PowerPoint vs. Keynote: Presentation Tools Compared. PowerPoint is included in MS Office and is available for PC and Mac. Keynote is part of Apple iWork and is exclusively for Mac. Both are commercial software, although a free PowerPoint viewer is available. The two programs allow you to create either autorun or manual slides. Se7en - Modern Styles Mac Keynote Themes Design Modern Apple Keynote template to download. The best way to present your ideas is within a powerful set of stylish designs. Se7en is a premium Apple Keynote presentation template that includes a number of unique slide designs—made with a modern touch.
Along with the release of iWork '09 at Macworld Expo in January, Apple also introduced Keynote Remote, an app for the iPhone and iPod touch that lets you control your Keynote '09 presentation from your iPhone or iPod touch over a wireless connection. With a swipe of a finger, you can move to the next (or previous) slide in your presentation, and also view presenter notes or the next slide--but not both of those things at the same time.
To see how well Keynote Remote stacks up to other Keynote remotes, I compared it with both a free alternative (TapNext Lite) and a more-expensive option (Stage Hand). All three of these programs control only Keynote; they won't work with Microsoft's PowerPoint, and they won't work as general remote controls for other programs on your Mac.
Note that all three of these programs require a wireless connection between your Mac and your iPhone or iPod touch. This connection doesn't have to be over an existing public wireless network, though--an ad-hoc network with your iPhone and your Mac will work just as well (this hint contains a script to automate the creation of an ad-hoc network).
If you're looking for a truly basic Keynote controller, then TapNext Lite from CONIT may meet your needs. TapNext Lite talks to Keynote via a free companion program called TapNextReceiver that you run on your Mac. Launch TapNextReceiver and start its built-in server by clicking a button, then launch TapNext Lite on your iPhone.
Assuming both devices are on the same wireless network, you'll then see the server running on your Mac. Tap that server name, and you're greeted with the screen at left...and that's all there is to it.
There aren't any configuration options, you can't actually see the slides you're presenting, there aren't any advanced features, and you can't work with more than one presentation in Keynote. (TapNext Lite merely launches the frontmost presentation when more than one are open in Keynote.)
If all you want is a remote 'clicker' to navigate your presentation, TapNext Lite does the job well. But if you're looking for slide previews, presenter notes, or other such features, you'll want to use one of the other two programs.
Apple's Keynote Remote doesn't need a helper application on your Mac. Instead, you pair Keynote Remote and Keynote on your Mac (a one-time process that's relatively easy). After pairing, you open the presentation on your Mac, launch Keynote Remote on your iPhone/iPod touch, and tap a Play Slideshow button to start the slides.
In addition to navigating between slides with finger swipes, an Options button lets you jump to the first slide (but not the last), end the presentation, and access the Settings panel.
The Settings panel is used to set up the initial Mac-iPhone link, change the orientation of the program from portrait to landscape, and enable or disable the display of presenter notes. As far as features go, that's pretty much the entire list for Keynote Remote--while it's more advanced than TapNext Lite, it's still a relatively basic Keynote controller.
To see your presenter notes, you have to use portrait mode display; similarly, to see the upcoming slide you must use landscape mode--there's no way to have both a preview of the next slide and your presenter notes on the screen at the same time.
This limitation wouldn't be quite so annoying if it were easy to switch from portrait to landscape view modes. However, unlike Safari and probably thousands of other iPhone applications, Keynote Remote is not accelerometer-aware--you can't change the view mode by simply rotating your iPhone in your hands.
Instead, you have to go through a multi-tap dance to switch the orientation: tap Options, tap Settings, tap Portrait (or Landscape), tap Done--and then remember you also have to rotate the iPhone in your hands. Why isn't Apple making use of the very technology the company created to make this process automatic? As a result, switching orientation while giving a presentation is much harder than it should be.
As noted earlier, slide navigation is done with a swipe of the finger. While this works well in theory, in practice, it's cumbersome, particularly if you use slides with a lot of manual builds (animations). That's because every manual build is shown as a separate slide in Keynote Remote, as seen in the image at right.
