Apple Intros New Publishing, Online Storage Options for iWork.com Beta Users

Apple has sent out an “an important service message about the iWork.com public beta” notifying users of the ability to play Keynote presentations with animations on the web, and of the new publishing options now available for public sharing and private online storage.

Last week, Apple updated iWork ‘09 to version 9.0.5.

The release added a number of enhancements to Pages ‘09, Keynote ‘09, and Numbers ‘09, the three applications that comprise the productivity suite.

According to the Cupertino, California-based giant, “Using Keynote for Mac, [you can] share your presentations and let viewers experience them with over 15 animations, video, hyperlinks, and audio.

“Play back a presentation on iWork.com using the latest version of Safari on a Mac or PC, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Just swipe to advance slides on your iPad using Safari,” Apple explains.

As for the new publishing options for public sharing and private online storage, Apple notes that uploading documents for private online storage, as well as accessing them, can be done anywhere with iWork.com.

Users can share their documents on social networks using a Public link, and embed their presentation seamlessly on a website or blog using the embed code provided by iWork.com.

The Mac maker directs users to this page for more information about these features.

There, the company explains that, because iWork.com is web based, the projects users publish to it can be viewed by anyone using a modern web browser.

“You don’t need to know whether your colleagues use a Mac or a PC. Publish your work and invite others to view it without ever leaving Pages, Numbers, or Keynote,” Apple elaborates.

Best of all, viewers see documents, spreadsheets, or presentations just as the creator designed them, complete with layout, fonts, colors, graphics, and photos.

iWork.com features automatic 128-bit SSL encryption, safeguarding communication.

Viewers can leave comments on specific text in a Pages document, on any cell in a Numbers sheet, and on a Keynote slide.