Jumsoft has announced Keynote Objects FX 4.0, an update to its 3D image collection for Apple’s iWork suite. The upgrade brings the total number of objects up to 150, covering items ranging from classic furniture to gift boxes. The 50 new ones are geared towards sports and leisure. Each image is optimized for Keynote presentation use, at a resolution of 1024x768.
Jumsoft has released an update to its collection of images, Pages Clipart, designed to illustrate everything from presentations to web pages. The package delivers 500 images to choose from, 200 of which are new to v5. Features include transparent image backgrounds and PDF formatting, allowing users to place images on top of different colors or patterns and resize images without effecting quality.
Recosoft has launched a new PDF converter, PDF2Office, for iWork '08 and '09. The software converts PDF files by changing each page to an equivalent format for either Keynote or Pages. It recreates paragraphs, reconstructs tables and can regroup independent graphical elements. The utility also retains most layout elements of the original PDF.
Jumsoft has launched a new collection of Keynote animations, Keynote Animations FX 7.0. The set contains over 100 animated images for Apple's presentation software, including 30 unique to v7.0. The art has been deliberately stripped of any backgrounds, and it is said to work with blends, overlays and underlays, also offering easy repositioning.
Keynote Pro has introduced its latest presentation theme, Warp Series: Elevation for Keynote '09. The theme is built entirely with native shapes and image placeholders, allowing users to change the colors of the background, panels, strokes and accents on the master slides. It uses 34 masters in total, each with slightly different background and content areas.
Keynote users have seven new themes to work with, from three different companies. iPresentee has released Keynote Motion Themes 7.0, with five new themes. These include Backsight, Techno, Brown Target, Green Breeze and Dancing Bubbles; each ships with 15 master slide layouts and moving background graphics. They require iWork '08 or '09, and cost $25 together or $10 separately.
In Brief: iPresentee has announced the release of a new set of themes for Apple's Keynote software. The new Motion Themes package includes five new themes and is available for $25. Additionally, a new set of iWeb themes have been released by iWebTemplate. Seven new customizable packages have been introduced, with each available for $10.
Apple has published a podcast of its "Rock & Roll" media event held Wednesday in San Francisco, marking Steve Jobs' first keynote since receiving a liver transplant during a leave of absence. The iconic CEO was met with a lengthy standing ovation before he acknowledged the transplant and procedure and expressed thanks for the generosity of the organ donor.
Divine Fiat has released Take Two Redux, a new theme for Apple's Keynote software. The theme features a slate board clapper, with white text on a black background. Designed with video professionals in mind, it uses resizable media placeholders in four common film ratios - 4:3, 16:9, 1.85:1 and 2.35:1 -- as well as customizable buttons and icons.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Apple VP Phil Schiller gave what could be the company's final Macworld Expoo keynote, announcing the 17-inch Unibody MacBook Pro as well as iWork '09 and iLife '09 software upgrades. The company also announced big changes in iTunes, including variable song pricing (due in March) as well as a move to a fully DRM-free catalog (by end of March). Apple has also posted a QuickTime stream of the MWSF keynote.
Complementing its iLife '09 debut, Apple has announced iWork '09, an upgraded productivity suite. The suite's presentation app, Keynote '09, has been enhanced with a new Magic Move feature, which lets users pick the start- and endpoints of objects, and in turn generate transitions automatically; some new transitions include text types such as swings and shimmering, and chart types like slides and rotations. New themes have been added, and users can now manage Keynote presentations from an iPhone or iPod touch. The Keynote Remote app is selling for 99 cents at the App Store.
Jumsoft has announced Keynote Backgrounds FX 3.0, the latest update to its package of motion backgrounds for Keynote presentations. The release adds 10 new backgrounds to the previous set of 16. The content can also be used as screen savers or configured to run on a continuous loop. Seven themes are offered including water, wood-fiber, redsmoke, brushstroke, cells, ocean vivacity and autumn tune.
Keynote Theme Park has announced its latest Keynote add-ons, animated Curtains and Globes. Both come in nine optional colors, and can be played as QuickTime movies with an alpha channel. Curtains includes opening and closing sequences, designed for standard and widescreen presentations.
