Hi Mac Power Users, I also use jeopardy keynotes but, I have been trying to figure out how to grey the hyperlinks after I click them. Katie, you mentioned you did this…how?
Thanks
The biggest Tip I ever received is to NEVER override the template unless absolutely necessary:
- Create slides afresh rather than copying them from another deck
- Use Keynote charts rather than copying images from other applications
- When paste’ing text always Paste and Match Style
This ensures that your slides are consistent, readable and you can switch templates without everything turning into a mess.
charlie
David, could you post the remote you use to control your keynote presentations? Thanks, the podcast was great.
Sorry gang. The remote link is now in the show notes.
D
Simon
Love the shows. Any chance your going to cover open source software for those of us that don’t have mega bucks to spare.
What about covering Fink and MacPorts for those that don’t know about them?
Keep up the great work.
Another excellent show. I’ve been listening to MPU for over a year now. If you had told me a year or two ago that I could be so interested in a show on presentation software, I would have said you’re crazy.
David and Katie somehow manage to make these shows a little better each time, and I learn something new every time. Well done.
Keynote really is a fantastic app. While I don’t give presentations often, I use Keynote routinely to make ad hoc graphics. I often use it to combine visual elements (e.g. clipart, random images, text). It’s so easy to arrange objects on a Keynote slide.
Instead of exporting as an image, I usually just take a screen shot of it (Cmd-Shift-4). The fonts and graphics are so crisp, you’d never know I created it in such a “primitive” way.
I teach film editing at the USC film school and I have taken to using Keynote to play my Quicktime movie scenes almost exclusively now. It enables me to easily combine text, stills and movies and gives me control over their play.
It is super easy to tell Keynote not to play when I first arrive at the slide (where I have the chosen display frame, along with the title and — perhaps — a line of text for the students). Then, on a click from my remote, the text and title fade away at the same time that the movie begins to play. It is elegant and gives me a great way to go in and out of varying materials.
Another professor uses the hyperlinks to go in and out a web browser as well. I don’t usually do that since I can’t guarantee connectivity all the time. Instead I prefer to screen capture what I want to show as a Quicktime and insert that into the presentation.
I have had some playback problems since not every Mac I use has the same Quicktime codecs. A Quicktime is NOT a Quicktime is NOT a Quicktime. But that would be the same issue with a Quicktime presentation, rather than a Keynote (and I do bring the Quicktime files as a backup).
Re: delicious.com. A neat and barebones, almost Daring Fireball site is http://www.pinboard.in. I first found this through the excellent Reeder RSS iOS app, which had it as an option for saving to. Being a nerd, I had to see where the electronic rabbit-hole led.
What it does is like delicious.com: it saves sites you are interested in. You can do the same with Yojimbo or Evernote, but pinboard is fast, always accessible, and simple (no external application to launch). You can also quickly tag sites from your Mac or iPad or iPhone.
So, real world uses: applications that are interesting and I want to keep track of; gift items for myself or a loved one; articles from instapaper that I recall later and want to send someone or reference (you can set pinboard to automatically grab your instapaper postings, so they are automatically tracked, as well as your twitter postings).
I exported all my saved bookmarks from Safari, just keeping the ones on my bookmarks bar that I use daily.
And, of course, you can see what other people are reading, as a form of finding new reads. You can also follow people.
Excelsior!
It’s quite versatile: you can send in pages via email, track pages via RSS, and so on.
Jeremy
In your commentary about PDFPen you mention that it is now 64-bit. Doesn’t one need to run OS X in 64-bit mode instead of 32-bit to take advantage of this?
It seems I remember hearing/reading something about this as it required all your apps to be 64-bit to bother doing this. Anybody know?
Hi!
I use a QuickTime movie which puts up a countdown timer as my first slide as my audience and students enter the room. The countdown is to the start of the session. Could also use it for breaks.
Also … I keep seeing Steve Jobs use this animation where, for example, a price for a new product drops down and lands in the page with a big cloud of dust. I have seen him use this effect for a couple of years now, and I keep thinking it MUST be a feature in Keynote ’10 (or ’11). I know about the DROP build effect, but what about that cloud of dust that kicks up??
In this episode, David and Katie talk about Keynote and share their presentation mojo.
