Author: Deepak Jain

Deepak Jain is passionate about technology and mobile phones. He is the founder & executive editor at Mobile Gyaan and Editor-at-Large of this blog.

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Orkut goes 5 Years Old!

Yesterday, Google team celebrated the fifth birthday of its social networking site ‘Orkut’. As a celebration initiative, you must have noticed the Orkut homepage displaying a doodle with Orkut logo in it.

orkut birthday

This post is nothing but a reminder about the birthday of Orkut, our favorite social networking site. 🙂 Orkut Diary team wishes belated Happy Birthday to Orkut and all its team members dedicated towards development of new features every alternative day. 🙂

If you too feel proud of Orkut being 5 years old, and wish to send your greetings and best wishes on the occasion of its birth day, then just have a look on this Orkut App.

Link: Official Release | Orkut Birthday App

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Get Twitter Updates of Specific User by SMS!

twitter logo There are a lot many ways by which you can send tweet messages via your phone using short messaging service. To list out some such service – Twitter officially has one such feature, except that, Vakow has such support for Indian users. But what if you want to receive updates by a specific twitter user via SMS?

Many a times, you might have missed out update by a specific person you always wanted to check. For example I always love to follow our Admin – Rahul’s tweets and have subscribed to his twitter tweets via SMS. There’s no big deal in this, its a simple trick and may help you in a great way. For this, you just need to know the RSS feed URL of the twitter user and then subscribe to get RSS feeds via SMS which we have discussed earlier.

For getting the feed URL of the twitter user, you just need to visit the Twitter page of the person you want to receive SMS alerts for (in my case its Rahul) wherein you can find a tab named ‘RSS’ on the footer of the twitter page.

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Copy the link location by right clicking on the ‘RSS’ button and using the RSS feed URL that you generate in the above step just create RSS to SMS alerts which we have discussed in detail in our earlier post – Get SMS alerts for your favorite RSS Feeds.

Link: Get SMS alerts for your favorite RSS Feeds.

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Check whether someone is Offline, Invisible or Blocked you on Gtalk!

gtalk logo Gtalk is one among the most loved instant messaging service provided by Google which was recently being integrated with Orkut. Every day, the number of Gtalk users multiply. With Gtalk getting popular day by day, there is a need for some tricks and tweaks to get the most out of the service you are making use of, and to continue being called a ‘geek’ in your friends circle. 😉

In this article, I am going to write about two unique stuffs about Gtalk that you may not be aware about.

  1. Finding out friends who are online, but in invisible mode:
    As I remember, Google launched a feature of chatting in invisible mode a year ago. Invisible feature can be used from latest versions of almost all browsers or from Gtalk labs. Couple of months ago Rahul posted an article on figuring out who is online in invisible mode. The other trick I am going to write today is really too simple and silly and will help you only if you have a GPRS activated mobile. To use this trick, simply download and install gotalkmobile into your GPRS activated mobile, login with your Gtalk ID & pass and it will show up all the person online, doesn’t matter whether they are visible or invisible. 😉
  2. Finding out whether someone has blocked you or is offline:
    Many a times anxiety engulfs our mind when we don’t find some of our friends (specially girl friends 😉 ) online for a long period of time. If it is so, the friend might be remaining invisible or offline all the times or he/she must have blocked you. In the above point, we have mentioned about two cool tricks to find whether a friend is really offline or is avoiding you remaining invisible. But what if they would have blocked you? You’ll presume that they are offline but in realty they may not be. In this case, Rakshit will help you on “how to check whether someone has blocked you on gtalk”.

So, using the above two cool tricks, you can easily figure out whether the girl next door is really offline or avoiding you. 😉

Links: GoTalkMobile | Bug in Gtalk (Find who is offline and who is invisible) | Find who has blocked you on Gtalk

Related: Remain always ideal on Gtalk

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Now View Videos in Gmail Chat Window [New Feature]

gmail-logo1 In  one of my recent post, I was talking about some Gmail features that may launch in the upcoming days, and it was also mentioned about some improvements and enhancement in video chatting  feature. Though, this feature I am talking about today, is not related to chatting but it is quite similar to sharing and viewing videos in Gmail chat easily.

gmail_videos in chat

Just by having a glimpse on the image above, you can easily understand the exact use of the feature just released by Gmail. While chatting in Gmail window, as soon you enter any video URL, a small thumbnail of it will be generated inside the chat screen and you can click on it and view the video right within the chat window. If you are wondering, whether only YouTube videos will work this way, then its not so. You can use any video link to make it work as usual. Also, for your information, this new feature will only be available if you are using chat from within your browser, and not from Gtalk or any other messenger.

Link: Official Release

Related: Gmail to Improve Further | Now use Gmail for Voice and Video Chat

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Learn Blogging from India’s Top Blogger

India’s top blogger – Amit Agarwal who blogs at Digital Inspiration has now come up with one of its kind initiative. Amit has organized to train blogging aspirants for creation of blogs and optimization & revenue generation to people who already own a blog. According to Amit, the exact details of the program is yet to be scheduled but its for sure that the program will be held sometime in the next week in Agra (U.P – India).

blog school

Also, it is said that, the event is organized by Google and no fees will be charged for this training program. All you need to do is just pre-register if you are planning to attend this training. If you are interested to know, what all topics will be covered in this training program, here is the complete list.