Apple today announced that it will no longer exhibit at the Macworld Expo after the January 2009 event. Not only is the company pulling its presence from the show floor, but also from the keynote address. Many of the attendees that paid nearly $2000 for keynote priority seating may be disappointed to find out that Steve Jobs will not be giving the final keynote address. The senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, Philip Schiller, will speak to the crowd instead.
Jumsoft has continued its Goodies series of free releases by publishing 10 Keynote Themes. The themes are available to everyone but geared towards professionals, and include titles such as Artistic, Black, Education Pro, Iron, Old Paper, Simple and Wood. Each theme is presented with standard sizes from 1280x1024 through to 2560x1600, and also has custom bullets. Themes can be exported to PDF, QuickTime and other image formats.
Jumsoft has released the third edition of Keynote Photos, its image collection for Apple's presentation software. The update adds approximately 100 images for a total of over 300, all of which are sized to 1024x768, the maximum resolution supported by Keynote presentations. The photos are divided into "textured" and "solid-colored" themes, mainly for appropriate meshing with foreground text.
Jumsoft is shipping Keynote Objects FX 3.0, its latest art collection for Mac apps. Objects FX is in particular aimed at both Keynote and Pages, and supplies a variety of pre-rendered 3D images for inclusion in presentations or documents. Version 3.0 doubles the collection size from 50 to 100, in categories including the likes of parties, plants, and soft or metallic objects.
Jumsoft has announced Goodies, a new product line of themes and animations for Apple software. Goodies will be free downloads for customer, including infrequent customers, featuring a variety of themes or animations for Keynote, iWeb and Mail. They will be available around national holidays. The first three goodies are Halloween and Teddy, for iWeb, along with ten Mail Stationery designs. Each theme arrives with page layouts for different needs, such as Welcome, About Me, Photos, My Albums, Movie, Podcast, Blog and more.
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Add-on producer iPresentee says it is now shipping Keynote Themes 3.0, an updated collection of its themes for Apple's presentation software. New to the pack are 10 more themes: Chocolate, Bloom, Book, Black Sea, Stripe, Blue Curve and Metal Lead, as well as Brown, Blue and Yellow versions of Conformation. Each contains a pre-arranged set of colors, fonts, backgrounds and frames, and can be scaled in resolution steps from 800x600 through to 1920x1080. Animation and effects can be added as necessary.
iPresentee has released Keynote Alphabet, a Keynote-compatible collection of animated letters and numbers, with all 26 letters of the alphabet, in both capital and lowercase, and numerals from zero to nine. The package allows users to create animated words and phrases with transparent or colored backgrounds. The objects can be changed in size, rotation and opacity and support overlapping one another.
iPresentee has released Keynote Motion Themes 3.0, which includes five new themes for Apple's Keynote presentation software. The themes coordinate backgrounds, fonts and colors to create different styles. Version 3.0 incorporates Geography, Rings, Brush Stroke, Red Planet and Stock Market themes.
Apple has posted the Keynote recording from this morning's Let's Rock event, hosted at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The Keynote recording recaps the various launches: 4th generation iPod nanos, revised iPod classics, the sleek iPod touch, iTunes 8.0, and the inclusion of HDTV shows. The event also saw the return of NBC to the iTunes fold, after a feud over the iTunes pricing structure had NBC folding up its wares several months ago.
iPresentee has released Keynote Animations 2.0, an expansion on to its existing line of animations; the set keeps 50 animations from the previous release and adds 30 new animations -- all of which support transparency allowing them to be used on any background. The animations can be resized, rotated, increased or decreased in opacity or overlapped to create new effects. Adding animations has been made as simple as possible, a user must only select the desired animation and then drag it into the appropriate location on a slide.
