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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Wednesday Clicks


This week on Wednesday Clicks! I really need a new image to be used for my Wednesday Clicks posts.


That's all for this week. Have a great week ahead everyone!
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Wednesday Clicks



Welcome back again to Wednesday Clicks, I took a "break" last week thanks to a fever which I was battling with. Thank God that I am healed now and back to work! So take a break, check out some of the interesting links below.


  • It took only one guy to make this application and I think its a great one at that!

  • Microsoft Surface, the future of board gaming? I would think so especially with this version of Settlers of Catan being played on it.

  • Microsoft has a new device that they are teasing with. Check it out here.

  • Want some new and free Twitter icons on your webpage? You can get them over here.

  • Fancy some Starcraft 2 tips and tricks? Check out this site, plenty of guides and videos on fine tuning your SC2 gameplay.


Have a great week ahead guys!
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Wednesday Clicks

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It's Wednesday, that means there can either be two things, one, you only have 2 more days before completing your work. Two, the weekend is almost at hand. When it is a Wednesday, this means it is time for a Wednesday Clicks!


  • I always suspected that a car wash business is actually good. Check out this one, he can charge up to $11,000 for a car wash!

  • You just got to love the chinese for doing what they can really do, copying off Apple's product. Check out their website here and see it for yourself!

  • So after so many years in operations, Proton has decided to go back to the old drawing board and used Mitsubishi car designs for their next Waja replacement models. Are they not the least bit innovative or have they wasted so much money on useless R&D that sky rockets their costs up?

  • How do you use the iPad as a photographer's helper? Check it out here.

  • I have always been trying to get my colleagues to head over to Lot 10 all the way from Cyberjaya to try their food. Although the journey is long, but I feel that it is worth it. Check out some of the delicious food here.

  • Don't forget to vote for me and Mun Tzin here at the PJ Hilton competition! http://bit.ly/vote4mark


Have a great week ahead folks!
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Wednesday Clicks



A very busy weekend with extreme late nights and also thanks to Blizzard for release Starcraft II after more than 10 years mean that I have very little time left to blog :)


  • Did you know that lasers from laser shows can damage your DSLR's sensor? Check it out here.

  • Do you know who Jonas Peterson is? Well, I just absolutely love his work.

  • Can you imagine if Tokyo would have been left untouched and there was no people left in the city, what would it turn out to be? Well you can stop imagining and see some of the amazing images here.

  • Here is how you can make your own iPhone 4 steadicam. Totally cool!

  • Apple released a bundle of new upgrades and products yesterday. This include new iMacs, Mac Pros, a magic trackpad, rechargeable batteries and a 27" monitor. Head over here to find out more.

  • Someone found Ansel Adam's negatives which is now valued at a whopping USD$200million. Now I wished that someone was me instead.


Have a great week ahead. For those of you playing Starcraft II, do make sure you keep yourself hydrated and get enough sleep!
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Wednesday Clicks

I really can't believe the weekend just flew by and I won a wooden spoon! Will talk about the wooden spoon another time but it is time for a Wednesday Clicks!


  • Still feeling the World Cup Blues? Or is your body clock waking you up at 1.45am in the morning? If that still happens to you, perhaps this gallery of the best photos from the Fifa 2010 world cup can help you sleep.

  • If you are a Mac laptop user, check out this nifty free tool called Airport Location. Airport Location is a small menubar app for Snow Leopard laptops and desktops. When you ask it to it records dozens of settings by taking a Snapshot of your computer just the way it is setup at that time. You can have as many Snapshots as you want – one for Travel, one for Office, one for Home, one for watching Movies etc.

  • Singapore will be receiving their iPad's this Friday. I wonder when Malaysia will get ours.

  • iTunes 9.2.1 is now available, go download it now from Apple

  • Where do you stand with this sort of photo manipulation? What is your take on that?

  • The Inspire+ Seminar in Kuala Lumpur will be happening this Saturday! Sign up now here. If you do, look out for me as I will be attending it as well :)


Have a great week ahead everyone!
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Wednesday Clicks



There are Wednesdays and there are some Wednesdays. Monday was a zombie day for me as I was up all night watching the world cup. I think everyone in the office did the same as well. Anyway, it is Wednesday today which means that there is time for a Wednesday Clicks.

