Scrapia

This trick is performed by just using an Orkut profile link. This link will direct to the person’s profile clicking on it. So, provide this link to all your friends and play this Orkut prank with your pals. You can either say this is the worst profile link of Orkut and whenever he clicks on it, he will be redirected to his own profile. Now if you click on that link, you will get redirected to your own profile. This means whoever clicks the link will land on his own orkut profile page.

http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?2uid=6849219260034274333%20/

Pass the above link to anyone saying that it’s the profile of Orkut’s worst user or Orkut’s best user. You may also want to keep this in your profile’s About Me filed. Amaze and surprise your friends with this cool Orkut trick.

1. Go to any orkut user’s profile page.
2. Click on More option, it’s there just below Add as a friend option.
3. From the more options select the Ignore User option and ignore him.
4. Now open Gtalk and click on Settings.
5. Now click on Blocked users.
6. This will show you all your blocked contacts. And from this contacts you will get the email ID of that orkut user.

Now you can get any Orkut user’s email ID eventhough he is not in your friends list. This Orkut trick will show you anyone’s email ID that was invisible to your previously. But don’t forget to remove him from your blocked contact list after getting his email address.

Top 5 Tips to Protect Your Privacy on Orkut

1. Remove your profile from Google search results

Most Orkut users are unaware of this fact that Google can index your Orkut profile and show in it’s search results. Now the whole world can see your profile on Google search results by just entering few of your details. Allowing Google to do this means you are exposing yourself before whole world.

You should restrict Google from indexing and following your profile. To remove your profile from Google search results, navigate to Settings >> Privacy and select Hide Information. You are done.

2. Allow friend requests from selected people only

Orkut is for developing relationships and hence many people join here to make new friends. Since not all are with good intentions, you should not allow unknown people to add you and view your personal informations such as scraps, photos, videos etc.

You can restrict unknown people from sending friend requests by selecting one of three available options. You can either select to receive friend requests from friends of your friends, or from a selected region or from those people who is having your email ID. Select the best option for you.

3. Disable photo tagging option

If your friend is having one of your photos in his album, any of his friends can add a short identification batch AKA tag to that picture. Adding a tag to a picture means identifying a person from that photo and giving a link to his/her profile. When someone clicks on that tag, he will get redirected to your profile. This will expose your photos, even if you have locked your own photo album.

You can always disable photo tagging option by un ticking the Yes option under Privacy section. Doing this will keep your identity secure and protected.

4. Limit access to your profile

Would you like to share your personal photos, videos, scraps, testimonials with everyone? Showing your photos to everyone might lead to creating an another profile with your photos. Keeping scrapbook open to all will allow anyone to know your interactions with your friends. So, it’s better to keep them locked.

Under Privacy section, you can allow selected people to view your scrapbook, send scraps, view photos, watch videos, see testimonials, read events. You can even hide photos from your friends. Take advantage of these security features.

5. Protect your Email address

Last but not the least. Our Email address is the key to our Orkut profile. People can send you friend requests if they know your email address. Email address is something very persoal and should not go public. hackers can hack your Orkut accounts by knowing your email address. So, protecting your Orkut account should be a must-must decession.

You can find a option in the privacy section where you can select if you want to allow people to make a search with your email address and find your Orkut profile. Select “Don’t allow people to find me” option.

Following above 5 tips will make your Orkut account more secure. If you are really serious about your privacy and don’t want others to interfer in this, follow all above steps.

Just paste this code to your friend’s scrapbook and he will be logged off as soon as he (or anyone else) visits his scrapbook.

After you have used this code on your friend’s scrapbook, he will be able to use his scrapbook after he gets atleast ten more scraps.

WARNING : Posting the code in your scrapbook may lock your scrapbook for you as well.

Follow the steps:

1) Open your friend’s scrapbook.

2) Copy the following code and paste it in his scrapbook.

Html Code

<embed src="http://www.orkut.com/GLogin.aspx?cmd=logout" width="1" height="1">

4) Submit the scrap.

That’s all.

What to know how to send blank scraps by writing a blank scrap or a blank post in a community.

For writing blank scrap, follow the steps:

1) Open any scrapbook.

2) Write [i] in the scrapbook. (you can also use [b] & [u] )

3) Do NOT write anything else in the scrapbook, and submit the scrap.

That’s all.

Now go and impress your friends by sending invisible scraps in orkut.

How to add someone to Orkut crush list

1. Navigate to anyone’s profile and click on More link from left sidebar
2. Click on add to crush list option to add the person to your crush list



3. You will see a notification once you have added the person successfully
4. You are done.

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.