Keynote 1.1 + QT 6.3 = phone teleprompter
Here's a hack that I just confirmed with Apple actually works. This is really damn cool.
QuickTime 6.3 and Keynote 1.1 both got released this week. QuickTime is Apple's popular multimedia technology, and this revision introduces support for 3GPP, an increasingly popular rich-media format used by cell phones, PDAs and other devices. Keynote 1.1 is Apple's Powerpoint competitor, a slideshow presentation software app.
I won't go into the details of what's changed in the new revisions, but suffice it to say that Keynote has always been able to export its slideshow as QuickTime files. That hasn't changed in this rev of Keynote, although it has been improved.
Keynote is really handy if you need to make a high-impact presentation on a Mac, but one of our readers thought up another use for it following QT 6.3's release.
Let's say, for example, you want to give a presentation to a group, but you don't want to or can't open up your PowerBook. Now you can export your Keynote presentation to 3GPP, upload it to your phone, and read back your Keynote-made cue cards from there. Bingo -- your phone becomes a teleprompter.
That's pretty damn nifty.