Archive for the ‘Notifications’ Category

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Since many users want to maintain their privacy by hiding Orkut album photos, there is no need of showing a photo updates tab in their profile page. Generally photo updates tab displays your recently uploaded photos, but if your photo album is locked, no one can even see your photos in that photo update tab. And also, removing this will make your profile page clean and look good. Similar thing is also applied to videos. Anyone can view your videos by clicking on videos link on your profile, so why to add this extra tab to your profile? Let’s know how to hide recent photo and video updates on your profile page. Read the rest of this entry »

Earlier I wrote a post on Orkut birthday reminder and Google calender integration. Now here is an another trick to get your Orkut friends birthday reminder alerts directly on your mobile phone. You will get automatic SMS reminders about your friends upcoming birthday on your mobile for free! Now, don’t miss a single friend’s birthday, after all it comes once in a year! Read the rest of this entry »

Orkut Birthday Reminder displays a list of your upcoming friends birthdays. This Orkut feature is just to remind you to wish your friend on his/her birthday. Likewise Google calender keeps the record of all your important events and reminds you about those events according to your settings. But now you can integrate Orkut birthday Reminder with Google calender. Let’s know how to do this. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently Orkut launched scraps on mobile feature. But unfortunately people are getting charged by mobile service providers for those messages. So, here I’m going to tell you the trick to receive Orkut scraps on your mobile as SMS absolutely free. Each time someone sends you a scrap, you will get a SMS alert with first 150 characters of that scrap on your mobile. This service is absolutely FREE for people living in India. We will perform this trick by using Orkutfeeds and Google SMS Channel. Let’s know how to do this. Read the rest of this entry »

Orkut sends you scrap notification emails each time someone posts a scrap in your scrapbook. Not only in the case of scraps, but also you get email notifications for testimonials, messages, new friend requests etc. This is really annoying when you get a lots of email notifications everyday from Orkut. Many people don’t like these mails to full their inbox quota. So, here is how you can stop Orkut from sending those unwanted scrap email notifications.

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