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Keynote for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)

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forget the manual
Forget the manual, get this book instead, especially if you want to learn how Themes and Master slides are constructed. I run KeynoteUser.com and I was the tech editor on this book (I read every page, cover to cover). I also wrote the first draft of the chapter on building custom themes...all that to say I STILL learned things from this book while I was reading through it. There's stuff in there you just won't find anywhere else. And no, I don't get any royalties from the sale of the book (that all goes to Tom for his hard work), I just think it's something every Keynote user should own.
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July 15, 2004 (Westerville, OH United States) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

A Peach
Like most Peachpit Press products this book is clearly laid out and is informative and easy to follow. Keynote is a great program but not intuitive at first - this book helps you get past some of the quirks and gets you up and running to produce killer presentations.
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July 11, 2004 (Melbourne, Australia) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

Negrino Keynote book a winner
Tom Negrino's "Keynote for Mac OS X" is the equivalent of a product manual in regard to its comprehensiveness, but unlike a manual in regard to its clarity. The author breaks down every action that a user of Keynote might want to perform into steps for the purpose of explanation and illustrates everything with excellent graphics. The lay-out is user friendly. With even the best books of this kind I always find several things that are not thought out carefully enough and thus frustratingly obscure; Negrino's book is the exception. It made learning the ins and outs of Keynote a breeze and allowed me to construct a fairly complex presentation almost immediately. Finally, the author's style is engaging: the book is actually a pleasure to read!
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July 10, 2004 (Wichita, KS United States) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

Product Description

Tired of the lackluster graphics and dull, canned look of PowerPoint presentations? At last you have an alternative: Apple Computer's graphics-intensive Keynote presentation software. If you give presentations on a regular basis, you'll want to start leveraging the power of Keynote immediately—dragging and dropping graphics, digital photos, QuickTime movies, and audio into your slide shows; creating animations, shadows, and labels for your charts and tables; producing dynamic drop shadows and cinematic transitions between slides; and more—and this Visual QuickStart Guide will show you how.

Veteran presenter, QuickStart author, and Mac guru Tom Negrino makes it easy to dive in and start creating high-impact presentations in no time by providing step-by-step instructions peppered with plenty of screen shots, tips, and sidebars. You'll learn how to use Keynote's professionally designed "themes" to create coordinated backgrounds, fonts, colors, bullets, tables, and charts in seconds. And if you're interested in creating a custom look, you'll find plenty of instructions for that as well. The best part? You don't need to be a graphics artist to produce visually stunning (and stunningly effective) presentations with Keynote. Top to learn more

iWork '09 [OLD VERSION]

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Create spreadsheets, organize data, and write formulas with simple yet powerful tools using Numbers '09
With great new features in Keynote '09, creating a show-stopping presentation is surprisingly simple
iWork '09, Apple's office productivity suite, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations the Mac way
Share your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with anyone on a Mac or PC as Microsoft Office or PDF files
Creating the perfect brochure, flyer, report, or resume is faster and easier than ever with Pages '09

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In`Pages', function trumps flash; office-strength word processor reads MS-Word files
As a Vista-fugue, the main reasons for even bothering with a `Bootcamp' Windows installation were Microsoft "Office" and Intuit's "Quicken/Turbotax", both richer-featured in their PC than in their Mac releases. Disappointingly, iWork '08 'Pages' performed better as an image-based page layout package for the multimedia center crowd, proving woefully underpowered in a professional business office ... crippled by the tediously awkward conversion hassle from *.doc to *.pages documents.No more! With iWork '09, Apple has virtually erased any remaining barrier to business office `switchers' still on the fence. I have explored and tested Pages '09 since its online release as a downloadable fully functional 30-day trial demo. I was so impressed with the new Pages (as against the flashy eye candy of the '08 version) that I ordered the full boxed version. [The trial software is well worth a test run to see if iWork meets your needs.) The new Pages now easily exports a...
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January 20, 2009 (Columbia, SC USA) | Helpful Votes: 221 | Rating: 5

