Orkut Sharing

Bom Sabado! Orkut Bug

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Few hours back I got few scraps from my friends just saying “Bom Sabado!” The first thing which I did was translated it to see what does it means and its was written in Portuguese saying “Good Saturday!”

However this message was coming from friends who were not knowing Portuguese that made me suspicious to investigate on it. Then on further research I came to know that Orkut has been attached by a bug.

Symptoms of bug Bom Sabado!

Automatically messages are been sent to all your friends saying “Bom Sabado!”
Automatically you would be added to few numbers of communities few are shown below.

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=106691341
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=106698628
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=558494
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=6
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=106698808

Precautions / Workaround

Do not log-in into Orkut till the issue is been solved.
Change your passwords.
Change your securities questions and answers.
Clear your browsers cookies and cache.
Use the old version of Orkut and remove the communities which has been added without your knowledge. But once this has been done do log out again to be on safer side.
Use m.orkut.com if you cant take your hands off from Orkut
Disable the JavaScript of your browsers

As this issue has been passed on to the Orkut team, hence let us hope for the best and let the team do their their job to clean up this mess as soon as possible.

Any more workarounds or solutions to this issue would be useful for others so do share your suggestions with us.

[Giveaway] Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut Giveaway-3

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:33:00 +0000

This is the 3rd Giveaway for new version of Orkut which is been hosted by Orkut Sharing. Last 2 Giveaway’s had gone fantastic and we had got great response for your side so that’s one of the reason we have come up with another Giveaway as Orkut has refilled the invitations.

As we always believed sharing is everything this time we would be giving out all the 20 invitation which has been refilled. So the first 20 people who would be leaving a comments in this post would be taking back the all new version of Orkut with them…!

To participate in this giveaway you just have to follow these four simple rules which are as follows:

1. You must be our email subscriber, if you are not then please subscribe to our feeds and verification is must.

2. Tweet the below message in your Twitter account.

Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut – By Orkut Sharing - http://tinyurl.com/ydvcokt

3. Update your Orkut status with the following text

Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut – By Orkut Sharing - http://tinyurl.com/ydvcokt

4. Leave a comment in the comment section below with your

Name -
Email address - (which has been used for email subscription.)
Twitter status link - (which has the above tweeted message.)
Orkut Profile link -

Please make sure you give your Twitter status rather then giving your Twitter Id. To get the link of the Twitter status after you tweeted above message follow the steps below to get the correct Twitter status.

- Make sure you’re on the “Home” page of Twitter.
- On the right, click on the word “tweets” right up under your Twitter username.
- Locate the tweet you’d like to link to, and find where it shows how long ago the tweet was tweeted (ex: “about 2 hours ago”). Click that and you should be taken to a page that displays only that specific tweet.
- Copy the url in the address bar, and paste it in your comment with other details to link directly to that tweet.

So what are you waiting for? Grab your invitation of new Orkut version before its taken by others…..

Orkut Sharing reserves all rights to change the terms and conditions of this giveaway at anytime without prior notice.

Winners of New Orkut Version for Giveaway-2

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:47:00 +0000

The time has come to announce the winners of Giveaway-2 for 8 free invitation of new Orkut version. So lets not waste time and directly come to the point, following is the list who are considered as valid participants for Giveaway-2. The same order was input into Randomizer list of Random.org

Mohit Singh - http://twitter.com/mohit60000
Sachin Korgaonkar - http://twitter.com/spiritualkinky/status/5588265021
Rama krishna - http://tweetmeme.com/comment/265159945-18228
Vivek - http://twitter.com/vivmaniaa
Prateek Prajapati - http://twitter.com/pyamini
ABUBAKAR SIDDIQ - http://twitter.com/abuintvitter
Dibakar Saha - http://twitter.com/d_saha
Kudratdeep Singh - http://twitter.com/kudratdeep/status/5648465870
Ch siddhartha - http://twitter.com/chsiddhartha
DIVYESH PAREKH - http://twitter.com/divyeshparekh/status/5669277486
Rahul - http://twitter.com/rahulchakrawar
Frank hanson - http://twitter.com/frankhansn
Vishnu Babu - http://twitter.com/vishnubabu_vb/status/5674475656

After randomizing the list we picked up first 8 participants name from the list as winners and for proof I have also taken a snap-shot of the list.

