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Keynote is a presentation software application made by Apple for its Mac OS X operating system.
Keynote was a software program that Steve Jobs, the chief executive officer of Apple used for his own presentations. It was eventually sold publicly as Keynote 1.0 competing against existing presentation software, especially Microsoft PowerPoint. Unlike PowerPoint, Keynote has full support for almost all image types, and the interface and design are much more graphic-oriented. Since Keynote makes use of Mac OS X's built-in graphics technologies, it can produce such slides very easily.
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| Version Number |
Release Date |
Changes |
| 1.0 |
January 7, 2003 |
Initial release. |
| 1.1 |
June 04, 2003 |
Various enhancements to improve functionality and compatibility. |
| 1.1.1 |
October 28, 2003 |
Improved stability and several user experience enhancements. |
| 2.0 |
January 11, 2005 |
Released as part of the new iWork 05 package. Includes new transitions/animations, 20 new themes, new presenter tools and improved export options, including export to Flash. |
| 2.0.1 |
March 21, 2005 |
Addressed isolated issues that may have affected reliability. |
| 2.0.2 |
May 25, 2005 |
Addressed isolated issues that may have affected reliability. |
| 3.0 |
January 10, 2006 |
New version released as part of the iWork 06 package. Includes new transitions/animations, new themes and graphics. Also compiled to run natively on both PowerPC and Intel processors as a universal binary. |
| 3.0.1 |
April 4, 2006 |
This update to Keynote 3.0 addresses issues with three-dimensional charts and textures. It also addresses a number of other minor issues. This update should be installed on all computers that share your Keynote 3.0 files, so that textures display properly. |
| 3.0.1v2 |
May 1, 2006 |
This update to Keynote 3.0 addresses issues with three-dimensional charts and textures. It also addresses a number of other minor issues. This update should be installed on all computers that share your Keynote 3.0 files, so that textures display properly. |
- Al Gore, a member of the board of directors for Apple as of 2006, uses Keynote for a lecture about Global Warming which he claims to have shown over a thousand times. The talk was made into a film, An Inconvenient Truth. During the film he can be seen using Keynote on a Powerbook to design a slide for his presentation.
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