We are taking a closer look at Opera Unite in our second part of the Discovering Opera series. Opera Unite – just like Opera Turbo – was introduced introduced in 2009 by Opera Software. It can be best described as a server or direct sharing module in the web browser. You cannot share anything with [...]

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You sometimes may need to send large files to friends, colleagues or other people on the Internet. Think about photos of the last party that you want to share with someone, or a new music album, video, document or application. Email is the obvious choice for many, mainly because everyone has an email client (be [...]

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The topic of streaming video to a friend’s computer came up yesterday evening. Direct experience is often the base for excellent articles and this will hopefully make no exception. The first option that we tried was VLC Media Player which offers streaming but that did not work out that well somehow. Maybe it was because [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

Opera Unite is a very interesting addition to the Opera web browser that allows Opera users to offer server based services from within the Opera web browser. Stream Media is one of those applications that can be installed and run from within Opera. The application basically allows Opera users to turn their web browser into [...]

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The Opera desktop developers have released the final version of Opera 10.10 after releasing several beta builds in the past weeks. The final build is exactly the build that was released as a beta on Saturday, users who have installed that build are still encouraged to download and install Opera 10.10 from the Opera website. [...]

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The Opera developers have released the first – and likely – final release candidate for the upcoming Opera 10.10 web browser. The download of the web browser is available for all supported operating system (Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and Linux) and can be used to either upgrade an existing version of Opera or to install [...]

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The Opera developers have released version 10.01 of the Opera web browser. The version comes as a surprise as beta versions of opera 10.10 have already been released in the past by the team. This version of Opera is a security and stability upgrade with no apparent other changes. Since it is a security update [...]

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The Opera developers have released a beta version of the upcoming Opera 10.10 web browser. The biggest change in the beta is the inclusion of Opera Unite which provides web server features. Since web browsers usually act as clients it is now possible to have direct server client communications between Opera users. The Opera Unite [...]

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The Opera Desktop Team has released a development release of Opera 10 with the version number 10.10. This release includes Opera Unite which offers web server functionality in the web browser. The final version of Opera 10 which was released not long ago did not include Opera Unite. While Opera Unite is definitely the most [...]

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