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Access Orkut via Facebook! Double Scoop!

If you are on Facebook and Orkut at the same time, this one Facebook application is for you! It is developed by Jeetu Mirchandani (former IIT Bombay Student, working for Amazon, India) so that you can read scraps via Orkut!

Through this application you can view Orkut users profiles, photos, scrapbook, videos & fans with this! So this can be used as limited proxy in places where Orkut is banned but Facebook is not. This is the situation with most Asian countries including India where Facebook is yet to catch up with popularity of Orkut!

#Installation on Facebook

  1. Login to your Facebook account.
  2. Click here to go to application page. You will be greeted with a page like below. Click on Add Application Link. Orkut Application for Facebook - Devils Workshop
  3. It will ask for confirmation like other Facebook application. Also it will ask for inviting your friends which is optional and can be skipped!
  4. Next Put your Orkut profile URL in field shown below…Orkut Profile Link - Devils Workshop
  5. Thats it. You will end up on a page which will look like your Orkut Profile pageMy Orkut Profile On Facebook - Devils Workshop

This application does not require your Orkut login ID & password, but I personally feel it should take it to give more feature!

As of now claimed to be working feature – Writing Scrap is not working. Surprisingly big blogger like Amit Agrawal did not bother to test it before writing about it!

I feel the feature is implemented using fake Orkut account to send scraps on your behalf. As this applications user base grew this feature is now getting blocked by Orkut CATCHPA.

Anyway its nice start by Jeetu and another option for you to access Orkut! 🙂

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Orkut is trying to give you more donuts!

Orkut homepage faces - Devils Workshop

Few weeks back we had discussion – Why Orkut removed user pics from its homepage Logo?

We received nice response from our readers and today official word about this from Orkut! And reasoning is surpisingly simple…

User pics on orkut homepage used to take some time to load. While this is only something noticed by dial-up users only nevertheless each login request put more and more load on the orkut server. That means more “no donut for you” error.

I guess its clear to everyone now how much Orkut care for giving you donuts, so don’t shout on seeing “no donut for you” error message! 🙂

Related: View our discussion | official post by Orkut

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New Orkut Scripts – Scrap All Friends with Single Click! Send Images, Flash, Audio, Video & More!

Important Update: This script is having some problems. You may subscribe to our RSS feed or email alert to receive automatic updates regarding this and other hacks in future!

This is latest scrapall script for new Orkut! And like feature packed new Orkut this script has some great features…

  • First and most important you can send HTML in scraps! This means you can scrap any image, flash, audio, video, etc to all your friends with one-click!
  • It has NO time interval field. Means this script will adjust with your Internet connection speed automatically!
  • It loads surprisingly very fast!

Here is a screenshot (if you have never seen a magic like this)😉

New Orkut Scripts - Scrap All Friends with Single Click

Installation:

  1. Download Firefox! (Required)
  2. Install GreaseMonkey Addon! (Click here within firefox only)
  3. Click here to install script!
  4. Go to: orkut.com/sa and you will see a page like shown in screenshot above!

If you stuck somewhere feel free to ask for support! 🙂

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Firefox Text Formatting Toolbar with HTML, BBCode, Wiki Code support!

This Firefox Text Formatting Toolbar works with any textbox (textarea tag) on any website! Support for HTML, BBCode & WikiCode means you can use this with almost every website.

So lets install this first!

Requirement: Works with Firefox Only! So Download Firefox if you don’t have it!

Installation: Click here to install! A pop-up will appear. Select Install Now! (Need Help?)

Using this Extension:

  1. Right Click on firefox’s top-menu or navigation bar. A menu will pop-up! (see screenshot) Text Formating Toolbar - Enabling - Devils Workshop
  2. Select Text Formatting Toolbar to enable this extension. A new toolbar can be seen as in following screenshot.Text Formating Toolbar - Devils Workshop
  3. Go to any website and click on textbox. The toolbar will automatically works with currently selected textbox.
  4. [IMP] Select which type of code you want from a small menu on toolbar as shown below. Default is BBCode, change it too HTML if you are on site like Orkut which supports HTML in scraps! (see screenshot) Text Formating Toolbar - Select HTML - Devils Workshop
  5. Just go on selecting the text in textbox and use toolbar buttons for various effects.
  6. Point and hold your mouse cursor on any button to see its descriptive name!

Thats It! 🙂

You may need help about which code to use! Here is small list, just for guidance…

BBcode

  • All forums phpBB, IPB, vBulletin supports BBCode. Some even allows HTML too! (e.g. Orkut Forum)

HTML

  • Commenting on wordpress, blogger and many other blogs/websites
  • “Contact Us” form, specially to highlight your main question

Wiki Code

  • Wikipedia. Yes share your knowledge!
  • Other open source documentation where some wiki is in use for

Links: Install Now | Extension Mozilla Page | Extension Homepage | Download Firefox

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Standalone Working Orkut Scrapbook Flooder for New Orkut!

This is standalone scrapbook flooder for new Orkut by Aditya Sanghvi.

I have tested this and it works just great!

