Out of left field this week comes an announcement from Japanese company Recosoft for their new PDF2Office converter for Apple’s iWork suite.

Here’s a bit from their press release:

PDF2Office^® for iWork converts PDF files to the iWork ‘08/’09 document type replicating every page in a PDF file into an equivalent page to the Keynote and Pages formats. PDF2Office^®for iWork has been designed specifically for the iWork user; offering a simple and uncluttered interface to convert PDF documents to the iWork format.

PDF2Office for iWork is set for a November release, and will be available in Single User, Family Pack and Soho license configurations. No pricing was given.

You can read more on the Recosoft website at:

http://www.recosoft.com/company/press/news10152009.htm

Many thanks to Richard Zraick on the Yahoo Keynote Group for pointing this out to us

Jumsoft, a developer of high-quality applications for Mac OSX, today updated its selection of products for Apple’s Keynote with a new version of Keynote Animations FX. This set presents 100 exciting animated images suitable for any occasion, including 30 brand-new additions that feature superb animation quality and spectacular creativity.

As with the previous version of Keynote Animations FX, and as with Keynote Quartet FX’09, a compilation of four products for Keynote, Jumsoft aims to equip its clients with a comprehensive set of tools that enable them to create unique and gripping presentations.

Keynote Animations FX 7.0 contains 70 classic pieces drawn from the previous versions plus 30 new animated possibilities for grabbing the audience’s attention. After users download and install the package on their computers, all they need to do is to move the animation of their choice to their presentation and then choose “loop” in Keynote’s QuickTime Inspector for the continuous action. The animations have no backgrounds and therefore can easily be applied to any slide, as well as effortlessly positioned, blended, mixed, overlaid, underlaid, and much more. The fun of creativity unfolds as users resize and rotate the ever-moving images, change the opacity, use shadows, or even combine several animations.

Furthermore, Keynote Animations FX 7.0 is compatible with Pages, which allows users to add jumping, flying, or burning objects to their text documents. In addition, the package can be used with movie editors like Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, and Motion, or played on PCs as QuickTime files.

System Requirements:

• Apple iWork 08 or later

Pricing and Availability:

• Keynote Animations FX 7.0 is only $45 (USD). On Jumsoft’s Web site, users can view samples of the animations and purchase Keynote Animations FX 7.0, or can opt for the full collection of presentation tools, Keynote Quartet FX’09.

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Divine Fiat recently announced Photogenic Redux, their new theme for Apple’s Keynote Presentation Software. Utilizing clean white text on a black background with a beautifully custom-designed icon of a 35-mm lens, photogenic features the presenter not the theme designers. Photogenic is ideal for a wide variety of presentations.

Designed with professional photographers in mind, Photogenic features resizable media placeholders in seven photographic ratios (1:1, 5:4, 4:3, 7:5, 3:2, 16:9, 7:1) as well as fully customizable button and icon objects. Among Photogenic’s most distinctive features are its overwhelming number of master slide layouts; just over a 110 in all, including 11 highly polished text layouts and 100 photo layouts available in 800, 1024, 1280, 1680, and 1920 theme sizes.

Feature Highlights:

• Supports Keynote 4.0 – 5.0
• Leverages Helvetica Neue Light for an easy-to-read, yet clean look
• Supports 800, 1024, 1280, 1680 and 1920 Theme Sizes
• 1:1, 5:4, 4:3, 7:5, 3:2, 16:9, 7:1 Photographic Ratios
• 11 Text Layouts
• 100 Photo Layouts

“I love the ‘Apple look’ and Photogenic certainly has the Apple look” said Phillip Gore, founder of Divine Fiat. “Before Keynote went HD, Photogenic was hands down our best seller. I am so excited to finally offer a full HD version.”

Your images are gorgeous and the container you use to present them should not distract from that. Photogenic is a theme that let’s photographers and presenters display their images their way. It’s perfect for framing your photos and concepts effectively and it’s a wonderful compliment to Apple’s iLife Suite.