Its so going to be a very very long week ahead!
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Wednesday Clicks - The Return



Yes, Wednesday Clicks has finally made a come-back after absolutely no requests for it over the past 6 months. Nevertheless, I would like to stick to it again and bring up some new links and news from about as well.

Here are some of the latest happenings about!

  • If you aren't following me on Twitter, do follow me :)

  • There is an upcoming photography conference coming up called Creative Asia. Check it out here. The conference feature big names such as Dane Sanders, Joe McNally, and Manny Librodo so don't miss out on it!

  • Wedding and Portrait Photographers Malaysia is up and running with their conference coming in August! Check them out here.

  • Images of daily life in Pakistan is featured here. The images are just mind blowing!

  • Check out the Nutgraph's latest article on Refugees in Malaysia here.

  • In case you want to get your hand on the latest iPhone 4, you can get them here locally! (warning not cheap!)

  • If you are a fan of Futurama (check out the new release of Season 6!!), check this out. This guy built the entire city from Futurama using Lego bricks in his free time. Talk about being passionate!

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Monday, November 9, 2009

The return of Wednesday Clicks

Only to return on a Monday, I have decided to return my old trend of providing some interesting links as well as excerpts from other sources which either inspire me or give some sort of educational value.

First up for this week:

  • I've only started reading some inspirational blogs lately especially to gain some insights of what I can use in life as well as apply at my job which has been consuming a lot of my time lately. Just see when was my last posting and you will know why. Anyway, I thought that this article on "How to be good at something" is very relevant and useful to us all no matter which industry you might be in.

  • A good book review on the "The presentation secrets of Steve Job" can be found over at Duarte's blog. In case you don't know who Nancy Duarte is, she is the owner of the company that came out with Al Gore's "The Inconvenient Truth". I get plenty of corporate presentation tips from her although I still find it hard to apply some of the design principles into corporate slides.

  • In case you have been living in a nutshell, Louis Pang recently launched his new training portal called WedShooter. Check it out over here, sign up quick and get a discount for a year's subscription as well as his World Tour DVD!

  • Scott Kelby has a recent posting on what every new Lightroom user should know. Check it out especially in particularly that you are new to Lightroom as well as trying to figure out what Lightroom is about.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Wednesday Clicks

.......that is posted on a Thursday.

So I got carried away with work yesterday and totally forgot that it was Wednesday. After being carried away, I ended up being so excited over catching Transformers 2 that the movie ended so late and I just got back. Yesterday, I went for dinner with a bunch of crazy photographers (so crazy that they can even make balloon dolls for you) at Delicious at Midvalley. Me, being me, driving all the way from Cyberjaya, I ended up taking photos with my trusty iPhone instead. But today is not about EatFest, today it is about Clicks, and by clicks I mean my usual list of interesting links.

  • Check out this gallery of amazing photos that was taken with a camera phone! This further elaborate on my that it is the photographer behind the camera that makes the pictures (I said this during my workshop last Saturday).

  • With so much hype about the government wanting to keep a register of bloggers, some say that bloggers are killing journalist. I beg to differ and so does this article.

  • Want to know how much Twitter has grown? If you don't know what is Twitter, just join Twitter.com and add me in @markleo82

  • Has the law finally caught up with Rapidshare?

  • Check out this huge debate on what went on at Matt's Adobe Lightroom post. Very interesting and great arguments from both sides. The story originated from a guy who wrote a nifty little program that when you enter in a Flickr image, it will calculate out and create a Lightroom preset to achieve that effect. Some say it is stealing but some say that it isn't because no one can copyright Adobe Lightroom settings. If that is the case, no one can use +10 Saturation, + 20 vivid and vignette.

  • Become a better photographer through the critique of others. What can I say, the title of that article says it all. Which was why I implemented what I have learned from Louis Pang's workshop and did a simple critique session for the workshop which I held recently as well.

  • Check out this interview with Landscape Photography Legend Art Wolfe at Digital Photography School. Here is the link to Part 1 and Part 2 of the interview.


A brief Wednesday Clicks this week but watch out for this space, I have a whole new blog revamp coming up soon and no, I didn't do it myself. So it is going to look way awesome!
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Wednesday Clicks

Its Wednesday today and you know what that means, more interesting links out! I have for one thing learned recently that it takes friggin a lot of discipline to work and study at the same time. Anyway, before I skew off even more, let's check out what is new this week.

