Jayvee Fernandez is a tech enthusiast, Digital Manager, and Technology Editor for The Philippine STAR.
He is also an EAN certified SCUBA Diver and underwater photographer based in Metro Manila, Philippines. His photos and videos have appeared in various international and local publications including Random House Germany, Discovery Channel Canada, and CNN.
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Preview testing Markku’s “Strip!” WordPress Plugin
At Wordcamp ’08, RebelPixel’s Markku Segguera unveiled his Strip! plugin for WordPress. From his talk, the Strip! plugin is applicable in the following scenario: Let’s say you have a really good thread that generates a lot of comments. Sometimes you have friends who want to ride on with that thread and post unrelated URLs. It…
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FRiiSPIRIT Rock Band / Guitar Hero / Wii Party this Friday!
So the email thread, turned phone conversation went like this: Me: Of course I remember you! (High School) AJ: Guess what? We’re having a Wii party at my place! Can you invite your friends? Me: Sure, where’s your house? AJ: No, no, no, it’s the Wii party place called FriiSpirit Me: Huwhatt???? All this time…
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Early Christmas Shopping at the TriNoMa Sale Month
What if BLUE and GREEN met? Wow, so many sales at the TriNoMa. I’m listing two of them here. If you’re not like me (I cram all the shopping come November / December at the Cuenca Bazaar in Alabang), you might want to check out the freebies, promos and discounts that TriNoMa is offering. Think…
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Warhammer Online Open Beta Impressions
So I clocked in about 5 hours of beta testing Warhammer today. Now I can finally quantify all the excitement that I’ve channeled since World of Warcraft. All in all, Mythic had an interesting take on how video games sort of encourage you to grind the same thing over and over again. After a while,…
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Hi girls, ummm when was the last time you visited your OB? 😀
To my 5 female readers, Just curious. If you watched a movie in the last 4 months you may have come across this really depressing ad: So have you? It gets the point across though and yeah, I was all set to watch a really funny comedy when all of a sudden, bummer! I’d turn…
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Just got home from Wordcamp 2008; Meeting Matt Mullenweg
Just got home from Wordcamp Philippines ’08 at CSB. I gave away something new to those who attended my talk today. I talked about dreams and goals ala Randy Pausche – and equated these to 3 important aspects of publishing: editorial, sales, and marketing. In detail, discussed one way to determine engagement, two sources in…
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Welcome to the blogosphere, RJ Ledesma!
Guess who’s now in the blogosphere? RJ’s been intertwined in my life in several ways – it’s really no surprise considering this industry is really small. Welcome to the blogosphere, RJ Ledesma! P.S. That’s RJ’s yaya on the banner, from his latest book release, Lies My Yaya Should Have Told Me. Over the past three…
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Do you still read books? Or are you only reading the Internet?
“Read more books than blogs.” This is an ad from Analog Soul, a tee company. I think the message isn’t to stop reading blogs OR to read more books. Neither is it about hating blogs or new media – heck, Analog Soul uses Multiply as their marketing tool. The disciplines of reading books and reading…
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It only costs $4.00 to put Chuck Norris inside your phone
Strange, but true. And yet it really kicks ass. Last year I sat in a mobile gaming conference with the guys from Gameloft – one of the best mobile gaming developers today as they’ve got a solid philosophy when designing games for the mobile phone: they should be engaging, intuitive and fun. And while we’re…
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Eraserheads Reunion Opens with Alapaap
Eraserheads Reunion Concert Opening from jayvee Fernandez on Vimeo. Before the second set began, Ely Buendia was rushed to the hospital. I had left the venue with Phoebe minutes before this happened because we were both suffering from a relapse of a cough and colds epidemic that’s been going on for days. Hence, the early…