Dark Orkut

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 »

Orkut, one of the most popular social networks can be used to play pranks and fool your friends. There are some Orkut prank tricks to apply on your profile, so that your friends will get fooled automatically without any practical involvement from your end. One of those tricks is logout trick, whenever your friends will click on a link, they will get logged out of Orkut automatically. Another prank is to show your friends Orkut deleted profile page and let them get worried thinking that their profile has been deleted by Orkut. And one most popular Orkut trick is to have a link on your ‘About Me” page wrapped with words like “My Best friend” or the “Looser on Orkut” and whoever will click on that link, he will get redirected to his own profile, thinking that you have written that link specially for him/her. Read the rest of this entry »

Leaving your email ID unprotected on Orkut might lead to so many unpleasant things like Orkut profile hacking, unsolicited friend requests, junk mails etc. Though it was possible to know any Orkut user’s email address earlier, Orkut has tightened it’s security system and no one can know anyone’s email ID if the user has not set his/her settings otherwise. You can also keep your email ID secure on orkut by not allowing anyone to view your email address from the privacy settings page. Read the rest of this entry »

Orkut has got more chatting functionality after getting integrated with Gtalk. You can easily choose your status message for Gtalk on Orkut. Currently it supports four options and you can choose them to go offline, invisible, online or busy. Each status will display a tiny status icon next to your name. It will show green for online users, red for busy users and gray for both offline and invisible user. Having a gray sign next to your name on Orkut, will make your Gtalk status offline, even if you are invisible in reality. Read the rest of this entry »

Since Gtalk was got integrated with Orkut, you can chat with any of your Orkut friends on Orkut site itself, without logging into Gtalk chat. But usually not all our friends appear in our Gtalk list, the reason behind this is that they are yet to integrate Orkut and Google account or you have not invited them to chat with you. And in some other cases you might be thinking of blocking someone from chatting with you. Orkut has a common platform to allow, invite or block friends from chatting with you on Orkut. Let’s know about it. Read the rest of this entry »

Orkut testimonial is a great way to post your comments or notes about someone. But since Orkut has applied some strict policies to these testimonials, you can’t use HTML codes, images, BB codes etc. Such limitations restrict people from customizing their testimonials and as a result people end up sending plain text testimonials. But if there is a will, there is a way. Here I’ll tell you the way to send your own images as testimonials to your friends. Only limitation is that those images will be in ASCII mode, still they will look pretty well. Read the rest of this entry »

Not all of us use high speed internet connection to access Orkut. Since Orkut shows different images on every page, like your friend’s picture, your display images, application thumbnails etc, it takes time to load all those images and serve the page. Now if you are using a low speed internet connection or want to get your job done on Orkut faster, you can block all images from being shown by selecting the Orkut’s low bandwidth version. It will help people who access Orkut using GPRS, Dial up or similar connections. Read the rest of this entry »

Yup, it’s Saturday and I’m back with an another power Orkut user. This Orkut user is really powerful, smart, brainy (might because of Horlicks) and most importantly a man with a bigger heart. How many of us would want or dare to help our competitors? But this young man is having a much bigger heart which gets ready to help anyone instantly, without any conditions. You can find many blogs online where bloggers express their gratitude to this young entrepreneur, including Gaurav Dua. I am talking about a powerful brain with a soft heart, I am talking about Rahul Bansal. Read the rest of this entry »

As all of us know that Orkut started it’s mobile version m.orkut.com almost a year back. But many people are facing problems and getting error messages while trying to connect m.orkut.com from their mobile phones. The main problem behind this might be your mobile handset compatibility. Yes, if you are planning to access Orkut from mobile, you should get a Orkut compatible handset first. Now see if your mobile service provider is offering WAP or GPRS service on your handset. You need to have GPRS in order to access Orkut. But if the problem still occurs even after having a compatible handset and connection, follow the below steps to access orkut without any error problems. Read the rest of this entry »

Vodafone Zoozoo characters are now a buzz everywhere. Vodafone produced some commercials with fiction animated characters and they named those characters Zoozoo. Zoozoo characters look like animated ones, but in reality they all are humans. The impact of these Zoozoo characters was so huge that it managed to get more than 50000 fans on Facebook. And now, Orkut users can also add their favourite Zoozoo characters to their profile. Read the rest of this entry »