Opera Unite

For days I've been trying to figure out what Opera.com/Freedom is?

Opera claimed it was reinventing the web. But left no other clues.

Today it announced Opera Unite. A Opera browser with built in file sharing. 

Sounds pretty simple but when you start using it and sharing you realise what potential this has.

With Opera Unite I can share folders from my computer, host my own chat rooms (does anyone use chatrooms anymore?) and anything else developers can think of.

My favourite thing about Opera Unite is that people I wish to share folders with DO NOT need to have Opera themselves.

For example, you can use Firefox/IE and still view files on my laptop RIGHT NOW.

So if you want to see pictures in my laptops Photo folder, go here 
laptop.moirob.operaunite.com/photo_sharing/

If you want to not only see but also listen to what music is my my music folder go here (I should mention that the Media Player service I am using here only reads mp3. Most of my music is in aac/mp4 so you might not see much.) 
laptop.moirob.operaunite.com/media_player/

You can also leave me a note or see if I am in my chat room and say hi. 

And all this takes place on my laptop. So as long as the laptop is on you can see this. (I've set my sharing to public but of course you can keep it private -only you/your username can access, i.e from a different computer or you can have it password protecte)

And this is only the beginning. Once the developers get hold of this who knows what over services will come?

The best part is when you share.
Amongst all the other fantastic reasons to download Opera, fast, reliable, feature packed, resourceful, always innovative now there is one more reason. Being able to instantly share and connect with friends and family around the World straight from your laptop. For free. No charges for hosting a server or downloading a browser.

I don't give it enough love to Opera here as I would like and it deserves to be recognised more around the World.

I think everyone should go try Opera Unite. See how simple it is to use and to share content and connect with anyone, plus simply how much better it is then other browsers. You won't look back.

(Opera Unite is a free internet browser available on Windows, Mac and Linux)

Opera 10

I’m a big fan of Opera 10. Opera if you don’t know is a fast, safe, standard compliant, innovative and featured packed internet browser.

Personally I could give many reasons why you should try out Opera but you’re the best judge (although this page here that Opera uses to show of some of its HTML code does quote Brass Eye’s Drugs episode with one of its news stories, which is quite amusing and top marks. CAKE is a made up drug. Don’t do it.)

And they’ve just released their beta of Opera 10.

So I thought I’d show it some love.

Go download it and try it out.

Hot off the press

Just released is Opera 10 Preview. It's like a mini Christmas present.

Shame I have to travel for the next 6 hours and don't get to play on it for a while.

Go have a play with it.

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Because they're worth it

After playing around with Google's Chrome for about a month I recently went back to Opera. I don't know why but it just feels nicer--and this is excluding all of the additional features that Opera has built in to it's browser over other browsers, RSS feed, IMAP to name the main ones.
Now it seems like Opera has rewarded me with Opera 9.6. Personally I think you should try out the Opera browser for yourself, it's a treat.
They're more innovative with their browser then any one else and they have a great community.

And although this video doesn't do the browser justice, it's just very pretty and well made.



For those that like to read a lot of blogs and news online you will benefit a lot with the new "Show Scroll Marker," which is just a simple see-through but noticeable line that keeps track of where you where last up to when scrolling down a page. It's a simple and very effective feature that makes you think "why hasn't anyone thought of this sooner?"

[Opera Browser ver 9.60]