Dad joins the blogosphere!
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at November 19th, 2007
It is with great pride I announce my father’s joining INQUIRER.net’s stable of blogs. He wrote an old column several years back titled “Beyond Bottom Lines” for the a national broadsheet as well as an alternating column for FINEX. “Beyond” the bottom line of course refers to the things that businesses tend to overlook which include corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, education and training, stakeholder mapping and development management. These, and many other endeavors of NGOs working with corporations and *shudder* government are proof that business is really, Not Just for Profit.
This is the breaking news announcement for Not Just for Profit. My father “Digoy” will be writing regularly together with a few guest bloggers from the INQUIRER family.
Kolektib Shared Spaces at the Cubao Expo
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at November 18th, 2007
Over the weekend, Kolektib officially opened at the Cubao X (formerly Marikina Shoe Expo) together with three other shops: Mogwai, Sputnik and White Box Gallery.
Hellgate London: The adventure thus far
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at November 16th, 2007
It’s been two days since I got a copy of Hellgate London. Amidst mixed reviews from seasoned fans of MMORPGS, professional reviewers, and old time fans of Diablo II, Hellgate shines in many aspects and its defects, though frustrating, can only hope to be corrected with future patches.
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Do you also write for print?
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at November 15th, 2007In the Philippines, a number of bloggers I know have begun contribution stints for magazines because of their blogs. In the same light, a number of contributing writers for print have also begun writing blogs.
Here are some of the publications I have written for in the past. I currently write for some of these till today:
Mobile Philippines
PC Magazine Philippines
GAME! Magazine
CHALK Magazine (umm long story!)
Rogue Magazine
MANUAL Magazine
EPSON Vision Corporate Magazine
CANON Images Corporate Magazine
Do you also write for print publications? If so, which ones are they? Do they allow you to place your author bi-line with your blog address?
[EXCLUSIVE] ShopPay: Taking the online store to the social network
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at November 14th, 2007I was out for a few beers with Andrian Lee a few weeks ago. I remember that night clearly because it was then that we dreamt of how easy online transactions would become if PayPal had full support in the Philippines. “How we wish PayPal came soon.” When I got to the car to drive home, Mike Abundo texts me saying PayPal had arrived. Wow. Beers with Andrian equates to accelerating the seemingly impossible in eCommerce.
Anyway I digress. Between beers, we talked about his new widgetized online shop. Why not bring the shop to the online consumers in social networks rather than have them go to different sites? Andrian told me that this move will not only make merchants’ goods easier to access, but it will also give incentives for social network members to earn cash on the side through commissions.
You can see some samples of the online shop widgets in his Multiply page:
Hellgate London Collectors Edition
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at November 14th, 2007
So dating hasn’t been stellar lately. I’ve decided to take up Lia’s advice and coop myself back into my geeky cave and engage in something unproductive yet fun. What timing too, because Bill Roper had also just released Hellgate London, the one and only game that is making me use my PC more often now. I’ve been waiting for this release for almost 2 years. Ack! I’m back to using Windows.
Press Freedom in the Philippines is a huge joke
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at November 12th, 2007
You’ve probably heard about this from a few days back. But still.
A mural depicting the history of press freedom made by the Neo-Angono artists in the Philippines was censored by the National Press Club before it was presented to President GMA. How ironic that the NPC’s “press freedom” commission was censored by none other than themselves. Truth be told, the word is not “censorship.” It leans a little bit more closely to “defacement.”
The final mural, which was submitted to NPC on October 24, shows a man reading the latest news on journalists’ killings while press freedom icons from the past and present converge around him. In one scene, Marcelo H. del Pilar is seen with fellow editor Mariano Ponce while rooting for cigarette butts in a garbage can under the streetsign La Solidaridad. Near the two, Filipino revolutionary Emilio Jacinto sells copies of the newspaper “Ningning o Liwanag” whose headlines proclaim the declaration of martial law while an incensed Eggie Apostol walks past. Perhaps the most arresting image is that of the late Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. talking to National Hero Jose Rizal while the latter reads a newspaper article on the disappearance of Jonas Burgos, son of press freedom icon Joe Burgos.
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“Isn’t it ironic that an institution such as the NPC would cause the censorship of a work that they themselves commissioned purportedly to promote press freedom? Isn’t the freedom of expression of the artist bound up with the very press freedom that they supposedly uphold? Aren’t these alterations a clear violation of the rights of authors/artists protected by the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines?” the group said in a statement.
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I can’t believe it. More photos of the alterations here. Neal Cruz’s piece talks about it more here.
Nokia Fever: Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia E90, Nokia 7500 Prism
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at November 12th, 2007
I have some reviews of a couple of Nokia phones over at Cellphone9. If you’re interested, check out the following links:
- Nokia N95 8GB first impressions
- Nokia Prism 7500 first impressions
- Nokia E90 impressions
- More thoughts on the Nokia E90
On Friday, November 16 2007, Nokia will be holding the launch party for the Nokia 5310 at Makati Avenue. Sign up by clicking on the link above and place your first and last name on the comments section for the VIP room access.
Hush. Let’s watch the sunset.
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at November 12th, 2007
Sometimes, the best way to get the message across is to give them the silent treatment.
5:24 PM. It was a Sunday. And we watched the sunset. And it was beautiful.
Shot using a 350D and kit lens that has not failed me for the past 1 1/2 years. I had a mini tripod and a Cokin filter. Click on the image for a larger version. Click here to view a few more shots I took.
UPDATE: We have a YouTube video courtesy of Jay
Modify your Leopard Dock Skin
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at November 11th, 2007
Because of the new Fan and Grid feature of Leopard’s downloads folder, I can spend more time beautifying a less cluttered desktop. Now despite the eye candy of the new dock, a lot of users have complained about how they preferred the old dock in OS X Tiger because it was easier to tell whether an application was open or not via the reversed triangle visual aid. Leopard has replaced the default “triangle” with transparent lights which makes it harder for some people with vision problems to discern what application is open.
I’ve managed to customize my dock’s skin using Leopard Docks. You will need to do some file replacing in the system folder. This is how you do it:
Go to Macintosh HD > /System/Library/Core Services/
Right-Click on “Dock” and select “Show Package Contents”
Go to /Contents/Resources/
Backup the files you are about to replace (Incase you did not listen, here they are)
Move those same original files to the trash
Move the files you downloaded to that folder
Open Terminal and type “killall Dock” (without the quotes)
View your nice new dock.
[How To]
This is a tip courtesy of Juan of The After Mac.
(And yes Riz and Lia, they have docks in pink too.)
PhotoBooth and iChat Hack: Uncover Star Wars Hologram Effect
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at November 10th, 2007Been fiddling around with Leopard for the past few hours. I have a lot of things to say in the pipeline but before that, I’d like to show you a little trick I picked up while browsing the forums. In the beta stages of Leopard, a PhotoBooth effect for the Star Wars hologram was excluded for final release. For us Star Wars fans, the effect simulates the holographic transmission effect used for communications.
Here is an example with me doing the Jedi:
The effect has also become quite popular for Halloween:
And yet another one …
Listed below are the steps to do this hack.
