Keynote

I’ve watched several sections of Steve’s iPad presentation a few times now, and one of the things that keeps jumping out at me is that there were two animation effects that aren’t part of the current shipping version of Keynote.
One was early on when Jobs was talking about Netbooks and how they don’t do anything ... read more
January 31, 2010 in News by David Schloss

At $9.99 each for Pages, Numbers or Keynote it looks like it’s not all fun and games for the iPad but this keeps you to one device. If you need to do longer typing you can of course use the Keyboard dock – so what are you waiting for? That novel needs you!iWork Now ... read more
January 27, 2010 in News by Joanne Carter

OneEyedGoldfish appeared on our radar the other day while we were looking for good Keynote templates and we’re really impressed by their design sense. We were also impressed that they just switched from for-pay downloads to for-donation downloads, a bold move in a business environment like this.
Therea are more than 22 Pages templates and ... read more
January 12, 2010 in News by David Schloss

We just got a great question from our reader Nicole who is using iMovie to create slideshows with the Ken Burns effect. This is a fantastic use of iMovie and since there’s no way to create a Ken-Burns photo montage in iMovie 09 (man, is that a great feature request for ‘10). There’s an easy ... read more
January 8, 2010 in Tips by David Schloss

From expereience we’ve noticed that the majority of Keynote users tend to resize images (or other elements) by clicking on the object and dragging the corner points. This is an effective, though not terribly accurate way to resize something. When you require pixel-level percision, it’s time to resize an object the right way.Select An ... read more
December 28, 2009 in Tutorials by David Schloss

MacWorld.com is reporting on an issue regarding unwanted single or double shadows on text in iWork applications, and how to fix it. Essentially, the Font panel is getting triggered to display a shadow in some cases without the user selecting this. We haven’t seen this here, but if it’s an issue you’re grappling with, here’s ... read more
December 22, 2009 in Tips by David Schloss

IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Jumsoft today expanded its Goodies bundle, a collection of applications and designs available from its Web site free of charge. The company boosted its highly popular set with ten holiday-themed stationery templates for Apple Mail and a whole line of add-ons for various Web site creation tools. It includes varied themes for ... read more
December 21, 2009 in News by David Schloss

Keynote-based presentations are usually important documents–sometimes the fate of a company can rest on a good presentation. As a result, they’re usually collaborative, with multiple people chiming in on a document. Keynote 09 gives these users the ability to leave notes for each other on slides by using the Comment tool.Start with A SlideSimply ... read more
December 17, 2009 in Tips by David Schloss

Creating a family tree is always great fun and really helps your own children understand their heritage and history. Keynote is the perfect medium to use to build an interactive tree, one that includes hyperlinks to let you go back and forth – like most Apple applications it is very easy to do, give ... read more
December 11, 2009 in Tutorials by Joanne Carter

Keynote has the tools to create just about any sort of shape imaginable—from stars to triangles to polygons. But sometimes you need to create a non "standard" shape, and for that the freeform pen tool is perfect to get the job done.Shape BoxFrom the Toolbar click on the Shapes button and select the Pen ... read more
December 10, 2009 in News by David Schloss

We just found this interesting YouTube video of Keynote being used in the New York City subway system. Looks like a Keynote presentation that’s been rendered out as a Quicktime movie. Good to see MTA’s a Mac.read more
December 9, 2009 in News by David Schloss

IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jumsoft has finished Keynote Quartet FX ‘10, a complete restyle of its ultimate bundle for Apple’s Keynote. The updated Keynote Quartet FX includes new versions of Keynote Themes FX, Keynote Backgrounds FX, Keynote Objects FX, and Keynote Animations FX, as well as a generous bonus package of still themes, images, and photos for ... read more
December 1, 2009 in News by David Schloss

We’re in the Cyber Monday mood here at Mac Create, and so we’re offering $10 off Mac Create Premium memberships all day long. Get the best of Mac Create as well as huge discounts on hardware and software (including our Apple Affiliate discount online store for US customers) for just $29.99 instead of $39.99.
Just use ... read more
November 30, 2009 in News by David Schloss

IMMEDIATE RELEASE iPresentee today releases Keynote Animations 3.0 for Apple’s Keynote presentation software. The new package contains 115 animations. It includes 80 animations from the previous release and adds 35 new remarkable animations which are made with the precision, highly detailed and easy to use. Within Apple’s Keynote these animations can be changed in ... read more
November 24, 2009 in News by David Schloss

Recosoft Corporation the developer of the
PDF2Office® family of products, PDF2ID® tool for InDesign®, cross platform
file format conversion solutions and PDF converters ships PDF2Office for
iWork v1.0 for the Macintosh platform.
PDF2Office for iWork converts PDF documents into editable Keynote and Pages
‘08/’09 files; allowing for an efficient and transparent process in
recovering and reusing PDF content with in iWork.
PDF2Office ... read more
November 12, 2009 in News by David Schloss