Overview
Keynote 3 is Apple's next-generation slide-show presentation software for delivering compelling presentations, building cinema-quality slideshows, studio-quality photography portfolios, animated storyboards, and more, all with ease and elegance. You can incorporate photos, movies or music from your iLife libraries, as well any graphics from Safari. Keynote is Apple's equivalent to Microsoft's PowerPoint. It is intended to make the process of creating a presentation about as easy as it gets. However, while not perfect, Keynote 3 has become a compelling alternative to PowerPoint, which has become the de-facto presentation tool used by professionals and managers alike.
Summary
Keynote 3 has evolved and expanded on its past strengths with new and unique capabilities, such as polished templates, cinematic transitions, textured 3-D charts, Bezier curves and masking, tables with calculations, and export to iDVD and iPhoto. I found it exciting and fun to create and edit slides in Keynote versus doing it in PowerPoint. Keynote continues to eat into the well established world of Microsoft's PowerPoint. Compatibility between the two applications has increased substantially since the early days of Keynote 1. There are still some drawbacks, to Keynote, such as resizing images in Light Table view and the way Keynote handles missing fonts. As Mac OS X software continues to grow with innovative features, and new and cost competitive Mac laptops and desktop computers increasing Apple's market share, Keynote will be in the hands of more and more professionals and managers, yielding snappier, smoother and more professional presentations.
Pros
- Default themes are elegant, refined and sophisticated
- Inspector and Media Browser provide simple interface to facilitate ease of creation and modification of data
- Bezier curves and 3-D charts for advanced graphic effects
- Ability to export your finished presentation in a number of different formats
Cons
- Incompatibility in text boxes from PowerPoint to Keynote when fonts are different
- Inability to embed hyperlinks to applications or documents
- Unable to increase the size of the images in the Light Table view
Overall Rating
4 out of 5 Mice
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