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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The first thing we notice on a Orkut profile is it’s display picture or so called Avatar. Avatar is like the identity card of a profile, so you can play with it to make more colourful, attractive and unique. There are a lots of sites on web, providing free display pictures for your profiles. Just [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]