Too much time is spend waiting on delayed airplanes, standing in line at the rental car counter and checking in at the hotel. Why not get the most of it! This page is for making it worth your while, how to save time and save up frequent flyer points. Please share your tricks with us by creating a comment below.

FlyerTalk.com
FlyerTalk, part of the WebFlyer Network, features discussions and chat boards that cover the most up-to-date traveler information. An interactive community dedicated to your favorite topic: travel!
Check out the forum, it has up-to-date information on frequent flyer programs (including Staralliance), rental car discounts and hotel programs. http://www.flyertalk.com/

SeatGuru.com
The most up-to-date and complete guide to airplane seat information on the internet.
The site currently provides comprehensive seat and aircraft information for 29 airlines: Air Canada, Air France, Air New Zealand, AirTran, Alaska Airlines, America West, American Airlines, ATA, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Continental Airlines, Delta Airlines, Emirates Airlines, Frontier, Hawaiian, JetBlue, KLM, Lufthansa, Northwest Airlines, Qantas, SAS, Singapore Airlines, Spirit, Swiss Airlines, United Airlines, US Airways and Virgin Atlantic. http://www.seatguru.com/

ExpertFlyer.com
is for the really PRO business traveller. 24/7 access to timely information about airline flights and fares all over the world. We do not sell tickets so you are free to purchase them directly from the airlines or wherever you favor. However, with this information, you will be empowered to make intelligent decisions about what flights to take, what fares to pay, where to sit on the plane and how best to use and maximize your frequent flyer miles and elite upgrades. Hint: read the Forbes article posted on their front page. It gives a good insight on how to use the service. http://www.expertflyer.com/

How does SAS Bonus program compare to other Star Alliance programs?
On the following page is a complete comparison charge http://members.shaw.ca/deercroft/starall.html

flyrejsen.dk
Find the cheapest flights from Denmark. This site compares offers from all the online traveling agencies. http://www.flyrejsen.dk/

Here are some of my own tips & tricks

- Get a “preferred” membership with the rental car company and book online before your trip. It will save you lots of time not having to go to the rental counter. I personally use Avis. They won my heart last winter in Chicago on a cold -15 Celsius morning. I checked in on the rental shuttle bus, and when I arrived at my car, the engine was running and there was about +20 Celsius in the car.

- Get a pair of noise reduction headphones. Not only will they block out the sound of screaming kids (you might have to combine with earplugs if the kid is really loud), but they also enhance the sound quality of both music and movies.

- Ask for a specific seat, check seatguru.com before or while talking with the travelling agency. Make a note of the seat number, because they might change your seat at check in. Even on first & business class there is such a thing as less good seats and better seats.

- Get a passport wallet for all your travelling documents such as passport, frequent flyer cards, electronic tickets, boarding card, hotel & rental car confirmations and luggage stickers.

- Bring your own ethernet cable. Some hotels have a limited amount of cables or the cable in the room might be broken by other guests.

Share your tips and tricks and they will be added to the list above. Just create a comment below. Thanks.

Have you ever googled your own name?
Search engines are becoming a more common tool to find information about people. Someone could be searching for you right now. It could be a potential employer, your current employer, an old friend, an old classmate, a date or a journalist. What will they find? Here are some tips and tricks to take control of what they will find.

Your name
If you have a very common name like “Jens Hansen” (sorry to all the people named Jens Hansen for calling your name common) you might not be of risk in respect to people finding information about you that they shouldn’t. There are 167,000 hits when searching on Google. But only 1,460 hits on “Jens Ole Hansen”. So the more uncommon your name is, the more likely it is that people will find information about you.

How to Google your name
Go to http://www.google.com/ and enter your full name. Remember to put your name in quotation marks “name”.
All search engines work differently, so make sure also to check your name on http://www.yahoo.com/. http://www.ask.com/ and http://www.msn.com/.

Domain name
Register your name .com or .dk to make sure that information posted is controlled by you. And to all you people with uncommon and unique names, who always have to spell your name for others, congratulations you have a big chance that your name is not already taken. Check your name for availability at http://www.speednames.com/ (Danish company).

Post your information online
If you have a website you can enter your information there, but you might find that it does not rank as high on the search list as you would want it to. Good sites for making your information make it to the top of the search lists are http://www.zoominfo.com/ and http://www.linkedin.com/.

Keep your personal life personal
If you have a website where you post pictures of your family and friends, then make it a rule not to mention last names. I once googled one of my former colleagues to find out what he was doing now and found a bunch of pictures of him and his friends totally drunk at a party. These pictures where posted not by him but by one of his friends. This was not done with bad intentions by his friend, but these are the same pictures that a potential employer or customer would find. So, no last names. This also goes for naming files/pictures uploaded to the Internet.

Know when your name is posted on the Internet
With Google Alerts or Yahoo Alerts you can get e-mail alerts every time your name is found by these search engines on the Internet. The service is free and only requires you to generate a profile.

Please post comments or suggestions below