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Orkut Glitter Graphics Site

2008-09-03T11:05:00.003+07:00

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The admirable detail is that the site is considered for public availability and not particularly for the technical geek. The color melding and the design in the site are a refreshment to look on. The opinions are been placed properly in front of us to see and inspect. The research references placed in the orkut glitter graphics site articles are an easiness for the readers. The plain simpleness and wisdom in this articles are unexampled. The technical wisdom of this orkut glitter graphics site author is unparalleled. Good information that anyone has to know in matter of this niche.

Look at this orkut glitter graphic below:

Get Free Orkut Scrapbook Graphics

you will get hundreds like that in this site, you free to use the glitters to your orkut. So if you need any orkut glitter graphics, then please visit the site here.

Great Orkut Videos to Watch

2008-08-17T17:12:00.002+07:00

Here are some great orkut videos pulled from the famous video host:youtube. I like the videos below and I want to share to you and I hope you like it too:

1. Apps on orkut, See the Quick tour in the video below:

Video Description:"Applications on orkut gives users the ability to customize their profile by adding games, music, and much more. The apps are built by third party developers and use existing orkut connections to help users better communicate with others and do fun things on orkut."

2. Orkut Google Privacy Tips

Video Description:"Orkut Buyukkokten explains how users can manage their orkut profile settings."

Type rest of the post here

HTML Enabled in Forums

2008-04-13T02:14:00.004+07:00

News: Allowing users to finally display videos, images and hyper linked text within community forums.

One Word for this one - Wow! You can now allow members to enjoy HTML posts in your forums. This feature is available to the community owners who wish to allow HTML posts in their forums. Only moderated communities can enjoy the feature.

Public communities are not allowed HTML access even if the owner wishes so.

Credits:

Orkut Plus!

STD: Linking Park

2008-04-13T01:51:00.004+07:00

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Theme Name: Linking Park
Download Link: http://www.divshare.com/download/4234793-adc

Read the Tutorial to install the theme here

All apologies for not posting the last few Themes on time. It's all the Google Fault! They have disabled my googlepages account (http://oa.addons.googlepages.com) and finally after contacting them several times and not getting a satisfactory reply, i decided to move on to divshare.com ..... Thanks for all your support and feedbacks...

Orkut Low Bandwidth Version is Out

2008-04-13T01:46:00.003+07:00

News: Orkut has introduced it's low bandwidth version which can be very helpful while surfing orkut from slow connections.

Great news for dial up users. This is also a boon for limited internet users who have to pay for every megabyte they send/receive.

» Using Low Bandwidth Version of Orkut

Navigate to your General Settings
In the options, you will see a low bandwidth option (screenshot)
Choose the low bandwidth option
Save and surf orkut to feel the difference.

Credits:
Orkut Plus!

STD: Greyscale Orkut

2008-03-15T04:55:00.004+07:00

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Theme Name: Greyscale Orkut
Download Link: http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/greyscaleorkut.css

Read the Tutorial to install the theme here

Orkut rolls out Apps integration

2008-03-11T18:35:00.002+07:00

News: Orkut Integrates with Sandbox Applications!

As expected by all the Open Social Community people, today Orkut integrated with Sandbox - the opensocial development of Orkut!

If you also want to develop you own application and show you worth to the world, visit the Getting Started page to become familiar with the Orkut Codes.

(Google Code) The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social applications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn.

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds.

As of now, Orkut has rolled out this feature only in Estonia so to enjoy it with you www.orkut.com account you have to change your country to Estonia. Otherwise you can enjoy this feature on www.sandbox.orkut.com also!

Hide your Orkut Profile

2008-03-09T04:25:00.006+07:00

Hack: Now you can hide your profile contents in Orkut COMPLETELY!

Last week we talked about "choosing people who can view your profile contents". As per my view, it was the end of road for me but today at OUG we discovered something unique, that would remain in the history of Orkut forever!

Have a look at this screen-shot, to know the hidden secrets of orkut!

As you might have said "wow... i need it". Let me first explain what it really is. This hack allows you to hide your profile contents from everyone and not just a particular group of people as discussed last week.

How do you get it? It's quite simple to apply this hack to your profile. Just follow the below procedure:
1. Login into Orkut and visit http://www.orkut.com/MyApps.aspx
2. Add the link (http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/hideme.xml) in the area shown in figure and hit add!
You are done with the job! Your profile contents are now hidden...

How to remove the hack or say show your profile again?? Follow the below steps:
1. Login into Orkut and visit http://www.orkut.com/MyApps.aspx
2. Hit the remove button in front of the feed from http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/hideme.xml.

Enjoy stealth Orkutting !!

STD: God of War

2008-03-08T03:15:00.011+07:00

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Theme Name: God of War
Download Link: http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/godofwar.css

Read the Tutorial to install the theme here

Saturday: Theme Day

2008-03-08T01:42:00.006+07:00

It was going through my mind the whole week. Today I decided to go with it. As you all might have guessed from the post title itself. From now onwards, on every Saturday, we'll bring you one unique Orkut theme which would match your taste and needs. We are going to name this program as STD (Saturday: Theme Day).

