As we get closer to our product launches, we know there’s a considerable demand for easy access to technical support. As such, we’re opening a temporary help desk to be used until our internally-developed customer center is ready to go live. You can now use this help desk for any questions or support requests for our products and services.

Visit Our Help Desk

NextShout is a product that has been in development for a while now and is getting extremely close to its release date. We want to give the world an early shot at it for a reduced price. NextShout will be $20 on its release date for a 1-year license to the software. After the year is up, in order to receive updates, you will need to renew your license for $10. If you Pre-Order between now and the release, you’ll get NextShout for only $15.

Visit NextShout’s Product Page for more information.

Omega Vortex has been going through some behind-the-scenes changes in the midst of all that has been going on, lately. Our consulting division is busy and our software development is going strong. ComicShout, OmegaVerge, OmegaFlash, and a new product that we haven’t announced yet, will all be releasing within the coming months. With this news, I’m also going to detail some exciting changes to our overall operations and staffing.

Omega Vortex was officially incorporated in Colorado in September of last year. We haven’t had a real “offical” board of directors up to this point, just me as Founder and C.E.O. During the transition period over the next few months, I will be leaving the position of C.E.O. as we start to welcome our new board of directors. I will be taking the position of Chairman and someone else will become the company C.E.O. I have a knack for business and I’ve done really well without any formal education in it, but we will be bringing in some people who are a bit more knowledgable in topics that I’m lacking experience in. Make no mistake, I’m still calling the shots and Omega Vortex will proceed forward utilizing my vision, we’re just bringing in people who have more formal knowledge at running a business. My “official” title will become “Chief Software Architect”. While I will be Chairman, I will mostly be over the Software and Consulting divisions, as well as keeping my eye on overall operations. Staying as the C.S.A. allows me to specify my intent with what I wish to continue to do with this company. We will be announcing the new C.E.O. soon.

A few more internal position changes that you should be aware of include some promotions of current staff. Steven Harris, who is currently the Software Division Manager, is going to become our Chief Technology Officer. Steven will work with the Chief Software Architect in deciding the appropriate technologies to use in our product and service offerings, as well as be the head over certain divisions Omega Vortex will be opening in the future. A new Software Division Manager will be appointed when it’s deemed appropriate to do so. Derek Privett will become our new Computers Division Manager, taking over where Thomas Warnica left off. Thomas is still with us at Omega Vortex, but he’s stepping down due to personal reasons.

With all that said, we’re hiring! If you’re interested in joining our software development team or getting in on our consulting action (we don’t outsource — only Omega Vortex employees work on Omega Vortex Consulting Projects), e-mail us at jobs -at- omegavortex -dot- net and include your resume. We’ll get back to you and set up an interview, if we think you’re a good fit.

Omega Vortex is in immediate need of two or three developers for a project that we’re working on. It’ll be a temporary position with a possibility of full-time employment. Check out our job openings and if you think you qualify, please send us a resume to jobs -at- omegavortex -dot- net.

Omega Vortex recently acquired ComicShout, a Web Comic Publishing Solution, that was originally developed by Aaron Robbins. As noted on ComicShout’s website, Aaron no longer has the time to continue with the project. Omega Vortex has picked up development of the application and we will be open sourcing it. The project has already been approved at SourceForge and we’ll be migrating the code in, shortly.

Our first priority is getting the security issues cleaned up and releasing an update. After that, we’ll talk about new features. As with all of our open source offerings, we only use SourceForge as a means to host the code in a public repository. Software information and downloads will be available at our website.

We will let everyone know when the update is ready. We’re expecting it to be within two weeks.

We’ve got a ton of stuff to tell you about. This is going to be a collective update of everything that’s been going on since the beginning of this year. Before we get into that, Omega Vortex is hiring! Check out our list of openings and contact us with your resume and a list of references if you think you would fit in any of those positions.

For those of you who do not know, Omega Vortex is still very much in the startup stages of its life-cycle. While we’re busy developing our products and services, we do still have to make money and pay our employees. We do this through our Consulting Services. Our consulting service is a high-quality, professional way to get any web development or design work you need done. Our policies are optimized to bring superior value to our clients and allow us to take on many clients at once, without overload and impeding the work for any of our clients, and still allow our Software Engineers time to work on our own product line. If you or anyone you know needs any web development or design work done, contact us and tell us what you need.

