Archive for the ‘Album Tricks’ Category

Orkut photo tagging feature adds more functions to your Orkut album photos. You can tag your several friends in one single photo. But this feature openly challenges Orkut user’s privacy issues. Let’s say you want to hide your photos from those who are not in your friends list, but if one of your friends have tagged your photo and his album is open to all, anyone on Orkut will be able to see your photo. You can read the details on how to see someone’s photo even if she has locked her album. So, it would be a wise idea to disable photo tagging on your profile. Read the rest of this entry »

Since Orkut has allowed users to lock their albums so that no one can view their personal photos, many Orkut users started searching Google with keywords like, “how to see locked album photos”, ‘view orkut locked album pics”, “locked orkut album hack”, “see images from locked albums” etc. They also find some results, but none of them are working in reality. Sadly, there is no solution to hack into someone’s orkut album and see locked photos, but there is a trick to view anyone’s photo on Orkut in legal way, does not matter if she has locked her album or not. Read the rest of this entry »

Before couple of months, Orkut enhanced it’s security features and locked all user’s album pictures so that no one can save those photos on their computers. Orkut took this step to protect it’s user’s privacy by disabling right mouse click button on Orkut album photos. Your right mouse button won’t work in those pages that we normally use to save photos. But here is the trick to bypass the right click disable protection and save anyone’s locked photo from his Orkut album. Read the rest of this entry »

Adding tags to photos on Orkut is a way to figure out different persons with a link to their profiles from a single photo. Clicking on tagged part of a photo will take you to the respective person’s Orkut profile. This is a new and innovative way to build communication. But this becomes really headache if you don’t want to share your photos with unknown persons but one of your photos has been tagged in your friend’s album. Now if your friend’s album is not locked and open to everyone on Orkut, anyone can click on “Photos of Me” in your profile and see your photographs in your friend’s album. In this way anyone can see your photos even your Orkut album is locked. Let’s know how to disable this and protect your privacy. Read the rest of this entry »

Unlike Facebook, Orkut does not support any customization hack for photo albums. Your main Orkut theme controls the overall look of your Orkut profile including scrapbook, videos, photos etc. Many Orkut users were expecting something more than simple photo uploading feature in albums sections. After all albums contain few of our timeless captures and we would love to make it remarkable on this social network. So, here is the Orkut album photo rearrangement option to bring some of your best snaps to the front page and displaying others next to them. Read the rest of this entry »

If you think that you have only two album sharing options – “share photos with friends“, “share with everyone” with your Orkut photo albums, you are wrong. You can move a step ahead to restrict anyone including your friends from viewing your photos. This will act like your private photo storage space on Orkut, lolz. All you have to do is some basic album properties configuration and that’s it. None of your friends or anyone will be able to see photos from your albums. Read the rest of this entry »

If your Orkut profile is involved in any suspicious activities, an automated script will block some key features on your profile. Your Orkut profile will get limited and you won’t be able to do some commonly used things. Orkut implemented this feature to keep some users away from abusing Orkut features. But in few cases, we face this problem even without doing something fishy and wonder how to enable full access to our profiles. One of those limitations is that Orkut does not allow you to post comments on your friend’s photos and shows a notice like this : “Adding of comments temporarily disabled“. Let’s know why orkut shows this notification and how to fix this. Read the rest of this entry »