Ambient news from CityTools.
Controls for Ambient News added to the Info tab (defaults to off).
Ambient News immediate action added to scripts menu.
Random Oblique Strategy (ROS) made less frequent by about 25%, so if you like ROS, you may want to increase the frequency.

Another major update!
Added support for Growl notification coalescing.
Above feature means that old notifications of the same type will in most cases be replaced by newer ones if they are still on screen.
Added (preliminary) support for Atom format news feeds.
Added over 100 RSS feed presets including many major international papers, even in Korean, Japanese, Russian, etc.
Added scores more RSS feed images (most created tediously by hand!)
RSS Feed editor now shows image previews in image well.
RSS Feed editor image well accepts & saves dropped custom images.
Image well automatically scales down large images.
RSS Feed editor now has link buttons to open feed URL and home page URL.
Click through URL name changed to Home Page URL.
Last selected RSS feed in editor is remembered next launch.
Added icon for FlightStats.
Added icon for 4Info.
Added icon for OED Word of the Day.
Improved OED WOTD parsing and formatting.
Fixed line break formatting for MacZot.
OmniGrowl Preferences and OmniGrowl Resume script menu scripts now launch OmniGrowl if it is not running.
Fixed issue where some news feeds would reject Mozilla/4.0 agents.
Possibly fixed issue related to logs and standard user accounts.
Revised several tool tips.
Updated documentation.

Fixed problem opening a URL twice in default browsers other than Safari. (Worked around Growl issue.)
RSS notifications now show custom icons for major web sites, especially news and Apple sites, when no image is found.
If no RSS image is found and no custom icon is found, RSS notifications show RSS icon instead of Safari icon.
Included facility to add your own custom icons for RSS web sites (see Advanced Info).
Added option to insert blank lines in RSS hourly headlines for easier readability of individual headlines.
Better handling of HTML entities in RSS hourly headlines.
Added new feature to exclude specific calendars by matching calendar names.
Exclusion interface is a drawer accessed from the Personal tab.
Address Book dates custom label exclusions can now also be accessed on the exclusions drawer.
Revised iCal disabled calendar checking with better unicode support.
Added script menu scripts to pause and resume OmniGrowl. Can be used to suspend OmniGrowl without resetting notifications shown that session.
Eliminated Leopard warning if too many events on disabled calendars since it is no longer relevant with Calendar Store.
Fixed some issues with AMG bios.
AMG bios now show All Music custom icon if no artist image is found.
Custom icons shown for Woot, MacZot, last.fm, and Pollstar also.
Fixed setup last.fm link and clarified last.fm setup information.
Fixed some other links.
Suppressed Error -4960 when logging out while Apple Mail was also running. (Unknown conflict with Apple Mail, error only suppressed.)

Revision focused on improving RSS instant messages:
Number of Instant feeds to check at a time can be set
General improvements handling truncation of feed descriptions.
Better truncation of descriptions with very long sentences (Pitchfork Media)
Cleaner parsing of descriptions with heavy encodings and mark-ups (google news)
Better handling of cutting by line text (google news, etc.)
Deeper digging for images, such as those in enclosures (the Onion)
No longer assumes first RSS xml entry is newest: now check publication dates when that information is available.
Work-around for facebook specific problem that 2nd newest feed item was being shown due to poorly formatted RSS xml.
When item title and description are the same (facebook), they are no longer duplicated.
Updated payment buttons to go with web site redesign.

Fixed problem that preferences window would open at launch even if that option was not checked.
Added new Network Change notification (ethernet & wireless & neither)
Added support for Address Book custom date events (such as anniversaries).
Changed Address Book notification names from “AB Birthday” to “AB Event” accordingly.
Address Book notifications are clickable.
Added advanced method to exclude certain kinds of Address Book custom date events.
Added anniversary icon and facility to customize anniversary icon.
Address Book now launches if not open when clicking “Get from Address Book”.
Added several "Immediate Actions" to the scripts menu:
Immediate Actions are Weather Now, Traffic Now, Headlines Now, AMG Now, AMG Artist Search, iTunes Now, Flight Status Now.
Disable certain settings when other settings make them not applicable.
Better handling of running OmniGrowl on standard (non-admin) accounts.
Better handling of entering password for logs.
Welcome message no longer contains shareware message if you have paid.
Fixed Leopard problem that system would ask for location of ScreenSaverEngine if screen saver had never been run before.
Fixed issue updating preferences if updating to version 3.x from versions before 2.5.
Power status change uses Energy Saver lightbulb icon if option to show icons of source application is selected.
Network status change uses network icon if option to show icons of source application is selected.
Resolved some issues with duplicate RSS Instant notifications by using MD5 checksums.
Updated and simplified documentation.