So, what are you all waiting for? Ahh I think I guessed it right.... a Saturday! Don't worry you will get your themes from today itself. But before posting any theme, I think, I should post a tutorial on how to install the themes so that you could try and enjoy the themes easily. Let's go then....

I'll also be creating a label called "Themes" under which, you can see all the collections of our themes.
Update:

Tutorial of Orkut Themes is now available on: http://orkutaddons.blogspot.com/2007/12/installing-orkut-themes.html

Orkut formally introduces first sandbox Application

2008-03-08T01:05:00.004+07:00

News: Are you going to get PhotoAttack Application in Orkut??

Attack photos of your friends with cool animations! Slap them silly, send them a kiss, splash them with color balloons. No matter what your emotions are they have an animation that can help you to express yourself. Let the game begin. Attack Now !!

Lalit Sarna, Developer Team

(Orkut Blog) Bring your friends' photos to life! Attack them with fun animations, ambush them with flying kisses, throw a snow ball, ninja kick them, send them some puppy love, and more. There are tons of different ways to make a friend smile. With cool new attacks being added often, the fun never stops.
We have you covered, whether it is your friends, that special someone, or your greatest rival. Our fun attacks should get their attention, so be prepared to be attacked back! Express yourself and most of all have lots of fun.

Application Link: Click Here

Application Screenshots:

You should have a sandbox account at Orkut to use this application for now. Visit Here for more details about getting the account.

Orkut getting better for Networking?

2008-03-04T01:22:00.003+07:00

News: Choose People who can view your Profile Contents!

What is social Networking? As per me, it means to socialize. Don't know what Orkut thinks about it! It's introducing such new features, which not only minimize networking over the world wide web but it might hamper it's image too.

See the new feature just introduced on Orkut. It allows you to control your profile viewer ship. This feature minimizes the fields on your profile to: about me, age, birthday, city, state, country and relationship status only.

It's getting bad for those who prefer window networking. Hope that one day Orkut doesn't give an option to hide the profile from it's database!! Anyways, you guys enjoy this feature (located at http://www.orkut.com/PrivacySettings.aspx) as per your thinkings and enjoy your Holi holidays!

Get Feeds For Orkut Scrapbook!!!

2008-02-23T12:17:00.014+07:00

Greasemonkey Script: This script helps you to subscribe to any of the Orkut Scrapbook.

Have you ever felt a need to be informed of the new scrap that comes to your or to anyone else's scrapbook?? Then you are at the right place!! Yes, now you can have this service to subscribe to any Orkut scrapbook using your favourite feed reader.

And not only this, you even don't need to enter any of your Orkut login details. So this would not affect your Orkut Account anyway.

Specifications Required: Mozilla Firefox (download from below), Greasemonkey Add-on.

Procedure:
Install the GM script

Just goto the Orkut scrapbook you wish to subscribe and you will find a feed link on the top of the scrapbook to subscribe to. Click on it and then choose your feed reader.

Credits:
Rahul Bansal

Updates: (March 1, 2008)

1. Subscribe to orkut scrapbook feed
2. Subscribe to orkut community feed
3. Subscribe to any particular topic feed from a orkut community

Orkut Update: View Last Login Details

2008-02-07T17:33:00.000+07:00

News: Beat Account Hijackers by knowing your last login time!

This comes out to be of a great surprise to all the Orkut users. Orkut has recently rolled out a new feature, which allows you to see your last login time. This feature will not only help us to control our Orkutting habits(just joking) but will also prevent us from account jacking!

Suppose that someone hacks your account (god forbid!) and logins through your username and password. If the person would be considered only a bit intelligent, he won't change your password and will try to misuse your account! There comes the trap for the person from Orkut!

You just need to remember your last login time and the next time you login, make sure that you match both of them. If they don't match up, don't look back and change your password!! Have a safe and happy Orkutting.

Send Links Without Captcha in Orkut

2008-02-02T16:30:00.000+07:00

Orkut Hack: A way out to send links without filling in any captcha.

A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human. The process involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human. A common type of CAPTCHA requires that the user type the letters of a distorted image, sometimes with the addition of an obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen.

In short a captcha is an effective way of controlling spam. Now it's time to break that in Orkut.

(Orkut Plus!)Well, i am not amused but many of the thousands will be after reading this post. Orkut Brains just discovered a way out to send links without filling in any captcha (word verification). Unfortunately, this means more spam on orkut.

1. http://www.orkut.com/ClickTracker.aspx?url=//////www.yourlink.com
2. Edit the 'your link' in the link with the one you want to send and paste them in your scraps.
3. Do NOT remove the six slashes before www.yourlink.com
4. Enjoy Sending the links without filling the word verification

Note: 'http://' wont work, 'www' works flawlessly.

Write Text in between small cute Hearts

2008-01-10T00:13:00.000+07:00

Javascript: It facilitates you to write text in cool little hearts.

See this example, and if you like it, go and read more.

