MacFest

Sat, 20 May 2006
Skilz Digital Arts Experience Centre, Bangsar Shopping Centre
8:00 - 10:00pm

Report : Azul Adnan
Photos : Zamzuri Satimin, Azul Adnan

[Video highlights coming soon]    

This month's 'Fest started off with first-time presenter Wei who gave us a pretty detailed overview of VNC - remotely controlling our Mac via the Internet or network. He talked about the hardware and software required and ended up with a demo, accessing his Mac which was sitting at home.

Next I talked briefly about the new features of iMovie 6 and showed a home movie of my family trip to Perth which utilised some of these features.

Shah was the last speaker and he went through ten demos or tips:

1. Downloading flash animations to your hard disk
2. Google Earth
3. Terragen (terrain generator)
4. OS X Planet (live desktop)
5. Midnight Mars Browser
6. Jets 'n' Guns (awesome shooting game)
7. Haunting another Mac over your network (great for scaring kids)
8. Connecting to the Net with a 3G handphone using Bluetooth
9. Transferring stuff from a PC to a Mac
10. Backing up your files

For the lucky draws Valerie picked the winners. Apart from a couple of O'Reilly books there was a cool iPod nano skin kindly sponsored by Boomwave Products. As luck would have it, this was won by Wei! Talk about beginner's luck. Now all he needs to do is get himself a nano! :D

Thanks to the prize sponsors and to MacAsia for providing the venue. And thanks again to Choy Leng for the drinks.