So if you've got a slide with ten manual builds on it, that's ten finger swipes just to get through one slide. If you're presenting a 60-slide deck with lot of manual builds, your index finger is going to be 'swiped out' by the time you're done talking. (Keynote Remote is also sometimes slow to update its display, leading to extra finger swipes, as you're not certain if the last one 'took' or not.) Although not nearly as 'cool' as swiping a finger, the Previous Slide and Next Slide buttons in TapNext Lite are actually much simpler to use.
Keynote Remote is also light on useful features for presenters. There's no presentation timer, you can't jump directly to a given slide, you can't put the mouse pointer onscreen, and you can't black out the display. Also, if you've got more than one presentation open in Keynote, you can't control which presentation is shown in Keynote Remote--it always uses the frontmost window in Keynote.
Keynote Remote is a decent basic controller for Keynote presentations, and it does what it claims to do. However, its lack of advanced features and odd design decisions limit its effectiveness--it's a feature-limited remote control program that's harder to use than it should be.
Unlike Keynote Remote, Wooji Juice's Stage Hand isn't lacking for features. It too connects via a wireless network, but instead of pairing with Keynote on your Mac, your iPhone connects with Stage Manager, a free helper application that runs on your Mac and manages the connection between the Mac and your iPhone or iPod touch.
The main Stage Hand screen displays a list of all open Keynote presentations, showing the filename and title from the first slide of each presentation.
Tap any presentation's name, and Stage Hand presents a summary screen with a thumbnail of the first slide, the name of the host computer, the slide count, fields where you can set the starting slide number and timer options (off, count up, or countdown), and a Begin button to start the presentation.
Stage Hand works in both portrait (Notes View) and landscape (Slide View) modes, and displays different views in each mode. Unlike Keynote Remote, however, the view mode switches automatically when you rotate your phone, and there are two choices for what you'll see when using Slide View.
In Notes View, you'll see the presentation timer at the top of the screen; presenter notes for the current slide (in one of three selectable font sizes); an icon that shows the slide count, current slide number, and build count for the current slide; a toolbar with four buttons in it; and an Index button. You do not, however, see a preview of the slide itself.
The toolbar contains previous and next slide buttons (so you can switch slides without swiping), a screen blanking button, and a button that lets you lock Notes View regardless of how you may turn your iPhone. The Index button displays a thumbnail of each slide in your presentation, along with the title of that slide; you can jump to any slide by tapping on a slide in this list.
When used in Slide View, you move between slides (and builds on slides) with swipe gestures; just as in Keynote Remote, this quickly gets repetitive. The first (default) Slide View mode isn't all that special--you'll see an icon with slide and build information while a slide is loading; after the slide is loaded, you'll see the slide onscreen. You won't, however, see the presentation timer nor any slide notes in this mode.
The second Slide View mode is much more interesting--after changing a preference setting, you can see Keynote's Presenter Display screen when in Slide View mode.
In this view, whatever is on Keynote's Presenter Display will be shown on your iPhone or iPod touch. This is the mode I really like, as it lets me see everything I see on the Presenter Display on my Mac. In my case, that's the current and next slides, the time, a timer, slide count, and any slide notes. Stage Hand will even add a preview of the next slide if you're on the second-to-last build of a slide, as seen in the image at right.
Unlike the screen on your Mac, though, this screen is static--it loads when the slide loads, and then doesn't change until you advance to the next slide. So while you'll be able to see the presentation timer, it won't change while you're on that slide. Similarly, while you can see your presenter notes, there's no way to scroll them, so if they're longer than the text box, you'll only see the text that fits.
Still, I really like this view mode; it offers most of the benefits of Notes View with the added information from the Presenter Display. The main downside is the need to swipe your finger to switch slides, instead of tapping a button as in Notes View.
In addition to the Presenter Display, Stage Hand's other really neat feature is only available in Slide View: the highlighter, as seen in the image at right (click it for a larger version).
The highlighter is essentially an on-screen version of the ubiquitous laser pointer, though it does a better job of highlighting items on a slide, as it dims the background around the highlight. The appearance of the highlighter--what type of highlight and how much to dim the rest of the slide--is controller in Stage Manager's preferences on the Mac, so it's not something that's easily changed while giving a presentation.
Enabling the highlighter is as simple as tapping the screen; once enabled, you can use pinch gestures to shrink or grow the highlight, and swipe your finger to move it around the screen. When you're done, another tap disables the highlighter. The highlighter worked really well in my use, though I do wish it were possible to make it even smaller, as even the smallest highlight circle is still quite large.