Minimum Requirements:

• Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or later (Leopard and Snow Leopard Compatible)
• Keynote Version: 4.0 – 5.0 or later
• 8.7 MB Hard Drive space
• Helvetica Neue Light Font Required

Pricing and Availability:
Photogenic Redux is available immediately for $26.00 (USD). The Creative Theme Set, which includes Take Two Redux along with Photogenic Redux, may be purchased for $46.80, a 10% savings over buying individually.

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KeynotePro recently announced the introduction of Fuse* for Keynote ‘09. Fuse* is unlike any Keynote theme you’ve ever used before. We began with a structured, layer-driven framework – vibrant color infusing translucent panels from beneath, balanced against high-visibility focal accents – all set into a striking side-dominant arrangement that only hints at the potential energy hidden underneath. Fuse* is available in two distinct Palettes – AC & DC – both framing a range of traditional content, photo and narrative-driven slide masters, with eye-catching charts, tables, and layouts throughout. But these Static forms only tell part of the Fuse* story.

Fuse* truly comes to life in the Fuse* Kinetic themes. Kinetic themes embed Build-In and Build-Out settings for slide-level objects right into the Master Slide – producing a jaw-dropping, motion-graphics inspired feel with little more than a point click. On every Kinetic Master, the Fuse* layouts emerge in choreographed motion, building the principal elements in piece by piece in an arranged, ordered flow. Select a Kinetic Master, add your copy or supporting photography, and press Play to watch it all happen.

The Fuse* themes include 31 master slides – a mix of traditional content and photo-driven styles, along with narrative-oriented additions like the Overlay Caption styles and mirrored Reverse masters for key layouts. The core layouts balance both the bright AC and understated DC palettes against a layer-driven, semiopaque shape architecture and framing elements that naturally push your content to center-stage. Fuse* HD, available exclusively in the Fuse* Pro and Pro Mobile Editions, expands the style into HD format with aspect-optimized 16:9 and 16:10 versions of the Fuse* design.

The Fuse* EP Edition themes – included in the Fuse* Pro Mobile Edition built to take the Fuse* style to the iPhone/iPod Touch or classic-format video-capable iPod in a format optimized for small-screen viewing. Fuse* EP Edition for classic-format video iPods includes 31 complete Master Slides: a wide range of text and photo-oriented designs cross-optimized for iPod and television display. Fuse* EP Edition for iPhone/iPod Touch includes the complete 31 Master Slide base of the HD themes, optimized for viewing on the iPhone or iPod Touch’s larger, HD-leaning display.

Pricing and Availability
Fuse* Standard Edition is available for immediate download for $24.95 (USD) or in a Bundle with 2 other Standard Edition themes for $64.95. Fuse* Pro Edition contains both standard and HD themes 800×600 & 1024×768(4:3) standard versions, 1920×1080 and 1280×720(16:9) & 1680×1050(16:10) HD Versions), and is available for $34.95, or in a bundle with 2 other Pro Edition themes for $89.85. The Fuse* Pro Mobile Edition contains both Fuse* Pro Edition and the new Fuse* EP Edition (iPod and iPhone/Touch Editions), and is available for $49.90, or in a bundle with 2 other Pro Mobile Edition themes for $129.85.

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KeynotePro today is pleased to announce the introduction of Warp Series: Elevation for Keynote ‘09. Elevation ‘09 carries the aggressive modern styling of our Warp Series themes forward with controlled, ordered design that still maintains a sharp contemporary edge – floating a range of slide-spanning, staccato layouts against a subtly detailed, understated backgrounds, brought together into a design that constantly shifts the balance of foreground and background to create a sense of implied motion.

Already a crowd favorite, we wholly reconstructed the original Elevation theme for Keynote ‘09, producing a new generation of themes that are even easier to use and customize than the previous releases. Now built entirely with native shape objects and image placeholders, you can change the cool blue background hues to another color, gradient or photo with a simple change on the Appearance Inspector – even change the colored panels, strokes and accents on the master slides to better match your corporate palette, or create your own layout variations thanks to the ease of the new shape object approach. The Elevation ‘09 Master Slide pool has also expanded – up to 34 Master Slides in the Pro/HD version – including new layout options designed to make the theme even more flexible in the new Keynote ‘09 architecture. And all-new HD and Mobile Editions make this the most flexible Elevation release yet.