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iWork ’09, Apple’s office productivity suite, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations the Mac way. Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works. Numbers, with its' great-looking templates, easy-to-create formulas, and dynamic tables and charts, gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. Use Keynote to create your presentations, and you’ll be a hard act to follow. Its' powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects put the show in slideshow. Packed with over 250 Apple-designed themes and templates—including 60 new designs overall—iWork lets you create projects that look polished from the first page or slide. And iWork is compatible with Microsoft Office, so it’s easy to share your work. Top to learn more

iWork, Apple's office productivity suite, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations the Mac way. Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works. Numbers, with its great-looking templates, easy-to-create formulas, and dynamic tables and charts, gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. Use Keynote to create your presentations, and you'll be a hard act to follow. Its powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects put the show in slideshow. Packed with over 250 Apple-designed themes and templates—including 60 new designs overall—iWork lets you create projects that look polished from the first page or slide. And iWork is compatible with Microsoft Office, so it's easy to share your work.

Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The Mac way.

Apple iWork

Pages '09

Word processing and then some.

Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application. It starts with an enhanced Template Chooser that lets you skim more than 180 Apple-designed templates. You can easily create stunning documents, from a simple letter to a professionally polished resume to a multipage newsletter and more. Or start with a blank page and let your words and creativity take their own course. Reports, resumes, brochures, newsletters, invitations—whatever you write, Pages puts powerful tools at your fingertips. So you can create beautiful, media-rich documents in minutes.

New Features

Choose from 40 new Apple-designed templates
Focus on your writing in full-screen view
Organize your ideas with dynamic outlines
Customize your documents using mail merge
Insert equations with MathType 6 (sold separately)
Create bibliographies with EndNote X2 (sold separately)

Numbers '09

Powerful and compelling spreadsheets.

Plan a wedding. Save for retirement. Track your workouts. Keep a baby journal. Spreadsheets can help you organize and plan, and great-looking, Apple-designed templates will help you get started. Choose from 30 templates to use for home, work, and school. Tables are already made. Formulas have been figured out. Fonts are in place. They're all ready to go. Just find something you like and make it your own. If you're starting with a blank sheet, that's easy, too. Spreadsheets are built on a flexible, free-form canvas. So you can move tables, charts, graphics, and text anywhere you want on the page. Effortlessly create formulas using an intuitive browser with more than 250 functions. Add interactive controls such as sliders, steppers, and checkboxes that let you play "what if" in real time. Scale your document with a drag of the mouse to create the perfect printout using the interactive print view. You can even add photos, movies, and music to your spreadsheet with just a few clicks.

New Features

Build powerful formulas with ease
Perform calculations using over 250 functions
Organize your data instantly into table categories
Check your calculations at a glance with Formula List view
Create 2-axis charts and mixed charts
Choose from 12 new Apple-designed templates

Keynote '09

Cinema-quality presentations for everyone.

Even if you've never used Keynote before, you'll find creating a presentation surprisingly simple. An enhanced Theme Chooser lets you skim through an impressive collection of 44 Apple-designed themes. Once you've chosen the perfect canvas for your presentation, simply substitute placeholder text and graphics with your own words and images. Easy-to-use tools let you add elements such as tables, charts, shapes, photos, and videos to slides. Finish off your masterpiece with cinematic animations and transitions that look as though they were created by your own special effects team. With Keynote, you have all the tools you need to make an amazing presentation amazingly simple.

New Features

Easily create sophisticated animations with Magic Move
Add dramatic text transitions using new visual effects
Visualize your data with new 3D charts and chart animations
Dramatically reduce file size without compromising quality
Create dynamic flowcharts and diagrams with connection lines
Choose from eight new Apple-designed themes

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Nice upgrade
This is a nice if unspectacular upgrade. All three programs have been improved. It isn't the have-to-have change that iWork 08 was, but I'm happy with it. All three programs include more of Apple's slick templates, integrate with each other better and sport useful new features.The biggest changes are in Numbers, which makes sense as it's the newest member of the suite. Apple claims 90 new functions. No longer being a power spreadsheet user I don't need all of them but the much improved charting is appreciated. Numbers also integrates with Pages for page merge, so you can use non-Address Book contact lists. That was an obvious omission in the previous version and is honestly useful. Also Numbers charts and tables inserted in Pages and Keynote will change if the spreadsheet is changed. Again an obvious omission in the last version that's been addressed. Don't move your files, though or you'll lose the links. As before, Numbers is an easy to use and attractive program for...
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February 8, 2009 | Helpful Votes: 68 | Rating: 4