Overall, I was very happy with Stage Hand's performance and feature set; the developer has struck a good balance between complexity and usability.
Final thoughts
If you're looking for a simple Keynote controller, TapNext Lite certainly gets the job done. However, if you give more than one talk or so a year, you may find its lack of features quite limiting. For those who give many presentations, Stage Hand is the clear winner--it's miles ahead of Keynote Remote's limited features, and it worked very well during my testing.
Although you do have to run a companion program on your Mac to use Stage Hand, that's a small price to pay in exchange for the features you gain. Between auto-detection of rotation, the on-screen highlighter, a presentation timer, and the optional display of Keynote's Presenter Display, Stage Hand can handle even the most complex of presentation needs.
All three apps are compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update.
[Senior editor Rob Griffiths reviewed iWork '09's Numbers spreadsheet application for Macworld.com.]
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Easily create gorgeous presentations with Keynote, featuring powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects that will make you a very hard act to follow.
The Theme Chooser lets you skim through an impressive collection of 30 new and updated Apple-designed themes. Once you’ve chosen the perfect canvas for your presentation, simply replace the placeholder text and graphics with your own words and images. Easy-to-use tools let you add tables, charts, shapes, photos and videos to slides — and bring it all to life with cinematic animations and transitions that look as though they were created by your own special effects team. Use Keynote Live to present a slideshow that viewers can follow from their Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and from iCloud.com.
With iCloud built in, your presentations are kept up to date across all your devices. And with real-time collaboration, your team will be able to work together at the same time on a Mac, iPad, iPhone or iPod touch — even on a PC using Keynote for iCloud.
With Keynote, you have all the tools you need to make an amazing presentation quickly and easily.
Collaborate with others at the same time
• With real-time collaboration, your whole team can work together on a presentation at the same time
• Collaboration is built in to Keynote on the Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch
• PC users can collaborate too, using Keynote for iCloud
• Share your document publicly or with specific people
• Easily see who’s currently in the presentation with you
• View other people’s cursors to follow their edits
• Available on presentations stored in iCloud or in Box
Get started quickly
• Choose from 30 Apple-designed themes to give your presentations a beautiful start
• Use the slide navigator to quickly skim through your presentation, add new slides and reorder slides
• Engage your audience with interactive charts and chart animations
• See live on-canvas previews as you animate your slides
• Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes and images look beautiful
• Enhance your presentations with a library of over 700 editable shapes
• Quickly open password-protected presentations using Touch ID on supported Macs
Easy-to-use graphics tools
• Edit down to the pixel with rulers and alignment guides
• Simplified toolbar gives you quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts and sharing options
• Use doughnut charts to visualise data in an engaging new way
• Add an interactive image gallery to view a collection of photos
• Use Instant Alpha to easily remove image backgrounds
• Free-form curves, shapes and masks
• Connection lines
Cinema-quality animations
• Beautiful cinematic slide transitions for easily creating stunning presentations
• Magic Move effect to effortlessly animate and morph graphics
• Gorgeous slide transitions including Clothesline, Object Cube, Object Flip and Object Pop
• Impressive text and object animations including Trace, Vanish, Crumble, and Fade and Scale
• Emphasis builds let you add impact with one click
Present to your audience
• Customisable presenter display with support for up to six displays
• Recorded narration
• Keynote Live lets you present a slideshow that viewers can follow from their Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and from iCloud.com
• Create self-running, interactive shows for kiosks and displays
• Control your slideshow from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch or iPod touch with Keynote for iOS
iCloud
• Turn on iCloud so you can access and edit your presentations from your Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and iCloud.com
• Use Keynote for iCloud to access and edit your presentations from a Mac or PC browser
Share a copy of your work
• Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF, QuickTime, HTML and image files
• Export your presentation as a movie or images
Some features may require Internet access; additional fees and terms may apply.
The Theme Chooser lets you skim through an impressive collection of 30 new and updated Apple-designed themes. Once you’ve chosen the perfect canvas for your presentation, simply replace the placeholder text and graphics with your own words and images. Easy-to-use tools let you add tables, charts, shapes, photos and videos to slides — and bring it all to life with cinematic animations and transitions that look as though they were created by your own special effects team. Use Keynote Live to present a slideshow that viewers can follow from their Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and from iCloud.com.
