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These are the ten essentials that you should have for a hiking trip as recommended by REI. Watch the video to get what these ten essentials are about. The ten essentials should give you an idea of what you should be packing for a hiking trip even for a day trip. Navigation Sun protection Insulation (extra clothing) Illumination Fire Repair kit & tools Nutrition (extra food) Hydration (extra water) Emergency shelter First aid supplies

This is how you lift your heavy backpack and put it on your shoulders easily.

This is a video about how to adjust your backpack straps to fit your body. A must watch for those who are new to backpacking with a huge and heavy backpack.

A good collection of tips and tricks for Garmin eTrex GPS unit. This is a must read website before you start to use your etrex unit.

A list of eTrex 20 user manuals for downloads.

This post will guide you on how to download the SRTM3 data to create a topographic contour map to complement your existing Garmin street maps in your Garmin eTrex 20 GPS device. You will use it like an extra layer of map on top of your existing Garmin street map. If you have not got a street map and you are interested in getting the street map for your Garmin eTrex 20 device, please refer to  How to get free routable maps into Garmin eTrex 20 .  If you are interested to get street maps for Malaysia and Singapore, please refer to  How to install malfreemaps into Garmin eTrex 20 . Malfreemaps provides a very comprehensive map of Malaysia and Singapore, more comprehensive map than the free OpenStreetMaps. Note: The steps below only applicable for Windows OS and make sure you have Java installed into your system.

This post will guide you how to get routable OpenStreetMap(OSM) maps into your Garmin eTrex 20 GPS unit. OSM maps are not comprehensive compare to other Garmin maps that you can purchase from Garmin but never the less they are free and you have the whole world to select for download. Note: I have tested this on my Garmin eTrex 20 and i am sure that this method also works for Garmin eTrex 30 units as well.

Malaysia and ASEAN Free Maps Project Forum (malfreemaps) provides a very comprehensive free Garmin map of Malaysia and Singapore for Garmin GPS devices. Malfreemaps works perfectly well on Garmin eTrex 20. I am sure this also applies on the Garmin eTrex 30 unit as well.

This is a brief descriptions on how to create an offline map to use in ViewRanger application for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. I use this method to create my offline topographic map (Open Cycle Map) for ViewRanger so that i can use it without going online while tracking my hiking trails.

A reference of how to add Open Cycle Map (topo map) into MOBAC as a custom map source. Maps downloaded can be use as offline maps for supported applications in MOBAC.

Another great video from Dylan Bennett about photography.

Don't really understand what Depth of Field is? Watch this video.

A really good video explaining what F-stop really means in photography.

This 3 minutes video of how Linux is built shows us how Linux OS had affected our daily lives and technology around us. From a different perspective, will the next major computer virus outbreak be hitting Linux OS?