Jayvee Fernandez
Jayvee Fernandez
@jayveeabuggedlife@abuggedlife.com

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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  • Microwarehouse Year End Sale 2011: Spend! Spend! Spend!

    Hope you got your Christmas bonuses early because the sale is already this December 11 and 12 2011! As always, Microwarehouse has learned from all of the previous sales. Make sure you bring friends as usually, a lot of the items are buy 1 take 1 and it would be great to split the cost…

  • List of SMART LTE sites in the Philippines

    EDIT: Here’s a visual map of the LTE sites as of Dec 29 2011: High resolution version here EDIT: Updated list of LTE sites from Smart Communications as of December 13 2011. Please click on the image for full size. SMART is in the process of rolling out their LTE sites across the nation. I…

  • SmartNet (Netphone) running on iOS 5

    The telco industry is always exciting. And when the competitions exchange blows, there’s always the aftermath of awesomeness that, in the end, gives more choices to consumers. In the end, they win. This is a photo of SmartNet running on iOS (Yes, the iPhone 4s now has Netphone capabilities). Way back in February, I talked…

  • The inventor of the Rickroll makes himself known

    Over 54 million views. These are the video statistics of the very first “Rickroll” video done in 2007 by YouTube user “Cotter548.” He recently did an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit and the story, like most videos that went viral on the Internet were really just lucky accidents compounded with the right timing. In his…

  • It Begins: Holiday Online Shopping Spree

    As a gamer and well, an all-around geek I look forward to the months of November and December for one reason: the beginning of the holiday sales. Take note: this period starts from the day after Thanksgiving which has been coined as ‘Black Friday’ in the USA which symbolically marks the start of the holidays.…

  • Nightfall: Martial Law

    Wrote my first piece for GeekOut. Finally, a place where I can talk about board games and card games. I recently acquired a copy of Nightfall: Martial Law created by AEG after having spent a couple of months researching for a new deck building card game I could play with my regular board game group.…

  • Samsung pokes fun at iPhone fanboys

    This ad is spot on. It’s exactly the reaction I get from people who see the Galaxy S II. As I said in previous posts, the S II is the only phone that turns the heads of the fanboys.

  • SmartNet looking good on the 5.3″ Galaxy Note

    Mitch (@mpadua) from SMART’s Netphone team posted an updated version of the SmartNet app running on a Samsung Galaxy Note side by side the HTC Desire S. The new version adds support for the really big 5.3″ screen and as you can see, the widget is really elegant and does not take up the entire…

  • What do you look for in a desktop media player?

    In this day and age, the term “media player” can be defined only as ambiguous. Where once, a media player meant the VHS player that sat beside your television set, today a media player has been limited to a feature in almost any piece of portable technology rather than the hardware itself.