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Keynote is a presentation program application made by Apple Computer for their Mac OS X operating system. Keynote version 2 was announced on 11 January 2005 as part of the iWork software package (which also includes the Pages word processing and page layout program). The combined package has a retail price of $79 USD.

=History=

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 eventually sold publicly as Keynote 1.0 for $99 (US), and in some respects was a vast improvement over existing presentation software, such as Microsoft PowerPoint. Unlike PowerPoint, Keynote has full support for almost all image types, and the interface and design are much more graphic-oriented, typically creating very sharp and beautiful slides. Since Keynote makes use of Mac OS X s built-in graphics technologies such as Quartz (graphics layer), it can produce visually appealing slides very easily. In addition, Keynote includes truly 3D transitions, such as a rotating cube or a simple flip of the slide.

It is reputed that early versions of Keynote are very close to the Lighthouse Design Concurrence (Lighthouse Design) presentation software, which Jobs was said to have appreciated greatly in his move from glass slides to the electronic version using NeXTSTEP [http://www.simson.net/nextworld/92.3/92.3.Fall.How-To1.html] (NeXTWORLD).

Roger Rosner [http://homepage.mac.com/rrrosner/resume.html], director of Apple Computer and previous founder and director of Lighthouse Design, has contributed greatly to Concurrence and other Lighthouse applications.

Apple released Keynote 2.0 during Macworld San Francisco in conjunction with Pages, a new word processing application. The two applications were sold together in a software package called iWork, selling for $79.

=Features=

*Themes that allow the user to keep consistency in colors and fonts throughout the presentation, including charts, graphs and tables. *3D computer graphics slide transitions 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 Portable Document Format, QuickTime, Flash and PowerPoint. Keynote also uses .key files based on XML. [http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2067.html]

=See also=

*Microsoft PowerPoint, especially the section Microsoft PowerPoint#Cultural effects

=External links=