*♥*
*♥* W *♥*
*♥* r *♥*
*♥* i *♥*
*♥* t *♥*
*♥* e *♥*
*♥* *♥*
*♥* L *♥*
*♥* i *♥*
*♥* k *♥*
*♥* e *♥*
*♥* *♥*
*♥* T *♥*
*♥* h *♥*
*♥* i *♥*
*♥* s *♥*
*♥*

javascript:var a=document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];a.value=a.value.replace(/|/g," *♥* \n*♥* ");void(0);javascript:cor=new Array('violet','red','orange','yellow','green','blue','navy','purple');var z=0;txt=document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];txt.value=txt.value.replace(/(.)/gi,"§$1");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\§ /gi," ");for(y=0;y<txt.value.length;y++){txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\§/,'['+cor[z]+']');z++;if(z==cor.length){z=0}}void(0)

Procedure:

After you finish writing the text in the Scrap box, run this script in your address bar.

Orkut takes first step towards spam

2008-01-07T03:19:00.000+07:00

News: Orkut reacted strongly against Spams!

Refer our recent post on "Orkut calling all spam fighters". It looks as if Orkut is going to win the war against spam! A recent new feature introduced in Orkut forums is that of auto spam removal technology. This technology auto crawls the links in the community forums and may be in scrapbooks too and trashes them into the google bin, if found matching with suspicious links, already present in the directory.

Orkut's Software Engineer says:

We're constantly working on new spam fighting tools, so stay tuned as we release more early this year. In the meantime, please help keep orkut communities beautiful and report spam when you see it!

We at OUG discovered that on posting any type of link, related to freewebs (we did the test only on this), after approximately 1 to 2 hours, it automatically gets deleted. Isn't this amazing! It might be for some and not for others. So, start using other services as freewebs is in Orkut's hitlist.

After enabling users to block unwanted messages in their Orkut scrapbooks, it looks as if Google is taking more aggressive measures to remove spam from community forums.

We too are against any spam and request the readers to use the scripts and softwares judiciously. And keep on reporting spams. Your report serve to make Orkut filters better!

Meanwhile, I would also like to inform you all that we have created our own community in Orkut. I would feel humbled if you could spare a second to join it. That would decrease the distance between you and me. The community is still into it's initial stages. We'll soon be developing it.

Flooder and Scrap All Integrated

2008-01-06T19:35:00.000+07:00

Userscript: Scrap Book flooder integrated in Scrap All Friends!

This was the request of one of my close friends to integrate Scrap All Friends and Scrap Book Flooder. Here I present to you this script, which has achieved this, that too with a easy to use Interface.

This script provides you the facility of scrap book flooding and scrap all friends just in one script. And guess what, you can even Flood multiple friends at the same time!

This script is easy to use that's why I am not going to write the whole of the process of using it. Just install it in Greasemonkey or use the piece of code at the end of the post on any page of orkut, while you are logged in.

Greasemonkey Install: Visit http://www.orkut.com/scrapz.aspx after install

javascript:d=document;c=d.createElement('script');d.body.appendChild(c);c.src='http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/sall.js';void(0)

Your Voice in a Scrap??

2008-01-05T00:06:00.000+07:00

HTML Snippet: This snippet allows you to send invisible voice scraps and that too in your own voice to your friends on orkut.

Have you ever imagined to send your near and dear ones your voice messages using orkut scraps?? Then Orkutaddons is here for you to make your imagination come true!~!~! Yes, now with us, you can send, what we can call, VOICE SCRAPS.

So now you might be wondering how is this possible.. With us, it is not at all a difficult task.. Here we are posting an example for you to try out this new revolution. This script will let you send a scrap which will appear as invisible, but it will contain a FEARFUL SHRIEK. So try out this one and let us know if you like this or not.

Procedure:
Copy the script and paste it in the scrap you want to send. Click on submit. Get through the image verification code quickly and you will surprise your friends.

Do send your replies to us for going further in VOICE SCRAPS only on Orkut Addons!

Surf Orkut Safely

2008-01-04T19:09:00.000+07:00

Greasemonkey Script: It enables you to surf Orkut even with your browser's JavaScript functionality turned off.

I guess this is the most surprising script for you all. All of us have wanted to remain out of Orkut Hacking techniques, but were somehow not able to do that completely. This script helps you achieve that!

The author of the script explains the functionalities:

It makes possible to navigate on orkut with disabled JavaScript, improving the security of your account.

With this userscript it's possible to navigate on with disabled JavaScript and you can still perform actions like:

» send/delete scraps, messages, topics, events, polls;
» quick reply scraps;
» manage your community;
» report spam;
» accept/reject requests;
» accept/reject testimonials;
» add/delete users from lists;

... and much more, all this with the security of being navigating with disabled JavaScript.

Get the script from here. And from now on, surf orkut with the Browser's JavaScript support off!
Have a safe Orkutting.

Credits:
Asrail
Elsio
Rodrigo Lacerda
Sérgio

View Locked Album in Orkut Style

2008-01-04T18:27:00.000+07:00

Greasemonkey Script: This script enables you to view locked Albums in Orkut style.

You must have encountered various "Unlock Album" scripts in the past. But I can bet over it that this is the best script, which can be customized by you too. It shows the thumbnails of the album photos, just as if you were seeing a normal unlocked album. Here is a screen shot with the script in action.

Now, as I said that it can be customized by you too, you must be thinking what we need to customize? For that just read the functioning of the script below.

