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Keynote
Keynote '08 (4), part of iWork '08
Developer	Apple Inc.
Latest release	4.0.1 / September 27, 2007
OS	Mac OS X
Genre	Presentation
License	Proprietary
Website	Apple: Keynote

Keynote is a presentation software application developed by Apple Inc. and a part of the iWork productivity suite (which also includes Pages and Numbers) developed by Apple. Released in August 2007, the latest version, Keynote 4, runs on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard only.

Keynote began as a software program for Apple CEO Steve Jobs to use in creating the presentations for Macworld Conference and Expo and other Apple keynote events. The program was first sold publicly as Keynote 1.0 in 2003 for $99, competing against existing presentation software, most notably Microsoft PowerPoint. Unlike PowerPoint, Keynote has full support for almost all image types, and the interface and design are much more graphic-oriented, allowing the creation of what advocates of the program think of as more visually appealing slides. Since Keynote makes use of Mac OS X's built-in graphics technologies such as Quartz, it can produce such slides very easily. In addition, Keynote includes truly 3D transitions, such as a rotating cube or a simple flip of the slide.

In 2005 Apple began selling Keynote 2.0 in conjunction with Pages, a new word processing and page layout application, in a $79 software package called iWork. At Macworld San Francisco 2006, Apple released iWork '06 with updated versions of Keynote 3.0 and Pages 2.0. In addition to official HD compatibility, Keynote 3 added new features, including group scaling, 3D charts, multi-column text boxes, auto bullets in any text field, image adjustments, and free form masking tools.

In the fall of 2007, Apple released Keynote 4.0 in iWork 08, along with Pages 3.0 and the new Numbers 1.0 spreadsheet.

Former Vice-President Al Gore made extensive use of Keynote during his international talks on global warming and the software was featured in the film An Inconvenient Truth. Gore once remarked at an address at UCSD that his position on Apple's board allowed him to petition for the reintroduction of "bounce" feature taken off in previous versions.

Lawrence Lessig and Aaron Swartz frequently use Keynote for pitching using a technique referred to as "slides as chorus" or the Lessig Method. The presenter speaks fluently and never refers to the slides or reads from them. Each slide contains either a simple graphic or a very short string of text, sometime a single word. While speaking, the slides are advanced in sync with what is being said, so there can be several slides displayed per sentence. The fast paced presentation style enables a skilled pitcher to create excitement and inject humor into their presentation.

• Themes that allow the user to keep consistency in colors and fonts throughout the presentation, including charts, graphs and tables.
• OpenGL-powered 3D slide transitions and builds 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, Flash, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, HTML (with JPEG images) and PowerPoint. Keynote also uses .key (presentation files) and .kth (theme files) bundles based on XML. [1]
• Supports all QuickTime video formats (including MPEG-2 and DV) in slideshows.
• Version 3 brings export to iDVD with clickability
• Compatibility with Apple Remote

• Presentation program
• Slideshow

• Official website of Keynote
• Keynote Yahoo! Group — Help and advice for users of Keynote
• iWork Yahoo! Group — Help and advice for users of Apple's iWork (Pages and Keynote)
• Hints for inserting equations in Keynote.