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Omega Vortex is currently looking for volunteers to aid in the testing of specific features in some of its upcoming products and solutions. If you’re interested in what we’re up to and want to help us out through the means of testing some of our work, please send an e-mail to jobs - at - omegavortex - dot - net.

You may be asked to sign an NDA, so if you’re not of legal age to sign such documents, you need to ensure that your parent or legal guardian will be able and willing to sign with you. No previous experience testing is required, but applicants will be filtered by whatever technical knowledge and previous experience that they might have.

We believe we have some very innovative ideas that will change the way you work and expect to work with web-based software. If you want to be a part of that, please don’t hesitate to sign up now!

Due to extremely popular demand and because one of our clients needs their Joomla installation to be “converge-ready”, I’ve started work on an abstraction layer to easily make applications “Convergable” … The initial layer will support Joomla 1.5 with other applications to follow.

We will be charging for the package, but one purchase will include all current and future converge modules that will go into the layer. Prices to be determined.

IP.Converge is a product from Invision Power Services that will allow “converge-ready” applications to share member information. Member data is synchronized into the converge application and then propagated between the remote applications so that your user account data will work on all applications within that converge pool from a single registration.

More information will be available soon.

After juggling the idea around in my head for a while, I finally decided that I want Journey of Souls to be developed under Omega Vortex. Along with JoS, we’ve also been doing some planning and research for another game that will be announced before too long.

So, today I’m officially announcing the opening of a new division of Omega Vortex. The Omega Vortex Games division develops and distributes (if applicable) different types of Games. Our first two projects, Journey of Souls and the currently unannounced game, will be hosted by us and will both be completely free of charge to anyone who wishes to play.

Could we potentially branch out into indy games for consoles? Maybe. Not too likely within the near future, for sure … but, a friend of mine definitely wants to develop a game like that someday, so it’s a distant possibility. For now, expect browser-based games, based on one of our other Software Projects, and other text-based RPGs based on the JoS Engine.

Keep your eyes peeled for more updates. We’re moving along at a relatively steady pace, so we should have more to announce in the future. Be on the lookout for the first release of our Open Source Flash Card project, OmegaFlash, by the end of this year.  Also be on the lookout for our new website and forums, both of which should be unveiled by the beginning of 2008.

Omega Vortex has been back in business since September and we’ve been working behind-the-scenes on our Products and Services, trying to get ready for launch. We’re still a significant distance out, but we wanted to put something out to the public to let everyone know that we’re alive and working. Our website is being worked on and still has quite a way to go before it’ll be ready as well, so we’re temporarily redirecting traffic from omegavortex.net to this company blog.

If I’m feeling nice, I’ll share some secrets here to keep up your appetite. As usual, we’re aspiring to do some amazing things and revolutionize the way people look at shrinkwrap web software, and we’ve brought back a large majority of the amazing development team that made things happen previously. Expect great things from Omega Vortex, because we intend to deliver strong.

In the meantime, have a look at the greatness that former Omega Vortex employees have gone onto:

• Lewis Wright is now a co-founder of eXaltic which creates and distributes some amazing vBulletin skins. If you’re an admin of a vBulletin Forum, you’re doing yourself an injustice to not check these guys out.
• DJ Tarazona (someotherguy) is now a developer at ACCORD5 and is working on a new, free helpdesk solution called Trellis Desk. If you’re in the market for a helpdesk solution, save yourself a little cash and take a look at these guys before buying something like Kayako. It just might meet your needs.

Keep a close eye on ACCORD5. They have the potential to do some pretty amazing stuff.

As far as Omega Vortex is concerned, you’ll have to wait. We have some exciting things planned, but I don’t want to give anything away too soon. If you’re looking for any kind of custom web development work, please have a look at our temporary consulting work page. Once our website is up, we’ll have a more detailed page with better methods of contacting us.

For now, have a look at the rest of the entries on this blog. I’ll put up some more updates as soon as I believe we’re ready. Also, be on the lookout for contributions to this blog from some of the other members of the team.