  • I know everyone is waiting for the iPhone 3.0 OS to be release for their iPhones. Well this isn't really a link but here are some links to some new applications which will be launched as well. Tweetdeck for the iPhone (YAY!) and MapQuest is releasing their alternative software to the GoogleMaps.

  • I posted in last week's Wednesday Clicks about a video which theBackPackr created for the McDonald's competition to win the iPhone. Guess what? They won the challenge and are now proud parents of the iPhone 3G.

  • There are rumours of a leaked press material for the upcoming Nikon D300s. I am not too sure myself if it might be real.

  • If you wanted to know more about Adobe Lightroom and how to maximise your workflow, Jon Low, a professional wedding photographer of IdealWedding has just the right answer for you. Thanks so much for sharing Jon!

  • Check out Timothy Tiah's blog post on his holiday to Phuket. For those of you who are curious on just who Tim is, he is one of the founders of NuffNang which is a blog advertising network. One of the reason why it's up on this week's WC is that there is an interesting link in his blog post I found, it was in regards to a travel agency which handled his trip, PYOTravel.Com. I checked out the site and it definitely has very cheap prices. Site booked marked.


Before I finish this post, I would like to remind you that there are 3 ways you can eat "pan mee".

The first way, which is the most common one is to eat it in the form of a noodle soup.
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Image source: Eating Asia

The second way is to eat it in the form of dry noodles with an accompanying bowl of soup.
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Image source: Eating Asia

The third way, which I think this new restaurant is trying to revolutionize, is to eat it frozen.
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Dang, chilly "pan mee", do you top it up with ice cream?

Anyway, this is another branch of super kitchen's chilli pan mee which is located in SS2, near Ang Kee restaurant and further down from Kayu Nasi Kandar behind Lim Mee Yoke restaurant.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Wednesday Clicks

Shootfest came and shootfest finished in a blink of an eye for me but instead of dreaming of the past, I will strive to move forward. Forward with this week's Wednesday Clicks, that is. I also realised that a post without pictures is definitely boring! So here is a image I took while I was away in NYC.

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The park in the image above is the famous Central Park of Manhattan.

Here is a little reason why I chose Wednesday to have the Wednesday clicks, its because in the week, whenever you reach Wednesdays, its all downhill from here. Have a great week ahead!
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Wednesday Clicks

Ahoy there, what happened to last week's posting? It seemed to have dissapeared but to be perfectly honest, I was busy catching the Champions League final match between Man Utd and Barcelona in a local Irish Pub near my hotel on 50th Street in Manhattan. The atmosphere was great, the pub was split with supporters from both sides sitting at different sections and me and Jamie had a huge plate of nachos to split between the two of us.

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Look at the size of the nachos! All covered in cheese and sour cream, yumz!

Anyway back to the point, let's have some interesting links here.

  • First of all, I definitely have to highlight this video made by my friend, theBackpackr, watch it here and you will laugh your head off. I guess some people are willing to go to extreme lengths just to get the Apple 3G iPhone. Otherwise, for the rest of you camera fans out there, the video was shot entirely with the new Canon 5D Mk2.

  • Secondly, as part of the WeddingStory team, I was unfortunate fortunate not to have been to Bangladesh because apparently there was an outbreak over there which some people say is more serious than the H1N1 virus. As you can see from this video here, Malaysians who are there tend to end up going crazy, I really mean going crazy. Don't believe me? You definitely have to watch the video then to understand my point.

  • Only in Malaysia can you confiscate someone's shirt because of some of the "controversial" designs on it and when the designer asks what are the guidelines for designs, there are no guidelines at all!

  • There is an upcoming Blogger's Karnival which is going to be held on the 20th June at Jaya 33. For more information about the event, click on this link.


That's all for this week. I would definitely recommend watching those videos, don't forget to click "play" first and then "pause" and wait for the entire video to load first before watching it. Malaysia isn't blessed with fast internet speed so this is just one of the workarounds.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Wednesday Clicks

Since I am on a totally different time zone (its supposed to be 1.20pm in KL now but its only 12.20am here in Chicago) so I decided to post pone the post a little bit to suit my time here. Frankly, between 8am-7pm classes all day, I am thankful that the sun does appear about later than usual so that it doesn't feel that late. But nevertheless, I haven't gotten used to waking up at 6am everyday so that I can head over for breakfast before class. Food here is absolutely fantastic and fresh strawberries every morning! Ok, I have to be honest, my breakfast is usually made up of pork cumberland sausages, with pork bacon and scrambled eggs and of course, the creme de la creme, free Starbucks coffee. Yeah, that is the life I can get used to.

