Super VPN a review for getting Free VPN services

Since I am nearly close to get a broadband connection of 100MB at home, as a Computer Security lecturer and PhD student at BTH (Blekinge Institute of Technology) I am concern about the services and advantages that a VPN has to offer for online navigation and personally to myself and my family.

Lately, is getting more and more popular in Sweden to get VPN services that allows user to protect themselves again attacks where the attackers usually informed about their IP address. Besides other benefits that are concerned with malware and web history tracking.

 To be honest, I have never been a regular user of a VPN. I have used a couple of times for work in order to get access to files that are protected. These files are only able to be accessed by the internal network and here is where a VPN allows a user to "pretend" to the server that its request is been originated from inside the intranet of the company.

 Searching through several services the most of them offer the same: Encryption, Absolute Privacy, Unlimited amount of traffic, High speed internet connection, No provider logs or any trace of your internet activities and so on...

But what got me impress of Super VPN Services is that it also works with my Android devices. As a fan of Android, I posses a phone and a Tablet that both work with Gingerbread and HoneyComb operative systems.

 Another advantage of these provider is the location of their servers. USA and Germany are quite good locations for accessing restricted country content such as Tv shows. In addition to that they offer a Free service for selected users (which I hope this review helps to achieve that SEE HERE).

Hopefully, I would be able to write a further review about the service of Super VPN Services regarding speed, server access, location, etc and recommend this service to my colleges and students all around the word.

Handball World Championship

Sweden was the host of the 2011 world championship, since I was a handball player during my early years and I had some trips to play tournaments in Spain, Dominic Republic and Portugal, it was a must for me to go and watch some of this games.

The group B was playing in Linköping, I went the 17th January to see the matches:

HUNGARY 36 24 BRAZIL
NORWAY 33 27 AUSTRIA
ICELAND 36 22 JAPAN

 

Then I went with my friends Zlatan and his girlfriend Svjletana to Malmö to watch Croatia and Serbia (24-24) playing, and Denmark against Algeria (35-27). It was nice to see this Arena, where the last match was played.

 

I also went for another match in Linköping, the closing of the group which was leaded by Island. so the matches of the 20th of january in Linköping where:

BRAZIL 32 33 JAPAN
ICELAND 29 22 NORWAY
AUSTRIA 30 32 HUNGARY

However, I wanted to see the current world champion france playing, so I went to Jonköping the 25th of January and got to see the matches:

GERMANY 25 35 NORWAY
SPAIN 30 24 HUNGARY
FRANCE 34 28 ICELAND

I almost miss them because I forgot to bring my ticket, lucky for me they accepted the PDF that I had in my phone that could display the barcode to be scanned at the entrance. But even better for me was to get to see this high quality matches where Germany, Spain and France were playing. At the end of the day on my way back waiting for the bus in a bar drinking a beer, I ran into the whole spanish team celebrating their victory against Hungary. Lucky for me they were really nice and I got to share some words with some of them talking about the tournament and my past life as a handball player.

 

The tournament was one of the most greatest experience in my life, first time I get to see this top players of handball, it was a dream that came true. The final game was full of emotions when France and Denmark played an extra time to define the world cup for France again. Sweden and Spain defined the 3rd place for Spain.

3/4 SWEDEN 23 24 SPAIN 30/01 14:30 Malmö
1/2 FRANCE 37 35 DENMARK 30/01 17:00 Malmö

2011 Starts now

A new year always brings me new thoughts, if 2010 was a very wonderful year, full of achievments and unexpected good things, 2011 it's going to be a very amazing year for me. There are important decisions that I made some time ago that will decide the future of this year.

 

Lets open the door of 2011 with my expectations for this year:

- I have a very nice and wonderful fiancee that I want to marry her
- I have a thesis to write in order to obtain my degree as a Magister in Computer Science
- I want to be accepted for a PhD studies in Sweden or Denmark to continue my path to become a researcher
- I want to bring my parents to Sweden for my wedding and show them around here in Sweden and Europe
- At the end of the year I want to get back to Colombia and introduce Helena to all my family in Colombia.
- There is a personal challenge that I want to do, and it is to prepare myself to run the half marathon of Stockholm in September (right after my wedding).

Besides all this resolutions and expectations for this year, I want over all the things what everyone is always looking for, and I think I have already found, it is to be happy next to the person you love.