And the winners are

We would like to congratulate all the winners, do enjoy the new version of Orkut and let us know how do you find it and also share your new Orkut experience with us.

Note: If any of the winners has already got an invitation for new orkut version then their invite would be given to others which would be randomly pick by Orkut Sharing.

[Giveaway] Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut Giveaway-2

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:31:00 +0000

UPDATE:

This giveaway has been closed..!

Check out Giveaway – 3

After a huge success of Giveaway-1 we have again come back with Giveaway-2 for new version of Orkut as we promised. This time we wish and guess it would two times bigger and successful from last giveaway because Giveaway-2 has two times the number of invites from Giveaway-1. Yes, guys we still have 8 more invitation left for new version of Orkut which would be given to our 8 lucky readers in this giveaway.

Starting from today this giveaway has been open and will end on 13th November.

Rules:

This time we have four simple rules which are as follows:

1. You must be our email subscriber, if you are not then please subscribe to our feeds and verification is must.

2. Tweet the below message in your Twitter account.

Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut – By Orkut Sharing - http://tinyurl.com/yenv7v9

3. Update your Orkut status with the following text

Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut – By Orkut Sharing - http://tinyurl.com/yenv7v9

4. Leave a comment in the comment section below with your

Name.
Email address which has been used for email subscription .
Twitter status link which has the above tweeted message.
Orkut Profile link.

Please make sure you give your Twitter status rather then giving your Twitter Id. To get the link of the Twitter status after you tweeted above message follow the steps below

To be fair we’ll again use Random.org to pick 8 winners randomly who will receive an invitation.

Deadline Date: 13th November 2009, all the comments posted before or on this day will be valid. Please make sure you follow the rules or else you would be disqualified for this giveaway.

Orkut Sharing reserves all rights to change the terms and conditions of this giveaway at anytime without prior notice.

Winners of New Orkut Version for Giveaway-1

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:42:00 +0000

Wow, that was the first word which came out of my mouth when I saw the number of participants for the giveaway. This giveaway was one of the biggest giveaway on Orkut Sharing because of the number of participants. Frankly speaking dint really thought that I would get such great response. I guess new orkut is really a hot topic from last few days.

So now lets talk business who are the valid participants for the first giveaway of new orkut version. It was a tough competition guys and we had to take this decisions to be fair enough to everyone.

For this giveaway we would also consider all the participant who has posted their Twitter Id instead of Twitter status but only if they have Tweeted about this giveaway.

Let the count down begin:

Total number of comments – 81

Number of comments excluding duplicate comments and non participants – 58

Total number of comments which are valid for this giveaway – 35

The following list are of valid participants who had given their name, email id and tweeted about this giveaway by giving Twitter status / Twitter id . The same order was input into Randomizer list of Random.org

