Dark Orkut

Orkut privacy feature allows someone to lock scraps from strangers, but there is no official way to lock and hide scraps from your friends. If you have got something personal in your scrapbook or simply want to hide scraps from your friends, you can now do this by using another Orkut feature. Well, you won’t be able to hide all your scraps or entire scrapbook from your friends, just a limited no of scraps (though there is no specified limit). We will use Orkut spam feature to hide scraps from our friends. (more…)

Stealing photos from someone’s Orkut album and using them in own albums is not something new to Orkut users. Many Orkut users has found Orkut accounts using their photos without their permission. Most of the time strangers do this type of things but if you have already locked your album to strangers, it must be one of your Orkut friend’s act. Downloading Orkut album photos and creating a new profile with those images is a matter of 10 minutes or so. If you are a victim of this, you should be knowing that it’s your responsibility to take care of your pictures. Anyways, let’s know what we can do when we find someone on orkut using your photos in his albums. (more…)

Orkut Testimonials are used like character certificates as people tend to judge someone from his testimonials on Orkut. If you have a nice friend and want to speak your mind about him, go ahead and write a testimonial for him/her. Don’t treat testimonials as scraps, it’s different. Be creative while writing a testimonial and since everyone are going to read this, be honest and talk about positive sides only. One of Dark Orkut Help Center users wanted to know the procedure to write a testimonial. So, here is the tutorial on how to write and send Orkut testimonials. (more…)

Orkut looks more beautiful and appealing with new stylish themes. It has been a long since Orkut started the theme feature and it looks like more people are interested in customizing their profiles with official Orkut themes. Keeping the demand of themes in eye, many Orkut related sites started offering GreaseMonkey scripts for themes. You can also make custom orkut themes using our Orkut theme creator in minutes. However, this post is a short tutorial to tell the common usages of Orkut themes. Here I will guide you on how to add, change or remove official Orkut themes. (more…)

Orkut is not just a website anymore, it’s a mania. Everyday thousands of people are making new accounts on Orkut and getting to know the meaning of scraps, testimonials etc. Since Orkut is so much popular now-a-days, people also do love to express themselves in Orkut style. You can use Orkut font and images to write your own name. If you can remember Orkut logos with some tall people’s pictures or medals, this post will excite you since I’m going to tell you the way to write your name or any text in those stylish Orkut fonts. (more…)

Orkut displays a small pop up notification alert whenever you get a new scrap on your scrapbook. This is an advanced feature to get notified about your new scraps without visiting your scrapbook. At the mean time it might annoy you by making a pop up continuously until you open scrapbook and read that scrap. If you are writing messages on orkut or viewing someone’s album photos, it will act like a disturbing element, by diverting your look to it. Let’s know how to disable or block Orkut scrap notification alerts. (more…)

If you are worried about the way Orkut displays advertisement on it’s pages, here is the tutorial to block, hide or remove ads completely from Orkut pages. Earlier Orkut was showing ads below friend’s column, but now it moved the advertisement column above friend’s column and showing it on the top right bar. Well, since Orkut is free to everyone, advertisements are the only way left to run Orkut. Google is investing handsome amount of revenue to run Orkut and showing ads is just a small way to recover a part of that investment. But honestly, the ad placement making Orkut look ugly and unprofessional. Let’s know how to get rid of it. (more…)

Google Chrome, Google’s official web browser came up with a lots of hope and expectations to grab a decent market share. Google chrome is light, fast, easy to operate but one of many drawbacks of this web browser is that you can’t expect to use addons. Recently Google upgraded and released Chrome’s newer version, but addon feature is still missing. So, if you want to use any third party scripts or addons, you must get them installed on your computer separately to work along with Chrome. Since we all were missing GreaseMoneky feature on Chrome, we can use a third party tool called Greasemetal. Greasemetal will allow us to use GreaseMoneky scripts on Google Chrome. (more…)

Well, sorry for posting something completely off topic. But this is one of my memorable incidents and I wanted to share with you all. Finally after hosting few TV shows (yup, I am an TV anchor and was doing few shows for our local channels like ETV-Oriya, OTV etc), I am going to do a movie as the lead actor. This is a Oriya movie and recently the production house did it’s Mahurat here in Orissa. I am a bit excited about this project. (more…)

There are people who tend to forget their password frequently and on the other hand there are people who can’t remember their Orkut password while trying to sign in after a long time. Well, this is normal and there is nothing to worry about. Anyone can easily recover forgotten Orkut password by following some simple steps. But those simple steps require you to answer your security question and some other informations. Even if you don’t remember the answer to your security question anymore, you can use your secondary email address to verify your identity. Let’s know the step by step process to recover forgotten Orkut password. (more…)