A spe­cial guest post­ing from Scott Theede:

Have you ever been exper­i­ment­ing with iWork (Pages, Num­bers, Keynote) and your free trial has run out leav­ing you unable to make any changes to your documents?

There’s a quick way to get around that restric­tion, say if you needed to have a fully func­tional keynote for an extra day of free trial for that impor­tant presentation.

Head to your hard­drive direc­tory, in my case Mac­in­tosh HD, then go to Library, then to Pref­er­ences, then look for the file com.apple.iWork09.plist (also works for iWork0X.plist, depend­ing on which trial ver­sion you are running)

Mac­in­tosh HD -> Library -> Pref­er­ences -> com.apple.iWork09.plist

Then sim­ply delete the file. Open up any of your iWork apps and with you can start a new 30 day trial.

I do not con­done doing this end­lessly; how­ever, it’s very use­ful in those instances when you need some extra time.

Update: Speech is over. New ver­sions of iLife and iWork (sites not updated cur­rently), updated 17″ Mac­Book Pro and the news that the iTunes music store is going com­pletely DRM free by the end of this quar­ter, as well as vari­able pric­ing on songs (no more $0.99 only, now the song price will range from $0.69 to $1.29 a song).

Apple’s got a big keynote speech today in San Fran­cisco where they’ll be announc­ing new software/hardware to the world. Fol­low along at some of our favorite sites:

• Macrumorslive.com (cur­rently hacked and annoying)
• Engadget.com — Great pho­tos and coverage
• Gdgt.com — Sim­i­lar to Engad­get (for­mer Edi­tor of Engad­get, Ryan Block, runs gdgt.com)
• Ustream with Chris Pir­illo — if you want to lis­ten to the keynote and watch a nerd’s reac­tion, this is the stream for you.

So far, a new ver­sion of the iLife suite, iLife ’09, has been announced. Expect a new ver­sion of iWork to fol­low, along with pos­si­ble updates to iMacs, Mac minis and maybe AppleTV? What else are you hoping/expecting to be updated?

Jared asks:

I have been using Pages for a lot of my desk­top pub­lish­ing needs while on my Mac, how­ever, I still need peo­ple in the PC world to view my doc­u­ments. I have been using the Export func­tion quite a lot and noticed that it does not have a short­cut key next to it. What is its short­cut key?

This is a great ques­tion and actu­ally a prob­lem that I have encoun­tered when using other pro­grams. As I love to use short­cuts I find it rather annoy­ing when the one com­mand I use the most doesn’t have a short­cut. The solu­tion: Cre­ate one yourself.

Click here to con­tinue read­ing about how to cre­ate your own shortcuts