Slidevana has released updates of its acclaimed Keynote templates that are optimized for the new iPad’s Retina display. The new templates are designed to enable mobile professionals to use their iPads to quickly create and present stunning presentations while on the go. Slidevana’s presentation toolkit contains nearly 300 slide templates including layouts for tables, charts, diagrams, timelines, lists, and common business frameworks. Slidevana is the perfect companion to iWork’s newly updated Keynote for iPad app.

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The details are still a bit sketchy, so this story will be updated when we know more, but Apple today announced the new iPad 3 and with that, they’ve updated the entire iWork suite for the iPad.

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iPresentee has added 10 new themes to their collection: Golden Leaves, Fashion Show, Yellow Arrows, Share Your Story, Snow Summit, Wood Design, Stripes Design, Glorious Day, Hot News and Glossy Paper.

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Apple today showed off their new (FREE!) iBooks Author app, a new way to author ebooks (including text books). Included in that is a feature allowing you to completely embed a Keynote presentation into your ebook.
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Tom Negrino, author of several books on Keynote (as well as many other wonderful books) has alerted us to a hilarious new video on youtube that exemplifies every bad presentation ever given. If attended any sort of business meeting in the last 5-10 years that included a projected presentation, you been there. Heck, you may have even GIVEN a presentation like this (ED: I know I have, complete with botched Apple software demo and a bad case of the nervous shakes).

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Every Presentation Ever: Communication FAIL

Apple today released a minor update to Keynote 5, bringing it to version 5.1.1

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