Hi Mac Power Users, I also use jeopardy keynotes but, I have been trying to figure out how to grey the hyperlinks after I click them. Katie, you mentioned you did this…how?
Thanks
The biggest Tip I ever received is to NEVER override the template unless absolutely necessary:
- Create slides afresh rather than copying them from another deck
- Use Keynote charts rather than copying images from other applications
- When paste’ing text always Paste and Match Style
This ensures that your slides are consistent, readable and you can switch templates without everything turning into a mess.
David, could you post the remote you use to control your keynote presentations? Thanks, the podcast was great.
Sorry gang. The remote link is now in the show notes.
D
Love the shows. Any chance your going to cover open source software for those of us that don’t have mega bucks to spare.
What about covering Fink and MacPorts for those that don’t know about them?
Keep up the great work.
Another excellent show. I’ve been listening to MPU for over a year now. If you had told me a year or two ago that I could be so interested in a show on presentation software, I would have said you’re crazy.
David and Katie somehow manage to make these shows a little better each time, and I learn something new every time. Well done.
Keynote really is a fantastic app. While I don’t give presentations often, I use Keynote routinely to make ad hoc graphics. I often use it to combine visual elements (e.g. clipart, random images, text). It’s so easy to arrange objects on a Keynote slide.
Instead of exporting as an image, I usually just take a screen shot of it (Cmd-Shift-4). The fonts and graphics are so crisp, you’d never know I created it in such a “primitive” way.
Great cast folks.
I teach film editing at the USC film school and I have taken to using Keynote to play my Quicktime movie scenes almost exclusively now. It enables me to easily combine text, stills and movies and gives me control over their play.
It is super easy to tell Keynote not to play when I first arrive at the slide (where I have the chosen display frame, along with the title and — perhaps — a line of text for the students). Then, on a click from my remote, the text and title fade away at the same time that the movie begins to play. It is elegant and gives me a great way to go in and out of varying materials.
Another professor uses the hyperlinks to go in and out a web browser as well. I don’t usually do that since I can’t guarantee connectivity all the time. Instead I prefer to screen capture what I want to show as a Quicktime and insert that into the presentation.
I have had some playback problems since not every Mac I use has the same Quicktime codecs. A Quicktime is NOT a Quicktime is NOT a Quicktime. But that would be the same issue with a Quicktime presentation, rather than a Keynote (and I do bring the Quicktime files as a backup).
Norman
Re: delicious.com. A neat and barebones, almost Daring Fireball site is http://www.pinboard.in. I first found this through the excellent Reeder RSS iOS app, which had it as an option for saving to. Being a nerd, I had to see where the electronic rabbit-hole led.
What it does is like delicious.com: it saves sites you are interested in. You can do the same with Yojimbo or Evernote, but pinboard is fast, always accessible, and simple (no external application to launch). You can also quickly tag sites from your Mac or iPad or iPhone.
So, real world uses: applications that are interesting and I want to keep track of; gift items for myself or a loved one; articles from instapaper that I recall later and want to send someone or reference (you can set pinboard to automatically grab your instapaper postings, so they are automatically tracked, as well as your twitter postings).
I exported all my saved bookmarks from Safari, just keeping the ones on my bookmarks bar that I use daily.
And, of course, you can see what other people are reading, as a form of finding new reads. You can also follow people.
Excelsior!
It’s quite versatile: you can send in pages via email, track pages via RSS, and so on.
In your commentary about PDFPen you mention that it is now 64-bit. Doesn’t one need to run OS X in 64-bit mode instead of 32-bit to take advantage of this?
It seems I remember hearing/reading something about this as it required all your apps to be 64-bit to bother doing this. Anybody know?
@Jeremy
You do not need the operating system running in 64-bit mode to take advantage of 64-bit apps.
Hi!
I use a QuickTime movie which puts up a countdown timer as my first slide as my audience and students enter the room. The countdown is to the start of the session. Could also use it for breaks.
Also … I keep seeing Steve Jobs use this animation where, for example, a price for a new product drops down and lands in the page with a big cloud of dust. I have seen him use this effect for a couple of years now, and I keep thinking it MUST be a feature in Keynote ’10 (or ’11). I know about the DROP build effect, but what about that cloud of dust that kicks up??
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