With iCloud built in, your presentations are kept up to date across all your devices. And with real-time collaboration, your team will be able to work together at the same time on a Mac, iPad, iPhone or iPod touch — even on a PC using Keynote for iCloud.
With Keynote, you have all the tools you need to make an amazing presentation quickly and easily.
Collaborate with others at the same time
• With real-time collaboration, your whole team can work together on a presentation at the same time
• Collaboration is built in to Keynote on the Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch
• PC users can collaborate too, using Keynote for iCloud
• Share your document publicly or with specific people
• Easily see who’s currently in the presentation with you
• View other people’s cursors to follow their edits
• Available on presentations stored in iCloud or in Box
Get started quickly
• Choose from 30 Apple-designed themes to give your presentations a beautiful start
• Use the slide navigator to quickly skim through your presentation, add new slides and reorder slides
• Engage your audience with interactive charts and chart animations
• See live on-canvas previews as you animate your slides
• Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes and images look beautiful
• Enhance your presentations with a library of over 700 editable shapes
• Quickly open password-protected presentations using Touch ID on supported Macs
Easy-to-use graphics tools
• Edit down to the pixel with rulers and alignment guides
• Simplified toolbar gives you quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts and sharing options
• Use doughnut charts to visualise data in an engaging new way
• Add an interactive image gallery to view a collection of photos
• Use Instant Alpha to easily remove image backgrounds
• Free-form curves, shapes and masks
• Connection lines
Cinema-quality animations
• Beautiful cinematic slide transitions for easily creating stunning presentations
• Magic Move effect to effortlessly animate and morph graphics
• Gorgeous slide transitions including Clothesline, Object Cube, Object Flip and Object Pop
• Impressive text and object animations including Trace, Vanish, Crumble, and Fade and Scale
• Emphasis builds let you add impact with one click
Present to your audience
• Customisable presenter display with support for up to six displays
• Recorded narration
• Keynote Live lets you present a slideshow that viewers can follow from their Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and from iCloud.com
• Create self-running, interactive shows for kiosks and displays
• Control your slideshow from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch or iPod touch with Keynote for iOS
iCloud
• Turn on iCloud so you can access and edit your presentations from your Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and iCloud.com
• Use Keynote for iCloud to access and edit your presentations from a Mac or PC browser
Share a copy of your work
• Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF, QuickTime, HTML and image files
• Export your presentation as a movie or images
Some features may require Internet access; additional fees and terms may apply.
What’s New
•Edit master slides while collaborating on a presentation.
•Style your text by filling it with gradients or images, or by applying new outline styles.
•Place images, shapes and equations inline in text boxes so they move with text.
•Using face detection, subjects in photos are intelligently positioned in placeholders and objects.
•Style your text by filling it with gradients or images, or by applying new outline styles.
•Place images, shapes and equations inline in text boxes so they move with text.
•Using face detection, subjects in photos are intelligently positioned in placeholders and objects.
27 Ratings
Still good.. but
Besides the disappearance of Smart Build, the amount of crashes experienced with the new Keynote update makes it doubly disappointing. Also, the Manual Advance ability (under Quicktime export) is gone too. Heard that the new update in June will fix some of the common crash issues, but in the meantime, avoid updating it if you can!
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nice
Intuitive app
This is an old 09' app that should have been retired by apple and replaced with a better version. But the truth is, I find this app much easier to use, when compared to the 11' version of powerpoint, which I use too.
The 09' version is simply more intuitive as a graphical presentation tool. I can key/mask out pictures and set presentations to look much better, with much more efficiency than other softwares. I love that there are very intuitive subtle tools like automatic alignment when moving objects, to the aforementioned masking tool.
If youre preparing a presentation, is pressed for time, and dont have the mental stamina to dabble too much into depths, this is a great tool
The 09' version is simply more intuitive as a graphical presentation tool. I can key/mask out pictures and set presentations to look much better, with much more efficiency than other softwares. I love that there are very intuitive subtle tools like automatic alignment when moving objects, to the aforementioned masking tool.
If youre preparing a presentation, is pressed for time, and dont have the mental stamina to dabble too much into depths, this is a great tool
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