Jan Kenneth Regala

It’s (not really) more hot in the Philippines

Thanks to rabid iPhone users who love to post worthless forecasts like these on my feed one after the other:

(It might be a phenomenon unique to my circle of acquaintances but it is terribly annoying. I have my unlimited mobile internet I can check the weather anytime I want thankyouverymuch.)

…AND the fact that staying outside an air-conditioned room for sustained hours these days is equivalent to self-inflicted torture, I think we can pretty much declare that:

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The most expensive font?

I don’t buy fonts, I never did. I’ve always felt that Dafont and 1001Fonts had enough free fonts for download. Plus, design blogs like WDL and SmashingMag regularly post wide arrays of well-designed free fonts (always looking forward to those actually). And it doesn’t hurt either that file-sharing has made it easier for us to download “bootlegged” fonts these days.

So when I realized how cruel the non-illegal world really is, and that quite a lot of fonts for sale are actually expensive, I tried to sniff around the web to find out some pretty expensive fonts. And I was shocked.

Lexicon - $4,999 = P215,000

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Privado: Designing for free

When your sister asks you to design something, you cannot charge. It is a fact of life. What’s stressful is when you come up with something that you know you can sell. (Let’s face it, you get what you pay for right? Haha!)

It even came with a freakin business card!

Hopefully my sister gets to pitch for payment, to whoever this should go to.

You wish you could just…

I was ranting on a previous post about why IE6 cannot die. I don’t think it’s dying anytime soon because it all boils down to the users. So when I found this pretty nifty solution to tell them politely that it’s time for them to upgrade, I just had to do this:

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What if Apple runs out of cats for Mac OS X?

Apple’s flagship operating system MAC OS X has been in production since 2001, to the delight of millions of designers, hipsters and loyal fanboys. Curiously though, each release was code-named with an animal of the feline variety. Let’s take a look:

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I found my dream house.

I love to follow design+architecture blogs like Adelto, Contemporist and The Cool Hunter, but that doesn’t mean I am always updated with all the fresh content they come up with.

So when my friend tweeted this link from Adelto, I had an epiphany. I told myself, this is gonna be my dream house:

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Seeing paradise in El Nido

This is my first entry about my travels, so I better make the destination worth it. Last January, I had the opportunity to visit the beautiful islands of El Nido in Palawan. We had to travel 14 hours from Manila via land, sea and air just to make it, but oh my, it was all worth it!

Do you know that feeling of finally being able to see with your own eyes a paradise you’ve been drooling for in postcards, books and travel guides? It. was. amazing. 

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Great Web Conferences: Everywhere but the Third World

Smashing Magazine’s annual list of Upcoming Web Design and Development Conferences for 2012 came out a few days ago (check it out here). As I browse through the highly comprehensive list (as expected from SmashingMag of course), I came across some pretty familiar (and dream-worthy) ones:

An Event Apart

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…And then there was Pinterest

In this day and age, social media websites sprout like mushrooms everywhere! And then there was Pinterest. Initially, it didn’t kick off (in 2009) with a bang big enough to cause ripples in the tech universe. But some fairy godmothers did their work and suddenly sometime last year, having access to Pinterest was the hottest ticket in cyberworld!

Fortunately, I have a friend who got in early so I blatantly asked her to invite me. I checked it out, and I liked it!

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That “S” in the Sony Xperia S

S could stand for so many things: sassy, spacious, sordid, sultry. But in this case, I would definitely go for “sexy” to define that “S” in the Sony Xperia S.

This is what sexy is all about:

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