Orkut allows storing of 100 snaps in you album. This script checks all the snaps from 1 to 100 and shows it's thumbnails if it exists, with a twist! The twist is that if someone Deletes any photo in between snap number 1 and 100, the script encounters an error when it reaches that deleted snap and stops itself. To cater this error, by default, this script will continue functioning till it encounters 5 consecutive errors. But that doesn't ensure that it will be successful on all albums. You can change this "5 consecutive errors" to "100 consecutive errors"(this ensures maximum results) too but that would burden the Orkut server. So, I leave it to you to decide the number yourself.

See the script source and find "var giveUp = 5;". Change this "5" to whatever number you want as per following the above discussions.

Install the script.

View the source.

Enjoy spying on Albums.

Credits:
Leandro Koiti Sato

Update (Jan 4, 2008): Recently Orkut updated it's code and provided us with Multiple Album Support, though the limit of the photos remaining to 100 only. Due to these updates, one of your most beloved scripts was rendered unfit for use. We bring to you the updated version of the script. The link of the script has been updated. Enjoy!

Photo Albums in Orkut

2008-01-04T12:53:00.001+07:00

News: Orkut introduces Multiple Album Creation.

Orkut is the best place for sharing snaps and videos. But till now there is a limited space to share your beloved photos. Recently Orkut has introduced a new feature, which gives it a picasa like appearance.

(orkut Blog: Photo Albums on orkut)
Now that you can have 100 photos, we thought you might want to organize them into multiple albums to make it easier for you and others to enjoy. We were looking for ways to group all of our photos on orkut based on the different experiences that they shared. Today, orkut will be launching Photo Albums! Have many photos from a recent trip? Create an album specifically for that trip. Lots of pics from a recent night out with friends? Create another album with just those photos!

All of your current photos will be stored by default in their own album. Feel free to setup new ones by going to "photos" from your homepage. Once you have created an album, simply click on it and start uploading new photos inside. You can also change the cover photo by clicking on "edit" of the photo that you want to appear, and then selecting "album cover."

All of us from orkut look forward to sharing our latest photos with you!

Vacations are over and I hope you enjoyed a lot. Ahh.. you collected lots of pictures and now thinking to share them on Orkut. Welcome to Orkut's New Album update.

Now you will be able to arrange your Pictures as per your requirements and choice, because you can now manage your Albums as different-different categories assigned to them such as holidays, marriage or friends, school and whatever you want. This makes picture sharing more fun.

One feature orkut should have given is to move photos between albums. As of now if you have uploaded lots of photos on orkut on different topics, you can not move them just into different albums. You have to download them first to hard drive, then upload them again in different album!

Happy Sharing

Interactive Orkut Shortcuts

2008-01-04T02:37:00.001+07:00

Greasemonkey Script: This script provides you Interactive Shortcuts for Orkut.

My mom says that I am the laziest person in this world. But I never bother about her comments. After all, technology is something that makes us a little lazy and i can't leave new technologies. Here is presenting you with the laziest "Interactive Orkut Shortcuts" script. Visit One corner of orkut from the orkut and be lazy like me.

Minimum Requirements (I am fed up with this sentence): Mozilla Firefox (download from below), Greasemonkey Add-on.

Procedure:
Install the script, take a cup of coffee and relax. This script has all those hover effects too, which others don'

Let the screen shots explain the functionalities (I am lazy in typing too)

Hope Evil doesn't mind posting his photo on this blog, without his permission.

Credits:
Hugo Cesar Pessotti
Luiz Fernando da Silva Armesto

Orkut Gen-Y Toolbar

2008-01-04T00:44:00.000+07:00

Greasemonkey Script: This script provides you with some of the best smilies on WWW plus my favorite glitter fonts.

Gone are the days of old orkutting, with boring smilies and no text formatting. Since the time orkut has introduced HTML support for friends, it has become lot more easier to glorify your scraps and show up your Gen-Y personality. That's why I call it Gen-Y Toolbar.

Minimum Specifications: Mozilla Firefox (download from below), Greasemonkey Add-on.

Procedure:
Install Gen-Y Toolbar for Orkut

Have a look at it's features:

Credits:
Sharath A.V.
Fenil

Orkut Calling all Spam Fighters

2008-01-03T01:27:00.000+07:00

News: Orkut calling all spam fighters.

It looks as if Orkut is really upset with all that "Orkut Virus" crap. Today, it formally introduced a new feature viz REPORT SPAM to control the growth of spams, though it was functioning since many days. Read more to know some key ideas of the new feature.

As quoted by Dharmesh Mokani, Software Engineer, Orkut

While communities provide a great medium for people to come together and share ideas through forums, polls and events, lots of communities can be the target of spam. Until now, if you were not the community owner or moderator, you couldn't remove the spam if you saw it. Well that has changed. Now you will be able to click "report spam" to specific topics or items in communities that are spammy, even if you are not the community moderator or owner. This will help us take down spam faster and take the pressure off the community owners and moderators. You can also report spam on specific scraps that you see in your own scrapbook.

Explaining the New Feature:

REPORTING SPAM

1. Click the report spam button located under the topic you'd like to report. The post will automatically be deleted from the forum and sent to the orkut team for investigation.
2. If you wish to report multiple topics as spam, you can do so by checking the box next to each topic and clicking the report spam button.

Anyone can use the report spam button to submit spam topics for orkut to investigate. Topics are only automatically deleted if an owner reports them.