The Elevation ‘09 theme includes up to 34 master slides – a mix of photo and alternative text layouts – each one an object based slide, made with native keynote objects making customization a snap. Each slide features a slightly different background and content area design specific to the slide. We have also included Blank Stage masters so that you can easily create layouts that meet your specific needs. Elevation’ 09 HD, available exclusively in the Elevation ‘09 Pro and Pro Mobile Editions, expands the style into HD format with aspect-optimized 16:9 and 16:10 versions of the Elevation ‘09 design.

The Elevation ‘09 EP Edition themes – included in the Elevation ‘09 Pro Mobile Edition is built to take the Elevation style to the iPhone/iPod Touch or classic-format video-capable iPod in a format optimized for small-screen viewing. Elevation ‘09 EP Edition for classic-format video iPods includes 31 complete Master Slides: a wide range of text and photo-oriented designs cross-optimized for iPod and television display. Elevation ‘09 EP Edition for iPhone/iPod Touch includes an expanded 33 Master Slide base of the HD themes, optimized for viewing on the iPhone or iPod Touch’s larger, HD-leaning display.

Pricing and Availability
Warp Series: Elevation ‘09 Standard Edition is available for immediate download for $24.95 (USD) or in a Bundle with 2 other Standard Edition themes for $64.95. Elevation ‘09 Pro Edition contains both standard and HD themes (800×600 & 1024×768(4:3) standard versions, 1920×1080 and 1280×720(16:9) & 1680×1050(16:10) HD Versions), and is available for $34.95, or in a bundle with 2 other Pro Edition themes for $89.85. Elevation ‘09 Pro Mobile Edition contains both Elevation ‘09 Pro Edition and the Elevation ‘09EP Edition (iPod and iPhone/Touch Editions), and is available for $49.90, or in a bundle with 2 other Pro Mobile Edition themes for $129.85 (USD).

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iPresentee recently released their new “Keynote Themes 6.0″ theme set. Keynote Themes 6.0 includes ten new themes: Ornamental Map, Rest, Green Town, Presentation, Futuristic, Dark Way, Blue World, Globe, Puzzle and Green Bunch (this brings the entire iPresentee theme collection to over 100).

Each theme in the new collection offers a variety of presentation styles with coordinated fonts, colors, backgrounds, unique bullets and picture frames and are available in standard or HD formats. Each theme also contains from seventeen to twenty different master slide layouts. Samples and more information about Keynote Themes 6.0 (and their other products) are available at the iPresentee website.

Ornamental Map is also offered as a free download, along with 6 other iPresentee themes from other collections.

Minimum Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger and later
• iWork 08 or iWork 09
• 300 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
Keynote Themes 6.0 may be purchased for $25 (USD) or you can pick up the massive Keynote Show collection which contains all of their Keynote products for only $60.

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You may have noticed over the last month or so that our site has been pretty quiet. Press releases have either been posted late or not at all (we’re late on two theme releases right now that we’ll try to post soon). Let me first assure you we’re not going anywhere, and I’ll explain why the site has been so quiet.

I (Brian Peat) run the site in my spare time with the help of Ken Drake. Neither of us have very much free time these days, and mine in particular has just been drastically reduced. As of the beginning of September, my wife Jen and I moved from our comfy (and safe) home near Columbus, Ohio and moved to a tiny town in Pennsylvania (McConnellsburg if you’re interested) to be near some friends of ours, and to attend a ministry school in Mechanicsburg, PA. I closed down my Mac Consulting business of 11 years and we’re selling our house. We’ll be going to school until early 2011, after which we’ll be moving to Brazil to be missionaries (our friends are headed down about this time next year to get things started).

As crazy as it sounds, we’ve been wanting to do something like this for a while. The plan is to open a center in Curitiba, Brazil that will be a safe haven for the prostitutes, homeless, drug addicts, etc. It will be safe and welcoming center, not a place of condemnation. I won’t go into more detail here because I know some of our readers are touchy about religion, but I will say this…our goal will be to share love and to support those who want or need help, not to force some agenda down their throats in a time of need. Love, support and no strings.

