Author: Jayvee Fernandez

I have a love / hate relationship with gimbals. I’ve owned some from a number of brands, the most recent one from Hohem. My use case was that I needed an accessory that could count as a second head tracker to my DJI Osmo Pocket 3, which was my main vlogging device for a time. For one, gimbals are normally huge because of the arm brackets and grip. When I travel, I realized packing the case alone would have the same dimensions as a laptop. And that sucked. I was expecting a big accessory with the new Osmo Mobile 8,…

In most corporate offices or modern BPOs, the desk is a battlefield for space. We’ve all seen the mess: a bulky tower taking up legroom, a tangle of cables, and a monitor that feels like it’s barely holding onto its real estate. This is the context where the ASUS NUC 15 Pro makes its most grounded argument. Several years ago I would have probably ignored these small form factor PC’s (or SFFPC for short) because in the traditional sense, small = unremarkably bland. This is the type of computer you would use to check your email or write a Word…

I’ve spent the 2025 holidays living with the new 14-inch MacBook Pro. This is the fifth iteration of the MacBook running on Apple Silicon and although it bears semblance to its predecessors, this one comes at a time when we have a closer look at developments in Artificial Intelligence, what a “daily driver” really means, and what the global RAM shortage means for personal computing. It’s that time of the year when we ask if the incremental jump in silicon actually changes the way we work at a coffee shop or in a production studio. With the M5 chip, the…

The “quantified self” was a concept first introduced during the advent of wearables. It was in the mid 2000’s that a TED Talk by editors at WIRED Magazine talked about how technology can help people make better sense of their health through data. Back in the day, Fitbit was the most common step tracker available to the general public. But Apple also had the iPod nano and the Nike+ running device that you would place inside your sole to track steps. At that time it was considered some sort of a status symbol to own these shoes with the Nike+…

In the last 15 years I’ve probably owned three different iPads, from the very first iPad mini which we used as a tablet for wedding planning to the more recent M1 Pro kept my sanity during the pandemic — to the latest M5 Pro series that I am using to type this article. Unlike phones that tend to suffer from more wear and tear and thus the need to be more constantly upgraded (relatively), tablets are treated more like pseudo-laptops, especially if you have keyboard attachments. For me, I have two different keyboard configurations for my two iPad Pro devices,…

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I’ve been using the iPad since 2021 to create music for different videos. Because of iCloud, I’m able to sync my previous tracks to my 2025 iPad Pro M5 from my iPad Pro 11 inch (the M1 series released in 2021). Ever since Garageband implemented the “DJ format” of creating music on a tablet, this became my intuitive go-to for creating music. I think when people ask whether they should get a Macbook Pro or an iPad since there are intersecting use cases, I really just ask if they do a lot of things with their hands — handling tracks…

If 2024 and 2025 were the years of “Let’s see what ChatGPT can do,” 2026 is the year businesses are finally putting their money where their mouth is. According to the latest Lenovo CIO Playbook, we’ve officially moved past the “playing around” phase. A massive 96% of companies across the ASEAN+ region (including Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand) are planning to hike their AI budgets this year by an average of 15%. It’s Not Just an “IT Thing” Anymore One of the most interesting shifts is who is actually paying for these tools. It used to be that the IT department…

Finally, pro-grade software Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage are now available on a monthly subscription basis. If you are a creator who found paying full price for Logic Pro or Final Cut Pro too heavy on the wallet for a one-time fee, you can finally rejoice in the fact that Apple has made a full suite available on a monthly subscription basis at affordable rates starting January 29 2026. Here’s the official pricing for the Philippine market: “Apple Creator Studio is a great value that enables creators of all types to pursue their craft…

It’s like an IKEA but for wireless office solutions. As coworking spaces experience challenges in the past decade, there seems to be a silver lining with newer business models in shared office spaces. I met Sherwin de la Cruz a lifetime ago when he was still involved in the media business. Before the dawn of streaming he used to rent out DVD subscriptions with Samsung media players. Today he’s well past that, renting out coworking spaces instead as the Managing Director and Founder of Axon Group, the entity behind Quad. Quad is more than just a coworking space. As a…