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Battle for the best Opera Unite applications

Developer working on Unite applications

Opera 10.10 with Opera Unite is out and we are ready to invite developers to submit new Web applications. To celebrate, we will pick a deserving application each week that deserves fame, glory, honor and the developer will get a gift certificate equal the value of a Nintendo Wii or a brand new mobile phone! :yes:

Get started

To submit an Opera Unite application of your creation, simply sign in to your My Opera account and upload your work. Check out these links and recourses for more information:

You must be a member of My Opera to participate; membership is free and there is never a charge when using My Opera services.

There is no further action required to inform Opera. If you are lucky enough to be spotlighted, we will contact you 48 hours prior to announcing the weekly pick.

Weekly prizes galore

Prizes will be awarded each week to the developer with the best application. The winner will be determined by a team of Opera employees. Up for grabs are gift certificates to online retailers equal the value of a Nintendo Wii or a brand new mobile phone!

Weekly deadline

Every Friday.

Results

Every Monday we'll announce the best Opera Unite application of the week.

Criteria

Our panel of judges will determine the winner based on the following criteria:

  • Ease of use
  • Clearly defined purpose
  • Standards compliant
  • Good looking

You submission should not include any of the following criteria:

  • Bugs
  • Waste of resources
  • Ugly code
  • Code or content that violates any third parties rights or law

Disclaimer

Opera disclaim all liabilities and responsibilities regarding the Opera Unite applications. The participant agrees to bear all liabilities and responsibilities with regard to the Opera Unite applications submitted. The authors retain copyright of submitted applications, but the applications must either have a BSD-compatible license or be placed in the public domain.

All judges' decisions remain final.

Comments

Gillian Niki 23. October 2009, 08:07

Good

hanny yakutta desune 23. October 2009, 08:16

:yes: ... :smile:

maddisondavid 23. October 2009, 08:19

Fantastic! Does this apply to frameworks? I'd like to submit http://gwt-unite.googlecode.com I'm just putting the finishing touches to V2 which includes support for full browser->OperaUnite server RPC!

BTW the "Ugly code" rule, does that mean that OperaUnite applications built in Java are not allowed?

Espen André Øverdahl 23. October 2009, 08:22

maddisondavid: Hang on, I'll find out. :smile:

endless love 23. October 2009, 08:24

:up:

Jakub Marton 23. October 2009, 08:28

Originally posted by maddisondavid:

"Ugly code"


dude, java is not ugly :wink: but gwt-generated obfuscated javascript is, but if you will publish your java sources, there is nothing to worry about, I think :smile:

bookhling 23. October 2009, 08:28

Nice! I can use a new cellphone :smile:

Akbalder 23. October 2009, 08:29

I submitted a unite application (Collection Manager) a few days ago.
Will it enter the competition ?

Espen André Øverdahl 23. October 2009, 08:34

Originally posted by Akbalder:

Will it enter the competition ?

Yes. For the first round we will look at applications submitted this and next week. The first weekly deadline is next Friday, October 30th.

maddisondavid 23. October 2009, 08:43

Originally posted by kubm:

gwt-generated obfuscated javascript is, but if you will publish you java sources, there is nothing to worry about, I think



Thanks! I agree the obfuscated code is nasty (but then it's not meant to be human readable), but of course I'll include the Java. In fact a few apps I'm working on (built on top of GwtUnite) will be OpenSource anyway.

vIrGE 23. October 2009, 09:51

:yes:

Jakub Marton 23. October 2009, 11:27

Originally posted by maddisondavid:

I'd like to submit http://gwt-unite.googlecode.com


dude, i've just look at it, and it appears to be really, really, reaaaaaly useful. I am GWT advanced, so this way... thank you soooo much :smile:

Furie 23. October 2009, 11:42

Someone say new phone? :left: What sort?

Daniel James Hendrycks 23. October 2009, 12:24

Yes, I can't wait to see what some of you come up with. :smile:

Charles Schloss 23. October 2009, 12:34

:cool:

SweetLinh 23. October 2009, 12:41

:up: :cool:

Tamil 23. October 2009, 13:47

:up:

Alexei 23. October 2009, 16:10

Awesome, let the best app win! :up:

Adrian Navarro 23. October 2009, 16:19

I wish that Im also good at this kind of stuff...