Rishi - http://twitter.com/rishi3594/status/5311285652
Priscila Vieira - http://twitter.com/priscilavieira
Pranjal Shrivastava - http://twitter.com/pranjal16
Smriti Tripathi - http://twitter.com/smtrip
koushik tripathy - http://twitter.com/koushiktripathy
Aravind - http://twitter.com/idongivadamn
Ashok Vardhan - http://twitter.com/ashezreinz
Guilherme - http://twitter.com/guilws
Karthik - http://www.twitter.com/skarthik22
Marcelo B Carvalho - http://twitter.com/marcelobarbosac
Nishant - http://twitter.com/nishantsaxena09
ridhima - http://twitter.com/ridhts
Debayan Mukherjee - http://twitter.com/debayan3250
Francisco Gaspar - http://twitter.com/fgaspar/status/5325650671
Erick Almeida - http://twitter.com/vovoinsano
Bruno Oliveira - http://twitter.com/BrunoOliv3ira/status/5330381555
rinsoy.n.r - http://twitter.com/Rinsoy
Ravichandra Karkal - http://twitter.com/feelravi/status/5333743794
anirbansaha - http://twitter.com/sahaanirban
Ali Mansoor - http://twitter.com/aLiMaNsOor
Aditya Shrivastava - http://twitter.com/Aditya_Eddy
Sudheer Kamireddi - http://twitter.com/sudheer51
VAIBHAV - http://twitter.com/desicheekna
debayan laha - http://www.twitter.com/debayan_laha
Sumit - http://twitter.com/sumit00/status/5360102585
Abhimanyu Roy - http://twitter.com/e1onmaxspeed
ganesh - http://twitter.com/gannunitp
Gaurav - http://twitter.com/luckysss711
Anderson Garcia - JOE - http://twitter.com/andersonjoe
Natty Campos - http://twitter.com/nattyshaa
Arul Murugan - http://twitter.com/ArulHR
Poncio Pilatos - http://twitter.com/PoncioPilatos/status/5382200973
Ayaskanta Dutta - http://twitter.com/ayascool
Saravana - http://twitter.com/Shravan_kenny
Michelle - http://twitter.com/michellemahasin

After randomizing the list we picked up first 4 participants name from the list as winners and for proof I have also taken a snap-shot of the list.

And the winners are

We would like to congratulate all the winners, do enjoy the new version of Orkut and let us know how do you find it and also share your new Orkut experience with us.

Note: If any of the winners has already got an invitation for new orkut version then their invite would be used in our second giveaway.

Below is the list of disqualified participant with the reason given.

1. Participants who dint added their Twitter status / Twitter Id or Email id in the comment

Abhishek - abhishekrai510@
Alisson Comerlatto - comerlatto@
Sai - saskey143ihategals@
Hitesh - bedi.hitesh@
Shruti - helxheaven@
Sunil Jain - sunnycoolguy007@
Jigar - jigar.cool25.dude@
Aman - aman.amansrivastava.srivastava@
Vishalmy - erma.vishal1990@
Abhishek - abhi.aggarwal93@
Nikhil MS – N/A
KRISHNA – N/A

2. We were unable to verify about the Tweet because of their Tweets were protected

Anurag - http://twitter.com/devilboy23
Felipe Moreira - http://twitter.com/felipecmoreira

3. Participants who dint Tweet about this giveaway when we checked in their Tweets

Sanchit - http://twitter.com/sanychocoboy
Raghu Ramayanapu - http://twitter.com/raghu99999
Jagadiswar Reddy - http://twitter.com/jagan_indian9
Mohan Raj - http://twitter.com/shockwavemohan
Manish - http://twitter.com/manisk8
Sundeep - http://twitter.com/sunnyreddy

Orkut Sharing would request all the participant who got disqualified in this giveaway should not loose hope as giveaway – 2 for new version of Orkut would be coming soon…so stay tune guys !

For future updates we would suggest you may choose a Subscribing Type for Orkut Sharing to receive automatic updates.

[Giveaway] Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut Giveaway-1

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:18:00 +0000

UPDATE:

This giveaway has been closed..!

Check out Giveaway – 3

From yesterday after posting about new version of Orkut and how great the new layout looks and feel I have been getting lot of scarps, friends request even mails from everyone asking for an invitation. Basis on the request and limited number of invites Orkut Sharing planed to giveaway 4 exclusive invites of new version of Orkut to our 4 lucky readers.

Starting from today this giveaway has been open and will end on 4th November.

