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A new Speed Dial background for your new Opera version

April 27, 2010 · by Espen André Øverdahl

If you want to further pimp your new Opera version for Windows or Mac, then check out our new Speed Dial background. To use it, simply right click and choose "Use Image as Speed Dial Background". :up:

If anyone of you also have a Speed Dial background to recommend, please let us know as a comment below!

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  • ouzowtfTuesday, April 27, 2010 8:53:31 AM

    It would be good to have different resolutions for download. Not everyone uses 1.490 x 1.024 :/

  • devon2001Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:01:36 AM

    How would you remove the background if you want to go back to using the original theme?

  • devon2001Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:11:22 AM

    Ooops!Answered my own question, go to configure Speed Dial and take it from there-brilliant!

  • Sami SerolaTuesday, April 27, 2010 9:16:07 AM

    Very nice background Espen :up:

    Originally posted by ouzoWTF:

    It would be good to have different resolutions for download.


    I suppose the 'best fit' or stretched background does not look good enough for you? Usually good speed dial always works, no matter what setting you choose :smile:

  • ouzowtfTuesday, April 27, 2010 9:22:21 AM

    Originally posted by serola:

    I suppose the 'best fit' or stretched background does not look good enough for you? Usually good speed dial always works, no matter what setting you choose


    I don't use speed dial and therefore speed dial backgrounds at all, but having different resolutions is always better than 'stretching' or 'fitting' pictures :smile:

  • Sami SerolaTuesday, April 27, 2010 9:33:49 AM

    Originally posted by ouzoWTF:

    having different resolutions is always better than 'stretching' or 'fitting' pictures


    I agree :smile: Although certain picture editing tricks can make even very small pictures suitable for stretched background. I can't remember what I did on this one but this is what I used for very long time as a background on many places:

  • Uncle MickTuesday, April 27, 2010 9:42:30 AM

    :up: Speed dial backgrounds also work well as desktop wallpapers :smile:

  • Sami SerolaTuesday, April 27, 2010 9:53:08 AM

    Here's a very modest attempt I just did. Original taken with mobile phone and sent to MyOpera album using Opera Mini :wink: :


    Then I downloaded the pic on to PC, changed it into sepia, and added some Gaussian blur:

  • NicoTuesday, April 27, 2010 10:12:31 AM

    Nice background. :smile:

    How about adding it to the Speed Dial Gallery (http://my.opera.com/community/opera/speeddials/) so that it can easily be found in the future?

  • Espen André ØverdahlTuesday, April 27, 2010 10:13:54 AM

    Originally posted by HellbillyDeluxe:

    How about adding it to the Speed Dial Gallery (http://my.opera.com/community/opera/speeddials/) so that it can easily be found in the future?

    We've already done this and this change will be visible in the next My Opera release. :smile:

  • DanieleTuesday, April 27, 2010 10:26:28 AM

    like it!

  • Daniel HendrycksTuesday, April 27, 2010 11:24:32 AM

    A background should be bundled with Opera. :smile:

  • d4rkn1ghtTuesday, April 27, 2010 11:54:15 AM

    :cool:

  • JaredTuesday, April 27, 2010 1:00:35 PM

    Originally posted by EspenAO:

    We've already done this and this change will be visible in the next My Opera release



    :up:

    Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

    A background should be bundled with Opera.



    This one should be bundled :wink: :up:

  • Charles SchlossTuesday, April 27, 2010 1:09:05 PM

    :cool:

  • YongShunTuesday, April 27, 2010 2:45:02 PM

    There should be something called 'Speed Dial' background like Opera Skins to allow people to rate and comment. :bigsmile:

  • RunninglVlanTuesday, April 27, 2010 2:59:04 PM

    Ah, it's almost just white. I choose Space Harmonica Background

  • Rafael LuikTuesday, April 27, 2010 4:18:27 PM

    Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

    A background should be bundled with Opera.

    +1 yep, it's very white.

    Originally posted by yongshun:

    There should be something called 'Speed Dial' background like Opera Skins to allow people to rate and comment.

    +1

  • Charles SchlossTuesday, April 27, 2010 4:54:05 PM

    Originally posted by rafaelluik:

    Originally posted by yongshun:

    There should be something called 'Speed Dial' background like Opera Skins to allow people to rate and comment.

    +1

    A slight start

    http://my.opera.com/community/opera/speeddials/

  • Sami SerolaTuesday, April 27, 2010 5:07:17 PM

    Hmm... These Speed Dial backgrounds are nothing but ordinary pictures. Community can just as well start a group for background images (if there's not any yet), where peeps can upload images, tag them, and give votes (like in any MyOpera album) :idea: Alternatively anyone can upload pictures to their own albums and use album tags like background or backgrounds to describe and search for the albums.

