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Battle for the best Opera Unite applications

Friday, October 23, 2009 6:29:22 AM

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!

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.

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pakde-hardjo-soegih-artoHannyvictor # Friday, October 23, 2009 8:16:40 AM

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maddisondavid # Friday, October 23, 2009 8:19:55 AM

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 ØverdahlEspenAO # Friday, October 23, 2009 8:22:21 AM

maddisondavid: Hang on, I'll find out.

endless lovepersianweblog # Friday, October 23, 2009 8:24:25 AM

Jakub Martonkubm # Friday, October 23, 2009 8:28:34 AM

Originally posted by maddisondavid:

"Ugly code"

dude, java is not ugly

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

bookhling # Friday, October 23, 2009 8:28:36 AM

Nice! I can use a new cellphone

Akbalder # Friday, October 23, 2009 8:29:30 AM

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

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Friday, October 23, 2009 8:34:23 AM

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 # Friday, October 23, 2009 8:43:51 AM

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.

Jakub Martonkubm # Friday, October 23, 2009 11:27:47 AM

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

Dark FurieFurie # Friday, October 23, 2009 11:42:29 AM

Someone say new phone?

What sort?

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Friday, October 23, 2009 12:24:00 PM

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

Charles SchlossChas4 # Friday, October 23, 2009 12:34:13 PM

Linhbrokenheartvn # Friday, October 23, 2009 12:41:20 PM

Tamil # Friday, October 23, 2009 1:47:16 PM

KryptoKnightAleksOD # Friday, October 23, 2009 4:10:19 PM

Awesome, let the best app win!

Adrian Navarroaidriiyan # Friday, October 23, 2009 4:19:23 PM

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

Thabo Thabotizz # Friday, October 23, 2009 4:56:03 PM

Great! May the best application win.

Tizz.

Thabo Thabotizz # Friday, October 23, 2009 4:56:21 PM

Great! May the best application win.

Tizz.

icare # Friday, October 23, 2009 5:09:01 PM

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

Dark FurieFurie # Friday, October 23, 2009 5:30:23 PM

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

IKoke # Friday, October 23, 2009 5:38:52 PM

Fred Jose Diazb2-66er # Friday, October 23, 2009 6:28:55 PM

It is history, is good to be part of this

lizaclair # Saturday, October 24, 2009 9:22:41 AM

hi

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

help appreciated.

liza

Jakub Martonkubm # Saturday, October 24, 2009 9:46:12 AM

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 SaktimyDheanda # Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:45:23 AM

brilian!!! :D,

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Saturday, October 24, 2009 7:31:35 PM

Someone please make a game app.

Kerwin Codotker # Sunday, October 25, 2009 6:03:40 AM

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

Wahyu FerdhiyantoWahyuJarwo # Monday, October 26, 2009 4:03:30 PM

Good. . . .:-D

Mustafa OğuzinBusteR # Monday, October 26, 2009 7:08:03 PM

I will make an interesting Unite App.

Originally posted by dotker:

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

Maybe 5% slower.

Enoch ManuEnmanu # Monday, October 26, 2009 9:53:37 PM

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

Enoch ManuEnmanu # Monday, October 26, 2009 9:53:38 PM

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

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Monday, October 26, 2009 10:09:31 PM

Originally posted by inBusteR:

I will make an interesting Unite App.

G-Bojkokrusha # Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:25:52 AM

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

OlokoAbimbola # Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:07:02 PM

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

LaraL.Seitner # Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:25:39 PM

I m surprised

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:32:58 PM

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

Бахарев Евгений ВикторовичStalkerLegend # Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:35:09 AM

Как всегда не на русском. :-(

Andre Vladesandronic # Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:22:41 AM

Александр ТрифоновАлександр101 # Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:10:36 PM

Originally posted by StalkerLegend:

Awesome, let the best app win!

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

Akbalder # Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:04:56 PM

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

Kofi NyarkoDibay # Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:06:52 PM

I wish l could join the band wagon

NаzarExploratores # Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:30:53 PM

Красивый калькулятор. А игры на нем есть?

MUHAMMAD IQBAL HOSSAINiqbal88 # Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:28:10 AM

good

Kofi NyarkoDibay # Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:47:36 AM

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.

Keldian.-Keldian # Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:33:04 PM

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!

k. talat muskaratalatkm # Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:07:22 PM

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.

VolvoxVolvoxpl # Friday, October 30, 2009 3:24:07 AM

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?

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Friday, October 30, 2009 3:26:55 AM

I have plenty of ideas...