MacFest

Sat, 28 Jun 2008
EpiCentre, Pavilion KL, Bukit Bintang
8:00 - 10:00pm

Report : Azul Adnan
Photos : Azul Adnan & Zainul Firdaus

Through arrangements with Epson, EpiCentre provided our first speaker for the night. Ho from Epson (who confessed that he was not a Mac user!) started by talking about what to consider when buying a new printer. He described how a 6-ink printer provided more details and produced prints which were not over-saturated. He handed round examples of 4-ink and 6- ink photos and it was clear the 6-ink ones looked more realistic.

Ho mentioned that anyone is free to try out the Epson printer at EpiCentre. So next time you're planning to go to the Pavilion bring along your laptop and print our your photos!

Eunice, a relatively new Mac user, was up next. She demonstrated the Magic Sponge, a white sponge used for cleaning your Mac. She cut off a small bit of the sponge and dampened it with water. Then she gently wiped away the dirt from Jeyadev and William's white MacBooks. It really worked!

Eunice also showed that the magic sponge could clean the aluminum MacBook Pro as well by demonstrating on Vincent and Jimin's Macs. All in all a simple but very useful little product. And at the incredibly low price of RM4.90, available from Cosway!

The main speaker for the night was Vincent Thian, the Chief Photographer with Associated Press (AP). He showcased a large collection of his amazing photos. He talked at length about his travels - amongst the places mentioned were Thailand, Japan, Australia, China and Indonesia. In fact he and Jimin were the first photographers to arrive in Indonesia right after the tsunami happened.

Apart from covering politics and disasters, Vincent also shoots sports and he said that the F1 is the most boring event to cover because the scenes are always the same. When on a job overseas he uses a satellite phone to transmit his photos to AP but it's usually the case where there's no connection in town. So he has to travel out to an open area for connection. Depending on the political situation it's not always safe and he always has to be careful.

Just before the lucky draws I showed a laptop cooler pad from moshi called Zefyr. I demonstrated it on Jimin's MacBook Pro.

The lucky draws consisted of four books and three Apple pen/pencil sets. Ian Cheong who couldn't attend this month had passed me some old brochures for the Power Mac G4 and the Cube for me to distribute - cool, historical documents for the Apple collector.

With the 'Fest over a few of us went to Expressamente for coffee. Vincent and Jimin entertained us with more of their photography stories. We were so enthralled that we were there until way past midnight!

Thanks to EpiCentre for the venue and drinks.