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Keynote 2 for Mac OS X

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Great Program!!
I am involved in doing around 100 Keynote Presentations a year! I am certified through Microsoft for PowerPoint. I find Keynote far superior to PowerPoint. Tom has done a magnificant job writing this book! If you are looking for a simple no nonesense book to learn Keynote look no further. I have used a lot of computer learning books this is the best! I recommend this one to everyone. The chapter creating custom themes is worth the price of the book.Dr. Mike Hughes, D.Min., Th.D., Ph.D.
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October 7, 2005 (Wilmington, IL USA) | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 5

Great but not if you upgraded from book 1 to book 2
The original book, which dealt with Keynote 1, was very helpful. I hoped this one would add or expand, since the author had a chance to improve on the original just as Apple had when they went up a version. No luck. I wasted my money. However, if you're buying this one and don't have a previous edition it should be great. Don't forget that Apple's Keynote version 3 is now out so you can expect another book soon, maybe.I'm giving this a 5 since it's a great book but for me, buying the second edition of the same book, the second one is nothing new.
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February 26, 2006 (Houston, Texas) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

Good book to start with
I have been using these visual quickstart books for all my software, I have found them to be a great place to start when learning basics and to get you going. Later on you may want to delve into more geek type stuff, but if you want to get going and accomplish something right away with your new software or programs, I recommend these books.Keynote is not overly complicated, but I wanted to see what I could really do on some projects I had in mind, and this book was a big help and saved me time.
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January 11, 2007 (USA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

Product Description

The first task-based guide to Keynote is back, just in time for the revision of Apple's elegant presentation software, Keynote. Keynote 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide gets readers quickly up-to-speed on the powerful presentation software through detailed step-by-step tasks and hundreds of screenshots. Business and educational users will want to start leveraging the power of Apple's graphics-intensive Keynote presentation software ($79, as part of Apple's iWork suite) immediately--dragging and dropping graphics, digital photos, QuickTime movies, and audio into their slide shows; creating animations, shadows, and labels for their charts and tables; producing dynamic drop shadows and cinematic transitions between slides; and more--and this Visual QuickProject Guide will show them how. Task-based instructions, peppered with plenty of full-color screenshots, tips, and sidebars make it easy to dive in and start creating high-impact presentations in no time. Readers will learn how to use Keynote's professionally designed "themes" to create coordinated backgrounds, fonts, colors, bullets, tables, and charts in seconds. Top to learn more

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iWork '09: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual

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iWork 09 The Missing Manual is more than a manual
From the overall organization of iWork '09: The Missing Manual to the examples used and phrases selected, Josh Clark has written this book to show us how to do what we want to do in iWork. He has succeeded. It is much better than just a manual.Other iWork books are organized based upon the history of the program's development. They start with Keynote. iWork '09 The Missing Manual starts with Pages because that is what most people will use first.You start with writing in Pages text mode, and are soon learning how to use the new outline features to organize your small book.You learn that in text mode the text flows like rivers, but layout mode puts text in boxes like islands. You learn to flow your text from one island to the next.Other iWork books all tell you how to put a text box and a picture on a page. That is not enough when you are looking at a blank page and wondering how to design your own layout.Josh Clark shows you how to create a 6 column, or 5...
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May 1, 2009 (Lyndonville, VT United States) | Helpful Votes: 119 | Rating: 5

Highly recommended
Brief introduction... I got this book as I was just starting to use iWork. I was extremely frustrated by the application and to make matters worse, I'd agreed to demo the app at a Mac User Group meeting. I was in trouble, and iWork's built-in Help didn't cut it for me. Apple has a lot of tutorials on their web site, but I learn better by sitting down with the application and having a book at hand. Having benefitted from several other "Missing Manuals", that's where I turned for help this time.Bottom line: this book really reveals iWork's power, and it does so gently and interestingly. Josh Clark writes very clearly and succinctly, and the book contains (for me) just enough illustrations to thoroughly communicate what's needed. Clark walks through every program element I could find and leads the reader to understand how iWork's elements and UI approach fit together. That's important. I'd highly recommend "iWork '09: The Missing Manual" to any iWork '09 user. Also, because...
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January 18, 2010 (Columbia, SC USA) | Helpful Votes: 36 | Rating: 5

