Keynote for Mac

Keynote for Mac is a free presentation program that features iCloud Drive and sharing. It is easy to use and provides great transitions and effects. Keynote allows sharing with people who use Microsoft PowerPoint.

One of the most popular features that draws people to Keynote is the impressive charts. This is important for Businesses because when it comes to explaining data, a chart is worth a thousand words. Keynote offers column, bar, pie, scatter, bubble charts, and more. It also allows you to use animation. This is important because it allows you to make your charts interactive to focus attention on important stages in your presentation. The best part about this feature is that although it sounds complicated, it is really easy to use.

Keynote is great for students because it is extremely user friendly and is very easy to share with other students or your teacher virtually. You can send anyone a link to a presentation saved in Keynote for iCloud.  People who receive the link can view and edit the presentation in any web browser that supports keynote. This works on a Mac or Windows Computer. The best part about the sharing option is that the people you send the link to don’t need an iCloud account to view or edit the presentation. This is unlike the presentation tool by Google where you have to have a Google account to share the presentation. As far as privacy goes, if you want to restrict access to your presentation, you can protect it with a password. You can also restrict permission so others can view the presentation but not make changes to it.

You can share your Keynote presentation via Mail, messages, twitter, or Facebook. Presentations can even be sent via services such as Gmail or Dropbox.

I like keynote because it has all of the features of other presentation tools and more. So far, keynote has the easiest sharing policy out of all the programs I've seen. The only Con of Keynote that I’ve heard of is that although this app has no trouble opening PowerPoint files, sometimes when you export your presentation to PowerPoint format, you can lose some of your formatting in the transition.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/review/office-software/apple-keynote-60-review-3476759/

Google Drive

         Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service created and managed by Google. It allows users to store documents in the cloud, share files, and edit documents with collaborators. It includes Docs (a word processing program), Sheets (a spreadsheet program), Slides (a presentation program), and Forms (allows you to create forms such as surveys that people can fill out). In addition to the above, you can upload many different file types such as images, audio and video files, and so on. Google drive lets you access them anywhere and on anything that can access the internet. A google account is free and can turn offline documents into an online version.

            Google drive is an easy way to share and collaborate on documents and projects. This is especially important for businesses because instead of having to collect 4 different documents to compare notes, all 4 people can access and comment on the document online. This saves time, energy, and resources. Time, energy, and resources all add up to money in a business so essentially google drive will save businesses money.

           

Google Drive also provides for social needs. It offers Google+ which is Real-life Sharing and rethought for the web, Groups where you can create mailing lists and discussion groups, Blogger where you can share your life online with a blog, and Hangouts which is an app that makes conversations “come to life” anytime, anywhere, and for free.

The biggest complaint people have about Google Drive is that it’s a Google product. This is because people are afraid of the privacy of their saved files and they suspect that their data will not be kept safe and secret. In order to serve you targeted ads, Google “reads” your Gmail, watches your search history, and collects other information to serve you targeted ads. This made users nervous that Google would reap all it could from Google Drive, too.

           

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