Hey everyone, Thanks to everyone who attended the first Mumbai Mac Meetup at the Imagine Store at Inorbit. It was schedule for only an hour, but with everyone contributing it ended up going on for 2 hours and probably more had we not stopped.
I didn't take great notes so what I provide below is a summary of what was talked about. Each person gave a brief description of their Apple setup and then talked about some of the apps and utilities they love to use. Manish Went through his Application folder and highlighted some of the programs he uses: - Backdrop.app - a simple utility to fill your screen with a giant blank window. http://www.johnhaney.com/backdrop/ - Senuti - allows you to copy content FROM an iPod to your computer. http://www.fadingred.com/senuti/ - SuperDuper - create BOOTABLE backups and can be used with Time Machine. http://www.shirt-pocket.com/ - Transmission - simple to use BitTorrent client. http://www.transmissionbt.com/ - Things - easy to use to-do list and organizer based on the Getting Things Done methodology. http://culturedcode.com/ Talked about iTunes - You can create a US based iTunes account without a credit card. Goto the iTunes app store and select a free application and start the process of registering. - The two podcasts that were recommend, one for technology and for one start-ups. This Week in Tech and This Week in Start-Ups Rishi - Showed how to use screen sharing between two Macs, very simple - Tooble - allows you to download YouTube content and formats it into an iPod format Preshit - he had a TON of stuff to go over and honestly can't remember two of them. He runs the http://smokingapples.com/ blog, highly recommended. He did mention they are working on some cool things and - talked about MTNL 3G data service and said it was pretty good Khalid - Heads the training for RSG and pointed out a very good link to training videos from Apple.com that are downloadable. http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/ - Big user of Keynote and iMovie - Just bought an iPhone 3G Kartik - Talked about his setup and mainly uses the built in Apple products Anil - Runs RSG and mainly talked about the business applications he uses - showed a great tip to use substitutions in text (similar to TextExpander) in Snow Leopard As I said, I didn't take great notes and we covered ALOT of stuff. Next time you should join us and bring your portable Apple products with you!! Next time we might make it into a podcast or videocast as well.
