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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Press Freedom in the Philippines is a huge joke
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…
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Nokia Fever: Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia E90, Nokia 7500 Prism
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…
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Hush. Let’s watch the sunset.
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…
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Modify your Leopard Dock Skin
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…
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PhotoBooth and iChat Hack: Uncover Star Wars Hologram Effect
Been 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…
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Have you ever accepted work from Craigslist?
You know, one of my favorite blogs on the tech channel is The Craigslist’s Curmudgeon. The “Curmudgeon” exposes the @$$ side of Craigslist, a site dedicated to online work mostly related to copywriting. But really though, Craigslist can help you earn a few hundred bucks on the side if you’re a freelancer. As an alternative…
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Time Machine Makes Backing Up Fun
Here are some charts that show how often Macintosh users back up their data. 26% of all Macintosh users back up their systems regularly. However, only 4% make use of the auto back up feature: Hands down, the three most eyecatching experiences with Leopard are, in no order, the new iChat moving backgrounds, the new…
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Shai Come Home
Shai Coggins, one of the VP’s of b5media is coming home for the holidays. We are organizing a set of two meets for b5media bloggers as well as for the Filipino blogging community. The schedule for the two meet ups are as follows: The first one will be held on the 29th of November (Thursday…
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Nokia Parteh: Bloggers get VIP
UPDATE: VIP SECTION FULL What: Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Phone Party When: November 16 2007 | 8:00 PM Where: A. Venue Hall, Makati Avenue, Makati City Attire: Red and black club wear Nokia Philippines is celebrating the launch of their new music phone, the ultra thin Nokia 5310. The launch parteh will be this November 16…
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Leopard Now.
Mac OS X Leopard is officially in the Philippines. If you bought a Macintosh anytime beginning October 1 2007 in the Philippines, you are entitled to an almost free upgrade to OS X Leopard for only PHP 527.00. All new Macs come pre-installed with Leopard. On a side note, I’ve heard reports of retailers in…