MacFest

Sat, 20 Dec 2008
1Utama
7:30 - 9:30pm

Report : Azul Adnan
Photos : Azul Adnan, Azizi Khalid

2008 seemed to just whiz pass by as we reached the last MacFest of the year. Following on from last month's 'Fest held in conjunction with the Mac+iPod Discovery Week, this month's session was held at 1Utama. Unfortunately the place was very noisy, with music and all sorts of commotion coming from nearby stalls and shops.

However the show had to go on. Two speakers were lined up for the evening, each one doing two presentations.

David started first and talked about the iTunes App Store. He showed us how to set up an account and then walked us through the online store showing what sort of apps and games were available for downloading. These apps could be installed on both the iPod touch and the iPhone.

For his second presentation David demonstrated how to set up the blogging software WordPress on the Mac. He used MAMP, an open source Web platform built upon Mac OS X, to set up his own server on his MacBook. After a few copying and pasting of codes WordPress was all ready to go.

The second speaker was Azizi who talked about Fluid. Fluid is an app which allows us to create Site Specific Browsers to run each of our favorite web apps as a separate Cocoa desktop application. Azizi used Fluid for things like Gmail, Basecamp and Google Docs.

Coincidentally, Azizi's next presentation was on the similarly named but completely different app called FluidTunes. This software lets us control iTunes from a webcam, using our hands, head or feet, without touching our Mac! Minority Report finally becomes a reality.

As there was still a little time, Azizi finished off his session by playing a neat little slide show of hundreds of photos he took during the recent landslide at Bukit Antarabangsa.

The evening ended with the usual lucky draws. This time in addition to some books, there were also a moshi case, Harmony Express 5.1 dongle and a myMUG cap that were given away.