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Application of the day: 3 down, 2 to go !!

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If you have been following the Opera Unite application of the day contest, you might know that for this week we changed it to an "Application of the day" contest :wink: We have announced three winners so far:
Monday: Whiteboard by Akbalder
Tuesday: Task Manager by Shwetank
Wednesday: UJS Manager by Rafal
Congratulations guys!! Hope your Wii's keep you entertained this winter :wink: The rest can read the contest details at Application of the day, there's still two more days to go :wink:

Opera Unite, out in Final !


We just pushed out the final builds for Opera 10.10, and it comes with Opera Unite. Opera 10.10 is the first public stable version of the Opera desktop browser which comes with Opera Unite. This is a major milestone as all the public builds of the Opera desktop browser will now come with Opera Unite.

Opera Unite has come a long way since the alpha version released in June. We've fixed bugs, added features, refined development libraries and polished the applications and the documentation. Thanks to all the testing you guys helped us out with, Opera Unite now sits in the good books of our QA team as well :smile:

To celebrate this, we have revved up the Weekly application challenge and we will announce a new application every day this week. Keep an eye out for new applications at http://unite.opera.com/applications

Try out the new Opera 10.10 browser and yes, do let us know what you think :smile:
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Opera Unite services get rechristened to applications

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Along with fixing up and prepping Opera Unite to get ready for the next release, we put in time for usability testing and trying to make things simpler. As a result, we are going to make some changes, but we will try to make them gradual and get them out in phases.

One important change that we made public this week was that we will now refer to our services as Opera Unite applications. If you download the latest snapshot from the links in the sidebar, you can check out the first snapshot with this revision. We will update the websites and the service application repository as the snapshots become more stable.

What does this mean for developers? Use the .ua extenstion on your applications and serve it with the MIME type application/x-opera-uniteapplication. We will keep you updated on any relevant information.

What do you think? Does this make more sense to you as an Opera Unite user? Will it make it easier for your friend who visits your Media Player application? Let us know :smile:

ps - make sure you keep those Sonars running :wink:

Help us load test our proxy servers with Sonar

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With all the testing that has been going on in the last few weeks, it seems our proxy servers have been behaving well. We figured that is probably not enough though. We want to put the proxy servers through some more stress. This is all to make way for Opera 10.10, which will have Opera Unite as a regular feature of the desktop browser.

To do this, we have created a new service, "Sonar". This service will help us load test our proxy servers even better. All this service does, is sit quietly on your computer. When we run a test, data is requested from around the world. We request a small amount of data from each instance of this service, to help us observe our proxy's behaviour.

Now, once again, to be able to test this on a large scale, from every corner of the world, we need your help. All you need to do is download Sonar and keep it running on your Opera Unite builds.

Of course, you can stop the service at any time to opt out of the testing. Once again, thanks for all the help. You guys are great ! :D

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Opera Unite gets its own branch of builds

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With the Opera 10 final release coming close, we have decided to push Opera Unite into it's own branch of snapshot builds. Opera Unite will be released in a subsequent 10.10 build after the release of Opera 10. Again, this is because we're polishing Opera Unite and adding more features and more services. So please keep that feedback coming :smile:

If you download and install the latest Opera 10.10 build (which includes Opera Unite), these will be auto updated with the latest snapshots whenever they go public. The links to latest builds will still be available in the sidebar in this bar.

Latest Opera Unite snapshots (10.10)

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