Rules:

There are three simple rules of this giveaway which are as follows

1. Add Ravish Mody as a friend in your Orkut account.

2. Tweet the below message in your Twitter account.

Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut - http://tinyurl.com/ybywalo

3. Leave a comment in the comment section below with your name, valid email address and link to your Twitter status.

Orkut Sharing would also suggest you to subscribe yourself to our feed by email subscriber for future news and update which may also include a Giveaway-2 for invitation of new Orkut.

To be fair we’ll use Random.org to pick 4 winners randomly who will receive an invitation.

Deadline Date: 4th November 2009, all the comments posted before or on this day will be valid. Please make sure you follow the rules or else you would be disqualified for this giveaway.

Orkut Sharing reserves all rights to change the terms and conditions of this giveaway at anytime without prior notice.

Twitter Lists Feature Is Now Live

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:38:00 +0000

Recently when I logged in my twitter account the first thing which caught my eyes was New! Lists as shown in the below snap-shot. Twitter had mentioned about this feature almost a month ago in their blog Soon to Launch: Lists and from last few days it has started to roll out this features officially.

This new Lists feature is still in its beat stage that is the reason it has been only rolled out in a small subsets of users till now .

What does this Twitter Lists do?

Now you can create a lists of Twitter accounts and can share with your friends or with anyone you like by making it public or even keep it to yourself by keeping it private.

I think with this new feature coming in Twitter it would be easer for Twitter users to keep a lists of people which they love to follow as well keep a track of it and what's better then sharing that list with everyone.

So those who have not yet got this New! Lists box in their accounts should get it soon maybe in next couple of days in the mean time start planning about your list and do share the list with us. Also lets us know what do you think about this new feature in Twitter by leaving a comment.

[via: Twitter Blog]

Orkut News: New version for Orkut is released

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:53:00 +0000

Today Orkut officially announced and launched a brand new version of orkut for its team members and some of the lucky orkut users as well and guess what I am one of them. This is a huge step taken by orkut as whole orkut interface has been changed and I have to say its pretty impressive. Lets look at the what all we have in new version of orkut.

Features in new version of orkut:

- Fewer pages and faster browsing

- A clean and simple interface

- Greater personalization

Fewer pages and faster browsing

No one likes to wait keeping this in mind Orkut has improved its loading speed by using Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and also reduced number of pages as well which will take less time in waiting for things to load and more time doing what really matters which is hanging out with your friends!

Fewer pages to get more control over your account like list of all your friends and communities can be seen in one frame block just by scrolling that block.

A clean and simple interface

Its good to see that Orkut has not congested all the things in reducing the pages. The new looks looks clean and simple but though dynamic which is the best part. Now you can even use your friends' profile pages to keep up with their most recent activities and leave them scraps which is similar to facebook or twitter. Other cool features..

1. Larger pictures

2. Recent visitors thumbnail photos rather then having their name

3.Targeted friend suggestions

Greater personalization

You can personalize your orkut profile and homepage choosing from 5 colors Blue, Green, Orange, Pink and Black. One drawback is that with this new orkut version there is no orkut theme’s available for now other features…

Customize your "about me" section

This new version of orkut is rolled out to few of the orkut user so if you have any friends who has an active new version account ask him to invite you or you can even come to know by this icon that will appear on your friends' profile pages, next to their names. One more option is available you can join official community by which you can get an invite.

The New Orkut Experience video:

With this new version of orkut I would like to thank orkut team for giving us our old orkut in a great new package and wish them all the best for future. Please do share you experience with us about all new orkut version.

[Via: Official Orkut Blog ]

Firefox 3.5.3 Fixes Security and Stability Issues

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:25:00 +0000

Today when I opened my Firefox I was prompt to update to Firefox 3.5.3 which I did, however as usual wanted to know what all has been fixed and taken care of in this new version. This time Firefox 3.5.3 fixes several security and stability issues. The list of fixes in Firefox 3.5.3 are as follows

Fixed in Firefox 3.5.3

Chrome privilege escalation with FeedWriter (Critical) – More Info
Location bar spoofing via tall line-height Unicode characters (Low) – More Info
TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability (Critical) – More Info
Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.3/1.9.0.14) (Critical) – More Info

These are some of the major bugs which has been fixed in latest version of Firefox. However if you want to get a complete list click here.

