Word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software aren’t exactly sexy, but Apple’s latest iWork suite does add an unexpectedly high-tech feature to the productivity package it gives away free. iWork is used on mobile devices like iPhone and iPad quite it’s on Mac, and therefore the latest upgrade makes that more straightforward.
The feature which is arguably most impressive is Keynote’s new picture-in-picture system. There’s an inexpensive chance that you’ve sat through a web presence over the past 18 months approximately, which may need to include either alive or prerecorded speakers. While dropping a video clip into a presentation is straightforward, embedding a live video feed typically demands some complicated compositing.
However, this new Keynote version makes adding a Live Video as simple as inserting a photograph or chart. Like those, you’ll move it, resize it, change the ratio, and go full-screen. There’s support for adding text and bullets on top of, or around, it, alongside frames, reflections, shadows, and colors.
It can use the webcam built into your Mac or any USB webcam. You’ll have multiple connected directly, switching between them for various views. If you would like to share an iPhone or iPad screen meanwhile, one USB connection can share that display embedded into your slides.
The other big addition in Keynote is co-presenter support. Instead of one person being liable for moving forward and backward through the slides, the most host can elect collaborators who can control the presentation successively.
As for Pages, they seem most often used on iPhone instead of iPad or Mac. Since which will end in text in documents being unduly small – or layouts that need tons of swiping around and pinch-zooming – there’s now a replacement Screen View option for the iPhone version of the app.
Much like Reader View in Safari, it reformats the document in a way that’s optimized for a smartphone screen. The first document retains its design with bigger fonts, a vertical layout, and pictures resized to suit, but you’ll also edit within Screen View. Apple uses algorithms to accommodate extra text you could add without messing up that original layout. However, people will probably want to see it still looks okay after they’ve finished editing.
Finally, the remake of Numbers gets an addition that’s been requested for several years now: pivot tables. Again, perhaps not the foremost exciting of features, but Apple is seemingly the primary to supply it in an iPad/iPhone app. you’ll easily adjust categories and columns, add filters, and use pivot tables to get charts.
While iWork might not be as thrilling as, say, new movie Pro features, the very fact is that it’s much more broadly used. All new iPhone, iPad, and Mac models get a replica free, and therefore the latest versions are available within the App Store and Mac App Store today.
