“Les Posen, president of iMUG, the Melbourne Macintosh User Group, has been invited to Macworld 2008 to run a series of workshops on Keynote, the presentation software that is part of Apple’s iLife [sic] suite of applications,” Garry Barker reports for The Age.
MacDailyNews Note: Keynote is part of Apple’s iWork, not iLife.
“‘It will be about the psychology and the neuroscience behind presentations, using Keynote’s magic to unlock a lot about how we learn and how to make your message stick. It’s a matter of less is more,’ he said,” Barker reports. “‘I also hope it will open a number of doors for my, I believe, unique take on Keynote.'”
Barker reports, “Mr. Posen is a serious opponent of what he calls the numbing of otherwise usable minds caused when people, frequently corporate types, use the same templates, charts and tired transitions of PowerPoint. It is really lack of presenter imagination exacerbated by the dull but easy-to-use templates and charts in PowerPoint.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “John Q.” for the heads up.]
death by powerpoint is not an exagerration. ( i have no idea how to spell that)
One of my lecturers at uni uses a MacBook Pro but does all his lectures on powerpoint…….I should tell him about iWork
eugh…he uses internet explorer too, I didn’t know you could still get that for macs
I use Keynote every other day at work. Great product. Also, not sure if it’s the Core Audio and Core Video, but Video in Keynote on a mac is WAY better than Video in Powerpoint on a mac. There’s just no comparison.
he uses internet explorer too, I didn’t know you could still get that for macs
You can’t. He is using an old version…
Les Posen has a most excellent web site here
Shawn… if you are running 10.4 and Safari try this: Edit > Spelling > Check Spelling as You Type, or highlight the word in question, and right/(ctrl) click it and the system will guess what you’re trying to spell correctly. I noticed with your word, I had to actually hit ‘more’ and it opened Dictionary were it properly guessed your word. Often the suggested word shows up in the drop down menu, and you can quickly choose the correct spelling, slick and easy, usually.
mw-can
@shaun,
Time to transfer. Does he use Outlook too? I don’t think I could take seriously anyone who would choose to put IE on a MacBook Pro.
The answer to iLife/iWork Whatever!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
New Vista Version Coming!
I told the marketing folk long ago that Vista needed to have five versions not four! But, being the easy-going, no-waves guy I am I let it slide, I let the “experts” have their way.
RESULTS:
Anemic, sluggish, weak, poohpooh sales!
I will no longer sit by and let this continue! Per my executive order 31148V.101 we will add to the Vista line-up – “Vista 2X Super Ultra Turbo-Ultimate”. SUTU (as I call it) will include 33% of all of the modern architecture features that we originally promised for Longhorn 3 years ago but dropped from the final version.
“Vista 2X Super Ultra Turbo-Ultimate” SUTU includes:
Dynamic Core Desktop Acceleration – DCDA
LiveTime Animotron Technology – LtAM
Windows Interscope Code Manager – WICM
The zLife Suite of applications:
StudioBand – Record up to 4 tracks of music.
zPicture – Your JPG photo manager
zWeb – Create Beautiful text webpages
zMelodies – A new skin for Mediaplayer making it a zApp
zFilm – Video editing for any WMV file
All of this Tech-goodness for just $699!
….. and it comes in a RED box.
I created a great keynote for work on my home PC but had to export it to PP because they did not have a mac at work to run it. It was not as great in PP. I would love for Apple to create a Keynote Viewer app to show the presentation on PCs. It might even cause a few business clients to switch.
@Dave L
Never thought about it. You really got it! It’ll be insanely great…
It is really lack of presenter imagination exacerbated by the dull but easy-to-use templates and charts in PowerPoint.”
My experience is PowerPoint drones use TOO MUCH imagination: they’re so proud of all their stupid little special effects that they lose their own content.
Then again, the complete bores who just read off the dreaded bullet-point lists aren’t much better.
New Vista Version Coming!
What’s with the water in Seattle?
If anyone missed it, Boeing just announced another six-month delay of their heavily-promised 787 “Dreamliner”, a plane that hasn’t even FLOWN yet!
MS was bad enough to start hawking deadcow/Vista when it was barely whiteboarded. Boeing, OTOH, started taking billions of dollars worth of orders!!
Is there some kind of “Rainier Effect” in the northwest? Or do the same cuberts just keep hopping between the two companies?
Enquiring minds wanna know… so this poison stays out of Apple!
I gotta agree with ‘Dave L’ a Keynote Viewer for PCs has surely got to be a very important app that’s long overdue.
Dave L:
I have exported my animated Keynote presentations to QuickTime (increased resolution to 1280×800) and played it even on old WinTel PCs using QuickTime. Not perfect for all solutions, but it show all of the cool animations properly.
I’ve wondered about doing that, especially when I can’t plug into a projector in my classroom–but is there an easy way to control the movement of the slides short of hitting pause or rewinding to go back? I mean, is it easier to just export to PPT for presentations, or is the QuickTime feature a better solution?
Think of the QuickTime version more of a movie – you get the same controls as a movie: space to stop/start, left to reverse, Control-F for fullscreen, etc.
“Vista 2X Super Ultra Turbo-Ultimate”. SUTU (as I call it). . .”
I thought it was called Vista 2X Super Turbo Freakin’ Ultimate”.
Or STFU as it should be known. Instead of error messages, the desktop gets soaked in flop sweat.
I use Keynote to give lectures to residents and medical students. I ALWAYS get a few people with the usual, “how in the world did you do that in PowerPoint?” Once I explain what Keynote is and tell them that it is only one of 3 programs in suite for only $79, they know Mafia$oft has been bending them over a barrel for all these years.
Vaseline not included!
Dave L, I forgive you for appropriating part of my name.
You are absolutely right. Certain apps, like iTunes, should be ported to the Windows platform. Others, like Keynote, only need to have a “player” ported to that platform. And, once you have the player built, you could port it over to Linux and … Mac! A Keynote Reader, similar to the Acrobat Reader. Why port back to the Mac? So you can build your presentation on a PowerMac at the office and present it from your MacBook while on tour.
Dave
@ steveballmer LMAO hilarious, im gonna buy SUTU immediately when it comes out, probably a couple years too late as usual but i can wait for it to get behind apple, were used to it.
yeah ive been trying to start using keynote on a regular basis ever since i got my mac a year ago, i try not to use power point as much as i can for speeches and some presentations. keynote is better and powerpoint is clearly old and outmatched =/ stupid redmond.
My partner is working on a very important presentation right now, and I’ve been begging him to let me do it in Keynote rather than PowerPoint. He’d need a MacBook, though, since his laptop is a Dell. But, I do have him convinced that his next computer will be a Mac, it’s just he doesn’t want to spend the money yet.
At any rate, I’ve been telling him that “less is more” when it comes to presentations, and to not even think about using bullet lists. Especially since I’ll be there for the presentation. He doesn’t want me to “accidentally” unplug the projector mid-presentation.
“Is there some kind of “Rainier Effect” in the northwest? Or do the same cuberts just keep hopping between the two companies?”
Hey! Them’s fightin’ words!!!