Anyway, you won’t see any more posts about this on the site, but I just wanted to share just a bit of my private life with our readers. If you want to find out more about the ministry, check out www.shoresofgrace.com (we’ll be adding more Brazil info to the site soon). You can find info on me and my wife Jen on the staff page for now.

Thanks, and now back to your regular scheduled Keynote news.

iPresentee, the developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, today introduces My Portrait service. Now you can get a portrait of yourself and make an ordinary web site, Pages document, Keynote presentation or even your login image a little more personal.

Portraits are made using precision vector technology. Included with the portrait are two high quality portrait images and an icon. These can be used as folder or application icon, login picture, image for iWeb, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Powerpoint, Word, etc. You can even use your portrait as an avatar or profile image in online communities. You can even order portraits of your employees and represent your team to customers in more attractive way.

Pricing and Availability:
My Portrait service is priced at $70 (USD). Order My Portrait service before September 30, 2009 and get a 50% discount for iWeb Suite and/or Keynote Show packages. Samples and more information about My Portrait are available at the iPresentee website.

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More and and more information is coming out from Apple and all around the web about Mac OS X v10.6. One bit of news that’s of utmost importance to Keynote users is that, if you’re still hanging on to Keynote 2.0.2 (or earlier), you’re going to have to let it go.

UPDATED

From Apple’s newly minted About incompatible software page, versions of Keynote earlier than 2.0.2 is listed in the Software restricted from opening section. The good news is that Apple has created a bundle that will bring Tiger users up to date with Snow Leopard, AND with all the Apple iLife and iWork apps. It’s called the Mac Box Set and it retails for $169.

Of course, the question then becomes, will Keynote on 10.6 still open version 1 files? If not, that will hurt the great tools (EazyDraw, svg2key) that have allowed us access to custom shapes. We’ll check this as soon as we have a copy!

UPDATE:

We just checked that page again, and there is NO longer a reference to Keynote 2.0.2. Since we don’t have those older versions installed on the new systems, we’ll have to see if we can track down the old disk and see if it was posted there in error.

Humble Daisy is offering a 50% discount on all license purchases of ProfCast sold today. Additionally, users who purchase ProfCast today, August 14th, 2009 (the anniversary of Humble Daisy’s Founding) will receive a FREE upgrade to ProfCast 3.0 when it becomes available.

Humble Daisy is celebrating the 7th anniversary of it’s founding by offering licenses of it’s flagship product ProfCast for a 50% discount. (Academic users will receive a 25% in addition to 50% discount that Humble Daisy already offers.)

ProfCast is Humble Daisy, Inc’s flagship lecture recording and podcast creation software. ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording and distributing lectures, special events, and presentations as podcasts.

“It has been seven years and our underlying goal is still the same. Sell cool products to support developing the next cool thing that inspires and empowers people to do the next great thing! We are celebrating Humble Daisy’s 7th anniversary with a sale! I wanted to give you a heads up, well in advance of the sale so that you could make your plans appropriately.”

Founder’s Day Pricing:
50% off all regularly priced ProfCast orders placed between August 10th and August 14th, 2009. 25% off all academic discount orders of ProfCast placed between August 10th and August 14th, 2009. (In addition to the existing academic discounts.)

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Rexi Media has released the first presentations skills iPhone app, Presenter Pro, designed to help business presenters be heard over the corporate noise, clutter, and distraction of digital leashes. Often over-tasked and disenchanted in the business space, listeners attend a presentation with the intent to multitask.

How can you attract and sustain an audience’s attention? Presenter Pro helps you to stand out and be heard. Here are a few examples of techniques you can use right away in your presentations.

Attract attention to your topic immediately by using the power of contrast. Audiences who are in a time-crunch always appreciate the opportunity to understand complex concepts quickly and make decisions fast. Contrast helps you do that by helping the brain process information more rapidly and providing shortcuts to decision making. If you’re presenting the release of a new phone that helps with productivity by storing lots of information, contrast it with what it means to takes notes on paper or on your hand. Or if you’re presenting about a piece of exercise equipment that is easy and painless to use, contrast it with the effort and difficulty of floor exercises. Contrasts offer shortcuts to thinking and making decisions.