The Missing Manual indeed - truly squeezes the most out of iWork09
Nearly all the "Missing Manuals" have been right on target; and this is one of the very best -- beats Apple's disjointed iWork manuals by leagues. Starting with Pages, Josh Clark nicely lifts the confusion of (malnamed) 'floating' versus 'inline' objects; puts the important word processing details (for instance the handy 'Outlining' feature, that got a scant one-page brushoff in Apple's manual) in perspective. He clarifies the distinction between pretty design objects and serious work, and makes it obvious that Pages has the power to become a freestanding no-nonsense 'iWord', rather than part of a Jack of all trades approach. Shortcuts, tips, and thinking outside the box abound; clearly, the author enjoys sharing his perspective with the reader, the writing is crisp and airy, the examples are handy, and tough concepts such as layers become understandable so as to exploit the full power of 'iWord'.The Numbers chapters, likewise, are outstanding; the 3-step drilling down...
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May 31, 2009 | Helpful Votes: 48 | Rating: 5

Product Description

With iWork '09, Apple's productivity applications have come of age. Unfortunately, their user guides are stuck in infancy. That's where iWork '09: The Missing Manual comes in. This book quickly guides you through everything you need to know about the Pages word-processor, the Numbers spreadsheet, and the Keynote presentation program that Al Gore and Steve Jobs made famous.

Friendly and entertaining, iWork '09: The Missing Manual gives you crystal-clear and jargon-free explanations of iWork's capabilities, its advantages over similar programs -- and its limitations. You'll see these programs through an objective lens that shows you which features work well and which don't. With this book, you will:

Produce stunning documents and cinema-quality digital presentations
Take advantage of Mac OS X's advanced typography and graphics capabilities
Learn how to use the collection of themes and templates included with iWork
Get undocumented tips, tricks, and secrets for each program
Integrate with other iLife programs to use photos, audio, and video clips

Learn why iWork is the topic most requested by Missing Manual fans. One of the few sources available on Apple's incredible suite of programs, iWork '09: The Missing Manual will help you get the best performance out of Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and more in no time.

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With iWork '09: The Missing Manual, you'll quickly learn everything you need to know about Apple's incredible productivity programs, including the Pages word-processor, the Numbers spreadsheet, and the Keynote presentation program that Al Gore and Steve Jobs made famous. This book gives you jargon-free explanations of iWork's capabilities, advantages, and limitations to help you quickly produce stunning documents and cinema-quality digital presentations.

How Grids Help You Build Better-Looking Pages Documents
by Josh Clark

It’s not always obvious, but just about every professional layout is built on top of a very specific formal structure, a sturdy framework lurking under the surface of even the most complex and dizzying designs. For centuries, artists, printers, and designers have organized their compositions with grids composed of horizontal and vertical lines that invisibly slice the canvas into blocks, or grid units, that help the designer to align and size page elements, as you can see here:

A grid keeps things clean, giving you guidelines to provide consistent placement and spacing throughout your document and to ensure well proportioned elements within individual pages. Grids can help to organize any design, but they’re particularly helpful in providing internal consistency to lengthy documents like books, magazines, or newsletters.

The previous figure shows a pair of pages from the catalog, both of them organized with a six-column grid. For standard portrait pages like these, it’s common to use five- or six-column grids, but that doesn’t mean that you have to crowd your content into five or six narrow columns. Those columns are simply your building blocks, the lines of an invisible ruler that you use to line up your page elements. A six-column grid might contain only two text columns, for example. Both text columns could be three grid units wide, or one could be four and the other two. Or you could reserve one column entirely for white space. While the grid itself is built of uniform blocks, in other words, the design elements that you build on top of it can be all different sizes.

Using alignment guides

You build a grid in Pages using alignment guides, vertical and horizontal guidelines which you conjure from Pages’ rulers and place anywhere on the page, like a virtual T-square. These lines aren’t part of the document itself—they’re visible only when you’re editing, and they don’t show up when you print. They’re unique to every page of the document—every page has its own set of alignment guides that you can tweak and nudge without affecting guides on other pages.

