orkut tips

Here is the catch:
Google recently ie. Orkut recently launched a new feature by which now you can keep your community Private. What this all mean ? It means that if you make a private community then only the member of that community will get access to the community.
So how to make private community ?

Steps to create HIDDEN / PRIVATE community in Orkut

It is simple, goto
Communities –> Create
And create your community, while creating select “Content Privacy to HIDDEN” .

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Did you see, orkut is now really quick in adopting new features which were missing from long time, I think after implementation of new look to ORKUT they are now more comfortable to add new features to orkut. Another new feature added :

Send you introduction with friend request

I missed this one from day one I joined orkut. Infact we are using such feature from long in messenger like Yahoo where whenever we a buddy, we can give a brief introduction about ourself making it easy for both for further friendship.

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While replying a scrap, you might notice a new feature added to Orkut. Most probably Orkut India. You will see a list of Languages in drop down menu and when you will select one language from that menu, you will see its keyboard online just below scrap, so you can type easily.
Here is screenshot:

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Orkut just added a nice small feature, that is [S][A][M] & [T][E][M].
Lets discuss:

What is [S][A][M] & [T][E][M] or what is their use / meaning ?

Actually you will see [S][A][M] attached with profile or name of friends and [T][E][M] with name of community or community listings. They are shortcuts for certain links on orkut related to that user or community.
So lets see what they actually do :
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Orkut recently introduced yet another new feature, by this feature you will have a list on your ORKUT PROFILE HOMEPAGE showing who has done changes in their profile. It may include notifications of modification in their profile description, adding new photos to their profile, receiving new testimonial or uploading new youtube videos. So you will have list of recent changes done by your friend in front of you.

You may have seen many people announcing in their name area that new photo uploaded etc, I think this the reason for Google / Orkut guys to roll out this feature and is the source for inspiration for them.
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Info Type:: Tips
Application / Software : Orkut & Firefox with Greasemonkey.
Brief Introduction : We are going to talk about a script which can be installed on user’s computer and it can help user to automate various formatting task in ORKUT scrapping.

This post is specifically for Firefox user as it only works with FireFox. Firefox is one of the best browser available on internet. It can help you to save lots of time and better browsing experience.

I found a nice script here which actually ads a nice formatting toolbar to your orkut page. With the help of this toolbar you can easily format your scraps. You can add glittering text too. You can insert desired smiley just for single click of mouse. So basically this toolbar automates various process of scrapping which otherwise can be done manually too by adding required codes / text.

All you need is to install this script and start using it.

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Orkut knows how to keep happy its visitors and how to make them feel special.

They have introduced 5 new languages for Orkut which means now you can browse whole orkut in the language you speak. The languages are Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil & Telugu. They will sure introduce more languages.
Have a look on Hindi layout :

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Yesterday Orkut rolled out much awaited new looks to ORKUT.
They Named it : True Blue Simplicity
Orkut, a social networking website from Google. It is one of the most accessed website in the world and top social networking website in Brazil & India.
So here is the new looks :

But seems it is lot different than the one we were expecting earlier. See the older report : New Orkut Looks On the Way.
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Finding Common Community in orkut ie. Community where your friends are members also

Few days back orkut introduced a new feature in orkut. It is small yet nice. All it do is that it shows the communities which you and your friend are part of.

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India has the third largest userbase on orkut & hence orkut pays a nice attention to Indian Events.

I am constantly seeing Orkut Logo being used for while is in tri-color as well as it resembles Hindi ie. Devnagari script layout in design. All in all, its good looking as well its a nice move to make Indian feel special.
A worthy enough to mention here.

Find out which country dominate orkut

Many might be knowing about it already but its worthy to share it here.
Top 3 countries as per user base on orkut are:
1. Brazil
2. United States
3. India

To see rest:
http://www.orkut.com/membersALL.aspx

We all know that recently Google allowed to use html code in orkut scrap. It was infact much needed.
I tested and if you have knowledge of HTML and CSS etc.then you can really amaze your friends.

One thing is to note that html codes going to work for only those people who are in your list of friends.

So here it is :

How to add image in Orkut scraps

There is an Update
You can add image in two now its three ways.
1. Simply post the URL to the image, all files ending with .bmp .jpg .gif .png should appear as full image in scrap.
Like this :
http://www.free-extras.com/carebears/12.gif
This will show a bear.

Or
2. If you know HTML then you can put whole HTML code to link an image in orkut scrap.

<img src=” http://www.free-extras.com/carebears/12.gif” />
will show following:

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Orkut people are upto something always, recently they again updated the faces you see on orkut home page, right now there few new faces in it.

Here is the preview:

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If you have to post links frequently on orkut and annoyed of image verification then you can simply use following technique..
Note: It will just bypass image verification but will not post live link

All you need is to replace / of http with its code ie. & # 4 7 ; and replace “.” with & # 4 6 ;.
So if you want to post : http://www.smsnshayari.com/big-google
Then it goes like:

http:& # 4 7 ;& # 4 7 ;www & #4 6 ;smsnshayari & # 4 6 ;com & # 4 7 ;big-google

PS: Here I have used spaces between them so remove the space while using on orkut.

So it will not ask you for image verification but keep in mind, the link will not be a clickable one, it will appear as normal text.

Don’t Share, Don’t Script, Don’t Spread

Google finally came up with 3 golden rules.. google says:

There are certain things that we all do every day to protect our privacy: lock our homes and cars when we exit, keep our bank codes secret, avoid offers of rides from strangers. These habits have become second nature to most of us. Similarly, there are certain behaviors we should all adopt to keep us safe online. Recently we’ve come up with three golden rules of orkut safety: Don’t Share, Don’t Script, Don’t spread (say it fast 3 times!). Some of it may seem obvious, so forgive me for sounding like your mother, but you’ll really be better off knowing this.

1. Don’t share: keep your username, password and personal information secret and change your password regularly.
This is the first thing people are advised to do, it really protects you from many things, do not trust people, may be they are trustworthy but they just left it open and your password became public.. then ?
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Hiding your display name on orkut

In orkut, you can hide your display name, earlier it can be done by entering 0173 while alt key being pressed but it do not work anymore.

The trick we are going to share is as simple as copying a special character in place of your name in profile. To make it easy we have placed that special character in the text box below.
So follow the steps:
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Info Type:: Tips
Application / Software : Orkut & Firefox

This post is specifically for

users. I love it and can’t really surf without it.

Orkut Toolbar

It is nice small add-on for firefox which can really make you special among your Orkut friends. It has really nice features. As a regular orkut user, you might feel need of one or more feature in orkut for which you really feel charm fading. Well, I too…
One was : To get an option to use signature with every post.
Second one: Visual options to format posts ie. making text look colorful and interesting.
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You may have or may not have heard about this tool, it is not specifically for Orkut but it can be a real friend to one who loves orkut. With the help this FireFox addon, you can really do a lot of magic on various site including orkut (It does all things on client side ie. nothing related to original side).

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Orkut recently launched a form where you can report about stolen communities..

This is what they say:

Hello to everyone in orkut land I know it’s frustrating that some people on orkut don’t play nice and try to steal other people’s communities When this happens, please write into the Help Center for individual help.

It takes a lot of time to investigate these cases and attempt to restore communities, so it’s not very efficient to post them here, with only one Guide here to help out!
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