Major re-write of significant code portions.
Optimized speed and performance in several areas.
Now uses the Leopard Calendar Store on Leopard!
This means iCal no longer needs to be open on Leopard, and OmniGrowl is much faster.
Complete re-design of RSS settings which allow for a much higher level of customization.
Individual RSS feeds can be temporarily disabled, can include short descriptions, can include images, etc.
The total number of RSS feeds is now unlimited.
RSS instant headline checks are staggered, so no more than 3 are checked at once, improving performance.
Included a few other default RSS feeds as suggestions.
Clickable notifications implemented!
Added (optionally) clickable events and to-dos.
RSS feed notifications (Hourly Headlines and Instant) are (optionally) clickable.
Woot, MacZot, and OED, and Yahoo Traffic, and AMG Bio notifications are (optionally) clickable.
Included To-Do today (after 06:00) notification in with the To-Do tomorrow notification and renamed to "To-Do"
Major interface redesign with a new Info tab and better layout.
Really, truly made failed hacker attempt notification work properly.
Added Hacker Attempt template script to further process the IPs of hackers.
Introduced faster way to report iTunes track changes, sacrificing (optionally) artwork, etc.
iTunes checks are not triggered if screen saver is active as it was before, thus possibly addressing sleep issues.
iTunes (“full”) notification now skips displaying rating for non-rated tracks.
Vastly improved AMG Bio speed, handling and timing.
AMG Bio displays images if found.
AMG Bio notifications can be set to adjustable minimum minutes apart.
Reset password if decryption fails with notifications to re-enter.
Fixed broken "Find Location ID" link on the news tab.
Re-wrote good portions of the documentation.
Broke up the documentation into sections as it was growing too long.
OED notification formatting clean-up.
Added birthday cake icon for birthdays.
Added way to customize birthday cake and horoscope graphics.
Added several new tests for iCal and Address Book events, to-dos, and birthdays.
Added status output for the test window.
Notifications surpressed while OmniGrowl preferences window is open for first 2 minutes or is open to any tab other than OmniGrowl after that (for more responsiveness while setting preferences).
OmniGrowl no longer even asks if you want to add it to login items at startup, since the “Add to Login” button is obvious enough.
S.M.A.R.T. checking can be turned off entirely.
Maintained compatibility with Tiger with framework weak-linking and other work-arounds.

Better timeout handling for notifications and during launch.
If Growl can't be found after 5 minutes or more OmniGrowl will always quit.
Above change in particular avoids launch time out error message if it takes a very long time for OS X to launch all login items at login.
Entered admin password for logs now saved when entered as well as quit.

S.M.A.R.T. status checking is now done properly for the startup disk even if its device ID is not disk0
Failed hacker attempts notification now fixed and working as intended

RSS feeds can be set individually to stay on screen or not, and works with both hourly and instant RSS notifications.
iCal events are now cached at set intervals, improving performance.
Added MacZot notification.
Added option to allow some checks while away (default now off whereas pervious behavior was on).
Above change may help resolve some Mac sleep issues.
Checks display sleep status as well as screen saver.
Added section to info document explaining sleep issues.
New defaults for log settings, including separate set for Leopard and new supported logs for Tiger. Click "Restore Defaults" to set these.
Added some clean-up of some default log output.
Added option to notify after set number of failed logins from the same IP if secure.log and Check Logs are both enabled.
Yahoo Weather was displaying Fahrenheit when set to Celsius. Fixed.
Turning off internet connection checking had no effect. Fixed.
To-dos were not working under rare circumstances. Fixed.
Instant RSS notifications were not working under certain circumstances. Fixed.
Passwords are now blowfish encrypted and saved rather than using the Keychain for maximum speed and Tiger/Leopard compatibility.
Significant under the hood code optimization for notifications.
Built on Leopard.

