We're big fans of Opera 10. Although we can't use it at work - it isn't supported by our CMS - it's a key browser and works well on our Mac laptop. Safari seems lightweight in comparison. The latest Opera Unite, which we put online yesterday, now enables you to take your Opera 10 to a new level. You can use it to share date, files, photos and other information with other users. This means a small team, who chose to use Opera Unite as their primary browser, could share their files and work. But should they?

Opera Unite doesn't use any encryption to protect your most important data. Now, for most people this is going to be fine. But if you wanted to share documents which contain information about how to admin your server or company accounts, then you may want to think again. On top of this, Opera Unite requires you to open and use an Opera account, where the data goes via their proxy server. You have to agree to this via the Opera Unite EULA and that you won't use the service to share data where you do not own the content (or a license to share your files). In theory, Opera could track the files and content you are sharing as it goes via their servers.

Opera Unite for Windows link.

18 Jun 2009