Apple releases Keynote 3.0.1

Apple has released Keynote 3.0.1, a fairly significant update to the company's PowerPoint-compatible presentation software.

Enhancements in this release include:

• Tables with calculations, enabling you to perform spreadsheet operations right in your presentation
• Three-dimensional charts with realistic textures for displaying your data
• Advanced image editing for perfecting your photos
• Freeform BÈzier curves and curved shapes that greatly expand drawing capabilities
• New shapes, including customizable stars and polygons
• Image masking using a standard or custom shape to create unique photo cutouts
• Comments to use as notes or reminders when creating presentations
• New HD themes for presentations and portfolios, and themes for kiosks and storyboards
• New cinematic transitions, including blinds, doorway, fall, reflection, revolving door, swoosh, shutter, and fade through color
• Light Table View for displaying all your slides simultaneously so you can easily reorganize them
• Multiple columns in body text
• Export to iPhoto for use in photocasts, webpages, and book printing
• Export to iDVD to burn a DVD of your presentation with chapter breaks between slides and builds
• More animation control, enabling you to set unique timing and sequence of each bullet, table row, or chart series
• Interleaved builds to mix builds of bullets, table rows, or chart series with other object builds

For more information as well as a download link, see VersionTracker's Keynote product page.

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