How to add someone to Orkut crush list
How to disable photo tagging on your orkut photos
1. Login to your Orkut profile.
2. Navigate to Setttings >> click on Privacy tab
3. The very first option in privacy tab is “enable photo tagging“. Uncheck this option.
4. Photo tagging option has been disabled on your profile.
5. You are done.
Now whenever someone will try to add a tag to your photos on Orkut, he will get a photo tagging disabled notification saying, “The friend that you are trying to tag has disabled photo tagging“.
Want to know if someone have removed your from their friends list ?
Go to http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#FindFriends.aspx
Enter email associated with your Orkut profile. It will now show you the list of your friends who are not in your friends list.
If you find someone there who used to be in your list, but not there anymore, then they have removed you from his/her list.
Google finally removed the “beta” label from many of its services like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Talk, and Google Video for Business. Google wants to attract large businesses to Google Apps, its suite of messaging and productivity applications.
For most users of Gmail and Google Calendar, today’s news is little more than a lifting of the “beta” label for these already-reliable Google services. But Google says removing the “beta” label is a big deal for the businesses that it hopes will switch to Web-based Google services.
Gtalk Autoreply is a freeware windows application that lets you to send an automated reply to friends in Google Talk.Think of a situation where you have logged into your Gtalk account and are not available near your PC to respond to your friend’s pings.They may later sue you for not responding quickly.That’s where Gtalk Autoreply comes handy.
Using this app you can set auto replies to your friends letting them know you’re away or even busy. According to its developer, Gtalk Autoreply uses Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol(XMPP) inorder to send automated replies.XMPP is an open technology for real-time communication, which powers a wide range of applications including instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data.
Check out the new features in Gmail Labels:
1. New location for labels
You’ll notice your labels in a new location on the left of your inbox (or on the right, for those of you using the Arabic, Hebrew, or Urdu versions of Gmail). Instead of having their own section, your labels are now above your chat list, grouped together with Inbox, Drafts, Chats and other system labels.
2. Label hiding and showing
You now have control over which of your labels show. We’ve done our best to get you started by automatically showing the labels you use most and hiding the rest. Label hiding is my favorite new feature, since it saves me from having to look through labels I rarely use. If I ever need to reach any of my old labels, I just click the “more” link.
3. Drag and drop
You can now drag messages into labels, just like you can with folders. This does the exact same thing as “Move to” — it labels and archives in one step.
Read more from gmail blog HERE.
A few months back Google released Google Voice, making it easier for people to manage communications like phone calls, voice messages and text messages . Evolving from GrandCentral that Google acquired some two years back, it is finally opening its voice mail box to the masses. This means that those of you signed up on Google’s new Voice program will finally get a shot at it. All those who are still unregistered, will soon be able to avail the service.
What is Google Voice?
* Not linked to any phone or location, your Google phone number is like a regular phone number which is linked to you.
* It is an Internet telephone service that allows you to make domestic as well as international calls from your computer.
* It gives you a Google phone number which links all your phones together into one central communications network
* People don’t have to worry about calling you at home, work or mobile phone. They can simply call on your Google number and you get to decide which phone rings.
* You could have all your phones ring at once, or different phones as per your choice, convenience and based on who is calling.
* If you do not want to attend calls, you can have the call forwarded straight to your Google voicemail that you could check later from any phone or online for free (voice.google.com).
Getting started
* Click here to send a Google Voice Invitation Request.
* Just leave your name and email, and Google will invite you as soon as Google Voice becomes available. If you left your email address previously on the GrandCentral site, you don’t need to resubmit it here.
* Once you receive your invitation, just click on the link and follow the instructions to setup your new Voice account.
* You can find a Google number that is personalized to you. Make use of the number picker that lets you search by area code and text. You could find a number that contains your name, a specific word or a number combination.
Link: Google Voice Invitation Request
(Source & Image credits: Google blog)
Gmail has recently launched a service through which you can talk to your AIM® friends using an integrated chat list right inside Gmail.
Gmail chat now offers the option to sign in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account to chat with your AIM buddies from Gmail. Your AIM buddies will populate your Contacts list, and are searchable just like your Google Talk contacts.
Chatting with your AIM buddies is easy — just click on a name in your chat list, and start typing.
Note that an AIM account is required to use this feature. AIM in Gmail is not a Google Talk and AIM federation; it’s the ability to sign in to your AIM messaging account from Gmail. Gmail uses Open AIM to provide this feature.
Note: AIM, colored labels, group chat and rich emoticons only work in the latest version of Gmail, currently available for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2. Please upgrade your browser to take advantage of these new features.
Pingbox is an application that Yahoo! launched towards the end of last year, but now adds support for Orkut Scrapbook chat. So, when you installed the Pingbox app on your orkut scrapbook and someone visits your profile, he can send messages from there, you will receive in Yahoo! Messenger. In this way, stay connected without having signed in on Orkut.
Installing Pingbox on orkut is really easy, after which your profile will have a widget whose title is Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox. From there they can send instant messages, and finally not to forget you must have Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 or 9.0.
Orkut has its own instant-messaging service, but it doesn’t launch a pop-up window or desktop notification when somebody sends a message, so it’s not obvious when people use it. So, With the Pingbox app, your friends can IM you from your profile page even when you’re not on Orkut.
Send an Orkut SMS on mobile now, Orkut has made this thing simple for you to get updated by receiving SMS message in you mobile inbox by using the service called ” Orkut SMS ” Orkut has already launched their mobile version as http://m.orkut.com but it was of no use for mobile phones without facilities like EDGE or GPRS connectivity.
1. Register your phone on the orkut website by going to mobile tab under Settings..
2. Send SMS commands from your phone to the appropriate orkut SMS number. It is 56555 for India and 67588 for Brazil.
If you are a Orkut user, you should try it at-least for receiving scrap which is free.
Currently Supported Operators:
TATA, BPL, Aircel, Reliance, Spice, MTNL, Vodafone.