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iPresentee releases new Keynote Themes 2.0

Matt — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:58:00 +0000

Vilnius, Lithuania – iPresentee, the developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, is proud to announce Keynote Themes 2.0 to be used with Apple’s Keynote presentation software. iPresentee presents ten new astonishing Keynote themes: Autumn Colors, Starfish, Orange Bubble, Green Mile, Wallpaper, Time Graffiti, Brown Light, Eyesight, Built on Sand and Grey Line.

New Keynote Themes 2.0 offer a variety of presentation styles with coordinated fonts, colors, great backgrounds, unique bullets and picture frames. Each Keynote Theme is available in 1920×1080, 1680×1050, 1280×720, 1024×768, and 800×600 sizes in pixels. Creating a presentation using Keynote Themes is exactly the same as creating a presentation using the usual themes – you can add, edit, and format text; add photos or movies; and use Keynote’s transitions and special effects.

Keynote Themes 2.0 includes an installer to make sure the themes end up in the right place and will be displayed in Keynote’s themes menu automatically. It is better one time to see than thousand times to read therefore iPresentee invites to examine videos of all Keynote themes at their website.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger and later
* iWork 08
* 300 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
Keynote Themes 2.0 may be purchased for $25 USD. The set of all Keynote Themes, Keynote Motion Themes, Keynote Animations and Keynote 3D Stuff versions is priced at $60 USD.

iPresentee
Keynote Themes

Located in Vilnius, Lithuania, iPresentee company was founded in 2007 by a group of professional and enthusiastic IT designers. With a focus on the Mac platform, iPresentee’ perspective goal is to create high quality, easy to use and fun add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications. Copyright 2007-2008 iPresentee. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and Apple Keynote are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Add text placeholders to slide masters in Keynote ’08

Matt — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:08:44 +0000

You may have noticed that there’s no intuitive way to add your own text placeholder to a master slide in Keynote ’08. In other words, if you want to make a set of slides that has more than just a title and body you can either (1) add a text box on every page or (2) try to add a text placeholder to Keynote. The second option isn’t so intuitive, but here’s how to do it:

Select View » Show Master Slides.
Select the master slide you want to edit. Make a text box in a master slide and keep it selected.
In the Inspector, go to the Slide Inspector (second from left), and select the Appearance tab.
Check the checkbox next to Define as Text Placeholder, and create a tag.

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Create Keynote slides from a series of images

Matt — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:39:12 +0000

Rob Griffiths over at Mac OSX Hints Give a great tip on getting your images into Keynote.

Here’s a quick Keynote tip that works in both Keynote ’08 and Keynote 3. If you’ve got a number of images that you’d like to convert into individual Keynote slides, it’s amazingly easy to do. In Keynote, make sure you’re in either Navigator or Light Table view (using the View menu); this trick won’t work in Outline or Slide Only view.
Switch to the Finder, and select all the images you’d like to use to create your slides. If Keynote is in Navigator view, drag the selection into the Slides column; if you’re using Light Table view, just drag the selection onto the light table area. Keynote will then import your images—you may see a progress dialog, depending on the quantity and size of the selected images—and place each one into its own slide.

By default, the images will be placed in front of any fields (title, subtitle, bullets) on the slides, so you’ll need to select each image and send it to the back to use the fields. Alternatively, you can force the images to be created on slides with blank masters. To do that, create a new slide, set its master to blank, and then drag in your source images.

Not a huge hint, but if you’ve ever labored with importing images, or dragging them into already-created slides one-by-one, this method is a great timesaver.

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Adding a Web Site to A Key Note Presentation

Matt — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:35:10 +0000

The Folks over at “A New Mac Tip Every Day” have this killer tip for adding a web site to your keynote presentation and keeping the site up to date.
“This is a great tip submitted by Dominic P. Tremblay: Adding a shot of a website to a Keynote presentation! This is really something that when I first saw it, it convinced me of how superior Keynote is to PowerPoint. Okay, the truth is that you can easily take a screenshot with easy OS X shortcuts and bring it into Power Point or Keynote. But that is long, you’ll end up with an additional file on the desktop (it really adds up when you take a lot of screenshots) and the website in your Keynote presentation won’t update automatically. The other way of doing that only works with Keynote and it is that Keynote actually loads the website into your presentation. You’re then sure that your Keynote presentation will stay up-to-date no matter when you show it. Even if you don’t have internet access, it will simply show the latest downloaded version. To do it, you simply have to drag the small icon that is on the left side of the url in your web browser to the Keynote presentation. It unfortunately only works in Safari and Camino. Firefox will simply display the url in the presentation.”

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Quick Keynote ‘08 new feature list

Matt — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:12:43 +0000

So Keynote ’08 just came out and you want to know the good and the bad about it. Someone who knows his Keynote program well, Brian Peat of keynoteuser.com, gives us some facts and his thoughts on Apple’s eagerly anticipated Keynote upgrade.

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Create special characters easily in Keynote ’08

Matt — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:24:28 +0000

I found this tip while i was looking for Keynote ’08 reviews (MacOSXhints.com)

I am a scientist, who often has to use Greek and astronomical symbols. Before, in Keynote, it was necessary to open Edit » Special Characters, find the character, and insert it. Blah. But while playing with the trial version of iWork ’08, I found an additional small feature in the Preferences of Keynote 4: the Auto-Correction tab.

First check the box for Symbol and text substitution, then click the “+” sign below the existing list of substitutions. I can then add the special characters just once in this pref pane, and associate it with a special string. For instance, for the “alpha” greek symbol (α), I would associate the string alpha with that symbol (LaTeX users will appreciate).

Back in my slides, as soon as I type alpha, I get the α symbol!

[Rob G. adds: This panel is available in both Pages and Numbers as well. In iWork '06, it was only in Pages. So I've been using TypeIt4Me to add my Keynote special characters. However, this is a more elegant solution for those characters I need only in Keynote.]

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