Links: Register | Read More

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Calendar Gadget for Google Desktop released!

Earlier, Gmail gadget for Google Desktop users was launched wherein a quite simple and user friendly interface to access and view your Gmail was present. Now Google has attempted one more step to make its products and services more popular, easy to use and user friendly.

Google has just announced the launch of a calendar gadget for Google desktop users, which can be easily used right from the desktop to manage all your appointments and schedules that would sync with your Google calendar. The Gmail gadget launched previously was said to work only for windows users, but this time it is not the same. This calendar gadget can be used in any OS, doesn’t matter whether it is Mac, Linux or Windows 🙂

Here are some screenshots of this gadget.

calendar_gadget_views calendar_gadget_add_event

Links: Calendar Gadget | Gmail Gadget | Google Desktop

Related: Beware Google Desktop Users

(Via Official Gmail Blog)

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Gmail to Improve Further, cnet Reports!

gmail-logo1 Google’s Mail service – Gmail is about 4 year old and still Google hasn’t decided to lift the ‘beta’ tags from Gmail. The reason may be because Gmail team has many more plans to improve it.

Recently cnet team got an opportunity to have talks with the product manager of Gmail – Todd Jackson, who gives a few hints on the upcoming features and also points that this is not all, there are even better things they are working on.

A quick highlights on the upcoming features in Gmail as reported by cnet are here:

  • Addition of more themes into the existing Gmail theme library and also ability to create your own theme.
  • Improved Gmail Video Chat with higher clarity.
  • Better contacts manager.
  • Ability to send bigger size files via attachments.

Among all the upcoming features discussed above, customizable theme by user option, as in Twitter has, would be great!! Here is the detailed discussion of cnet team with Gmail’s product manager.

Link: cnet report

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Beware Orkuteers while Logging Into Orkut!

With the growth of Orkut users, there are equal amount of rise in creation of fake profiles and malicious & other hatred activities being carried out inside this ‘so called’ Social networking sites.

Recently Arpit sent me a profile link that automatically gets diverted to a page that is cloned exactly with that of Orkut’s login page and when you enter your Orkut login information into the cloned page, they seem to store your data and automatically divert you to the homepage of Orkut.

So, this post is to aware you on how your password too, can be hacked within seconds. To prevent from such kind of hacking, you are requested, not to provide your Orkut login information in any other sites except in Orkut. As a precautionary measure, you should always punch in your password only in the login form that you get after typing www.orkut.com on the address bar.

Those who want to have a look on the fake login page, its here. But make sure that you do not enter your correct password on the page if you don’t want to loose your Orkut account. Open the page on your own risk, OrkutDiary will not be responsible if anything wrong goes with your account.

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p align=”justify”>Note: The link of the fake Orkut site is removed because it was not working any more. Still there are many more such sites, so beware while logging into Orkut.

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Politics in India goes Hi-tech; Advani Starts Blogging & Tweeting!

advani_adsense Recently the blogosphere was filled with stories about advertisement of political parties in Google Adsense. You must be aware that some eminent politicians even started blogging these days.

But blogging and getting advertised on adsense are not all those promotional works being carried out by political parties. Recently a twitter account was created named @lkadvani and there were rumors that, LK Advani personally reads all the tweets sent to him and many of his followers even say that, this twitter account is not created by LK Advani, rather some of his supporting group look after the account. Even Obama uses a twitter account – @BarackObama so what I was wondering, is L K Advani getting inspiration from Barack Obama?

Advertising, Blogging & Tweeting are not the only ways in which Advani is campaigning, he is also using SMS and E-mail as a tool to attract more and more youths.

Looking this promotions by politicians in India, specially by LK Advani, all I can say is they are following footsteps of Barak Obama. What do you think?

Update: It seems some one created a fake twitter profile in the name of L K Advani. You can view its Google Cached Page here.

Links: L K Advani – Blog | Twitter Cached Page | Website

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Show Current Music Track in GTalk while Playing Songs in Winamp

gtalk While using Gtalk, under the status drop down menu, you must have observed an option to set your current music track as your status message. It means, if your song track changes, automatically your status message too gets changed.

But as of now, this feature worked only with Windows’ inbuilt media player – Windows Media Player. So what about those who don’t like Windows Media Player and also people like me who rather prefer using ‘Winamp’? As of now I thought, this is not possible, but Manoj advised a tweak using which this feature could be used even while using Winamp.

Just follow these simple steps before you could start using it:

  1. Go to Winamp root directory, mostly it is C:Program FilesWinamp
  2. Select Tools-> Folder Options –> View (Tab) and uncheck the “Hide extensions for known file types” option and click OK.
  3. Create an empty text file (Notepad file) on Winamp folder and rename it as “winamp.m3u” and save it.
  4. Now restart your Gtalk and Winamp and start using “Show current music track” option. 🙂

By following the above 4 simple steps, you can tweak Gtalk to show current music track while playing songs in Winamp media player.

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p align=”justify”>Thank you Manoj for the helpful tip. 🙂