How to get Firefox 3.5.3

You can update to Firefox 3.5.3 from click Help -> Check for Updates option to update your browser. (You would have to restart your Firefox after updating to Firefox 3.5.3)
Direct link to download Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3

Orkut Sharing would also request all its subscribers and Firefox 3.5.x users personally to apply this update as soon as possible.

[ source: Mozilla ]

How to remove both ads from Orkut

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:10:00 +0000

Few days back I had posted a post about Google added new dimension ads on Orkut which was second advertisement having 728x90 dimensions was added on Orkut till now and before this we were having advertisement on right hand side the Large Rectangular ad with dimensions 250x250 which was placed above my friends.

Now if you are bugged up seeing these ads on Orkut and wish to remove both the ads. To fulfill your wish Orkut Plus has come up with a userscript which will remove both ads from Orkut. You can see the difference in the snap-shot.

Before

After

Installation Instructions:-
This script is will work on Firefox since it uses Greasemonkey, a Firefox Add-on.

Follow the steps to get an advertisement free Orkut :-

1) Download Firefox if you don’t have it.
2) From your Firefox page itself Install Greasemonkey.
3) Now Install the Script the theme.
4) Now open your Orkut account and enjoy Orkut ad free.

Thanks to Orkut Plus for sharing this script with all of us as few of my colleagues where looking for a way to remove ads from their Orkut profile.

[source: Orkut Plus]

Gmail added four new themes

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:57:00 +0000

Few hours back Gmail has added four new themes in themes tab, after almost a year Gmail has come up with these four new themes which should make the users little bit more cheerful as now they can try out some new themes as shown in the snap shots.

You can see these new themes in the following path:

Setting -> Theme tab

Orcas Island

High Score

Turf

The fourth theme is called Random and name explains itself that it will merely cycles through all the other themes randomly. This theme is good and bad as well, Good: you can have a look at all the themes automatically. Bad: Some people might get irritated with changing of themes all the time.

[source: Official Gmail Blog]

Google added new dimension ads on Orkut

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Few months back Orkut had changed Google ads region on Orkut profiles and now Google has yet come again with a new region and a new dimension of ads to advertise on Orkut. The dimension of this new advertisement is 728x90 and its similar to Top Banner advertising which can been seen when you are viewing yours or anyone's else's photos on Orkut.

History of ads on Orkut

Few years back there were no ads on Orkut, then came the Large Rectangular ad with dimensions 250x250 which was not visible on home page of your Orkut profile as it was placed below my communities, then it was moved above my communities and right now it has jumped over my friends has been placed on top right side.

As recently Google added 728x90 dimensions ads, I’m guessing their would be lot more ads to be seen in coming years on Orkut. What do you think about it? Will their be more ads added ? Share your opinions with us.

Orkut favicon has been changed

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:02:00 +0000

Yesterday an Anonymous person had shared his finding with us about Orkut’s favicon which has been changed by leaving a comment on Soon Orkut will no longer provide support for IE 6.

New Orkut favicon is definitely a better looking favicon then the last one the difference can been seen below.

Old New

Now the question comes up with this new favicon, does it mean that Orkut is changing its logotype? Or its only the change in Orkut favicon? Personally I feel that right now this is only a change in Orkut favicon, but would have to wait and watch what all gets changed with this new favicon.

Thanks to Anonymous person for sharing this update. You can also share anything you noticed like new updates / changes / bugs etc. in Orkut with us and we would be happy to share it with others.

Soon Orkut will no longer provide support for IE 6

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:04:00 +0000

One of my colleagues and a good friend Chandrasen had sent me a snap-shot of his fiends Orkut profile which displaces an important message, rolled out to most of Orkut users who are using Internet Explore 6.

