MacFest

Sat, 22 July 2006
Skilz Digital Arts Experience Centre, Bangsar Shopping Centre
8:00 - 10:00pm

Report : Azul Adnan
Photos : Azul Adnan

As Shah mentioned at last month's MacFest, it was time to give him and me a rest and to get new people to do the presentations. So this time there was Wei and first-timers Chris Hong and Redza.

Firstly, Wei showed a couple of neat tips, including changing the background image of the Finder window. He then demonstrated emulation and briefly played an old arcade game on his PowerBook.

Chris, who earlier in the day held the first Developers Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting, gave an introduction to developing for OS X. He presented a slide show, covering everything from a brief history of OS X right to its modules and components. He then proceeded to demonstrate XCode via some simple yet cool applications.

Lastly, Redza showed a few Mac 'toys' - freeware which allowed the Mac Book to do fun, though 'useless', things. He riddled his screen with bullet holes, used it as a light saber and decorated his face with a variety of moustaches! He ended by showing a video clip of a cool slide show by Identity 2.0.

There were 5 items for the lucky draws: the latest Make magazine, three books (including a humongous one called "Mac OSX Help Line"), and a polo shirt from Miglia. Congrats to all who won.

As it was one of the largest groups to have attended MacFest at Skilz, we took a group photo before converging to Coffee Bean for what else, coffee!

Thanks to the prize sponsors and to MacAsia for providing the venue.