You pluck vertical guides from the vertical ruler, and horizontal guides from the horizontal ruler. To add an alignment guide, choose View-->Show Rulers. Click anywhere inside the ruler and drag the cursor into your document—your pointer now has a blue guideline in its craw, as shown here:

Add alignment guides to your page by clicking in the ruler and dragging into the document. Pull horizontal guidelines (left) out of the top ruler and vertical guidelines (right) from the left ruler. As you drag, Pages shows you the distance of your guideline from the edge of the page.

Drop the line wherever you want it in your document. To move an alignment guide, just drag it to its new location. To remove it entirely, drag it out of the document, and the guide goes up in a puff of smoke.

When you add or move objects, the objects snap to these alignment guides, jumping over to line up automatically with these magnetic guides whenever you drag objects within a few pixels. This makes it effortless to keep things aligned, neatly avoiding the dreaded “one pixel off” syndrome.

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Produce stunning documents and cinema-quality digital presentations
Take advantage of Mac OS X's advanced typography and graphics capabilities
Learn how to use the collection of themes and templates included with iWork
Get undocumented tips, tricks, and secrets for each program
Integrate with other iLife programs to use photos, audio, and video clips

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Keynote [OLDER VERSION]

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Design razor-sharp text, beautiful charts & tables, and professional-quality layouts, all with just a few clicks
Experiment with different typefaces to create the perfect text for your presentation
Create high-quality visual effects like transitions between slides, element effects and more
Intuitive slide navigator and simple thumbnail viewer for more precise controls and better slide organization
Professional themes and images combined with must-haves like anti-aliased text, dynamic alignment guides and snap-rulers

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It knows what you need.
For years, PowerPoint has been the bain of my existence. My boss is obsessed with it. Every week it's another presentation in PowerPoint. Finally, an alternative. As usual, Apple takes the "point" out of a Microsoft product. It seems fair, all things considered.The user interface for this program is fast and easy to learn. It even gives you several options of themes to use for those deadline crunches that we all run into from time to time. It includes the famous drag-and-drop functionality that we've come to expect.Most importantly, you can save it out to PowerPoint for those less enlighted souls who still think that a Windows machine will help them keep up with the times.
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September 26, 2003 (Salt Lake City, UT USA) | Helpful Votes: 6 | Rating: 5

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Create compelling presentations that get noticed with this amazing graphics tool! Top to learn more

Keynote, Apple’s answer to Microsoft’s PowerPoint presentation software, has the limited feature set of a first offering but makes a good-looking show out of the gate.

Users accustomed to PowerPoint’s robust array of clip art, pre-populated themes, and pre-set transitions will be disappointed with Keynote’s small offering of pre-fabricated elements. However, they won’t be able to find fault with the visual quality of the elements that Keynote does include; any of the tasteful Keynote themes, detachable chart elements, or cinematic slide transitions would easily stand out against their PowerPoint counterparts.

Keynote’s interface is fairly similar to PowerPoint, although there are some differences. As with PowerPoint you can setup and see the progress of your slide show in a vertical panel on the left. Most of the formatting controls are in a control box called the "inspector"--whether building a chart, making a graphic twirl, or mandating the transition between two slides, you are mostly using the inspectors’ controls rather than dropdown menus or key commands to get things done. In addition to being able to animate imported graphics, audio and movie files can be played within a slide, though these multimedia effects will not run across multiple slides.

What will have to wait for the next version are comprehensive chart creation and exporting capabilities. Currently Keynote provides nine beautiful chart styles to choose from, but getting data into these pre-populated formats can be tedious. Users may find it easier to construct their more complicated charts outside the program, and import them as pre-made images into the slideshow. And, though you can export Keynote presentations to QuickTime and to PowerPoint, there is no Keynote-to-HTML conversion as yet. --Elizabeth Aoki

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A good version 1.0. But still version 1.0
I like Keynote. It makes it blissfully easy to do the majority of the things that presenters do -- in particular, create pie charts, bar charts, and other pretty-but-readable stuff. If you want to create good looking charts or presentations in a hurry, Keynote will almost certainly serve your needs. Plus, it's easy to pick up. My learning curve _might_ have been five minutes. (Though, to be fair, I've reviewed hundreds of software applications for computer magazines, and I'm a fast learner. So give yourself ten minutes, instead, before you pick up the adequate but not-overwhelming printed manual.)Keynote is a good example of technology helping rather than getting in the way. Except you'll probably spend more than a couple of minutes playing with the really impressive set of slide transitions. I never need such things, but I had fun with them anyway.But don't expect perfection. Keynote is a great version 1.0, but it's definitely 1.0. So far, I've found two glaring omissions:...
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January 27, 2003 (Scottsdale, AZ USA) | Helpful Votes: 13 | Rating: 4