When you log into Orkut with IE 6 you would get the following message:

Important

We will be phasing out support for your browser version (Internet Explorer 6) soon. Please upgrade to one of these more modern browsers: Internet Explorer 6 -> Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox

Google is recommending IE 8 at first place and then its own bowers Google Chrome at second place, but fact is Firefox stands at second place for browser by market share. However core part of this message is to upgrade your browser if you are using IE 6 with Orkut as soon as possible

Thanks to Chandrasen and Venkatesh for sharing this update and snap-shot. Please do let us know if you noticed any new updates / changes / bugs etc. in Orkut with us and we would be happy to share it with others.

[Image source: Market Share]

New Contact Chooser in Gmail

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:53:00 +0000

Gmail recently introduced contact chooser which would help the users to choose the contact from their list of contacts when you are composing a mail. This feature was available in Google Docs, Google Calendar as well in most of the mail clients and webmail services but Gmail dint had it till now. There’s a saying “Better late then Never” so lets make the best out this feature as it has been introduced now.

To use this feature you just have to click on “To” when you are composing a mail, which will give bring up a pop up having the list of contacts from where you can choose.

Some great features of Contact Chooser:

Just by clicking “To” get the list.
You can even search contact from the list.
Choose the contact from your group of lists in a drop-down menu.
Easily remove selected contacts by clicking it.
You have an options to “Select all”
This feature will also work by clicking “Add cc” and “bcc”

So from now onwards do not forget any people to include on your email using contact chooser. Also do let us know how did you found this feature by sharing your experience with us.

[source: Official Gmail Blog ]

Gmail introduce import mail and contact for everyone

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:31:00 +0000

Almost 3 months back Gmail had come up with a feature to import mail and contact from your old webmail's account like Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL etc. which was only available for new users so that they can get the most out of Gmail and I must say it is pretty good feature to attract new user.

However Gmail dint forget their old time users who were using Gmail before this feature was introduced. So yesterday they introduced this new feature for everyone which is now available for new users as well for the old time Gmail users . Now anyone can get their old mails and contact imported to Gmail.

Following are the steps:

Click the Settings link.
Under the Accounts and Import tab, click the Import mail and contacts button.
In the new window that opens, enter the email address of the account you'd like to import contacts from. Click Continue.
Enter the password for your other email account and click Continue.
Select all the checkboxes that apply:
- If you choose to import contacts, the information in your contacts list in your old account will be imported to your Contacts section in Gmail.
- If you select the Import mail checkbox, your existing messages in that account will be imported to your Gmail inbox.
- If you want, you can also select the Import new mail checkbox so that messages sent to your old account for the next 30 days will be imported to your Gmail account. These messages won't appear in Gmail immediately once they're sent to your other account, but should update within a day or two.
- Finally, you can automatically apply a label to your imported messages to indicate that those were sent to your other account.
Click Start Import. The import will continue if you leave the Settings page or sign out of Gmail.
Your contacts and/or messages will be imported. It may take 24-48 hours before you see your imported messages, so don't worry if they're not there as soon as you click OK.

You can check the status of your import by clicking the Accounts and Imports tab on the Settings page. Once the import is complete, you'll see a confirmation message at the top of your inbox.

For me it has been more then 24 hours and I’m still waiting, lets hope by tomorrow Gmail import’s all my old mails as well as contacts. However I personally think with this new feature Gmail wants pass a message to all old time Gmail users that they are as important as the new users for Gmail.

[source: Official Gmail Blog ]

How to Promote Your Stuff on Orkut

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:36:00 +0000

Recently Orkut has come up with a free new feature called Orkut “Promote” to help you guys promote your stuff with all your Orkut friends. Before you had to scrap each and every friend to spread the word but now with ‘promote’ introduced to Orkut things will be much easier and quicker.

