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Yes! Free Android Phone!

Jehzeel Laurente of Jehzlau-Concept.com, one of the Philippines’ top blogger is giving away a Free Android Phone – the Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica.

Though I’m not qualified to join this contest according to the contest mechanics(#2), and also I don’t write more on gadgets here, and in fact this is the first time. However, I still made this entry just to let some of my Philippine based readers and co-bloggers know this opportunity and join this cool contest on how to get a FREE Android Phone. Continue reading

The WordPress 3.0 code name “Thelonious”, was released early today. The latest upgrade is available through your WP dashboard or you can simply download the latest WordPress version at wordpress.org.

The volunteers from the WordPress developer community did an awesome job of more than 2 thousand changes, including 1,217 bug fixes. And along with the said upgrade, WP also include the gorgeous Twenty Ten, a search-engine friendly theme. =)

You can also watch the video to learn Continue reading

Twenty-Two Tips on Typography by Enric Jardi

Last night, while searching an art magazine that I’d bought a week ago, I found this small book by Enric Jardi. If you didn’t know the author, Jardi is a graphic designer and typographer from Barcelona Spain. He founded a group called Type-0-Tones along with some designers, which develop fonts that distributed by FontShop of Berlin.

And just recently(October 2009), the author received a design award(National Award) from Continue reading