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 !!

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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!

<embed src="http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/scream.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="music1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="5" width="20"></embed>

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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

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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.

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!

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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

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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

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