Great 1.0 version!
I am in sales and needless to say I use Powerpoint often. The learning curve is short and you could churn out professional looking presentations in no time. However, it is a version 1.0 and it needs some growing up to do.You can't export to HTML but you can export to Quicktime, PDF, and Powerpoint. When you do export to Powerpoint you can not have all the bells and whistles that you may have loaded your presentation with. Keynote has different transitions and fonts than Powerpoint so those get lost when you export. My first trial presentation I loaded it with all the effects possible (transitions, shadows, animations, etc.) and exported to all the possible formats. It was very easy to do but none of the other formats looked as good as the original Keynote presentation. The Powerpoint presentation did come close but the graphics compared to Keynote just did not stand up. I did have to make some adjustments in Keynote to make the Powerpoint version better (took out the shadows). When...
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February 27, 2003 (Buenos Aires, Argentina) | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 4

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Targus Bluetooth Presenter for Apple Mac AMP11US Wireless laser pointer Mouse

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Presented and controllerdesigned for MacProduct InformationThe Targus Bluetooth Presenter for Mac is a Macintosh-dedicatedwireless presented that is both versatile and easy to use. Itdoes double-duty as a presenter and as a cursor controller: Use it toremotely control your Keynote or PowerPoint presentation in Presentermode or switch to Cursor mode to use the Presenter like a mouse forremote control of iPhoto Numbers or other applications. With a thoughtful ergonomic design the presenter has anintuitive button layout that won't distract from the task at hand. A swipe of your finger moves the cursor smoothly thanks toTouch Scroll technology while dual programmable buttons givecustomizable one-click access to functions and applications you use themost.Product Features Intuitive Interface - Easy Touch buttonconfiguration puts primary presentation controls front and center. Previous slide next slide and laser pointer are easilyidentifiable from both tactile clues and the intuitive layout. Secondary functions like a blank screen and slide show arerecessed and out of the way to prevent accidental button presses. Touch Scroll Cursor Control - The laserpointer bee a cursor controller by sliding the convenientlypositioned mode switch. A Touch Sensitive sensor tracksfingertip movement in any direction for smooth and easy navigationthrough lengthy spreadsheets and PDF documents. Wireless Control - Bluetooth technologyenables remote control of favorite applications volume control andother functions. Switch effortlessly between applicationswithout being at your puter. Dual Programmable Buttons -Customizable one-click access to favorite applications like KeynotePowerPoint iTunes and iPhoto or functions like cut/paste andplay/stop or create your own. Fully Compatible - Works seamlesslywith Keynote and PowerPoint presentation programs. Ergonomic Design - Reduces musclestrain and button errors with fortable in-the-hand design andintui Top to learn more

Great Mac Solution
I give presentations each week to a gathering of 150-300 people. Initially, I was using the Apple remote but found it very limited to line-of-sight function, so I opted for an RF signal presenter. Quickly another issue presented itself. We utilize wireless mics and other items driven by phantom power. In our application these mics and associated electronics "jammed" the RF presenter's signal. My options were now few, until I considered the Targus Mac Presenter which functions with Bluetooth technology.I have been well pleased with this presenter. It works well, has good range and is unaffected by the confusion of RF signals in close proximity at the front of our building.As to concerns expressed elsewhere regarding the heft and size of the unit, I can only say that it "grows on you". Now, I actually prefer the feel of it. I do wonder though, for those who take issue with the mass of it, if a standalone presenter (This one minus mouse function) could reduce the size and...
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June 20, 2009 (Des Moines, IA USA) | Helpful Votes: 16 | Rating: 4