Click here to download this small (Size: 36KB) application (for windows only)

Requirement:

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  1. It requires Microsoft .NET framework, so download it if you do not have it! Its free… 😉 (size: ~22.4MB)

How to use:

  1. This flooder automatically opens Orkut Login screen. Use your Orkut login information to login.
  2. Navigate to the scrapbook you want to flood.
  3. Write whatever you want to flood in small text box in top-right corner. (see screenshot)
  4. Click on Flood button beside that box to start flooding.(see screenshot)
  5. When you had enough click on Stop button to stop the flooder. (see screenshot)

Adityas Orkut Scrapbook Flooder Tut - Devils WOrkshop

Word of Caution:

If you flood something like 300 scraps in one shot, your account may get blocked for 8-10 hours and you may see a “page not found” Orkut error page. Use carefully as if you get daily ban say for a week your account may get deleted too!

Have questions? Feel free to ask! 🙂

Links: Download | Aditya’s Original Post | Contact Aditya


Updates: I forgot to mention requirement for this flooder. Thanks Asad Ali for bringing it to my notice! 🙂

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Orkut doubled Album Space! Allows uploading 25 photos!

Yes! From 12 to 25, Orkut silently doubled album storage! So all orkuteers can upload more photos now! Can’t believe it??? Check out the proof below…

orkut album - 25 photos - Devils Workshop

I am still wondering when Picasa will integrate with Orkut! So that we can have more storage!

Meantime keep uploading you memories! But don’t forget the limit of 25!

orkut album - 25 photos upload limit - Devils Workshop

By the way how much photos you like to upload on orkut given unlimited storage?

Other New Features on Orkut!

Link Update: Orkut Blogs official post!

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Orkut Added Scrapbook Privacy Feature! Safeguard your scrapbook against strangers!

Just noticed a new Orkut Setting so that you can choose who can scrap to you! You can choose between…

  • Friends Only
  • Friends of Friends (recommended by DW)
  • Everyone in your networks

If you haven’t noticed it yet, look for a handy link in your scrapbook as shown in following screenshot…

Orkut Scrapbook Settings 1

Clicking on it will take you to the Privacy Setting page of your Orkut account. Under setting “select who is allowed to view my content“, modify write in scrapbook option from drop-down menu. Setting it to all of my friends will prevent rest of the people on orkut from scrapping you.

I guess people (specially girls) concern about their privacy should choose either Friends or Friends of friends!

This will surely bring some relief to girls who are annoyed by sick people on Orkut! Isn’t it???

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Know what are your friends upto on your Orkut Homepage!

orkut-updates-from-friends-section

Seems orkut is serious about new features and this time they are determined to save you from pain! From pain of checking hot babes orkut album for their new pics (and your new wallpapers), monitoring some friends favorite video list as they have really great taste about music or keeping eye on your boyfriends ever growing friend-list! Everybody on Orkut is always checking out something about someone (flirts can read everyone 😉 )!

So orkut has decided to do a you a favor by adding a new section on your homepage named “updates from your friends” (see above screenshot). It shows updates when your friends perform the following actions on orkut…

  1. make changes to their profile
  2. make changes to their photo album
  3. make changes to their video favorites
  4. accept new testimonials

Also when you make these changes to your own profile, your friends will see your updates on their homepages. You can have a look at your update here… (also see screenshot below)
Orkut - My Updates

Privacy Concerns…

Although it’s not possible to remove the updates section from your profile, but you can control if you want others to see updates you’ve made…

  • either by going to my updates page and clicking on “hide update” button (see above screenshot) for selected updates which you want to hide
  • or by changing your privacy settings (see following screenshot). Just click on hide updates and hit save changes.

Orkut - Settings

Good thing about this – You will be able to see updates from friend even if you choose to hide your updates! (unlike profile visitor feature)

Bad thing about this – RSS feed of updates is missing! 🙁

Important Note: As orkut is rolling this feature out over the next couple of days, so if you don’t see it yet, you will soon! Be patient! 🙂
Related Links: Orkut Help Page | Orkut Blog Post

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Making New Orkut Compatible With Higher Resolution on Widescreen Monitors!

If you have have either widescreen monitors (like 15.4″ TFT) or resolution with width > 1024 then you might have noticed some free space as shown in following screenshot…

Orkut Wasting space on widescreen monitors
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If you hate Orkut wasting your screen space then you can use this greasemonkey script created by Gaurav Verma. It will fix Orkut width and it will look like as shown in following screenshot…

Orkut width fixed for widescreen monitors
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Thanks Gaurav for fixing this!

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Top Orkut Hacks, Tools & Scripts Collection for NEW LOOKS!

As of now most of the Orkut User seems to have new Orkut interface on their account, its time to revise & update top Orkut hacks, tools, scripts & everything else which made Orkut more beautiful for geeks like you… 🙂

Here is the list of WORKING Hacks…

  • Orkut Scrapbook Flooder Extension (ScrapperV1.2) – One of the best creation of Devils Workshop till date! Glad to say its updated to work with new Orkut Code! Thanks Rohit Singh for testing this throughly and giving constant feedback 🙂
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  • Orkut Toolbar – Well I know many orkut addicts for whom sending a scrap without proper formatting is like not orkutting at all!

If you got any working hack which you think should be part of this list please let us know as this list will go through many updates as more hacks will be updated! 🙂