Thabo Hlalele 23. October 2009, 16:56

Great! May the best application win.

Tizz.

Thabo Hlalele 23. October 2009, 16:56

Great! May the best application win.

Tizz.

bob mackaucksky 23. October 2009, 17:09

Why doing this now ? Unite is not even finalized yet. :frown:

Furie 23. October 2009, 17:30

Because releasing the final version then waiting months for something half decent to come along to use with it is pretty stupid really.

IKoke 23. October 2009, 17:38

:cheers:

Fred Jose Diaz 23. October 2009, 18:28

It is history, is good to be part of this :cheers:

lizaclair 24. October 2009, 09:22

hi

is there a way to import bookmarks from other browsers into opera 10

help appreciated.

liza

Jakub Marton 24. October 2009, 09:46

Originally posted by lizaclair:

hi

is there a way to import bookmarks from other browsers into opera 10

help appreciated.

liza


go to File->Import and export
After you finish you import, set up your opera link, so you will have your bookmarks wherever you will be.

Dheanda Restu Jati Sakti 24. October 2009, 10:45

brilian!!! :D,

Daniel James Hendrycks 24. October 2009, 19:31

Someone please make a game app. :smile:

Kerwin Co 25. October 2009, 06:03

more features, more bloat! i hope it doesnt make Opera slower..

Wahyu Ferdhiyanto 26. October 2009, 16:03

Good. . . .:-D

Mustafa OĞUZ 26. October 2009, 19:08

I will make an interesting Unite App. :idea:

Originally posted by dotker:

more features, more bloat! i hope it doesnt make Opera slower..


Maybe 5% slower.

Enoch Manu 26. October 2009, 21:53

The whole world need to know Jesus because he is the final judge. Thanks

Enoch Manu 26. October 2009, 21:53

The whole world need to know Jesus because he is the final judge. Thanks

Daniel James Hendrycks 26. October 2009, 22:09

Originally posted by inBusteR:

I will make an interesting Unite App. :idea:


:yes:

G-Bojko 27. October 2009, 11:25

Maybe someone can develop an FTP manager, like the FireFTP add-on for the 'other browser'.

OlokoAbimbola 27. October 2009, 18:07

Whatever is comming out of this should be the best app.

Lara 27. October 2009, 22:25

I m surprised :cool:

Daniel James Hendrycks 27. October 2009, 22:32

I do not see any new applications. Has anyone submitted one?

Бахарев Евгений Викторович 28. October 2009, 02:35

Как всегда не на русском. :-(

Andre Vlades 28. October 2009, 10:22

:jester:

Александр Трифонов 28. October 2009, 12:10

Originally posted by StalkerLegend:

Awesome, let the best app win!


Класс!http://my.opera.com/community/graphics/ui/smilies.gif

Akbalder 28. October 2009, 14:04

I've submitted a new version of my application. Will the new version be used for the contest ?

Kofi Nyarko 28. October 2009, 17:06

I wish l could join the band wagon

Nаzar 28. October 2009, 22:30

Красивый калькулятор. А игры на нем есть?

MUHAMMAD IQBAL HOSSAIN 29. October 2009, 09:28

good

Kofi Nyarko 29. October 2009, 09:47

It is very difficult to use a cellphone which is not up to windows standard setup to enjoy this promo. What is our fate of indulgence. Need an answer from Opera. Thank you.

Adrian Pizarro 29. October 2009, 15:33

Excellent! Waiting to good things to come.

Also, c'mon devs! I'm still waiting to have some sort of game server! There you got an idea, now go! :wink:

k. talat muskara 29. October 2009, 17:07

As an old timer(first started using the computer in 1981)
and have been using the net from 1998) I really like the Idea of Opera
Unite but the security issues and who will do the indexing of these Unite users
are the largest barriers to this service.
Please focus on these issues.
Regards
K. Talat Muskara

P.S. It would be nice to have a one button back-up from Opera blogs,
albums, etc.etc..to the users hard drive and if the user wants to move
this to Opera Unite, keeping the dates and format.

Volvox 30. October 2009, 03:24

Idea of contest is good, sadly i have no good idea for Unite app. Maybe peoples who have idea, but no programing skill would write some good suggestions?

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