


Friday, 26. June 2009, 19:48:50
internet, communities, web, betas
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Opera Unite is Opera's way of giving you back control over the web. Instead of saving your files on websites owned by corporations, you can keep your files on your computer and share them with anyone you want. When you keep Opera Unite running on your computer, your computer becomes a website other people can browse. And this website can contain things like a music player, photo album, file explorer or a chat room. You can even create new kinds of services if you're a web developer.
Anyone can browse your Unite site if they have access to a web browser. You only need to keep Opera Unite running. Your friends on My Opera can see if you're running Opera Unite, and you can see which of your friends are running Opera Unite. You can also password protect all your Opera Unite pages, except the fridge. But since after the rush at the launch of Opera Unite, the service has been rather quiet, which brings me to my question.
I somehow haven't seen many of my friends online in Opera Unite this week. Have you gone back to Opera 9.6? Did you disable all your services? Perhaps you never enabled it. Or are you running services, but aren't getting any visitors? Please vote for your answer in the sidebar poll --> . And make a comment about your answer below. Either way, I'd really like to see more of you keeping your Unite services running when you're online.
Unite really deserves a chance, because it really is revolutionary. It gives you back the control over your content, and allows anyone to run a website. If you value freedom from the strings corporations put on the content you share, please install
Opera Unite and enable some of your services. It's really easy. Just run Opera, open the Unite panel, and double click the service you want to share.
Thursday, 18. June 2009, 20:08:38
menu, toolbar, compact, Opera Unite
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Some of you might remember when I shared my
beautiful Opera setups earlier. This week, Opera Unite was released, and a new version of the menus as well. My old setups aren't fully compatible, so I created some new ones.
The Compact Menus and Toolbars. They attempt to make an Opera equivalent of the menus in Chrome and Safari. They gather some of the menu bar items in two menus, and remove a few buttons from the address bar. Items you can find by right clicking or clicking a toolbar button are not included in the menus. The search field has been removed as well, but you can search by keywords such as "g search terms" to search google. For a full list of keywords go to
Tools -->
Preferences -->
Search.
There are two versions available. One for the new Unite version of Opera and one for older versions of Opera.
Compact Setups - New
Compact Menu - New Compact Toolbar - New Compact Setups - Old
Compact Menu Compact Toolbar Instructions
You'll need to save the files in their respective directories. You'll find them by looking at the
Opera directory under
Paths in
opera:about. The menu file needs to go in the
menu directory and the toolbar file needs to go in the
toolbar directory. If the directory doesn't exist, you'll need to create it. Make sure you save them as *.ini files and not *.* files. Both files are required to be saved correctly for all features to work.
Once you've placed the files in the correct directories enable them from
Tools -->
Preferences... -->
Advanced -->
Toolbars -->
Compact menus - New/ Compact toolbars - New -->
OK.