Keynote for iPad
With the touch/tap of a finger you can now create your presentation on a mobile device, upload it online and share it with whoever you want. Sounds edgy, right? Well, here are a few things good to know, before you roll down your sleeves...
1. Creating ~The custom designed themes are I must say, state of the art and you can use the media browser to add photos and videos from your iPad Photo Library. It automatically saves your work, so if you need to quit the app, you can go back where you left, without loosing work. You have the ability to personalize the templates by changing fonts, adding custom frames to your images, masks, shadows, animated slide transitions. If you get to that part (animations!) you should be prepared that the app will crash on you, couple times - you might even need to restart your iPad to recuperate your work. But the good news is that everything will be there, you don't loose progress during this challenging segment. However, the transitions will only work in Keynote,hence on the iPad/
2. Presenting ~ When it comes to running the presentation you can do it directly on your iPad if you have a small audience; you can have anyone open it on their iPad, if you have a gadgety audience or you can connect your iPad to a projector using an optonal adapter (haven't tried that one yet) and present to a large audience. The downside is that when you have it in presentation mode it won't display on your iPad as well as the projector/
3. Sharing ~ Although you have the option to e-mail it in Keynote or PDF format, the file size will make that challenging. But if you want to move it on your computer you can use File Sharing. The part I find inconvenient about it is that Keynote format only works on iPad, so you can export/download only in PDF format on another computer. Keynote is not compatible with Power Point, so don't get your PC involved, unless you just want to have a PDF copy. The <iSync everything> drive that's been pushed by Apple has a better solution, if you want to have your presentation available on-line, and share it (by invite only- so it's not public!) - you can just upload directly from your iPad to iWorks and it will store it for you and it's accessible through internet connection/
Overall, for the price of $9.99 this app delivers similar capabilities as Power Point for a fraction of the price, but you have to be in the IPad club to be able to share as intended, otherwise you will end up with a nice PDF/
Featured Keynote Presentation
1. Creating ~The custom designed themes are I must say, state of the art and you can use the media browser to add photos and videos from your iPad Photo Library. It automatically saves your work, so if you need to quit the app, you can go back where you left, without loosing work. You have the ability to personalize the templates by changing fonts, adding custom frames to your images, masks, shadows, animated slide transitions. If you get to that part (animations!) you should be prepared that the app will crash on you, couple times - you might even need to restart your iPad to recuperate your work. But the good news is that everything will be there, you don't loose progress during this challenging segment. However, the transitions will only work in Keynote,hence on the iPad/
2. Presenting ~ When it comes to running the presentation you can do it directly on your iPad if you have a small audience; you can have anyone open it on their iPad, if you have a gadgety audience or you can connect your iPad to a projector using an optonal adapter (haven't tried that one yet) and present to a large audience. The downside is that when you have it in presentation mode it won't display on your iPad as well as the projector/
3. Sharing ~ Although you have the option to e-mail it in Keynote or PDF format, the file size will make that challenging. But if you want to move it on your computer you can use File Sharing. The part I find inconvenient about it is that Keynote format only works on iPad, so you can export/download only in PDF format on another computer. Keynote is not compatible with Power Point, so don't get your PC involved, unless you just want to have a PDF copy. The <iSync everything> drive that's been pushed by Apple has a better solution, if you want to have your presentation available on-line, and share it (by invite only- so it's not public!) - you can just upload directly from your iPad to iWorks and it will store it for you and it's accessible through internet connection/
Overall, for the price of $9.99 this app delivers similar capabilities as Power Point for a fraction of the price, but you have to be in the IPad club to be able to share as intended, otherwise you will end up with a nice PDF/
Featured Keynote Presentation
Posted by Simona Surdu at 6/17/2010 10:52 AM 
Categories: Marketing Communications
Tags: iWorks Presentation Tools iPad
Categories: Marketing Communications
Tags: iWorks Presentation Tools iPad
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