MacFest (special edition)

Sat, 17 Sept 2005
Apple Experience Centre, Ikano Power Centre
8:00 - 10:00pm

Report : Azul Adnan
Photos : Azul Adnan, Shah Sahar

Wong started off the evening by talking about his blog, ahtak.blogspot.com, where he posts his photos and thoughts. Then he took us through his collection of cool photographs, describing how he shot some of them. Finally he showed how he uploads his photos to his blog.

Next, I played a few Apple-related video clips which included the iPod nano and Motorolla Rokr phone ads. I also played a 10-minute snippet from the "Triumph of the Nerds" documentary showing the beginnings of Apple Computer.

Shah covered three things:

• HandBrake - a freeware which rips DVDs and saves the movies and featurettes as Quicktime movies.
  
  
• Romeo - an application which allows you to remotely control your Mac via your handphone. Shah showed how he changed songs in iTunes, started the visualiser, launched DVD Player, controlled the volume...all without touching his Mac!
  
  
• Creating your own ringtone using GarageBand. Chris was 'requested' to lend his voice in creating a ringtone which Shah put together in just a few minutes.

The prizes for the lucky draws at the end consisted of a ShuffleArt skin, an iPod t-shirt and a couple of books, iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual and iLife 05.

After Ikano a few of us hung out at D'Kayu (in front of Tesco) for teh tarik and supper.

Thanks to all who came and special thanks to Wong and Shah for their talks. A big Thank You also to our prize sponsors: Chris, Peachpit and O'Reilly, and to the Apple Experience Centre (Mac Studio) for the venue.