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Apr 03, 08 - 06:21 pm Comment from: BarryP13

Gee...if apple keeps up these updates my MacBook Pro will be so snappy will break!

Works great! Over the past year I have completely switched from PPT to Keynote for work presentations. I expected to have problems with some clients, but none have occurred at all. Most cases, I send cllients exported PDFs from Keynote, but the QT and PPT exports also work well. Looking forward to the day I can just send a Keynote file to everyone.

Apr 03, 08 - 06:46 pm Comment from: TowerTone

For some reason, after last nights updates, my Time Machine would not stop trying to backup. I couldn't stop it, so I finally tried to restart. It would not shut down, so I finally had to unplug it. Then I got a white screen on start up. After 5 minutes, I rebooted again, and it came up, Time Machine did a couple of minutes to back up, and all was fine till this afternoon, when it hung up again.

Damn!

Apr 03, 08 - 07:06 pm Comment from: Spark

@TT
Laptop? I'm having issue with Time Machine on my MB Pro.

Apr 03, 08 - 07:37 pm Comment from: TowerTone

Spark
iMac.

Apr 03, 08 - 08:27 pm Comment from: Jim - TIV

TT.... I had the same issue (before the recent updates) with my time capsule until I erased it and started over. Working good now.

Apr 03, 08 - 10:12 pm Comment from: TowerTone

Thanks, Jim

Al Gore's inconvenient truth presentation is now snappier!

Apr 04, 08 - 03:00 am Comment from: HolyMackerel

@Bud Why+Zer

I agree. I have exported KeyNote presentations to QT for others with PC laptops as self-running, looping presentations.

I see it still didn't fix the transparency bug with animated gifs. Sigh.

Apr 04, 08 - 09:18 am Comment from: Cubert

All the iWork apps take way too long to open, close, and save documents. Hopefully this is some strong coffee for Keynote to kick it into high gear.

Apr 04, 08 - 11:34 am Comment from: Basil Ganglia

Apple needs to issue a Windows version of Keynote. Presentations programs need to be cross-platform so that you can take your presentation with you on a flash drive and just plug it into the computer at the meeting you are attending. This is especially true at large meetings, which are almost always PC-based. Keynote is so much more advanced than Powerpoint that Keynote to Powerpoint transitions never work except for the simplest presentations. Even then, things rarely translate perfectly. The amount of extra work required to translate and then "fix things" makes it easier to just do the presentation in PP from the beginning. I LOVE Keynote, but to be successful any presentation program needs to be broadly available at most places where presentations are given and that requires that Apple issue a Windows version.

Apr 04, 08 - 12:50 pm Comment from: Cubert

Basil Ganglia,
Apple should not make a Windoze version. They need to create a light-weight player for Keynote presentations that is cross-platform and free.

Game, set, match.

Apr 04, 08 - 01:39 pm Comment from: Basil Ganglia

Cuthbert,
That would be a partial solution but it won't succeed in making Keynote popular enough to become a standard. Just as iTunes took off after Apple released a Win version, I am confident Keynote will as well because it is so much better than Powerpoint.

Apr 04, 08 - 03:01 pm Comment from: Cubert

"Cuthbert"???

Is that intentional? If so, I don't get it.

<< Apple needs to issue a Windows version of Keynote. >>

No they don't- Do what I do- Bring your Macbook w/Parallels loaded; let the Powerpoint people use your laptop for their presentation and then- when your turn comes- watch the reaction when you transition to the OSX side for your Keynote presentation... ala Spaces or in my case YouControl:desktops.

I do this a lot- it's especially nice when you use the Apple remote to run your show. The Powerpoint guys never seem to get their's to work right.

It's fun.