If, like me, you’ve have always admired the slideshows created by our Mac-wielding brethren at presentations and conferences, take note: Amit Agarwal reckons there’s a sort-of ‘Keynote’ upcoming for we Windows lovers.
Apple recently demonstrated a new version of Keynote software as part of the iWorks ‘09 office productivity suite. Among other enhancements, Keynote ‘09 includes an array of new animations and transitions effects that you can add between slides.
Now Keynote ‘09 is available for Mac only but if you are on Windows or use another program like Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations, SlideRocket is coming up with something that may interest you.
SlideRocket has taken some of the new transition effects that were introduced in Keynote ‘09 and added them to their own web presentation software. That means you can upload your existing PowerPoint slides on to SlideRocket and apply transitions that were otherwise only available in Keynote.
You can view the new Keynote transitions in SlideRocket via the presentation on Amit’s post, but bear in mind that these are probably not fully live yet. A demo will give you some more idea about SlideRocket’s capabilities and features.
I love PowerPoint in the latest iteration of Office, where it has finally ‘come of age’ and developed into eye candy rather than tear inducer; it’s one of the ‘must-have’ tools in my armoury. But I will seriously be considering SlideRocket if it can deliver some of the glorious transitions and animations of Keynote…
