Apple expands Keynote support, online storage options in iWork.com beta
The details came in an "important service message" sent to users by Apple on Monday. The changes require users run the latest version of iWork, 9.0.5, released last week.
With the update, users can play back Keynote '09 presentations on the Web, complete with animations, video, hyperlinks and audio. A Keynote presentation can be played using the latest version of Safari on a Mac or PC, as well as the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Users can also upload documents for private online storage and easy access from anywhere, or share documents on social networks with a public link. Presentations can also be embedded on a website or blog using an embed code provided by iWork.com
The iWork.com service launched in early 2009, offering a Web-based way to use Apple's productivity suite. And last year, Apple further expanded the iWork suite to the iPad.
Apple was expected to release an updated version of the software, iWork '11, along with the launch of the new Mac App Store earlier this month. Though a new version did not materialize, promotional material in the digital download store refers to the "amazing new iWork," even though the last update arrived two years ago.
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OT, talking about keynote, itsn't there usually an Apple event (not referring to Verizon) around January where Jobs introduces new products for the year.
If there's a way to Airplay it, THAT would be dynamite.
Nice updates coming iWorks way recently, I wonder when the update everyone is actually waiting for will arrive..... iWork 11 come on Apple!
Apple on Monday announced to users of its iWork.com ...
Not to be too negative, but I'm so tired of these lame mini-updates to the service.
- make iDisk fast enough to be useable
- make it so I can edit my documents online.
- hell, try (just try), to make the email accounts sync with all the devices properly.
I'm happy to pay for MobileMe just for the link syncing and the iOS integration, but it's really a sad, broken service for the most part and doesn't do hardly anything right.
Do we think it's about time that iWork was able to read/write to OpenDocument? It is an ISO/IEC standard. Especially since Oracle bought Sun and Larry and Steve are such good mates.
I would like to use ODF as my default file format if I could keep using Pages, Numbers and Keynote as the creative apps. I have OO.org installed but it's not quite as pretty as the Apple apps.
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