I had to give a talk about the usefulness of the iPad in medicine and decided to bite the bullet and use my iPad rather than the usual laptop+PowerPoint affair. I created the slides in Keynote on my MacPro and saved to my iDisk then opened in Keynote on the iPad. Once plugged into the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Apple Keynote'
my first iPad presentation!
July 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Apple Keynote, iPad, iPhone presenter apps
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Apple Keynote app on iPad seems to miss the mark
June 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Apple Keynote, iPad, Things to avoid, Uncategorized
As an avid Keynote user on the Mac, like others I was excited to have Keynote for the iPad. But there seems to be problems with font substitutions, lack of availability of our Master slides and loads of other problems. Sounds like you need to use standard fonts (i.e. those available on iPad – this [...]
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Using the iPad for presentations
August 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Apple Keynote, iPad, PowerPoint
Having recently bought an iPad I am excited about the prospect of using it to give my talks. I haven’t used it yet and am anxious about how the whole thing works. Is it as good as using a laptop? My 17″ MacBook Pro is heavy, so being able to project my slides using a [...]
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Keynote Pro templates
December 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Apple Keynote, Designer worth noting
I normally stay away from templates for PowerPoint and Keynote but Keynote Pro has some gorgeous pre-made templates if you need inspiration for an important presentation. I have bought a few of these and particularly like the “OM 08” template for Apple Keynote. You can use the blue or green version, but both are very [...]
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Using iPhone 3GS as presentation remote
November 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Apple Keynote, iPhone presenter apps
I gave a couple of talks today and decided to try the app Pointer instead of my usual remote. I was using my MacBook Pro with my presentation in Keynote. However this app does not work only with Keynote – it is a great remote for PowerPoint, too.
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Keynote is better than PowerPoint:
Any thoughts/contributions?
September 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Apple Keynote, Bad PowerPoint, Great design
Lots of people reading about saving PPT as JPEGs, how to end a PPT talk but no comments yet! Come on, I am sure someone must have something to contribute! PowerPoint is bad/good – Keynote is much better (it really is). Or let me know if there’s anything you want me to cover here – [...]
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Using PowerPoint & Keynote
together for stunning presentations
June 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Apple Keynote, Great design, PowerPoint
Jason Valalik has produced a very useful video showing how you can have the best of both worlds i.e. Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote. His video is shown here: http://www.jasonvalalik.com/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,29/p,623/ Why would you want to use both? Because there are things PowerPoint does well that are not available in Keynote and vice versa.
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