You can also get an audience to pay attention when you use metaphors and paint a picture in your audience’s minds about the benefits and attractions of your topic. Imagine using a railway metaphor to symbolize getting from the familiar to the unknown, or a traffic jam to symbolize slow networks, or sedimentary rocks to display different layers in your organization.

Such metaphors attract attention because they refer to concepts that an audience’s mind already has in storage. The argument becomes easier and faster when you introduce new and complex topics. You can find these guidelines and more in the Presenter Pro mobile app. Use the battle-tested and research-proven principles from this app to add confidence, excellence, uniqueness, and even increased revenue when you apply these principles…and if you are tempted to view the app when someone else is speaking, it’s because they need this app.

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Divine Fiat today is proud to introduce Take Two Redux, their new theme for Apple’s Keynote Presentation Software. Featuring a slate board clapper with easy-to-read white text on a jet-black background, Take Two presents images and ideas in a clean blockbuster environment, and ideal for a wide variety of presentations.

Designed with film, tv and video professionals in mind, Take Two sports resizable, custom designed media placeholders in four cinematic ratios (4:3, 16:9, 1.85:1, 2.35:1), as well as fully customizable button and icon objects. Among Take Two’s most distinctive features are its overwhelming number of master slide layouts; just over a 100 in all, including 10 highly polished text layouts and 95 photo layouts available in 800, 1024, 1280, 1680, and 1920 theme sizes.

Feature Highlights:

• Supports Keynote 4.0 – 5.0
• Leverages Arial and Arial Bold for an easy-to-read, yet clean look
• Supports 800, 1024, 1280, 1680 and 1920 Theme Sizes
• 4:3, 16:9, 1.85:1, and 2.35:1 Cinematic Ratios
• 10 Text Layouts
• 95 Photo Layouts

“I love themes that have ‘Apple Style’ and Take Two certainly fits that description” said Phillip Gore, founder of Divine Fiat. “Before Keynote went HD, Take Two was one of my personal favorites and a best seller. I am so excited to finally offer a full HD version.”

Every movie from Gone With the Wind to Star Wars began as an idea. If our Hollywood sized ideas are to become reality then they must be pitched effectively. That’s where Take Two Redux comes center stage. It’s the perfect theme in which to package and present concepts effectively and a perfect compliment to Apple’s iLife Suite.

Minimum Requirements:

• Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or later (Leopard Compatible)
• Keynote Version: 4.0 – 5.0 or later
• 4.4 MB Hard Drive space
• Arial and Arial Bold Font Required

Pricing and Availability:
Take Two Redux is available immediately for $26.00 (USD). Theme sets may be purchased for $46.80, a 10% savings over buying individually.

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Koingo Software is pleased to introduce Project Canvas! It is a multimedia presentation tool, much like industry giant PowerPoint (or for those two remember it: HyperCard), but comes at the fraction of the cost. Create click-by-click adventure games, interactive tutorials, storybooks, school presentations, and more!

Sporting a cross-platform compatible file format, Project Canvas files can also contain an unlimited number of cards and buttons. Buttons can perform a variety of actions from getting and setting variables, playing movies, and transitioning between cards with visual effects to playing sounds, playing music, speaking text, prompting the user for feedback and numerous other options.

One of the most versatile features of Project Canvas is the ability to export a Stand Alone copy of a stack. The stack will be exported as an executable file that can be run without having to have Project Canvas installed! In addition, specify special kiosk-style features like hiding the menubar or making the stack run full screen.

Project Canvas is shareware, and can be downloaded for a free 15 day trial from the Koingo web site. Licenses are $29.95 (USD) to unlock the full version. Mac OS X 10.4 or later, or Windows XP or later, is required to use the software.

Utility Package owners can upgrade their Utility Package to include Project Canvas for only $9.95 (USD) via the Upgrades section of our store. More information about our Utility Package – a bundle which includes all 17 Koingo software titles for only $79.95 – can be found on our web site.

