Your Guide to Opera’s Unite Remotely

This is a continuation from my previous post about setting up and getting started with Opera Unite.  If you haven’t installed Opera and setup a user account, visit their download link.

Accessing Your Unite Applications Remotely

You should now have Unite installed and some applications running inside Unite.  This is where the fun starts.  Let’s say you’re at work and you forgot your iPod (or Zune) and you’re dying for some music.  Lucky for you, you’ve installed Unite on your home computer.

To access your music, open up your browser of choice (Firefox, Opera, Safari or Internet Explorer) and enter in the following formatted URL:

http://computername.username.operaunite.com

This URL brings you to your homepage.  You should see a list of applications that are installed on your computer.  If you can’t access your computer, you may have typed the URL incorrectly or your computer may be off (sorry, had to say the obvious).

Click the Visit button of your application of choice and enter in the password that you have setup for accessing the application.

More Options

There are a lot of things that you can do with Unite and their applications have left sharing wide open.  If you have a friend that you want to share your music with, just send them the link to your computer and your password and they can listen to your music collection from their smart phone, work computer or other internet enabled device.

The Fridge application is pretty fun with a group of friends, too.

I’d love to hear about how you are using Unite in the comments below.