I know 2011 it's going to be

LEGEN .....
wait for it ...
**** DARY ****

Xmas in Vimmerby - Sweden

 

This Christmas I had a great time with my girlfriend Helena and her family, we have a Xmas lunch/dinner and we opened the presents.

I had a very white Xmas with -20C degrees outside. A lot of snow, like one meter or more outside. The best is the quiet and nice town with all the surrounding forest that Vimmerby has.

Very nice memory to remember this Xmas 2010 for ever.

Weekend in Vimmerby with Moose and trees

One of the nices weekends ever, this weekend I went to Vimmerby to visit the parents of my swedish girlfriend Helena. Over there we went out in a local bar, we had some drinks with friends, but what really made this different from other weekends was that I got to see one of the oldest trees in Sweden with around thousend years old.

 

The second amazing part of this trip was that for the first time ever, I got to see the Moose (Älgar) in a reservoir close to the town. We got to feed them with apples and they made some special tricks with the girls if they put their apple in the mouth the Moose could go carefuly and got it from there very like a kiss.

 

Anyway, it was a fantastic trip, and I can't wait for the next time i get back there.

Summer break in Colombia

After 36 hours of traveling from Linköping, I am finally back in Colombia. My family welcomed at the airport after almost a year without seeing them, from there we went directly to have my favorite colombian dish ... Bandeja Paisa :D in a place nearby the airport.

 

In the beginning it was hard to get used to the time difference with Europe again, specially because the most of the time the world cup of Sudafrica 2010 was on, and the matches started since 6am colombian time, so in the afternoon I was already feeling sleepy.

I was such a short time, only 3 weeks. The most of my friends complained that I couldn't even see them due to the short agenda and the few trips I did during this visit. I did a short welcome party on my new rebuilt terraza with the most of my family and friends, I try to invite almost all of them but there is always someone forgoten.

First the changes, Medellin my city looks beautiful, my house is completely rebuilt so I have no more my apartment where I use to live. My niece looks bigger, she is almost 15 years now. My mother let her hair grow a bit so she looks a bit different, my father a bit more old but still the same as my sister. And my myself everybody said that I look more skiny and fit, it must be because of the running and the study for the exams.

 

I could visit my University and my ex-collegues at EAFIT, and give a short tour around since there are new buildings and in a short time they will start the construction of a new bridge on the Medellin river, so part of the University will be affected by this.

The short trips I did during this stay in Medellin were only to Llanogrande to enjoy the famouse "vuelta a oriente", to eat some tradicional food in a town called "San Antonio de Pereira" and of couse to see the "Represa de la FE" which is where I am on this picture.

 

Finally we spent 3 days in a country house nearby Medellin, and I could visit my 89 years old grandfather who lives nearby.

The trip is over, so I will be in Bridgeport Conecticut USA visiting my cousing and her family for 5 days and then the trip back home to Linköping which will include this time stops in Miami, New York, Boston, London, Stockholm and finally Linköping.

10km Blodomloppet Linköping 2010

This is my first official race ever, I ran yesterday 10km around Linköping. I have been training for around 2 months, no so constant as I wanted due to several reasons, including the trips. But I manage to score a 55:14 min time and arrive at least not in last position :D. I notice that my shape is not the best even if I put my 100% on the race and improved my time for 10km.

My friend Claudia from Colombia also ran the race, she did the short one race of 5km. I got very motivated to race again, maybe next year the same one, maybe sooner another one :D

Close to my first year ...

almost done with the first year here in Sweden, it's been amazing all the trips, all the people, all the life style I got since I came here, now I'm focusing all my energies in trying to learn some swedish, since I plan to stay here longer it will be handy. At least I can now read some and hopefully soon be able to communicate some basic.

4 cities in 10 days Stockholm, Brussels, Valencia and Barcelona

4 cities in 10 days Stockholm, Brussels, Valencia and Barcelona

it was a great and exhausting experience, and I end up sick but it was great to visit old friends and get to know new ones.

Everything started in Stockholm, I had to vote for the Colombian congress there at the Colombian Embassy, so I stopped there for 2 days, I got to see the national museum and some members of AIESEC Stockholm.

After this, my next stop was in Brussels, where I visited some of my friends from AIESEC Colombia, I got to taste the Belgium beers and did a walk around this nice city.

I loved the festival of Valencia called "Las Fallas", it is a pity how such a nice sculptures get burned after the festival.