Nice Presenter
Overall, I think this is a good product--I just got it a couple of days ago and have been playing around with it. Set-up is a snap--associate it with your laptop like any other bluetooth device. You can also download a system preferences pane which let you customize buttons and kick of scripts and the like.From a button perspective, it is pretty complete. You can switch between mouse mode and presenter mode. I usually have a hard time controlling these kinds of mice (cursor flies all over the place) but the Targus was very useable--the button in the center acts as a mini trackpad in mouse mode--seems like it would be too small to be useful, but it actually works well.What could be better:1) Its a little on the big side2) Some kind of status on the presenter itself wold be useful--low battery, BT connected, out of rangeUPDATE: The BT connection seems a bit finicky - not all that great in the middle of a preso - knocking off one star
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November 29, 2008 (Elk Grove, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 10 | Rating: 3

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Like the Mac App Store, the iTunes App Store does not allow time-limited demos of applications, meaning that many developers have created both “free” and “paid” versions of their software, with the “free” version often lacking in functionality or... The company does not allow demos in its own App Store, encouraging developers rather to post any trial versions of Mac software on their own websites, with the App Store being reserved for the full (and often, paid) versions. The move has been seen as quite controversial by many people, and we here at Mac AppStorm would love to hear all your comments and thoughts relating to this matter. The move could also be construed as a further “iOS-ification” of the Mac. The Aperture trial page sports a similar message, along with a warning that users should uninstall the trial version before proceeding to install the full version. However, the step could be seen as a preparation for the upcoming Mountain Lion launch this summer – we already know that the App Store is at the core of this release, with even mundane OS X software updates going through the App Store. 99 per iWork application (Pages, Keynote and Numbers), a lot less than the boxed retail version but with no opportunity to try out the product before committing to buying. I think it’s time Apple implement a trial system to it’s App Stores. Lots of developers are making limited & free versions of their apps by wasting their time. I think users should definitely have the right to try something before they buy it. But anyway. The move has come as a bit of surprise and indeed Apple has declined to comment on why the free trials were removed.

Not only this, at WWDC you can meet the engineers behing iOS and Mac OS X and get help from them in order to get your app or unfinished code problems on track. Watch WWDC 2011 live streaming on Twit Live TV. However, given the fact that Apple has strictly prohibited the press from this year onwards to provide live updates of the WWDC event, it is highly unlikely that you will be able to catch the... WWDC 2012 has just been announced by Apple and the dates for the conference are from June 11, 2012 to June 15, 2012.

After announcing that everyone in the audience would be receiving gold-plated iPods pre-loaded with the collected, remastered works of the Beatles, he introduced a completely revamped Mac mini, a new Apple TV, three new iterations of the iMac and... Entering the Keynote, Mac fans had many questions. He then unveiled an iPhone nano, a touch-based Mac tablet, a $500 netbook, and some kind of orb that bent the fabric of the space/time continuum allowing for time travel and teleportation. Finally, Cook introduced the musical performer who had the honor of bringing the last-ever Apple keynote to a close: a group of cowl-clad monks whose excellent funeral dirge had audience members chanting monotonously along as they filed out of the... If you were to have seen only one keynote on January 6th, 2009, this was the one to see. (Editor’s Note: Due to the tight deadlines required for publication, Mr. Moltz’s column on the Macworld Expo Keynote was due several days before the event actually took place. (Convention Keynotes Quarterly later raved, “Phil Schiller was riveting. But all these questions would be answered, all our concerns allayed, and all parking stubs validated in the course of Schiller’s tour-de-force keynote. This was the must-see Keynote of January 6th, 2009. Of course, Schiller didn’t do the whole keynote by himself. That said, I did think it a little odd that he delivered the entire keynote from inside a cardboard iChat window carried around by two stage hands.

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Apple did an unusual thing to satiate hunger about iOS and OS X news coming out of WWDC this year, which is slated to happen next week: it prematurely announced the iCloud service ahead of Steve Jobs' keynote on June 6th at 10 AM Pacific Time.
Apple's Keynote, Pages, Numbers apps go universal

Apple now sells the individual applications through the Mac App Store, and in the iOS App Store, letting users get a single program without having to buy the others. The apps continue to retail for $9.99 each, and this morning's update is free of
Upgrade your geek with Houston Chronicle technology writer Dwight Silverman

Yep, Mac Malware era is officially upon us. • Steve Jobs will introduce iCloud, Lion, iOS5 at WWDC Keynote June 6 – Apple confirms its on-medical-leave CEO will do the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. More interestingly: It has put a name