  • Charles SchlossTuesday, April 27, 2010 6:01:39 PM

    You could also use these http://my.opera.com/community/opera/wallpapers/ as backgrounds in speeddial

  • Sami SerolaTuesday, April 27, 2010 6:33:54 PM

    Good point Charles :wink: There you have also the same pics as at http://my.opera.com/community/opera/speeddials/

  • Charles SchlossTuesday, April 27, 2010 6:46:28 PM

    They are slightly different, tho you can also use the same backgrounds that you use on your desktop

  • Cutting SpoonTuesday, April 27, 2010 6:56:28 PM

    Thanks for this.

  • Leonardo RuelasTuesday, April 27, 2010 7:24:45 PM

    Cooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!! Background!!!! I like that:D :up: :yes:

  • techlawsamTuesday, April 27, 2010 8:39:37 PM

    i miss opera 9.6 wallpaper "beatifully engineered" i want to see a comeback of that in future major releases

  • Rafael LuikTuesday, April 27, 2010 9:24:53 PM

    Originally posted by samMD:

    i miss opera 9.6 wallpaper "beatifully engineered" i want to see a comeback of that in future major releases

    http://my.opera.com/community/opera/wallpapers/?search=engineered

  • NdaTuesday, April 27, 2010 9:29:37 PM

    Wow

  • NdaTuesday, April 27, 2010 9:30:49 PM

    Im anew friend here.hw can i talk 2 any body here

  • Rafael LuikTuesday, April 27, 2010 9:50:14 PM

    Originally posted by Snowwhite2050:

    Im anew friend here.hw can i talk 2 any body here

    You can message someone or add people to your friends list by clicking in their usernames and seeking for the message or add button in the user "about" or "blog" page.

  • Sami SerolaWednesday, April 28, 2010 6:42:19 AM

    Here's my favorite background photographed by Irczas :up: This picture looks just great as stretched, and when one or two speed dials left away from the middle of bottom row. Black frames around the picture and horizon on bottom makes this very nice background for speed dials. I only wish I could remove the numbers and texts showed on unused speed dials :wink: Any ideas how to do that?

  • masera6793Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:46:00 AM

    wayo!

  • JaredWednesday, April 28, 2010 7:32:25 AM

    Originally posted by EspenAO:

    We've already done this and this change will be visible in the next My Opera release.



    By the way, is there a date when It'll be released to public??

  • AlexandraWednesday, April 28, 2010 7:40:00 AM

    nice one :smile:

  • LucaWednesday, April 28, 2010 7:54:40 AM

    nice!!! thx :smile:

  • TamilWednesday, April 28, 2010 4:41:33 PM

    :up:

  • jennyTuesday, May 4, 2010 4:22:07 AM

    umh!!!!..great.i love it so much!

  • AdrianPMMonday, May 10, 2010 12:38:17 AM

    :yes:

  • Juan CruzSaturday, July 3, 2010 10:09:53 PM

    Does anybody know the background that was shown in the opera 10.60 Video?

  • Rafael LuikSunday, July 4, 2010 8:56:35 AM

    Originally posted by DarkZero515:

    Does anybody know the background that was shown in the opera 10.60 Video?

    • EspenAO is looking for it.
    • Update.

  • NdaSunday, August 29, 2010 8:10:24 PM

    I wana chat with my friends but i dnt knw

  • NiColaoSWednesday, December 22, 2010 11:04:59 PM

    Can someone give me the new minimalistic light-blue?

  • NiColaoSMonday, January 10, 2011 1:48:45 PM

    Pleeeeease! Someone! Can you tell me how to extract the default Opera's 11 background? I use a custom skin and I'd like to keep the default's one!

    Thank you!

  • TamilMonday, January 10, 2011 2:05:53 PM

    Originally posted by NikDaMark:

    Can someone give me the new minimalistic light-blue?

    Download

  • AlexTuesday, April 12, 2011 3:24:17 PM

    Yeah that looks great. :smile:

  • NiColaoSSaturday, September 17, 2011 12:09:17 PM

    Originally posted by Tamil:

    Originally posted by NikDaMark:

    Can someone give me the new minimalistic light-blue?

    Download


    Jesus... Tamil, thank you! You can't even imagine how many times I was looking for that image without result. I saved it 2 times for safety, lol. And now again, through Google came here to find my old post and your great reply! Made it, also, Win7 & Win8 background, alone with Speed Dial. :S

  • TamilSaturday, September 17, 2011 12:16:37 PM

    http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/BigGrin.gif -

About this article

Published inChoose Opera
DateApril 27, 2010
AuthorEspen André Øverdahl
Tagsspeed dial, opera, background
OriginalInternet Archive

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