Woot checking was broken. Fixed.
last.fm checking in some cases was not working. Fixed.
better handling of certain accented characters (more HTML entities handled)

Internet checking error message bug fixed.
The internet checking feature (which reduces system load when offline) is now an option.
(However, error messages related to internet checking should no longer appear whether or not that option is on or off.)
(That option should be turned off only if OmniGrowl is erroneously reporting that it is "offline", which may be due to a firewall or network configuration issue.)
When no connection is found and internet checking is on, an "offline" notification will be shown only once per launch.
Now gives an incompatibility notice with Panther rather than silently quitting.
OED Word of the Day was being shown even when the option was not checked. Fixed.
Fixed "WBC Support" button in included Script "Pay for OmniGrowl and Support"

New "iCal Now" notification replaces iCal 10 minute notification.
"iCal Now" notification is variable from 2 - 20 minutes before and event.
Some infrequent 4info text formatting glitches believed to be fixed.
Fixed problems with flight status notifications due to authentication changes at flightstats.com.
Removed startup status panel if Growl cannot be activated. OmniGrowl will quit with a message after 30 seconds in this case.
OmniGrowl now checks periodically for an active internet connection, which improves performance when off-line.

New "Instant Headline" option introduced with new notification.
Instead of showing top headlines of an RSS feed on the hour, it is now also possible to be notified of the newest RSS headline as it arrives, which is more suitable for feeds like facebook, etc.
It is no longer necessary to commit changes to the RSS list. This is now done after any edits.
Internal improvements to RSS table handling related to above changes.
Better handling of RSS feeds that insist on particular browsers to display (such as FaceBook).
When enabled, AMG bios are checked a minimum of 2 minutes apart (to prevent excessive checking when playing tracks rapidly)

New Notification: 4Info searches on anything. Use for sports scores & updates, stock quotes, horoscopes, etc.
New Notification: Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Word of the Day (off by default)
New Notification: All Music Guide (AMG) Biographies for artists playing in iTunes
More icons on the interface, all now clickable.
Date handling revised significantly to accommodate international regions and non-Gregorian calendars on Leopard. All systems should now work without errors.
Excessive iCal 3 timeout errors now disable the iCal checking portions of OmniGrowl rather than quitting OmniGrowl. (After disabling large calendars in Leopard, iCal checking can and should be re-enabled in OmniGrowl).
Past last.fm events in most cases no longer generate notifications.
Work around for Leopard-Tiger cross compatibility issues involving Keychain Access [thanks Matt].

iTunes notification broken by version 2.1. Fixed.
"addies" error fixed (if no Address Book "me" card matching full login name)
optimized "full name" code (thanks Phil Aker)
Addressed erroneous SMART status verified notification
Corrected date error ("January 1, 2000") on some international systems

OmniGrowl now (partially) handles recurring iCal events
New option to enable/disable recurring events checking and corresponding button on the Test tab.
Disabling and then enabling recurring events checking will present option to scan now (same as above test button).
Fixed ignore disabled calendars option. (Was always on.)
Un-checking and re-checking ignore will re-load list of ignored calendars without needing to restart OmniGrowl.
Added interface to enter an admin password to be stored on the Keychain to allow OmniGrowl to read secure logs
Leopard: Address book "me" card check now works
Leopard: iCal checking fixed (problem related to unique ID)
Leopard: iCal disabled calendars checking fixed
Leopard: Staggered polling of iCal to accommodate much slower AppleEvent responses from iCal 3 compared to iCal 2 (complain to Apple about this one folks!)
Leopard: Added warning notification if combined enabled calendars have more than 1500 events.
Leopard: Increased iCal timeout
Leopard: OmniGrowl will quit after excessive time outs with a message.
Leopard: Fixed Yahoo weather icon
Leopard: (and maybe Tiger?) Fixed Last.fm if dashboard had less than 10 events.
Leopard: Flight Stats problems fixed
Other Leopard-related fixes.
Notification history cleared at midnight to accommodate recurring events. (Down-side: may see duplicate notifications if an event starts at midnight that is not all-day.)
Added option to limit notification titles to one line, which is more compatible with some Growl display styles (like Bezel)
If Growl is not running at OmniGrowl launch, will display status panel while looking
Welcome message is only sticky on first run now by default
New notification for OmniGrowl status messages (previously was using "Welcome Message" for status which some people wanted to disable)
OmniGrowl log can be toggled with CMD-L while preferences window is open.
Log text formatting fixed and is automatically copied to the clipboard.
Logs purged each 3000 entries.
Debug mode (extra logging) can be toggled with CMD-D while preferences window is open.
More informative debug logging.
Other under-the-hood tweaks
OmniGrowl has changed its license to $10 unrestricted shareware (Thank the Tick ;-) If you have previously donated any amount, thank you! There is no need to pay again. (Unless you really want to, and then who am I to stop you.)