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Keynote Zone has announced the free of their new “Comics” Keynote theme. Comics layout is based on hand-drawn picture frames and word balloon shapes to create a well recognizable comics style. The theme includes 22 layouts, custom designed charts and tables.

Comics standard version theme comes in 2 sizes (800×600 & 1024×768) and is available as free download at Keynote Zone site. Comics HD version theme comes in 5 sizes (800×600, 1024×768, 1280×720, 1680×1050, 1920×1080) and is available for $10.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X version 10.4.10 or later
• iWork ‘08 (Keynote 4) or iWork ‘09 (Keynote 5)

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Humble Daisy is pleased to announce ProfCast 2.6.0, adding Podcast Producer support to their flagship lecture recording and podcast creation solution for Mac OS X. ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording lectures including PowerPoint and/or Keynote slides for creating enhanced podcasts.

ProfCast is perfect for professionals and educators alike who need to provide a more flexible, richer media to supplement traditional pedagogical tools such as books, course packs, or notes. ProfCast is an ideal compliment to Apple’s iLife Suite. With its integrated workflow, ProfCast provides a low cost solution for recording and distributing lectures, special events, and presentations as enhanced podcasts.

Feature highlights include:

• Records Live Presentations
• Supports Multiple File Formats
• ID3 Tags for iTunes U
• Integrated Podcast Manager
• Export to GarageBand
• Share to iWeb
• URL Linking
• Audio Playthrough Support
• Podcast Producer Publishing Support (Mac OS X Leopard required)

ProfCast sports live presentation recording, synchronization of slides with audio, Keynote and PowerPoint support, RSS generation and publishing support. All elements of a presentation, including slide timings, bullet point builds and voice narration are seamlessly recorded. ProfCast allows users to record their presentation as they give it, and also helps publish recorded presentations as enhanced podcasts, complete with RSS.

Based on customer feedback, version 2.6 includes new functionality and bug fixes. Among the most significant additions to ProfCast is the ability to publish recordings directly to a Podcast Producer installation. “A lot of our users have Podcast Producer installations at their institutions.” explained Dave Chmura, president of Humble Daisy, Inc. Podcast Producer is Apple’s podcast capture, processing and publishing system.

Best of all 2.6.0 is a Free upgrade for registered ProfCast users.

ProfCast a unique utility that’s easy to use and produces high-quality results. It remains the only innovative capture solution that records presentations and creates enhanced podcasts.

Minimum Requirements:

• Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or later (10.5 Leopard Compatible)
  (**Podcast Producer Publishing requires Mac OS X Leopard or later.)
• Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
• 500 MB Hard Drive space
• PowerPC G4 667MHz or greater
• Keynote 2.0 or later
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 or Microsoft PowerPoint 2008
• Integration with GarageBand and iWeb requires iLife ‘06 or later
• Integration with GarageBand on Mac OS X 10.5 requires iLife ‘08
• Internet connection (required for online publishing)

Pricing and Availability:
ProfCast 2.6.0 is priced at $59.95 (USD) for a single-user license. A full-featured, 15-day demo is available and a recommended update for all customers. Educational discounts are available. Podcast Producer, Mac OS X, Leopard and Apple are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

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iPresentee, the developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, releases Keynote Themes 5.0 along with a set of free Keynote themes. Keynote Themes 5.0 includes ten brand new themes: Azure, Greenery, Blue Wave, Frozen Nature, Greenish, Ochre, Gradient Green, Orange Tree, Tones of Gray and Wood Planks. The free theme set includes: Tones of Gray, Chocolate, Autumn Colors, Red Cloud and Movie.

New Keynote Themes collection offers a variety of presentation styles with coordinated fonts, colors, backgrounds, unique bullets and picture frames. Each Keynote theme is available in standard or HD formats and includes from seventeen to twenty one different master slide layouts.

Minimum Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger and later
• iWork 08 or iWork 09
• 200 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
Keynote Themes 5.0 may be purchased for $25 (USD). Free Keynote add-ons are offered free of charge and can be downloaded from iPresentee’s website.