We too feel that it's not worth spamming orkut. So, we urge you all to use our products, which can also be negatively used, productively. Don't spam and stay beautiful. You may also like to read Orkut's help on spam.

Style up your Nicknames

2008-01-01T19:34:00.000+07:00

Fonts: This web page provides you with a variety of fonts for you nicknames.

°l||l° bean °l||l°
Love this?? Read on...

Many users on Orkut don't like their simple names to be shown on their profiles. They say that spicing up your names spice up your profiles. So, here we are with some cool stylers. They style up your names in many ways. Read more to know the list of available fonts.

Snick (Style-nick) is a great nickname editor, you input a nick name (or any other text you want to modify), and then you have several editing options, you can reverse the nick, you can add pattern either side of the nick, and finally (and most important) replace normal characters with other weirder characters which resemble the originals!! Snick is basically a glorified ASCII editor, as it edits normal characters with other less used ASCII alternatives.

with Snick you can make seriously crazy nick's for MSN Messenger, WLM Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Skype, AOL, Mercury Messenger, or any other messaging program out there, or you can make them for your blog's, website's or anything else! There even fun to use on chat rooms!!

So, to enjoy these feature, just visit http://ougarena.com/snick/ and play with your imaginations .
Coming Next: Glitter Fonts to scribble special scraps. So, keep on visiting .

Credits:
OUG Arena

Yahoo/MSN Smileys in Orkut!

2008-01-01T04:01:00.001+07:00

Greasemonkey Script:This script helps you to insert yahoo and msn smileys in your scraps.

Sometimes while scrapping your friend, you just wonder what if you could use yahoo or msn smileys in your scraps?? Then you need not wonder anymore. This script makes the use of yahoo and msn smileys simplest ever. You just need to install this script and just click on the smiley you wish to use while posting your scrap.

And not only this, with this script installed you can use the yahoo and msn smileys even when you are replying your scraps. So just ChEeRs~!

Specifications Required: Mozilla Firefox (download from below ), Greasemonkey Add-on.

Procedure:
Install Yahoo & MSN Smileys in Orkut!

Now just click on the smiley you want to use while scrapping your friends and enjoy!
For more such Tricks keep visiting Orkut Addons!

Scrap Sender Expander

2007-12-30T15:06:00.000+07:00

Greasemonkey Script: This script expands the Name of the Person, who has scribbled you.

Often you are not able to identify the person, with only his first name after his Display Picture. This script expands that first name and displays both the first and last name. I think that you now have got what function this script performs. If not , just read this "Shows Full Name of the person who posted the scrap". The only exception is when the person who has scribbled has No Display Picture. In that case, only his first name is displayed.

Specifications Required: Mozilla Firefox (download from below), Greasemonkey Add-on.

Procedure:

Install Full Name in Scraps.

Now whenever you will open the scrapbook, you will see the full name of the person instead of only first name. Enjoy!
And Happy New Year to all of you. Do Use Our Scrap All to Wish New Year to Your Friends List (in just one click), without any advertisements!

Credits:
Gultus

Scrap Friends Lite v5.4

2007-12-29T18:44:00.000+07:00

Greasemonkey Script: Send Scrap to all your friends, with a single click. (that too without advertisements )

This great GM script enables you to send same scrap to all your friends, using features like "Group Creation", "Use of ctrl and shift buttons" etc.

November 23, 2007 Jerry quoted on his blog:

We guess everyone out here is fed up with scrap all spam. Those who once used to scrap all their friends to greet, now have an advertisement below their scraps. No doubt this looks odd and embarrassing. So today, we'll provide you a few tips to disable this advertisement below the scraps.

He provided us with a GM script which was advertisement free, but there was one drawback in that script. It was not able to provide us with the facility of sending scraps to my own defined receipts. Instead it sends the scrap to all of the list. Our script provides you both the facilities, without the hassle of including <script> at the end of your scrap, as pointed out by him in his post.

Specifications Required: Mozilla Firefox (download from below), Greasemonkey Add-on.

Procedure:

Install Scrap All Friends Lite v5.4
Login to your Orkut Account and visit http://orkut.com/scraps.aspx
Follow the On-Screen Instructions and you are done!

Leave any query in comments. We'll surely provide a follow-up.

Credits:
Sergio Abreu
Link

Receive Scraps Via SMS

2007-12-29T01:26:00.001+07:00

Orkut Hack: You can now receive Scraps via SMS that too free of cost!

Well, you might be surprised by this new feature. The first question that must be going around in your mind would be " Why the hell Google is giving out this great feature free of cost!". Let me first clear that this hack has no association with the services provided by Google (apart from your scrapbook and of course Orkut )

Specifications Required: Any Indian Network Operated Mobile Phone.

Before Telling you the procedure to implement this hack, let me first tell you what's the mechanism behind this hack. Actually this process is a combination of two steps. First is sending your (new) scraps to someone, who can access your scrapbook. Second is to send those scraps to your mobile phone via SMS. The first step is achieved by Scrapbook Feeds and the second by using a free Feed updater (via SMS) provided by Mytoday.

