Keynote

Keynote is a presentation software application made by Apple Computer for their Mac OS X operating system. Keynote version 2 was announced on 11 January 2005 as part of the iWork software package (which also includes the Pages word processing and page layout program). The combined package has a retail price of $79 USD.

History

It is reputed that early versions of Keynote are very close to the Lighthouse Design Concurrence presentation software, which Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was said to have appreciated greatly in his move from glass slides to the electronic version using NeXTSTEP [1] (http://www.simson.net/nextworld/92.3/92.3.Fall.How-To1.html) (NeXTWORLD).

Roger Rosner [2] (http://homepage.mac.com/rrrosner/resume.html), director of Apple Computer and previous founder and director of Lighthouse Design, has contributed greatly to Concurrence and other Lighthouse applications.

Features

• Themes that allow the user to keep consistency in colors and fonts throughout the presentation, including charts, graphs and tables.
• 3D slide transitions that resemble rolling cubes or flipping pages, or dissolving transitions that fade one slide into the next.
• Dual monitor support: the presenter can show the presentation on a screen and still see the desktop or notes from his or her laptop.
• Exports to PDF, Quicktime, and PowerPoint. Keynote also uses .key files based on XML. [3] (http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2067.html)

See also

• Microsoft PowerPoint, especially the section Cultural effects

External links

• Keynote web site (http://www.apple.com/keynote/)

Keynote is also the name of a tree-based text editor produced by Tranglos Software (http://www.tranglos.com). It is based on the Tree text (like Treepad) concept of allowing "nodes" in a tree panel to represent separate fields from within a single text file.