MacFest

Sat, 23 June 2007
Hoxe's Bookstore & Cafe, Damansara Perdana
8:00 - 11:00pm

Report & photos : Azul Adnan

Just when we thought our projector problems were over (see last MacFest), the DVI cable that Redza kindly brought was the wrong size! After cracking our brains for a solution it was finally decided to use Shah's videocam to capture the Macs' screens to display through the projector....a sort of poor-man's 'live' broadcast.

The first presentor was Zalee and he talked about Final Cut Studio 2, giving an overview of the new features available. All of them were pretty cool indeed, especially the smooth slow-motion effect.

Firdaus, a first-time speaker, then did a presentation on Swift 3D which is a 3D vector graphics animation tool. He showed his creation of the myMUG logo is 3D and how it could easily be animated. He then highlighted some sites which used Swift 3D.

Next up was Shah who demonstrated how to integrate our Macs with our mobile phones. He showed how to download the necessary plug-ins and scripts and talked us through the process of setting up our Nokias, Sony Ericssons, etc. so that we can, for example, send text messages by typing on our Macs instead of our phones.

Lastly, I showed about 10 or 11 Mac tips and keyboard shortcuts. Amongst them were saving as Compress PDF, manipulating iTunes Visualiser, sorting images in Preview Drawer and Screen Capture to Clipboard.

Four books were given away for the lucky draws, including a book on GarageBand/Podcasting and one on Applescript. The grand prize for the night was the Moshi Codex 13 MacBook case and the lucky winner was Amin.

After the event a number of us walked over to the Nasi Kandar 'cafe' for drinks and roti.