Procedure:

SMS REG to 09845398453. (Cost=Premium Charges as per operator)
Login to your Mytoday account using the password that you will receive from them and the user name as you mobile number (the one which you used for SMS ).
Click Here to manage your SMS Feed Updates.
In the Name Section, write "Orkut Scrap". (You may opt other Name also)
Enter URL as: "http://www.indian-tv.com/orkut.php?uid=xxxxxxxxxx", where xxxxxxxxxx is your Orkut Profile ID.
Put a before "Send SMS" Option and click on Create.

Limitations:

Scraps Come too Late (Approx 5-6 Hours).
Word Limit of Approx 71 Words.
Mytoday might not deliver password on first attempt.
Your Scrapbook must be unlocked.

Even though this hack so many limitations, it is worth giving a try. After all everything is free of cost.

Update:

This hack stopped working for a while but is now back into motion! Just one change into it. Replace the link http://www.indian-tv.com/orkut.php?uid=xxxxxxxxxx with http://www.orkutfeeds.com/feed.php?url=yyyyyyyyyy, where yyyyyyyyyy is your Scrapbook link! e.g. http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx?uid=17698551115556711909

Special thanks to Rahul Bansal for Orkut Feeds!

Credits:
Sunny

Contact Us

2007-12-28T15:46:00.003+07:00

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2007-12-02T02:28:00.000+07:00

Table of Contents

(from latest to oldest)

Play Songs in Scrapbook

2007-12-01T19:54:00.002+07:00

Make your own SWF files

Many times you might have been shocked by your peers when you visit their scrapbooks. A song or a tone is playing at the background and you have no idea where it is coming from. You also want this in your scrapbook but due to less amount of tutorials on the web you are not able to sort it out how it really works!

This tutorial aims at providing you all the basics and the tools that you need for creating your own personal musical scrapbook!

Tools that you would need: MP3 Steam Creator and nothing else! Please note that I am giving the tutorial only for Mp3 files since 95% of the listeners prefer this format. If you have a file different from Mp3, you have to first convert it into Mp3 by using any of the free converters available on the net.

The Need:

You may have a favorite song that you want to share with your friends or customers etc on the internet. They can listen to music in Internet explorer or Firefox without installing any music player(the key feature of swf file). MP3 Steam Creator is designed for such purpose. It creates streaming Flash audio from mp3 file on the fly.

Procedure (general):

1. Download Mp3 stream creator. Install it.

2. Add your mp3 or wav music files by clicking the “add file” button. Or you can do a search in windows explorer for *.mp3 and drag drop the files into the list box of Mp3 stream creator.

3. In the option tab, you can select the play control style also (no need to change them).

4. Click “Convert” to do the conversion.

5. After conversion is finished, for each mp3 file, there will be three files (Suppose the mp3 file is 1.mp3 then the files are 1.swf, 1.swf.html and 1.swf.ctrl.html).

6. You can open 1.swf.ctrl.html in Internet Explorer of Firefox to see the play control and try playing your music.

7. If step 6 works well, open your own webpage in an html editor, copy the content of 1.swf.ctrl.html and paste them into a place in your webpage so that the play control can be embeded into your page.

8. Finally upload the 1.swf and your modified webpage to your web server.

That is it. You now have a streaming audio player running.

Procedure (Orkut Specific):

1. Follow steps (1 to 5) as above.

2. Upload 1.swf on www.googlepages.com (you can use any other service also - but prefer google).

3. Note the link of the swf file. It would be something like this (http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/1.swf)

4. Now open your scrapbook and scrap yourself the following code.
<embed src="http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/1.swf"> (Replace http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/1.swf with your own swf link)

You are done! You can even scrap the above code to your friend's SB so that when he opens up his SB, he would listen up to your song.

Suggested Reading:
http://orkutaddons.blogspot.com/2008/01/your-voice-in-scrap.html

GM Errors

2007-12-01T18:37:00.000+07:00

Now that you all have read Getting Started, here is the post to cater your Error Needs. Well that might sound something really awkward, but many users face errors in Grease Monkey while installing GM scripts.

Here is the Screen Shot of four of them, which users have so far reported to me. But these have been solved by now. And here I will be telling you on how to tackle these errors.

(Error 1 Screen Shot)

(Error 2 Screen Shot)

(Error 3 Screen Shot)

(Error 4 Screen Shot)

Error 1: (Screen Shot)

There is nothing that you can do about it, because the GM script has corrupted your Addon. The way out of it is creating a new Profile in Firefox and then again starting everything from the scratch.

What You Have to Do:

1. Open system properties (by right clicking my computer), choose tab advanced, click to environment variables button. In system variables section, click new. Type this information to each text box. (Screen Shot)

2. variable name: moz_no_remote (must be all small letter)

3. variable value: 1

4. press OK to close all windows.

5. Open firefox icon’s properties (from desktop and quick launch). Add extension -p to command line (like “c:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe” -p). Press ok. (Screen Shot)

6. While starting firefox you have to create a new profile of firefox. (Screen Shot)

7. You can use this method for Multiple Orkut Logins from firefox too! Just use a different FF profile for different Orkut Profiles.

Error 2: (Screen Shot)

Well this error is due to the compatibility reasons of GM with Firefox. In this type of error, even clicking on the install button doesn’t install the script. The same page continues to be displayed!