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Jumsoft, developer of high-quality applications for Mac OSX, has expanded its selection of Pages Clipart images designed to illustrate presentations, invitations, Web pages, posters, newsletters, and a variety of other documents. Pages Clipart 4.0 provides vast possibilities to increase documents’ visual appeal due to its extensive range of images, wide compatibility, and smart technical details like transparent image backgrounds and PDF format.

Pages Clipart 4.0 can be added to a broad range of documents including presentations, invitations, Web pages, posters, and newsletters. Currently, it offers 200 high-quality images from a previous version and 100 new additions, available for purchase and download from Jumsoft’s Web site. Themes of the images vary from office stationery to food, which allows the user to find a perfect illustration for his or her document. The new images added in the latest version include vacation and leisure themes as well as miscellaneous items and there are now more colors and variety to enhance the users’ documents.

“We believe that professionalism is heightened when combined with a creative approach,” said Algirdas Unguvaitis, the general manager of Jumsoft. “With Pages Clipart 4.0, users can attract and retain the attention of their target audience, whether it is a student class, business meeting participants, or potential clients.”

As usual, the clips were created by a team of professional designers. The transparent background of an image allows placing it on top of different colors or patterns. With the PDF format, users are able to resize images without harming their quality. Pages Clipart 4.0 is compatible with Apple Keynote, MS Word, PowerPoint, and other graphics programs.

Users can see samples of the images and purchase Pages Clipart 4.0 on Jumsoft’s Web site. After downloading the program and installing it on their computers, users can simply open selected images and insert them into their documents for creative and fun customization.

System Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger and later
• Apple iWork 06 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Pages Clipart 4.0 is only $39 (USD) and version 3.0 users can upgrade for only $19 (USD).

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Jumsoft has recently added five new designs to its Keynote Themes pack increasing the total amount of themes to 25. The five new themes are called Hot Chocolate, Glacier, Vintage, Purple and Architecture.

Each of the 25 themes that are available in up to five different resolution renders (from 800×600 to 1920×1080) and contain up to 30 different master slides.

Pricing and Availability:
Keynote Themes 8.0 requires Apple Keynote 4.0 or later. Apple iWork ‘09 is recommended. The package is available for $39 (USD). It is $19 for registered Keynote Themes 7.0 users.

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Keynote Pro today released their brand new Keynote theme Magnet Board. MagnetBoard for Keynote ‘09 features a richly-textured base of smooth, pressed steel, crisp paper and thumb-worn magnets begging to be touched. The core layouts frame a range of whole-page and mixed-element layouts covering all the basics – from single and multiple photo-driven slides to multi-topic content-driven models – each designed with an eye toward balance and holding focus on your content rather than its surroundings.

But MagnetBoard really comes to life when you begin working with the Freeform Masters: bare-essential layouts designed to be used with the included Supplemental Objects library to build your own arrangements, layouts and content models on the fly. The MagnetBoard Supplemental Materials file is one of their most diverse yet, including a few alternate magnet styles, custom photo magnet overlay/stroke models and a range of Freeform Objects like Photo Strips, Color Chips, Stickies and Word Tiles – a Virtual Supply Drawer that’s always on tap and never empty.

The MagnetBoard themes are available now at KeynotePro.com, including eye-catching HD versions and iPod/iPhone-optimized EP Editions for presenters on the go. MagnetBoard is $34.95 for the single theme and $49.90 for the full Pro+ Mobile edition.

iPresentee, the developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, today released their free Keynote Countdown Timer. Keynote Countdown Timer includes three different colored countdown timer animations in white, red and green. Each Keynote Countdown Timer can countdown from 90 minutes or less.

Using Keynote Countdown Timer is a snap. Just download, drag to the slide, set countdown time and you are ready to start. Each countdown timer can be used on any colored background. Each animation can be changed in size, rotated, increased or decreased in opacity or overlapped with one another to create extra effects.

Minimum Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger and later
• Any version of Apple’s Keynote
• 230 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
Keynote Countdown Timer is being offered free of charge. Free add-ons are available for download at the iPresentee’s website.

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