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OrkutFeeds Supports Orkut Communities & Topics Feeds now!

If you missed about our latest OrkutFeeds project then we launched it a week ago for orkut scrapbook feeds.

With nice response and many requests specially from our readers in Brazil, support for Orkut Communities & Topics feed has been deployed today! A week earlier from planned schedule.

Now you have in total 3 options…

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  • Subscribe to orkut scrapbook feed
  • Subscribe to orkut community feed
  • Subscribe to any particular topic feed from a orkut community

Also following things has been updated….

  • Subscription form on OrkutFeeds homepage now accept any valid URL from Orkut. You can just copy-n-paste any Orkut URL now and we will server you relevant feeds! 🙂
  • GreaseMonkey Script (Install Link) also changed so that it will show subscription links whenever you visit any Orkut page that can be subscribed!
  • Also changes has been made to javascript bookmarklet.

Finally let us know if we are missing something!

Links: OrkutFeeds | Blog | RSS Feed

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OrkutFeeds – Get RSS Feeds for Orkut Scrapbook!

Today we have launched a new service OrkutFeeds! It lets you subscribe to any Orkut Scrapbook using your favorite feed reader.

Best part of this service is that you do not need to give your orkut login details. So I guess this should not affect your orkut account in anyway!

Also we have options which will help you subscribe in only one-click, without ever visiting OrkutFeeds homepage! 🙂

#Bookmarklet Option: You can either drag-n-drop following bookmarklet on your browsers bookmark toolbar

#Greasemonkey Script Option : You will need firefox and greasemonkey extension for this. If you don’t have these get them first.

Then  install OrkutFeeds greasemonkey script. The greasemonkey script will automatically add feed link on all orkut scrapbook pages.

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Actually Vikas created a service like this in past, but he is selling his script now. I found its too easy to create one of my own as I myself and few other friend specially Oscar wanted this feature.

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As of now, this service can not read private scrapbook. But its limitation by orkut itself! 🙁

I launched this one in hurry so it may contain some bugs. Please let me know if you find one so we can correct it.

Links: OrkutFeeds

 

Credits: RSS Writer Class by Snipplr made job a lot easier although some modifications were needed to make fees valid. Also thanks to CURL library. It turn out to be much more powerful than I ever imagined! 🙂

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Orkuts new “new friend requests” profile box!

Just noticed a change in "new friend requests" box on Orkuts user homepage. You can see it below…

As you might have noticed already the option to "Organize your friends" is improvement over the old "new friend requests" profile box!

Those who like to better organize their friend lists, this is really nice option for them as you no longer need to go to friends page to select group for friends.

Moreover if you want to create a new group for new friend then there is option of new group… Also a small link manage groups let you manage existing group smartly keeping you on same page (using AJAX).

All this will reduce usability of orkuts friends page considerably.

Anyway a nice improvement by Orkut team I must say. Looks like Orkut Team is using facebook… 😉

Links: Official Orkut Blog Post – Managing your friends

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Orkuts New Bulk Photo Uploader Feature!

If you are new on orkut then you might have reserved coming Sunday to fill up your orkut album as uploading 100 pics takes some time! Well you can save your Sunday by using orkuts new bulk photo uploader which let you upload multiple pics at once. Strangely orkut implemented this feature using ActiveX control which means this will work with Internet Explorer(IE) only. So no donut for firefox & non-IE users including me! 🙁

Anyway IE user can read on…

When you will go to your album to upload pics, you will see a new link as shown in following screenshot…

 

Click on it will lead you to ActiveX Installation page. This is one-time procedure only!

 

After installation you will see a new add photos button in albums. Clicking on will open windows standard open file box. You can select multiple files at once. You need to click save button (not shown in following screenshot). Do not try drag-n-drop! It won’t work…

 

Once you done with adding photos, click upload photo button!

 

 

Thats it… All pics will be uploaded at once!

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The feature is nice but orkut could have done this using Java applets instead of ActiveX. Its strange to see orkuts parent company Google actively endorses firefox but a nice feature like this disappoints firefox user community big time!

Links: Orkuts Official Post

[Disclaimer: For the purpose of this post I had to use Internet Explorer. I logged in using a test account created on Orkut. I DONT use Internet Explorer. So please do not assume falsely that I use IE or encourage its usage in any way! I am firefox addict! 🙂 ]

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Orkuts New Friends Finder – Find Friends From Any Email Account!

Few months back Orkut added a facebook like friends finder. Using that friend finder you could find & invite all your Gmail friends on orkut without much work. We and many other at that time wished orkut should have done that facebook way and made friend finder to work with any email account. Looks like orkut team listened our calls and came up with new improved friends finder.

