MacFest

Sat, 29 Dec 2007
EpiCentre, Pavilion KL, Bukit Bintang
8:00 - 10:00pm

Report : Azizi Khalid & Azul Adnan
Photos : Azmir Khalid & Azul Adnan

The last MacFest of the year started off with Azizi talking about the latest developments of Legal Bytes, his company which specialises in services for the legal profession.

Firstly he demonstrated BriefCase, a litigation suite for lawyers. Amongst other things, the suite offers real-time transcription of court proceedings, transcript management and chatting amongst team counsels.

Next Azizi showed Legal Hitch, a legal jobs network for anyone interested in finding jobs in the legal industry. Finally, he talked about Love Bytez, a non-legal related service which provides free wedding cards. You select a design and the service will print real cards and post them for you anywhere in Malaysia for free!

Azul demonstrated the new features of iPhoto 08. He covered the Events feature, the new adjustment tools and did a live demo of setting up a Web Gallery. Even though around half of the attendees were already using iPhoto, most of them seemed impressed with the new White Balance tool, a simple one-click feature to automatically colour balance a yellow-cast photo.

As a last minute surprise, Pete stood up to demonstrate the mobile broadband modem on his iBook using Celcom's data plan. The speed was nothing to shout about, but it wasn't too bad either. Pete showed how his Internet connection could be wirelessly shared with other Macs.

As usual, books were given away for the lucky draws, including an iPhone book and one on Leopard. Other prizes were a moshi Cardette card reader and an exclusive Apple pen & pencil set.

Thanks to Jovi and EpiCentre for the venue and refreshments.