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case you can't place your Apple TV near an Ethernet jack and the Wi-Fi in the
room is spotty.
These tiny items don't cost much and will have you more prepared than a Boy Scout. Before
yougiveyourbigtalk,visittheroom,hookupyourequipment,anddoarun-throughtocheck
for technical glitches.
Present with Keynote
Forbetterorworse,MicrosoftPowerPointhasbecomethelinchpinofmodernpresentations.
Ifyou'reusingaMacwithAirPlayMirroringtoshowyourslidedeck,thenyoucanusePower-
Pointoranyappyoulike.Unfortunately,MicrosofthasyettocreateaniOSversionofPower-
Point.
I've tested a number of iOS presentation apps, and found that Apple's
Keynote
is by far the
best. It does a great job of importing PowerPoint presentations; is smart enough to hide the
device's status bar on the TV when you turn on AirPlay Mirroring; and best of all, it's free
with new devices ($9.99 otherwise).
If you didn't create your presentation in Keynote for iOS, here are some ideas for copying it
to your iOS device:
•
iCloud.com:
Working in a Web browser on your computer, go to
ht-
tp://www.icloud.com/
and sign in. Open the Keynote Web app to view its doc-
ument manager window. Drag a Keynote—or PowerPoint—file from the Finder
and drop it in the document manager window. This makes a
copy
of the file in
iCloud. You can now access that
copy
from Keynote in iOS, if your iOS device is
signed in to the same iCloud account and you've turned on Documents & Data,
as described for iOS in the next bullet point.
•
iCloud Documents & Data:
If you're running 10.9 Mavericks with Keynote
6, open the iCloud pane of System Preferences on your Mac, sign in to iCloud,
select the Documents & Data checkbox, click Options, select Keynote, and click
Done. On your iOS 7 device, repeat the approximate procedure; tap Settings >
iCloud,signinwiththesameAppleIDthatyouusedontheMac,tapDocuments
& Data, and turn on the Keynote switch. Now, on the Mac, when you save the
file,chooseiCloudasthesavelocation.Youcaneditthe
same
Keynotedocument
on the Mac and on your iOS device.
Note:
If iCloud documents don't appear in Keynote for iOS, open the Settings app,
tap Keynote, and be sure Use iCloud is enabled.
