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Where in the world is this?

Opera & Garmin-ASUS offer you the chance to win the grand prize of a new nüvifone M20 with Opera Mobile 9.5 Web browser pre-installed and other daily prizes provided by Opera. With M20, you have the world at your fingertips.

All you have to do is guess the location of a picture on our competition page and submit your answer. If it's correct, you might be one our lucky daily winners!

Everyone who plays should keep a close eye on our daily winners page. We'll update it daily with new winners and the correct location of yesterday's challenge. :cool:

This contest will go on for 12 days, ending Friday, November 20th, 2009. Our grand prize winners will be announced the following week on Monday, November 23rd, 2009.

Good luck, everyone! :smile:


This contest is open to anyone. You do not have to be a registered member of My Opera to participate. Winners are not determined by first come, first served. We will randomly pick a daily winner amongst the correct answers. You can only be daily winner once and you have one try per day. We will contact the daily winners by e-mail, so please make sure you use a valid e-mail address. The nüvifone M20 is currently available in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Czech, and India only. Opera and Garmin-ASUS reserve the right to change the prizes.

Everyone who plays with at least one correct answer is eligible to win the grand prize; a nüvifone M20 phone.

One Week Warning

Online Writer Internship contest

Just one week left of round one!

The Online Writers Competition is well under way. We have a lot of good submissions and have approved the best of them. With the prize being a fully paid internship in Oslo, Norway for Opera, we want you to apply!

The perfect candidate has the ability to explain complex technology in simple terms, possibly with a humorous and light touch. Your background is not important as long as you have strong English writing skills.

How to join

To join the competition you need to write an article in 400 words about innovation in technology, you also have to include at least one Opera browser innovation in the article.

Check out the internship competition on the following page:

http://my.opera.com/community/competition/internship/

Good luck!

Online Writer Competition

Online Writer Internship contest

Opera is offering a fully paid, six-month internship including your travel to Oslo, Norway. Your role will be to write articles for our Web properties, to copy edit them, and to support our marketing activities and product launches.

Your field of studies is not important, but you must be able to demonstrate solid writing skills in English. You should have an exceptional understanding of technology, the ability to explain complex issues simply, and the lightness of touch to move easily between the humorous and the professional.

How to apply

Submit an article on our competition page. This process is open to everyone. This article will be based on a specific topic. We will ask our community to read the articles and choose the ones they like the best. Based on community popularity and our opinion we will pick a group of finalists to write a second article.

Read more about the internship and the competition:

http://my.opera.com/community/competition/internship/

Good luck!

Speed Dial Hot Picks

Speed Dial contest

Polish Web site gazeta.pl had a blast running a Speed Dial contest for their readers. When we saw all the awesome entries we thought it would be fun to see how creative you could be in personalizing your Speed Dial! :up:

Instructions

Write a blog post or create a new photo album with your personalized Speed Dial. Make sure you upload both a screen shot how it should look like and the background image so we can try it out for ourself.

Post a link to your entry in the competition forum thread so we can judge it.

Rules

  • You warrant that you hold all necessary rights to any content uploaded for this contest (please review our terms of service).
  • You are allowed to submit one entry.
  • Post a link to your entry in the competition forum thread.
  • Opera employees will pick the winners.
  • Submit your entry by August 7th.
  • Winners will be announced the following week.

Prizes

We will reward at least 10 Speed Dial Hot Picks. There's a lot of cool swag, including:

  • Opera T-Shirts
  • Opera Pens & Post-it notes
  • Opera USB sticks
  • Opera stickers
  • Opera laptop bags

Inspiration

Here are a few of our favorite Speed Dial picks from the Polish Speed Dial contest. :cool:

  • Nagroda
  • Inspiration
  • Inspiration
  • Inspiration
  • Inspiration
  • Inspiration

Tools

To create custom Speed Dial images try the Opera Image Dial Generator!

Easter Hunt winners

During last week's holiday we asked you to complete a short, but very difficult (or so we thought), Easter Hunt on My Opera. We presented you with a set of riddles to be completed in order to enter a random draw to win a Nintendo DSi or an Opera goodie bag. :cool:

It took roughly 4 hours before missevilat had cracked all the riddles and was the first to complete the hunt. For her great effort we'd like to reward her with a cool Opera goodie bag. The lucky winner of a Nintendo DSi can be found on bottom of this post, but first let's have a look at the solutions of this year's Easter Hunt. :up:

Walk me through it!

First riddleThe first riddle pointed you to Opera's very own "Faceman": Aleksander. We wanted to know what side you'd choose after watching our "Opera Mini vs. iPhone" video.


Second riddle wrongIf you chose right as your answer you'd be wrong, because we wanted you to say left. :wink:


Second riddle correctGood, good. Left was the correct choice! For this riddle we wanted to know "Barry" Allen's first name. If you looked closely you had a series of clues. You could examine the image and notice the small "Flash" logo embedded, check out the page title, google the blog text, etc. Anyway, "Barry" Allen's first name is Bartholomew.


Third riddle correctSome of you might not recognize the man up front, but if you looked behind him you'd see a famous plumber... You could "Select All" text or inspect the page source to find out a few more details about Satoru Iwata (President and CEO, Nintendo) and his popular column "Iwata asks" - which is the correct answer to this riddle.


Fourth riddleIf you'd come this far we'd be pretty sure you knew what to look for on this page. If not the hidden white text gave it away, you could look at the screenshot, the page title ("History is here") or the alt description in the image to find out you had to visit the Opera version history page to find the answer to this riddle.


Fourth riddleWe had hidden a very small egg on the page (Apr. 10, 2001) which linked to the the last riddle of this year's Easter Hunt.


Fifth riddleThe white rabbit has been made famous from film classics such as "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Matrix". We wanted you to follow the white rabbit too, and if you literally did what you were to told to do, you'd complete this year's Easter Hunt! :hat:


Winners

Congratulations frokar on winning a brand new Nintendo DSi. :smile:

These runners up wins a goodie bag with a t-shirt and other cool Opera effects:

Thanks everyone for playing and taking part in this years Easter Hunt!

Easter Hunt

Easter Eggs

Who can solve My Opera's Easter Hunt this year? We've made a few riddles for you to test "the little grey cells". The riddles are not easy and you may find yourself using a few technical skills and a touch of imagination to solve them.

A few simple instructions

To move on to the next riddle and be one step closer to the finish you enter the answer as a My Opera username. For example, if we wanted to know where you could read what's going on behind the scenes at My Opera the correct answer would be devblog [1]. To advance to the next riddle you'd have to enter the answer as a username, like this:

http://my.opera.com/devblog

Please note that the answers are always in lowercase [2], do not contain numbers and has no space. At one point you have to use dash to find the correct URI, but don't worry about that until the end. You can also ask the commfunity for help if you need a nudge in the right direction. :smile:

We will reward one lucky winner with a brand new Nintendo DSi. The runners up will receive Opera goodie bags containing cool merchandise (limited stock). :smile: We will announce the winners shorly after Easter (April 14).

Face the faceman

To kick off this little riddle Easter session on My Opera we are looking for the "faceman". His name is mentioned in a certain video uploaded by operasoftware on April Fool's Day. Find his name and you have found riddle number two.

Good luck and happy Easter everyone!