MacFest (special edition)

Sat, 23 July 2005
D-19-2, DC 202 Jalan Ampang, KL
3:00 - 6:00pm

Report : Azul Adnan
Photos : Azul Adnan, Choy Leng

For a change, there was a different venue and time for this month's MacFest. Charly offered his apartment and we opted for afternoon so as to make it easier to find his place.

Sunil, who was supposed to talk about iWork 05, couldn't make it at the last minute so I roped in Mus to fill in the gap. Mus covered a variety of things like Dictionary in Safari, Grab and Arabic Qwerty. He also talked about a book called "The Mac is not a Typewriter" (which he recently reviewed) which highlights the importance of type and layout.

Next the 'older' generation present were brought back in time to relive our youth as Shah demonstrated gaming emulation. He showed how we could download and play the old arcade games right on our Macs. This time we no longer have to 'insert coins'!

Then it was break time and we helped ourselves to some nice ice tea and assorted biscuits.

By special request, Shah continued after the break and showcased iWork 05. He demonstrated some of the powerful features of Keynote and Pages, showing how easy it was to put together a slide show or document.

Charly came on next and demonstrated Logic Express. He went through several features, showing how the software creates sounds, building them into tracks to create songs. Charly played a couple of his own compositions.

Finally, I demonstrated Evolution TV, a product which allows users to watch and record TV on their Macs. We tuned in to TV3 and managed to catch a speech by Pak Lah.

As time was running late and people had to dash off, I forgot the lucky draws. Ah well, more prizes for the next 'Fest!

A big thank you to Charly for allowing us to use his apartment and also to Jen who loaned us his projector.