I hardly slept in Valencia, so when I arrived to Barcelona I was really tired, I met my friends and went out for a drink but got a bit sick the day after, so even if I walked all day I wasn't feeling that good.

The best thing was to arrive home and start to take a rest from my hard trip and get ready for the next one which was going to be just after a few days.

Once again Paris!! Lovely city

During November I went to Paris with some friends for 5 days, It was very nice to be back in Paris after several years since my last trip there. Paris is such a nice city to walk around, to enjoy the wines and the food.

We walked a lot, and visit all the main tourist attractions here including the Louvre museum, the Eiffel Tower, Champs de Elysees, Notre Dame, Arc d Triumph, Pompidou Center, Napoleon's thumb among others.

We had a very nice sunny days and the last day I visit a friend from Colombia who is studying a PhD in Paris since September and we used to work on the same University back in Colombia.

After this trip I had to stop traveling and focus more on my studies until December when is the Christmas break for the University.

GERMANY: Berlin!! finally i could visit Berlin

The time has come for me to get to know Berlin. Since my last time in Europe when I lived in Amsterdam, I always wanted to go to Berlin, but for diverse situations I couldn't visit this city.

I arrange this trip with 2 friends, and a friend offered us a place to stay there. We spend 5 days which was enough to see the most important tourist attractions in the city.

We visit several places, among them were the parliament, the city hall, the Brandenburg gate, Pergamon museum, Alexanderplatz, Radio tower, we also got the opportunity to visit the very impressive memorial concentration camp called Sachsenhausen, as a football fan I also visited the Berlin Olympic stadium .

It was a very nice trip to remember, specially because on the way back we almost lost the flight and we had to run a lot!!

Finland in Ferry

In September with some friends I decided to go to Finland with the ferry of Vikinglines, it was only for the weekend but it was a lot of fun.

For me was the first time to travel in such a way, we could spend only a few hours in Helsinki because the ferry was during the whole night on the way there, we had a room to sleep shared with my friends.

During the night the boat has a bar and a discotheque so we enjoyed there a few drinks and danced the most of the time.

About Helsinki what I could see was only a few things, but seems to me a lovely place to live, very quiet with nice squares and parks to chill out. But I'm pretty sure there are a lot of things more to say about it, so I hope to discover this things the next time I get there.

Life in Sweden

Im currently living in Sweden since the 21st August to study at the Linköping University a Master program in Computer Science.

The life in this Swedish town is very quiet and comfortable, I have a very nice flat located only 5 minutes biking from the University, around 10 minutes biking from the city center. Linköping is not that big, it has around 140.000 inhabitants and it is the 5th biggest city in Sweden. It is located in the center south part of Sweden, around 2 or 3 hours by train or bus from Stockholm.

I don't have too many friends but I usually see them on Tuesdays nights in a local bar called HG, there are a lot students here so the parties and the pubs are fun and a bit affordable compared to Swedish prices.

I'm also very lucky, that not far from my town there is an airport where the company Ryanair flights. This company has very cheap flights all around Europe, so this is how I started to flight around Europe during this year to several destinies, I try to go to one different place every month, since I'm from Colombia you never get the chance there to flight at this low price so I'm taking advantage of this now that I can.

However my first trip wasn't flying but in September, just before my birthday is where the adventure of my trips begins...

Leaving Medellin ... Sweden here we go

When the time finally come to start my trip, my family prepared a farewell party with all my friends and cousins. Around 50 people came to say good bye and wish me the best for my coming years in Sweden.

I travel from Medellin to New York, and stayed there for 7 days before traveling to Stockholm. Over there I stayed first with a friend for the weekend and then I went to visit my cousin Lina, but she wasn't unfortunately there so I stayed with her husband Jersson at their place.

I did during those days several things, I prepare my luggages again with some new clothes and gadgets I bought by internet days before, I also went to the big malls and spend one day in New York city.

I took a train to go to the Newark airport which was around 2 hours away from the place I was staying, I arrived very earlier for the flight so I spend around 6 hours waiting for the plane. The flight was pleasant.

Finally I arrived to Arlanda Aiport in Stockholm, I stayed there again for around 3 hours waiting for my train and when it finally arrived I was very tired from the hole journey. Julian, a friend of a friend was waiting for me at the train station in Linköping, he brought me to my new flat located in Ryds, which I had rented before.

and finally I arrived to Sweden!!