Create Your Own Cloud with Opera Unite

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Cloud computing. It’s one of the big buzzwords in the tech world. And whether you’re excited by it or turned off by it, cloud computing has the potential to change the way we use our desktop computers, laptop computers, and netbooks.

The idea behind cloud computing is to move applications off your desktop and on to the Web. That opens a very large digital can of worms, though. While you get access to your favorite applications no matter where you are, your information is in someone else’s hands. You don’t get much control.

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    Posted by Robert G.  on  02/14  at  05:52 PM

  1. Which of the browsers work best with Windows XP service pack 3.

    Opera the new one (11) or Avant 11.7 which was just released???? I want a broweser that does not use the whole system to run and does a good jub just for searching the internet???? Which thake up the least system and disk space and are they good servh engines

    Thank you

    2. Posted by Peter Arnevick  on  02/14  at  10:36 PM

  2. Two things you’ll have to do are sign up for a My Opera account and create a name for your computer.
    Your Opera user name and computer name identify your PC to the DNS server run by the folks at Opera Software. The DNS server directs all traffic to your Opera Unite server using a specific URL. When you or your friends want to access the Opera Unite server that you’re running, you’ll type http://yourcomputer.yourname.operaunite.com – for example, http://zen.scottnesbitt.operaunite.com.

    I am sorry does this not allow Opera access to my Cloud information?

    3. Posted by AzWiz  on  02/14  at  10:56 PM

  3. Very interesting article. I had no idea that Opera had all of those capabilities.  However they are far from being a means for creating a cloud computing infrastructure.  It is collaborating with quite a few bells and whistles.

    Cloud computing from my understanding is not just sharing files or documents, that’s called file sharing. In cloud computing the applications AND the data reside mainly in the cloud thus giving it the resiliency to survive any one or more nodes failing.

    Wikipedia defines it as “Typical cloud computing providers deliver common business applications online which are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on servers.”

    As I said, good article, just a little off on the definition.

    4. Posted by Charles Michael Couch  on  02/15  at  07:46 AM

  4. Does this Opera Cloud Computing open your computer for “file sharing” in the background allowing others to pirate your system for their file sharing like the major file sharing cons of the past?

    5. Posted by Robert McCann  on  02/17  at  09:32 AM

  5. I want to thank you for this new (to me) “Tech Tips” email I have been receiving. This is only the 2nd one I have received, however much to my amazement, I was more interested than the first one. Finding and making my first purchase from your company is one the the better ideas I have had in too long a time. Thanks for the education, and for the great customer service!!

    6. Posted by Diane Prince Johnston  on  02/17  at  01:28 PM

  6. Working Mother of 3 Living on the Cloud

    Staying over at a friend’s house in Dallas last month, I witnessed her PC hiccuping and frightening her into worrying about unrecoverable data while a recently purchased external hard disk sat in an unopened box on the bookcase.  Back home in Malibu my life spins around me with children, business, and family law.  Unannounced miscellaneous events often derail my aspirations of tranquility, I have just run out of dog food and I live on the cloud.

    The phrase alone, “living on the cloud” brings a sense of peace enough to postpone the next 5 mg of anti-anxiety and reminds me of the sanctuary that is bigger than my household and gleefully beyond my control.

    Understanding I am the kind of mom sitting on stashed of hundreds of photo envelopes in various locations (some at my house, some at Dad’s and some in the Lake Tomahawk, WI vacation property still jointly owned), I peacefully overturn all recent snaps to Picasa.  Born of the generation which rents storage facilities in Thousand Oaks to house home videos on VHS in cardboard boxes, I have granted my little girls permission to manage their own YouTube channels.  They film life with their own Flip, documenting childhood from the eyes of the very young. 

    Recently participating in a conversation with employees about converting data to new PC’s, I enjoyed the irrelevancy of data recovery concerns as Microsoft Office was one of the many elements in my life to which I bode farewell in 2009.  Sometimes I fear that friends, associates and acquaintances tire of my preaching about Google Docs but I predict that they are not far to follow. 

    Yesterday I received bad news from IT that my motherboard is corrupt.  She leaves in a padded envelope tomorrow, unaccompanied hardware flying to HP and I will miss her when she’s gone.  However, she will return and if not a replacement part will.  It doesn’t matter.  I will open my laptop while she is away, continue to create, and nothing will have escaped from my Castle on a Cloud.

    7. Posted by CHRIS THOMPSON  on  02/22  at  08:29 AM

  7. How does Opera cloud computing compare to Windows Home Server Remote Access? It looks to be the same concept. Has anyone used both Opera and WHS? Which one did you like better?

    8. Posted by Paul iguniwei  on  02/23  at  04:19 PM

  8. I am going to tag and save this tip. Thank you sir. This is the type of tech tip that help us in Africa to stay in touch with the current info tech revolution going on in the first world. Of great use. I am down loading the opera browser.
    Though with a slow connection!

    9. Posted by Eric Hon  on  03/03  at  08:15 AM

  9. Thanks for the great information, I certainly will download the opera browser.  I am new to cloud computing, it appears that it would be good for sharing information among team members, but not sure whether we could afford the services, if any, need to find out.

    10. Posted by stock option software  on  03/05  at  02:21 AM

  10. I will miss her when she’s gone.  However, she will return and if not a replacement part will.  It doesn’t matter.  I will open my laptop while she is away, continue to create, and nothing will have escaped from my Castle on a Cloud.

    11. Posted by peddu  on  04/21  at  04:09 PM

  11. Opera, the famous maker of Opera Browser and Opera Mobile Browser, offers a free service called Opera Unite is a file and application server. Opera users can easily create its own server with just few mouse clicks.

    Using Opera Unite, user can share files and collaborate with anyone. While the server function requires the use of Opera browser. The files and applications that you’re serving can be accessed with any other Web browsers.

    With Opera Unite, you get a a unique URL that gives you and your collaborators access to your Opera Unite server. With Opera Unite, you can:

    Share files and photos
    Run a basic Web server
    Have instant messenger chats
    Play music files on your computer
    Share notes
    Back up files
    Use Twitter

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