Anyway, back to this week's click.

  • Head over here to download Coldplay's live album, absolutely free!

  • Check out this new blog released by the New York Times called Lens. I guess the name explains it all about what the content of the blog would be.

  • This week's guest speaker at Scott Kelby's blog is none other than Vincent Versace. I was introduced to Vincent Versace by Kee Sitt. This led me to purchase his book last year and to be perfectly honest, I have had just a glance through it but never really study it yet.

  • New leaked specs about the upcoming iPhone which is predicted or assumed to be launched on the 17th of July. Can anyone say, Organice Liquid Emitting Display ten times?


That's all for this week. Its late over here and its time to sleep. I guess it would be easy to get over the jet lag now since I have had a couple of drinks at the local bar earlier.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Wednesday Clicks

Its Wednesday's again and time for the this week's Wednesday Clicks. With all that has been going on politcally here in Malaysia, especially that state up north of Selangor, there have been loads of interesting news flying about.

  • Chase Jarvis has posted on his blog a post entitled, "Shake Your Tree", which is an interesting read especially for you photographers out there. He talks about how to start shaking our own tree and start doing something instead of laying about idle. Personally, my plan is to start taking more photos with my iPhone and look out for interesting subjects and frames about.

  • Apparently news are going about that Rocky will be the CEO of Malay Mail. According to Rocky himself, it is completely wrong.

  • This link is dedicated to the Pulau Ketam Save the Dog's Campaign. For more information check out the link, here are some thoughts from some bloggers about, here and here.

  • ShootFest 001 has reached 65 registrants so far and the max number of registrants who can attend is only 80. That means there is only 15 more spots available. I do encourage everyone to participate and find a session to present, it can be either 15mins or 30mins and the rest could be time for networking. Let's all get out of our own comfort zone and share with one another ok?

  • Apparently some dude in China is saying that he knows of what are the new specs for the upcoming iPhone. He claims that it will have a capacity of 32Gb, a 3.2MP cam with autofocus ability and a 600MHz processor. I do think that the additional capacity and memory bump speed and the autofocus ability of the cam is a nice welcome.


That's all for this week folks.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Wednesday Clicks

Okay, so I missed out my weekly Wednesday clicks and this time, I am back with more interesting links. I have been sort of isolated from most of the social media networks at work because Facebook has been banned and I only can check Twitter via the web which is quite hard at times. Anyway, enough about my troubles, here you go.

  • If you can view YouTube whereever you are (I can't view YouTube at work), check out this video. Totally awesome especially if you love Taylor Swift's Love Story as well as Cold Play's La Vida Loca. I love the dynamics of the song, just beautiful.

  • ShootFest 001: The Wedding is coming (6th and 7th June) and I will save a post just to explain a little more about what it is.

  • Something I may have written before but I am writing it here again, if you don't know what Nikon DTown is about, check it out here. It is a website which shows episodes of Scott Kelby and others giving tips on how to use your Nikon DSLR and even with guest appearances from Joe McNally teaching about using flashes.

  • There is a new NikonSchool.com website out now. Check it out if you are free.

  • A little bit of political news on what is happening now as I am typing out this post. A political activist has been arrested under the Sedition Act.


To be honest, this post has loads of Nikon stuff and I will definitely try to limit these single-brand focused type of posts. Heck, i love Canon's 5D Mk2 for its amazing 21MP of pure joy as well as Canon's 50mm and 85mm f/1.2 L lenses. Although there are rumours that Nikon will be releasing their latest AF-S 85mm f/1.4 as well as the 28mm f/1.4. Definitely going to be some sweet lenses but after my recent purchases, I am flat out broke.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Wednesday Clicks

Oh my gosh, its Wednesday and I totally forgot about this post. Nevertheless, it is always better late than never right?

Have a great week ahead, remember, its all the way downhill from here.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Wednesday Clicks

I can't believe it that I actually went a whole week without any updates and I really dread to see two Wednesday Clicks post back to back in my blog. Nevertheless, I will try updating my blog a little bit more but of course I have been completely busy over the entire weekend.

The Pikom PC Fair was a dissapointment for me, mainly because I expected too much for it and of course the extremely packed exhibition halls as well as countless sales people trying to push flyers in my face to sign up for their broadband/mobile/laptop promotions and coupled with the huge amount of stalls selling printer inks, I guess it was just too much for me. Still, I managed to walk away with a wireless keyboard+mouse set from Microsoft.