As shown in screenshot now you can also add friends from Hotmail, Yahoo & AOL!

"find friends" box can be seen in left sidebar on your orkuts home page. If you never used this feature in past then be sure to read orkut friend finder guide!

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One more thing, some of my friends haven’t seen this new friend finder on their account yet. I guess like many other feature in past, orkut is rolling this slowly. So it make take a day or two for this feature to get activated on your account! 🙂

 

Authors Note: This is my 100th post on Orkut. Its always a pleasure to write for you. Thanks for your love and support. Hope to receive same in future too! 🙂

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Orkut Confirming Clicks on Outgoing Links!

One more security or rather say annoying feature added by orkut is confirming clicks on outgoing links. As shown in above screenshot, if you now click on any link that leads takes you away from orkut, you need to go through confirmation procedure!

With bug in Orkut own Click Tracker program, features like these will end up just annoying Orkut users. Worst user may take this for granted and end up being more vulnerable.

What will happen if a malicious link is sent using a bug like in Orkut very own Click Tracker program? The link will not be categorized as outbound one, so no confirmation box will pop up!

This is where a user will be at risk as she may falsely assume that no confirmation box means no threat! :O

So to orkut team, please stop patch-working like this and do things like more sensibly.

Related: Bug in Orkuts Click Tracker Program

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Orkut Added Community Privacy Feature!

After orkuts privacy features for profile content, now comes turn of orkut communities.

Yes now you can have private communities on orkut where all discussion, polls, events will be secret from non-community members.

The feature can be used by all community owners by going to edit profile community link. Now Edit community page have a new setting – content privacy … (as shown below)

If you choose hidden option content from your community will no longer shown to non-members. I guess better approach would have been to hide  entire community itself from directory listings as well as orkut search engine.

Finally a note for all dark-minded people… Wait before jumping out of your chair. as orkut can and will monitor content of these secret community! In fact secret communities should be monitored more… 😉

Related: Hide Orkut Scrapbook from Strangers

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Bypassing Orkuts Image Verification while Sending Images!

Many users of Scrap All Script had problem sending images with script! Problem is if you have image hosted on third-party server orkut turns on image verification (called CAPTCHA) which script can not bypass!

So here are steps to bypass orkuts image verification while sending images…

  1. Save image on your PC first. (If image is located somewhere else online download it to your PC)
  2. Go to any orkut your scrapbook. There is a button add photo beside button post scrap
  3. Click on add photo button their. That will open a wizard to add photo to scrapbook as shown in screenshot below.
  4. Click Browse button and select image from PC.
  5. Next click Upload Picture button.
  6. When uploading is done you will see a URL in scrapbook text box.
  7. Copy the above URL and paste it in Scrap All scripts text area. The image will be sent without any problem.

Also next time while scrapping you can click on link Picasa Web Albums directly as shown in above screenshot to insert images directly from Googles Server. Every image you sent this way is saved online into Picasa Web Albums.

Image verification has gone because your image is hosted on Googles server. Please do not confuse this with breaking of orkut CAPTCHA or breaking of image verification. 🙂

 

Related Link: Scrap All Script – Send a scrap to all orkut friend with one click!

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Auto-Confirm Friend Requests on Orkut!

This is one of the oldest script I have created and used on Orkut. Just today only I came to know that I never posted about this!

Anyway technically its simplest script I have ever written.

#What it does?

Whenever you add someone to your friend list on orkut or approve any pending friend request, orkut takes you to a confirmation page showing two options!

Case 1: Adding someone to your friend List!

Case 2: Accepting a pending friend request!

Now all this script does is it clicks on send button in Case 1 and accept button in Case 2!  Thus automatically confirming the action positively and redirect you to the next page!

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Related Scripts:

  • Pending Friend Request Deleter: This scripts deletes all pending friend request in your orkut account! You will need this if you have too many pending friend requests!
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Organize Photos into Album on Orkut – New Feature!

After revising photo upload limits to 100 next thing everyone wanted is a way to manage photos nicely! Orkut answered your call and now you can group your photos into different albums like my vacation album, new year party pics, birthday snaps, …

So when you click photos link now you will see following…

 

Just choose a title and description, your album will be ready. Next you will be taken to screen where you can upload pics into it! Uploading is the same old process. I was expecting a java applet like facebook provides.

Final album will look like this…

After creating a album things you can customize anytime are

  • Album cover
  • Name of album i.e. title
  • Album description
  • Of course photos inside album!

One feature orkut should have given is to move photos between album. As of now if you have uploaded lots of photos on orkut on different topics, you can not move them just into different albums. You have to download them first to hard drive, then upload them again different album!

Anyway something nice from orkut after their scrapbook and album hacks!

Related: Official Orkut Blog Post