iPresentee has announced Keynote Themes 2.0, an update to its theme collection, including ten new themes for Apple's Keynote presentation software. Each of the ten new themes coordinate backgrounds, fonts, colors and frames to create unique styles within each theme. Keynote Themes 2.0 include Autumn Colors, Starfish, Orange Bubble, Green Mile, Wallpaper, Time Graffiti, Brown Light, Eyesight, Built on Sand and Grey Line, and are available now for $25. The themes require Mac OS X 10.4.10 or higher with iWork '08 installed.
iPresentee has released Keynote Motion Themes 2.0 for Apple's Keynote presentation software. The new visual themes are Money, Rain, Exercise Book, Story and Curtain, all of which include fourteen or more master slide layouts and moving background graphics. Keynote Motion Themes 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.4.10 and QuickTime 7.2 (the minimum for iWork '08) with iWork '08 installed. Individual Keynote Motion Themes are priced at $10. The package of all five themes is available for $25.
Two new products offer more choices for users of Apple’s iWork suite. Ipresentee is offering free downloads of Keynote Objects -- images for use in Keynote presentations and Pages documents. IWebtemplate, meanwhile, is partnering with iPresentee and 11 Mystics to add 22 templates to its online store. Each template is available for individual download.
Past concerns for the health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs are resurfacing after his demonstration of the iPhone onstage at the WWDC keynote, with a spokeswoman passing off his mince physique as a "common bug". The Wall Street Journal reports that, in addition to the new iPhone, bloggers and internet news sites are abuzz with talk of whether Jobs is in good health or not. Jobs recently suffered from pancreatic cancer, which was revealed after it was believed to have been treated.
Apple on Monday released QuickTime 7.5, an update to its multimedia software (available for both Macs and PCs). The software, according to the company, improves application compatibility and addresses five security issues; it "is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users." The download is 60MB and available via the Software Update for Tiger, Panther, and Leopard users. In addition, Apple has also posted the QuickTime/MPEG video stream of the keynote. Our own coverage is still available online and we have a full gallery of photos.
MacNN on Monday attended the WWDC keynote at Moscone West in San Francisco, and assembled a Flickr gallery of the event. Before the highly-anticipated keynote kicked off, attendees anxiously wait outside in the early morning, eagerly anticipating a glimpse of the iPhone's second official incarnation. Banners on walls and ceilings teased event goers with vague, but insightful, phrases as they mulled about enjoying a nice pre-show breakfast.
MacNN expects to provide live coverage of the WWDC Keynote, which begins at 10 am/1pm ET. The lineup has already started and FastMac, who announced five T-shirt designs to commemorate WWDC 2008 and Apple’s imminent launch of a new iPhone, said it would give away T-shirts for free outside the Moscone Convention Center 12 AM and 6 AM on June 9th and that while supplies last, the T-shirts will also be available for order from FastMac’s website.
With Apple's keynote less than 12 hours away (live coverage here)), attendees have already begun lining up outside Moscone Center West. The line as of 11 pm PT had eight people -- all of whom expected to spend all night waiting. The first person in line reportedly showed up around 1:30 pm on Sunday and a second person joined the line a few hours later. A group of students from Connecticut, who work for Tooble.TV, later showed up around 6:30 pm. They told MacNN, however, that Apple security refused to provide an extension cord from the building for charging their laptops and iPhones, although IDG Expo, the company that produces the annual Macworld Expo, had done the same for for those waiting in line ahead of the Expo keynote. On Friday, we posted some early photos of Moscone Center.
Keynote Pro on Friday unveiled an updated theme, Palo Alto '08, offering users a standard 4:3 ratio, and a professional version which comes in high-definition widescreen formats. Palo Alto borrows its style from that of the San Francisco Bay area, while still maintaining a technical edge to its look. Also included is an iPhone-optimized EP version, for presentations on-the-go. KeynotePro is selling Palo Alto '08 Standard Edition for $25, while the Pro Edition theme is available for $35.
KeynotePro has released a new version of its Palo Alto themes collection, which has been updated for Keynote '08. The themes are described as "clean" and "business-casual," with high contrast between color and whitespace. The Keynote '08 versions have been built using only native shape objects and placeholders, and the white backgrounds can be replaced via an option in the Appearance Inspector.
