We all know the stories about how vacationing smartphone users became the victim of high roaming charges, resulting in monthly bills sometimes exceeding €1000. To put an end to this, the EU has come up with a rule stating that carriers can no longer charge more than €50 per month for roaming, and are obliged to warn …

You know how it is on vacation. You take your camera, shoot pictures, and when you get home you see that you forgot to set the date/time on your camera. Even worse: your wife also took a camera with her, and she actually read the manual and set the time correctly. So now you have two sets of photos with mismatching …

I've been struggling to get routes into my Garmin Zūmo® in such a way that it matches the plans of the original author, while at the same time setting the Garmin to "recalculate" so that when I take a wrong turn, it will send me back to the track. After reading a lot on the Garmin forums, and experimenting …

I recently bought a 50mm lens with a circular polarizer. I though I'd share some quick examples to show what a polarizer filter does for your photo's. The polarization effect is probably one of the few (if not only) effect which you can not reproduce in photoshop or any other image processing program. Most applications …

If you have a Canon Ixus 80IS, like me, and you shoot video for your widescreen television at home (like me), you may want to try out this little trick. The Canon Ixus is a 4:3 camera. The video that comes out of it is almost square shaped. When you try to make a 16:9 video, you can stretch it, or crop it. Cropping is …

We have returned from our trip to New York. Actually, we've been staying in Weehawken, New Jersey to visit Manhattan. Today I maxed out my upload limit for this month to put the pictures online. You can see them at my 32hq account (because Flickr hurts my eyes). Enjoy the pictures. When the monthly upload limit expires …

Last week in Gran Canaria, I... * Shot 158 photo's, some of which available [here<!-- more -->](http://www.23hq.com/rolfje/photo/2507668/view-large?album%5fid=2507681) * Walked approx. 35 km while checking out Maspalomas and Playa del Ingles:[ …