SMS Notifications Added for Orkut Scraps
by Haris on August 7, 2008
in Internet, Social Networks
Orkut is one of the most popular social networking sites, and is most popular in India and Brazil. They keep on adding new features for their users and the first countries to get them are India and Brazil. After adding interesting features like photo-tagging and drag and drop, they are back with another much awaited feature.
Notifications via SMS (text messages) was already there for Brazil users, but recently it has also been rolled out for India and users can now receive new scrap notifications, reply to scraps, get friend info, and much more from your cell phone.
Updates From My Friends Gets More In Orkut
by Haris on June 26, 2008
in Internet, Social Networks
The month of June seems to be very busy for Orkut. They are releasing a new feature every week. First, they started off with Orkut themes, then photo-tagging and status update features and two days ago, they added the ability for users to customize their profiles by drag and drop. Features sound more like Facebook-ish, right? That’s what they have been doing!
Customize Orkut Profile Page By Drag And Drop
by Haris on June 24, 2008
in Social Networks, Tips and Tricks
After a long break, Orkut seems to be all fired up by shooting new features in last few weeks like theme support, photo-tagging and status-updates. Of course, we could all notice what they are doing, by blindly copying Facebook features, and today, they have again added a new Facebook-copied feature which allows you to customize your Orkut profile page by drag and drop.
Free Official Orkut Themes For Download
by Haris on June 15, 2008
in Design, Internet, Social Networks, Tips and Tricks
I’m back with another wave of the most popular post of this blog, download free orkut themes! Unlike the previous posts (1, 2), this time I’ll post themes that were officially released by Orkut, but since they were only for Indian users, others couldn’t taste them. If you are a non-Indian and would like to try out what official themes look like, download the themes from below and use them.
The previous ones have become quite boring now, and I was getting mails to add some more. So here are the 10 themes that Orkut recently added for Indian users, but first, make sure you meet all the requirements. :)
Orkut Adds Themes And Photo Tagging Features
by Haris on June 6, 2008
in Internet, Social Networks
Orkut, one of the largest social-networks, recently came up with two new features for its users. Some of you must have noticed the Change Theme button at the top bar in your profiles. That applies only for some profiles that have got the official themes feature in their accounts. Yes, Orkut has officially added themes. According to the Orkut Blog, they have launched a set of 12 themes, out of which 10 are active, including the default Orkut Blue theme.
Orkut For Low Bandwidth Users
by Haris on May 21, 2008
in Internet, Social Networks, Tips and Tricks
Orkut has a very nice feature for all the users who are bandwidth concious. If you have limited bandwidth and are addicted to Orkut, you can save a lot of your bandwidth by using Orkut in the low bandwidth mode. Since the biggest thing in size on a web-page are the images, they eat a lot of bandwidth but, this can be prevented thanks to a built-in feature by Orkut. After activating, it will remove all the unwanted images from the Friends Updates, Friend’s List and Communities and show only text
Come, Let’s Be Friends
by Haris on May 20, 2008
in Announcements, Internet, Personal
Recently I saw a similar post on TechZilo, one of the blogs I regularly read, and thought is a very nice idea to socialize with our readers. I’ve always been active on Facebook, Orkut, StumbleUpon, Digg etc.
I’ve never been active on Twitter, but since many people are ‘following’ more and more people on Twitter and it has been one of the fastest growing social networks, I’ve also started using it. I’m looking forward to expanding my friends network, and know my readers better.
Free Orkut Themes
by Haris on May 12, 2008
in Design, Internet, Social Networks, Tips and Tricks
I’ve been getting lots of emails and requests to add more Orkut themes. I made a few searches and found some themes that worked well with Orkut. All the other old themes don’t work with Orkut now. Remember my old post about Orkut themes? Well, they don’t work any more. So that’s why I decided to share some new and working themes.
First you have to make sure that you meet all the requirements before you can start using these themes.
Requirements:
Free Orkut Themes
Now it’s time for the themes. Below is the list of all the best themes available at the moment. Let’s kick off the list with some Emma Watson! :)
Emma Watson Theme
Download this theme from here.
SRK Theme
Download this theme from here.
Daniel Radcliffe Theme
Download this theme from here.
Firefox Theme
Download this theme from here.
Skull Theme
Download this theme from here.
NBA Theme
Download this theme from here.
Puppy Theme
Download this theme from here.
City Life Theme
Download this theme from here.
These were the themes that I found. If you have any more links to Orkut themes, feel free to share them below. I’ll add them to the list.
FACEBOOK THEMES ALSO ADDED HERE
UPDATE (June 9, 2008): You all must be waiting for my reply… Sorry, to make you wait, friends. A few days ago, these themes stopped working, and I was testing them if any of them could work in any way. But unfortunately, these themes are not compatible with the latest changes in Orkut. A new set of compatible and working Orkut themes will be posted by tomorrow. Keep checking back!
Google Talk In Orkut
by Haris on May 3, 2008
in Google, Social Networks, Tips and Tricks
Isn’t it nice to chat with your buddies while you find and make new friends on Orkut? It’s about time I last posted about a Greasemonkey script.
I don’t think Greasemonkey needs any introduction. I have a habit to go through the GM scripts site after every few days and look for new and interesting scripts.
I’m not much a fan of Orkut, the social-networking daddy. But I do like using Facebook, since all my old mates and buddies are there. The script today I found is for Orkut, and with this, you can integrate Google Talk in your Orkut’s main page! Chat junkies are definitely going to live this! Now you don’t have to leave your browser anymore to chat with your friends.
