#keynote 7

For the last several years, we've used our iOS QuickLaunch functionality to deliver starter files with pre-applied themes to our customers using Keynote for iOS. Thanks to recent updates, we're now able to leverage that functionality on native .kth theme files themselves, allowing us to initiate installation of our themes directly into your Keynote for iOS Theme Chooser from the KeynotePro website.

If you've ever used our QuickLaunch process to get a theme onto your iOS device, the updated Direct Install process will be very familiar - but rather than ending up with a single instance of the theme pre-applied to a new .key file in Keynote for iOS, you'll now end up with a desktop-like native theme experience, with the theme appearing in the My Themes tab of the Theme Chooser that appears when you create a new document (shown above). It's a big, big improvement over the old QuickLaunch workflow - and goes a long way toward providing a more consistent experience between desktop & mobile authoring scenarios moving forward.

Keynote 7.1 makes it easy to post interactive presentations on WordPress, Medium and the web - but be mindful of how much you're actually sharing.

The Keynote 7.1 Update brought an interesting new feature to Apple's presentation app: the ability to Post Interactive Presentations to WordPress, Medium and the web. We touched on this briefly in our Keynote 7.1 Upgrade Report, and while the new service still has a few bugs to work out and may not be for everyone yet, there's already a lot of buzz building around the web from authors anxious to explore an easy alternative to SlideShare and other online slide-hosting services.

Apple's made it very easy - though not entirely intuitive - to share your presentations with this new feature. But you'll want to be mindful of how much you're actually sharing with this service at the moment: there are a few non-obvious Privacy/Security concerns with the current implementation that are worth noting before you rush to try this out, particularly for business presenters.