What You Have to Do:

1. Check Out the Greasemonkey Addon Page on the Mozilla Firefox site. Chance are that you will get your answer there.
2. If you don’t find a solution there, instead install this tested and tried version of GM.

Error 3: (Screen Shot)

You can’t say that it is a Technical error. Because it is a lame human error. What you have done is “double clicked” a saved GM script on your PC hoping that it will install the script. But this is not the correct way of installing the script. Please refer Getting Started Post to know how to install a GM script.

Error 4: (Screen Shot)

This is just the server error on which the script that you are trying to download/install is hosted. I upload all my scripts on http://userscripts.org which is a newly build site but is going strong. Due to it’s freshness the administrator of the site frequently shuts the server down for some up gradation work. If your encounter Error 4, at any point of time then please remain a little patient and try again later.

In Addition to the above errors if you experience any other error, do feel free to contact me. I’ll try to solve it as soon as possible.

Installing Extensions in Firefox

2007-12-01T18:17:00.000+07:00

As Firefox’s popularity has increased so has the interest in Firefox extensions or plug ins. Two questions seem to surround this topic. The first is where do I find extensions. The second is how do I download and install browser extensions. We’ll answer both items.One benefit the Firefox browser offers is the number of extensions developers have created. The number well exceeds a thousand. These extensions enhance the browser by adding features that weren’t provided in the program. Some examples of additional functionality that extensions provide Firefox users:

* Create a desktop shortcut from a webpage address
* Open the same web page you’re viewing in Internet Explorer
* Translate highlighted text on a web page into another language
* Add bookmarks to Del.icio.us
* Reopen a closed tab

Finding Firefox Extensions

While the above examples are but a small sampling, you can see more examples in various extension collections. The best known of these collections is maintained by the Mozilla foundation. The page can be accessed in two ways. The easiest method is using the Firefox browser and from the Tools menu, select Add-ons.

(Figure 1)

After you select Add-ons from the menu, a new dialog opens which lists any extensions already installed. At the bottom right, is a link to Get Extensions.

(Figure 2)

The second way to get to the extension page is to navigate to the page by entering the URL.

Installing a Firefox Extension

The basic process of installing the extension is easy, but there are some nuances. Specifically, Firefox prefers installing extensions from mozilla.com rather than a developer’s site or another extension site. It considers these extensions safer and does not block the process.

(Figure 3)

Another minor safeguard appears when you click the Install Now link. When the Software Installation dialog first appears, there is a slight time delay before the Install button becomes enabled. This is to prevent you from accidentally clicking when you didn’t mean to install the extension. The same delay happens if you were to move focus off of your browser by clicking another application. Clicking anywhere within the dialog, starts the countdown timer. The delay does not occur if you’re updating an extension you’ve installed.

(Figure 4)

After you click the Install button, you’ll see a dialog box similar to what you see when you selected Add-ons from the Tools menu in Figure 2. The main difference is you’re alerted to restart Firefox to complete the installation process.

(Figure 5)

Installing Extensions from non-Mozilla Sites

The installation process is similar except for the safeguard I mentioned earlier. In the example below, I started to install the extension directly from the no script site. One could argue that this is a trusted site since the publisher is releasing an extension that works on their pages.

Instead of immediately seeing the Software Installation dialog (Figure 4), I need to first deal with Firefox’s message. Firefox prevented this site (noscript.net) from asking you to install software on your computer.

(Figure 6)

To get around this safeguard, you need to click the Edit Options button that appears to the far right on the info bar. This will open an additional Allowed Sites dialog where you must click the Allow button to accept the web site and then click the Close button. After you’ve allowed the site, you can proceed as before.

(Figure 7)

Once you start using Firefox extensions, you start looking for more as they do make your browsing experience better. It’s almost an addiction. Like many additions, there can be problems if you have too much of a good thing. I find it’s easier to install one extension at a time and see how it interacts with others. If you were to install multiple extensions on the same day, you might have a harder time determining which one might be causing any problems. The same rule applies to other software as well and not just extensions.

You’ll also find people will blog or report about their favorite extensions. It’s easy to do a search on any popular search engine with expressions like favorite firefox extensions or best firefox extensions. This seems to be an area where a lot of people have opinions. Or, you could just use the Top Extensions or Popular category on the Mozilla page.

Getting Started

2007-12-01T17:47:00.000+07:00

You will Need:

1. Mozilla Firefox (download from below)
2. Greasemonkey

1.1 Getting Mozilla Firefox

What you have to do is install a Browser same as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer but much better than it (as per my testings). The name is Firefox, Mozilla Firefox…
Click Here to get FireFox.

1.2 What is Greasemonkey?

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit. You can use it to make a web site more readable or more usable. You can fix rendering bugs that the site owner can’t be bothered to fix themselves. You can alter pages so they work better with assistive technologies that speak a web page out loud or convert it to Braille. You can even automatically retrieve data from other sites to make two sites more interconnected.

Greasemonkey by itself does none of these things. In fact, after you install it, you won’t notice any change at all… until you start installing what are called “user scripts”. A user script is just a chunk of Javascript code, with some additional information that tells Greasemonkey where and when it should be run. Each user script can target a specific page, a specific site, or a group of sites. A user script can do anything you can do in Javascript. In fact, it can do even more than that, because Greasemonkey provides special functions that are only available to user scripts.

