Official Orkut Themes

Are you bored using the same old Orkut theme that whitish one combined with faint touch of blue.Then there is some good news for all Orkut addicts.They just introduced the coolest feature you're gonna see this summer. Orkut has officially launched themes for Orkut addicts. These themes are not yet live on majority of Orkut profiles.So some have to wait for some time to have those themes right on their Orkut Homepage.



If you are interested in changing themes in yours Orkut profiles then Orkut follow the below guidelines !!

• First of all Login to yours Orkut profiles after that >> Click on Edit Profiles >> Click On Themes Tab as seen in below Image


• Select Themes of yours choice ,at present only 4 Themes are active . So you can only use 4 Themes in available 12 Themes.

Note:These features is not yet activated in all profiles.Hopefully they will be within a weak or so.

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Worms Hits Google's Orkut

Google's Orkut social networking site hasn't enjoyed the popularity that others, such as MySpace and Facebook, have in the U.S. That being said, the site is quite popular in other countries, chiefly India and Brazil. The networking site was targeted by what appears to be a non-malicious hacker yesterday and the effect was quite astounding.

The worm used Orkut's scrapbook system to spread its message to hundreds of thousands of users in just a few hours. First an Orkut user would receive an e-mail that a new scrapbook entry had been sent to them. Upon viewing the new entry, the user would see the message “2008 vem ai... que ele comece mto bem para vc.” The message is Portuguese and reads as “2008 is coming... I wish that it begins quite well for you” in English. Not exactly what you'd expect from a super virulent worm virus.

The worm uses a feature of the scrapbook system that allows the use of JavaScript content in entries. After the message is viewed by the user, it deletes itself and adds the user to a user group named Infectados pelo Virus do Orkut, or Infected by the Orkut Virus. The code also sends a primer message to all of the infected user's contacts, and the cycle repeats itself. The virus at one point was spreading at 100 users per minute, and managed to infect over 600,000 accounts.

Get the complete story from here.

Update : Google Stops Orkut Worm Attack

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Orkut Getting Better - Scrap Notification Feature

With increasing popularity of Orkut,Google is certainly thinking of us.With each day Orkut is getting more and more beautiful with lots of special features.Just couple of months back Orkut enhanced the user's privacy by letting user decide who should watch his/her personal Photo Album or Video Gallery or even the Testimonials.

Now Orkut has added a new feature to this list.This new feature enables you to get a notification at the bottom of your screen if you receive scraps while on orkut.Thus saving your much time and Internet bandwidth in refreshing the page all the time to check whether new scarps have been there or not.To enable this go to your homepage and then settings.Under the notification tab check the "new scrapbook notifications" box under the "Notice" column.

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Tutorial : To Remove Orkut Virus

Many users are facing a common problem, where Orkut.com, Youtube.com and Firefox are blocked in their systems and they get following error with a scary laugh:

Orkut IS BANNED, orkut is banned you fool The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? r r MUHAHAHA!!

It happens because of "Heap41a / win32.USBworm" which spreads through USB pen drives and removable storage devices. There is a manual as well as an automatic method to remove the virus:

A. MANUAL METHOD:

Follow these instructions:

1. Open "Task Manager" and goto "Processes" tab.

2. Look for services with name "svchost.exe". There will be many services with the same name. Most of them will have "SYSTEM", "LOCAL SERVICE" OR "NETWORK SERVICE" as User Name but you have to look for "svchost.exe" service which has your currently logged in username as User Name.

3. You'll get approx. 2 services with the name "svchost.exe" which has your Windows username. End Task them by pressing key or by selecting them and clicking on "End Process" button. It'll confirm the action, accept it.

4. Now open "regedit" from RUN and goto following keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
\Explorer\Run


And look for a key in right-side pane with the name "Winlogon" which will have "heap41a\svchost.exe" in its value field. If you find this key, delete it.

5. Now goto following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer
\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL

And in right-side pane, change value of "CheckedValue" to 1

6. Now enable "Show Hidden Files/Folders" option in "Tools -> Folder Options" in My Computer.

7. Right-click on Start button and select "Open". Now open "Programs" folder, here you'll see a folder "Startup". Open it and if you get a hidden file there, delete it. If its not there, then close it.

8. At last open "My Computer" and open C: drive. Disable "Hide Protected System files" option in "Tools -> Folder Options". You'll see a folder "heap41a" in C: drive. Delete it.

Thats it. After doing all this, restart your system and you'll get rid of the virus.

B. AUTOMATIC METHOD:

Just download following tool and run it:


Download Orkut blocking Worm Removal tool

Don't forget to format your pen drive or removable storage media which caused this virus infection because it would still contain the virus. If you don't want to format it, then delete following 2 files from pen drive:

microsoftpowerpoint.exe
autorun.inf

Original Source

I thank the original Author for writing such a nice tutorial.

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Diwali Surprise For Indians From Orkut

Tired of the old bluish and whitish look of Orkut ,then think again as there is a Diwali surprise for every Indian Orkut user.

Get a whole new Orkut look this Diwali by clicking on a sign just left of your login id.See below for the sign

And get this amazing Orkut look....


SURPRISED.....

Happy Diwali for all Indian Visitors....

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Orkut Hacks----All in One

These are some oukut hacks that i compiled from various sources. I tried some of these and they work. If you want to share some more hacks, please feel free to comment on this post.

The hacks 1 to 5 are sourced from programmersworld.net.

1. Changing Orkut Background

If you use firefox you can change the orkut backgroung by using the greasemonkey firefox extension. First install greasemonkey from here and then install Bluekut hack from here

2. Orkut Cute

Orkut cute is a program that let you send scraps to all your friends in orkut. It also alerts you when you receive new scraps send notifications when forums are updated. Orkut cute can be downloaded here.

3. Sorkut Firefox Extension

This is a toolbar to search for the threads with specific words in the title. Just give the commumity id of the community you want to search, enter the search term and click Search.

Sorkut can be downloaded from here.

4. Scraboy

This is a freeware program that let you browse orkut and know when you or your friends receive new scraps. You can add emoticons, colour and formatting to your scraps with ease. Sending scraps from your desktop is also as easy as writing an instant message. Scrapboy can be downloaded from here.

5. Orkut Scrap Helper

This is a cool firefox extension that let you scrap faster by providing messaging options in your own scrapbook page. It also reduces the number of steps to scrap someone who has scrapped you to just one!. Scrap helper can be downloaded from here.

6. Scrapbook Flooding

An Indian dude named Rahul created this Firefox extension for Orkut scrapbook flooding. The extension is compatible with Firefox1.5+ and can be downloaded from here.

7. Javascript Hacks

There are some Javascript hacks for Orkut. Like, for flooding scrapbook, Increasing number of fans, testimonial flodding, Invisible names, blank scraps, etc. Some of them do work.
A good compilation can be found here.

Try at your own risk.

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Social Networking sites----Future of E-freindship

“………….did you said that you don’t know about Orkut or MySpace? Or I have not heard properly. “

This is really a question if asked among the teenagers, they will think we are not living in a modern world and that we are not well informed about the latest happenings in the virtual world i.e. Internet. Social Networking is the next big thing among the teenagers which is really very HOT to handle. Such sites lure teenagers towards them because of the features they provide to their users right from searching and adding new as well as existing friends, uploading pictures and video files and many other things. With the growing popularity of such sites many huge investors are investing towards them. But the question remains ----- What is the future of such sites? Will they perish? Or they’re here to stay.


So guys what do you think about these sites such as Orkut,Myspace....the list is never ending...? Give your valuable comments.........

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