Anyway, here are this week's clicks.

A short post this week but I am totally up to my neck with work to complete and goals to accomplish.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Wednesday Clicks

I am back again with this week's Wednesday Clicks, last week I decided to actually not post up due to the fact that it was April Fool's day. Nevertheless, its back up again with loads of interesting links.

Have a great week ahead everyone, as they always say, Wednesday, its all downhill from here!



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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Wednesday Clicks

I really think that time is really an essence that we cannot waste. Then again there are a lot of things that we do waste that might affect us in a subtle but yet realistic way.

  • This is what you should do if you have about 22-25 million pound sterling sitting in your bank account, buy a village!

  • If you are a new iPhone user or you are considering getting an iPhone sometime in the near future, do note that iPhone's can't be tethered at the moment, but this may be of some good news. What is tethering? Well tethering is basically hooking up your phone with your laptop/PC and using the phone's 3G connection, surf the web.

  • Another bit of Apple related news, as crazy as it seems, I thought stupid things like this only happen in Malaysia.

  • Ok, your friend in the US gives you a DVD for your birthday and you realised you can't play it on your DVD player because of the DVD region. I bet you must be cursing your lucky stars. Well apparently Gordon Brown must have done something similar when Obama gave him a set of DVDs as a gift.

  • Here is a great post on 20 tips for better conference speaking.

  • Check out this site about 5 minutes before lunch, it will definitely help you build an appetite!


Last but not least, there has been so much hype about Earth Hour and all the Earth Hour parties this coming Saturday. Yes I do support the notion of everyone turning off the lights for an hour but I feel that the only way this will make an impact is that if people could take one thing away from this event is that they learn to conserve energy. A simple gesture like turning off lights when there is no one in the room or talking a short walk to your grocery store instead of driving 2 minutes down the road, every little small thing adds up.

Now the funny part about Earth Hour is a question I would definitely like to post up, how much extra energy has already been consumed/used to promote Earth Hour? I see a huge ass billboard with LIGHTS on it running along the highways. So you turn off your lights for an hour, versus the 1 month of electricity usage to power those billboards? The irony of it all right?

My take is, yes, celebrate Earth Hour and turn off your lights. Then go to what ever party that you may be attending consuming your normal amount of electricity powering those huge ass amplifiers and disco lights. But take home a small fact about energy consumption. Remember, turning off the lights for a room overnight is also equivalent to heating up 10,000 cups of tea.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Wednesday Clicks

This week has been a miserable week for me as I am down with a flu and thanks to the flu, a fever as well. And to make things even worse, because I am sick, my immune system is low hence germs decided to attack my gums and here I am with swollen infected gums, barely being able to eat anything without feeling any pain.

Anyway it is a good thing I decided to slowly collect links over the past week in order that I don't miss out this week's Wednesday clicks.

  • Ever wondered how Air Force One looks like? Well, look no further.

  • This blog post shows Air Force One and it's rich history as a usual transport for the president of the United States.

  • An interesting video which depicts Sex, Lies and Photoshop, tag line for the day, why editors should reveal which photos are photoshopped!

  • 25 of the best photography websites, link courtesy of Anna!

  • An interesting blog about life.

  • I have been hooked on Zack Arias' critique episodes and they are just totally mind blowing. Critique is very important for a photographer and it sometimes take other people to help us look at things we may tend to overlook. Check them out here. There are already 6 episodes on his blog already but there are only 4 episodes on YouTube. I wrote on his blog (comment section) to request that he could also upload his episodes on YouTube because our crappy Malaysian lines had trouble streaming from Blip.Tv. I am just so glad that he obliged, thanks Zack!

  • Here is a cool site for you to just insert your name and get a list of cool facts about your name.

  • The latest Nikon rumour is that a new 35mm f/1.4 AF-S lens (FX) is about to appear sometime mid year?

  • Here is a very good example of how reporters can take your words and twist it around. Check out this which was published and the article rebuttal over here.

  • Ever since Maxis has launched the Apple iPhone 3G here in Malaysia, here is something for all of us iPhone owners to look forward to, namely the new copy and paste function! Only thing I am sad that was missed out was Flash support as well as tethering.


Until next week, see you all soon. Hope to get better!
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