Bug fix related to Woot check when checking not enabled.

Major upgrade!
Flight status feature
Flight status monitoring looks for iCal entries like: NWA 333 DTW-LAX
Yahoo traffic checking more configurable
More forgiving with incorrectly entered Yahoo Location IDs
Pollstar: limited international support added for concert notifications
OnTour: discontinued because OnTour locked out 3rd party web access by requiring a special venue code (please complain!)
New icon including Leopard icon (512x512)
Notifications now display new icon by default
Previous behavior displaying icon of originating application (iCal, etc.) can be set as an option.
RSS: re-direction fixed for some feeds
RSS: feed:// URLs now allowed
RSS: some .rdf feeds supported
Added daily Woot notification (off by default)
Vastly improved and more customizable log monitoring interface.
Total redesign of preferences window with tabs, much more user-friendly and nicer to look at
New clock to set at what time to display notifications for all day events the next day
R.O.S frequency can be set to 0 (off) by sliding it all the way to the left
Button to enable AFP logging in terminal
Start at login button now opens Accounts prefs pane to disable if OmniGrowl already installed
Access to Growl preference pane from OmniGrowl preference window
Nags less frequent and can be turned off totally in OmniGrowl prefs.
Completely reworked documentation again.
Hidden debug feature: press CMD-L on preferences window to show internal error log.
Other minor tweaks.
Now Tiger + only. Version 1.5.2 is the last to support Panther. Version 2.0 has not been tested with Leopard but a compatibility upgrade will come after the release of Leopard.

[Fixed] Preferences window was wrongly coming up periodically if the option to open preferences on launch remained checked. [Thanks to those who pointed this problem out!]

Yahoo Traffic alerts by zip code twice per day (OS X 10.4+, U.S. only sorry)
Traffic alert times adjustable (OS X 10.4+)
Yahoo Location ID can be set for international weather
Yahoo weather can be set up to 3 times per hour
Celsius and Fahrenheit are both now supported
Yahoo weather was showing twice each time [fixed with 1.4.7 silent update]
Weather and traffic alerts fetched even in screen saver mode
Preferences and test windows interface clean up
OmniGrowl preferences now opens at launch until you uncheck that option because many people didn't know they existed
Introduced "first run" dialog explaining accessing preferences
Updated Info.rtf file

weather was showing up twice at 45 min mark; fixed; silent update

Yahoo weather at 45 minutes past the hour
temporary files properly removed on quit
minor bug fixes

Last.fm support (for retrieving recommended events).

Removes HTML tags in RSS Headlines
More error trapping

Fixed Add to Login error

Added support for Pollstar concert notifications
"Check OnTour" preference and notification changed to "Concerts"
New plugin scripts architecture:
OmniGrowl can now run your own scripts at specified periods (template provided)
Access Preferences from Scripts Menu
Quit OmniGrowl from Scripts Menu
Addressed issue of OmniGrowl not letting iCal quit at system restart
Other tweaks

Added support for OnTour (check concerts in your area)
Better parsing of AFP logs (more readable)
No longer adds itself to login items without confirmation first
Will no longer notify when screen saver active
Added tool (help) tips to preference window
More preference options
Added both graphical and textual date picker to testing window (Tiger)
Better handling of system event time out errors (should now never appear)
Other tweaks

Added support for OS X 10.3 Panther (beta)
Preference Window (press CMD-comma immediately on launch, quit, and relaunch)
Customizable RSS feeds
Tomorrow's dated To-Do notifications no longer shown if completed
iTunes notification uses album artist instead of artist if available and different than artist (by request)
Added Random Oblique Strategy
Added startup disk S.M.A.R.T. check
Added power status change (AC or Battery, Tiger only)

Implemented iTunes distributed notifications (instant notification on iTunes track change rather than polling every 30 seconds)
Implemented RSS notifications ("Hourly Headlines"), alternating CNN, BBC, NYT
Implemented AFP activity log monitoring
Implemented Software Update log monitoring
Added random donation nag (can be turned off, at most 2 times per day)
Better handling of timeout errors

Initial release