The Unofficial Apple Weblog today posted an article on how to use Keynote in place of Apple Motion in a pinch. We’ve been doing this for several years and have heard of other video editors who also use Keynote for doing titles or quick animation sequences. This brings up a good point…will Apple ever release a title and animation program as easy to use as Keynote? We hope so.

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Basset Software has released Slide Runner for Keynote. Slide Runner is a little app that adds flipbook style animations to keynote presentations, to graphically give the audience an idea of how long a presentation is.

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Apple® today announced that its groundbreaking iWork® productivity apps, Keynote®, Pages® and Numbers®, are now available for iPhone® and iPod touch®, as well as iPad®. Created for the Mac® and then completely redesigned for iOS and Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ interface, Keynote, Pages and Numbers allow you to create and share stunning presentations, beautifully formatted documents and powerful spreadsheets on the go. iWork apps are available on the App Store™ for $9.99 each to new users and as a free update for existing iWork for iPad customers.

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Since I’ve grossly neglected posting over the last month or two, I thought I’d highlight our Resources page. On it you can find useful links to a large number of Keynote theme sites. Yes, we’d love for you to buy our commercial themes (see the ad in the right side bar) but honestly, people’s needs and tastes vary greatly, and we only offer a few themes. There are literally hundreds of themes out there from the various companies, and if you’re looking for something specific, you’ll likely find it on one of those sites.

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Graphic Node, a graphic design company that specializes in creating themes, templates, and illustrations for Mac OS X, is pleased to announce an addition to its range of themes for Apple’s Keynote. The selection of 10 smartly structured, elegant Still Themes offers its users a broad scope of possibilities to turn their presentations into standout productions.

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Acrosync LLC recently released and updated Acrosync, the first and only rsync client for iOS in the App Store. With Acrosync, you can easily transfer files from any computers that have rsync installed (including most mac/linux desktops) to your iOS devices and keep them in sync. No USB cable is required. No installation of server software. No need to physically access the remote computers.

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