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First of all, thanks to all of you, who voted for my article last time! The reason for this short entry is just to tell you two things:

1. I'm participating in the Opera Internship Competition and would love to win this competition, since I also study online-journalism in Germany and seriously want to go abroad again after 1 1/2 years in Indonesia and South Korea. And because I love Opera, this would be THE perfect internship for me.

2. If you like my article The Top Ten Best Places to use Opera, please add it to your favorites. But make sure you have to add the post to vote for it, NOT my blog (which you can do as well, of course - but doesn't count for the competition).

3. Thanks to all of you who vote for my article. But first of all, enjoy reading it:

• The Top Ten Best Places to use Opera
  

The average person nowadays spends two hours a day web-browsing, which adds up to more than 30 whole days each year.

Therefore, it’s becoming more and more important to browse as smart, fast, and efficiently as possible to get the most out of our time.

While we can’t prolong the time available to us – a day always has 24 hours – we can save some of it. On the web, the best way to do this is, by far, browsing with Opera. By using this Norwegian browser, we can save up to one week each year. The recently released Opera 10 has many features that can help us to save just this much time:

10. Download Manager: We all know how annoying it is when a download is suddenly canceled. This happens maybe once a week, and means we have to start the download all over again. Opera’s download manager saves us the aggravation.

9. Feed reader: Most of us use another program, which slows down our computer or logs in to another web service, costing at least ten seconds every time. Why not save that time instead by using Opera’s included Feed reader?

8. Opera Mail: Opera 10 comes with an excellent mail client, making it as comfortable as possible to send and receive new mail within Opera. With this feature, there’s no need to switch to other programs or websites.

7. Tabs and sessions: Most of us have a number of websites open simultaneously and sometimes need to save them for later. Opera can do this for us. Even when we accidentally close websites, Opera can reopen them with just two clicks.

6. Opera Link: Using different computers, mobile phones (Opera Mini), and notebooks at work and at home makes it difficult to synchronize our bookmarks, notes, or searches. The solution is Opera Link.

5. Quick Find: We humans forget things all the time. However, thanks to Opera, we can also find them again just as quickly. Websites, bookmarks, or even articles – Opera’s history makes our sloppiness history.

4. Speed Dial: Take the time to type in the web address you want to visit? No way; Speed Dial makes it possible to have 25 favorite websites only one click away.

3. Password Manager: Forgetting our passwords is frustratingly easy, especially when we’re logging into a vast number of web services such as facebook, twitter, or My Opera several times a day. The answer to this is just one click away, or simply “Ctrl+Enter”.

2. Opera Turbo: Slow internet connections or huge websites with tons of pictures cost us a lot of precious time due to loading. With Opera’s compression technology, slow connection speeds are compensated for.

1. Mouse Gestures: This feature enables us to open, close, and reload tabs without even touching our keyboard. Just by simply using this outrageous feature, we may save an entire day each year! It’s definitely the best time saving feature.

Last weekend I took some pictures of fast driving cars and motorbikes, up to 110 km/h. It was my first time I tried this. After a few flops I took some more or less successful shots, I guess.

I'd love to get your feedback, especially on how to improve my shots.

Well, that's it for today, still pretty busy working on some private projects and catching up on my studies.

Update: I just added a few few pics of my first trip to a German Autobahn at night with my camera. Hopefully you'll enjoy them, too.

The last two weeks I spend traveling around German cities and islands near the North Sea. In detail: Büsum, Friedrichstadt, Sylt, and Helgoland.

With my Canon EOS 450D I took about 1,200 pictures. After two days of sorting out and editing (playing around) with a few pics, I finally uploaded them - here!

It's my first time using My Opera instead of flickr. And I like it so far. Good. Simple. Working.

The next days I'll show the pics to my friends and hope to get some feedback from YOU, dear reader. Honest and helpful feedback. Thanks in advance for your comments!

Now it's your turn: Check them out and have fun!

It's funny that more and more people just add me as friends without knowing me at all. And when I say "no", they ask "why?"...

Now I am the one who is confused. What I'd like to know: Why do you guys just add other people you don't know? What are your motivations? Why me? Just curious...

Don't worry though: I like all people here so far!