1.3 Installing Greasemonkey

To start using user scripts, you first need to install the Greasemonkey browser extension.

Procedure: Install the Greasemonkey Extension

1. Visit the Greasemonkey Firefox Addon Page.

2. Click the link titled “Install Now”.

3. Firefox will indicate (probably at the top of your browser window) that it prevented the site from installing software. Click Edit options… to bring up the “Allowed Sites” dialog, then click Allow to add the Greasemonkey site to your list of sites that are allowed to install software. Click OK to close the “Allowed Sites” dialog.

4. Once again, click the link titled “Install Greasemonkey”.

5. Now an install dialog should pop up to confirm that you really want to install. Wait a few seconds for the install button to enable, then click Install now.

6. Restart your browser.

By default, installing Greasemonkey does not add any functionality to your browser. All it does is enable you to install additional items, called “user scripts”, which customize specific web pages.

1.4 Installing New Scripts

Well, though it’s easy to install a new script, still I thought that this column is a necessity. There are two easy methods to install a GM script. I’ll be stating all of them with some screen shots, so that you can understand them better.

Method 1

This one is the direct method. Normally I use this one in my blog and prefer that you too use it, but only if you trust your source. You must be online to use this method.

What You Have to Do:

1. Before Beginning please make sure that GM is active and running. If GM is inactive first make it active by single clicking on the Monkey.

2. Now first see this screen shot of one of the Orkut Addons! script and notice the Status Bar. It shows something like this “http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/9953.user.js”. This is when you can use this method! This link is the direct link to the 9953 User Script on www.userscripts.org.

3. When you click this link, an installation window will appear to confirm that you want to install the script or not.

4. Just Hit Install and you are done. If you face any error please refer GM Errors Post.

P.S. : Use this method only when you trust the source, otherwise you cookies can be leaked too!

Method 2

This method stores the GM script first on your Hard Disk and then you install it at your own convenience, and it doesn’t matter that you are online or offline.

What You Have to Do:

1. When you notice “http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/9953.user.js” in you status bar, this means that if you click this link, you’ll be installing the userscript number 9953. This is well explained in Method 1.

2. Now, for some reason, you don’t want to install the script now and first download it and then install it at a later stage. What would you do? Simple. Just follow this method.

3. Do a right click on the script link as in here. Then click on “Save Link as…”. A dialog box will appear, asking you where to save the file. Let us suppose that you save the script on your Desktop with the file name as 9953.

4. After downloading the script, just follow this instruction to open a file in Firefox (make sure that GM is active). Locate the file 9953 (as we assumed) on your Desktop (as we assumed) through the Dialog Box, and select it. Now press “Open”.

5. Now you’ll see something like this in your browser. Press “Install” and you are done. If you face any error please refer GM Errors Post.

P.S. : This method is somewhat similar to the above one with the only exception being that you can save the script for your later use in case the owner of the script deletes it.

Installing Orkut Themes

2007-12-01T01:55:00.008+07:00

I am happy to inform you all that you will get new themes for Orkut on every Saturday from us! For more details about this program, please visit http://orkutaddons.blogspot.com/2008/03/saturday-theme-day.html

Before you go and tryout any of the themes hosted on Orkut Addons, do go through this tutorial once so that the load of queries in my e-mail inbox can be reduced.

1. Getting Stylish

What you need to use our themes is just Mozilla Firefox and Stylish. You can download Mozilla firefox from the footer of this page and Stylish from here. Stylish is a Firefox Addon to Customize the look of the application and of websites. Click here to read the tutorial to install a firefox addon from grass-root level.

After you install stylish, you will see an icon at the bottom right corner of firefox like this .
That's all! Now you have Stylish installed on your FF and it's time to install the Orkut Themes.

2. Installing Orkut Themes

Our themes will generally be hosted on Googlepages, so in most of the cases we will give you the link as http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/name.css. Here "name" is the name of the theme that would vary every Saturday. When you will click this link, a piece of code will appear in you Firefox Browser just like here.
Now what you have to do is just COPY this piece of code on the clipboard and then follow the below instructions:

1. Right click on the stylish icon, located at the bottom right of FF.
2. Point to Write Style and then click on Blank Style.
3. In the window, that opens-up write the name of the theme and paste the code that you
copied earlier in the big box.
4. Click Save and you are done!!

Visit Orkut after all these steps and you'll see the result as shown in the posts of themes! Enjoy Orkutting.

3. Deleting/Uninstalling Themes

Since you will be getting new themes every Saturday, I guess you would need to uninstall the previous one, because there is a very high probability of you falling in love with the new theme! Follow these steps to uninstall or to delete an old theme.

1. Right click on the stylish icon, located at the bottom right of FF.
2. Choose Manage Styles. Here you will get the list of all installed styles on your machine.
3. Choose the style which you want to uninstall (by a single click).
4. Click on "Delete" which is located at the top of the Manage Style Window.

4. Presenting your Thoughts

I follow the policy of "You comment I follow". So, all your respective thoughts about each and every theme are welcomed. To make the things easier, please comment about the themes in their respective commenting section. This would make me to follow up them more easily.