June 23 - 2:05pm EDT   Two news sets of Keynote products are now available for Apple's presentation software. Jumsoft has added 10 new Keynote Backgrounds to its Goodies bundle. The additions feature "motion backgrounds" that can be looped for endless playback using QuickTime Player. The backgrounds are compatible with other Jumsoft products, such as Keynote Animations and Keynote Objects. The ten Keynote Backgrounds consist of postmodern space images, nature sceneries, various patters, and other designs. [full story]

June 8 - 12:05pm EDT   MacNN and Electronista are covering Apple's WWDC keynote live and will be providing updates from the event as they happen, including photos where possible. Apple is expected to finish detailing iPhone OS 3.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and may introduce a new iPhone lineup as well as other products at the developer gathering. [full story]

June 7 - 12:30pm EDT   KeynotePro has released a new presentation theme for Keynote '09, MagnetBoard. The theme consists of various whole-framed and mixed-element layouts. The theme includes Freeform Master templates that enable users to create their own slide layouts using the included Supplemental Objects library. The MagnetBoard theme is available in 3 editions that feature a variety of of master templates and screen sizes. [full story]

June 4 - 4:55pm EDT   Jumsoft has introduced five new themes for v8.0 of its Keynote Themes pack: Hot Chocolate, Glacier, Vintage, Purple, and Architecture. Each theme consists of different backgrounds and features up to 30 different layout schemes. Including the five new themes, Keynote Themes 8.0 includes a total 25 themes. [full story]

May 29 - 9:15am EDT   Apple has posted a minor update for iWork '09, the company's in-house productivity suite. The v9.0.2 patch is said to implement only two changes: improved reliability when saving a document, and similar stability when playing a presentation more than once during a Keynote session. The update is a 42.75MB download from Apple's website. [full story]

May 12 - 12:00pm EDT   Keynote Zone has launched its self-named site, dedicated to providing themes for Apple’s Keynote presentation software. The website currently holds five original themes, available in either standard or HD formats: these include Metal, Rounded, Corporate, R&W and Paper. The Metal theme is technology-based and consists of 45 layouts, charts and tables. The HD version offers special metal door transitions. [full story]

May 6 - 3:35pm EDT   iPresentee has released its sixth set of motion themes for Apple's Keynote software, simply titled Keynote Motion Themes 6.0. The five themes in v6.0 are Old Film, Flourish Glow, Atomic Motion, Intramolecular and TV Noise. Each theme has between 15 to 26 master slide layouts, moving background graphics sized at 1024x768, and coordinated fonts, colors, bullets and picture frames. [full story]

April 17 - 10:10am EDT   iPresentee has launched Keynote Themes 4.0 in tandem with a free collection of Keynote themes for Apple's presentation software. The former extends the company’s total number of Keynote themes up to 72, with 10 additional designs: Movie, Metallic, Plasma, Chinese Symbols, Paper Flower, Paint Drops, Black and Red, Golden Ornament, Reflection and Bamboo. The four free Keynote themes include Chocolate, Autumn Colors, Red Cloud and Movie. [full story]

April 15 - 10:05pm EDT   Divine Fiat has announced Concrete and Cardboard, a new theme set for Apple’s Keynote software. Concrete features scarred blacktop and painted caution strips, with design elements for bold presentations. The Cardboard theme is subtler, offering a mix of light brown and dark brown colors, and includes lightly-aged photo frames to complete the look. Both themes provide an array of customizable icon objects, along with new color and texture palettes. [full story]

March 13 - 3:25pm EDT   iPresentee has released Keynote 3D Stuff 2.0, an updated package of 3D images meant for Apple’s Keynote, iWeb and Pages. Expanding on the previous version, which contained 70 images, the new Stuff package provides 45 more 3D objects for a total of 115. Each object is designed for Keynote presentations measuring up to 1024x768, and Pages or iWeb documents of any size. [full story]

February 18 - 4:35pm EST   Jumsoft has released Keynote Quartet FX '09, which includes Keynote Animations FX 6.0, Keynote Themes FX 4.0, Keynote Backgrounds FX 3.0 and Keynote Objects FX 3.0. The upgraded Keynote Quartet includes 110 new items, and Keynote Themes 7.0 as a bonus. Among the new items for Apple's Keynote software are 25 animations, 10 moving backgrounds, five moving themes and 50 objects. Keynote Animations FX 6.0 incorporates 125 animations in total, while Keynote Themes FX 4.0 consists of 10 motion themes. [full story]

February 5 - 4:55pm EST   Jumsoft has released Keynote Themes FX 4.0, a package of motion themes for Keynote that combines five new themes with five themes from a previous version. Themes added in the update include Finance, Velvet Draft, Blue Cubes, Cinema '60 and Holidays; the earlier themes are Redsmoke, Brushstroke, Cells, Ocean, Vivacity and Autumn Tune. Each of the new themes consists of 14 master slide layouts, and allows for editing and formatting text, selecting colors, and placing images. [full story]

January 26 - 6:15pm EST   Featuring soft shadows and grey tones, Divine Fiat has released Keynote Air, the latest addition to its line of Keynote theme sets. Keynote Air comes with two themes Lightly Serious and Seriously Light. [full story]

January 14 - 4:40pm EST   iPresentee has launched Keynote Motion Themes 4.0, its fourth collection of themes for Apple's Keynote software. The pack contains 12 flag-based themes, covering 12 regions: these include the US, EU, Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Spain, France, Japan, Netherlands, Australia, Sweden and Italy. Each has 17 master slide layouts, with moving background graphics. The themes can mix with non-motion Keynote presentations as breakaways. [full story]

January 12 - 11:00am EST   Keynote is the oldest and most mature program of the iWork suite, which has regularly bested Microsoft PowerPoint in features and ease of use from its inception. With the latest version, Apple has continued innovating to keep Keynote '09 the star of the entire iWork suite. [full story]