Features of new promote tool:

You can promote text, photos from your Orkut albums and YouTube videos.
Built-in “Spread” can be used by your friends to promote your stuff with their friends. Its like re-prompting your stuff.
Built-in “Trash” to remove the promote which you do not link.
“my promotion” tab shows you numbers of users viewed, clicked, deleted your promotions as well how far they’ve spread.
You can stop or delete a promotion any time which you’ve created.

Google knows how to promote things very well that's why they have placed the promotions on the upper right corner friends home and profile pages which would replace Google advertisements above my friends.

Steps to create a promotion:

Click on “promote” on your left side of your Orkut profile.
Choose a title of your promotions.
Give the description of your promotion in comment.
Select Text, Photos or YouTube video for content.
Click create promotion button.

Advantage of promote:

Using Orkut promote you can promote almost anything and everything that too in no time with a bigger audiences. Google charges advertisers for promotion while regular Orkut members don't have to pay any fee for using Orkut promote.

Check out the short video made by Orkut to learn more:

Note: Promote is in the process of rolling out to all Orkut users around the world and in India this feature would be rolled out in coming moths.

Let us know what do you think about this new feature and also do share your experience if you have promote in your account by leaving comments.

[source: Official Orkut Blog ]

Google Chrome Official Themes Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Google chrome has come up with 29 official themes from which you can choose any one at a time as per your liking. However I have to say that few themes once used will make you feel never use Google chrome again but the best part is that now you can give a new look to Google chrome.

Steps to install:

Go to official Google chrome themes gallery : Click here
Choose any one and click “Apply theme” button.
Theme will get downloaded and will be applied automatically or else go to download manager by typing “chrome://downloads/” in chrome address bar and you will see all the downloaded stuff so click on the theme_name.crx link.

After you have installing new theme you feel like to switch back the default theme then you’ll see an option to return to the default theme below the address bar or else you can even apply the default theme from the gallery as show in the snap shout.

Switch back to default theme

I have taken out few themes snap-shot and displayed below. You can make it out that some themes are just made to drill your eyes

Baseball Brushed

Dots Grass

Late Night Legal Pad

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REQUIREMENT: To apply any of these 29 official themes your Google Chrome browser should be Chrome 3.0 or its above Beta version.

Drawback: Most of the themes are distracting and some of the themes are having really bad tabs and buttons.

Advantage: At least you can give a new look to Google Chrome.

Please do let us know if you can make out any drawbacks or advantages in using any of these themes.

[via: TechCrunch]

New in Gmail Labs: Remove Labels from Subjects

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:41:00 +0000

Google has come up with a brand new experimental feature in Gmail Labs: Remove Labels from Subjects that allows to hide labels from the messages in your inbox and giving you a plenty of space for the messages subjects.

Gmail label is one of the most useful feature to categories incoming emails automatically or manually to get the mails at the right places. However given labels are marked in front of the subject line and due to this it becomes difficult to read the subject of emails if the size of the screen is smaller.

Remove Labels from Subjects – Disable

This new feature would a great help for those people who have a habit to browse through emails based on the subject and having a smaller screen size. By enabling the new feature Remove Labels from Subjects would automatically hides the labels from the subject line in you inbox which would give plenty of space for subject to get displayed.

Remove Labels from Subjects – Enable

Steps to enable Remove Labels from Subjects :

Login to Gmail.
Go to the following path Setting –> Labs tab and scroll down to locate “Remove Labels from Subjects ”.
Select “Enable” and then click “Save Changes”.
You are done – No more labels in the subject line !

I personally like Gmail labels and its pretty useful too however I don't have this issue because of my wide screen laptop, but for those who has a smaller screen they can try using their personal abbreviation for labels like for example:

Important – IMP
Different types of bills – Bills / MBill (mobile bill) / IBill (Internet bill)
Different banks – Banks

Which would use small amount of space of the subject line and you can get both the labels as well as subjects on your screens.

Abbreviation Labels

Please do let us know if above information helped you or if you have any more suggestion like these by leaving comments.

[via: Official Gmail blog]

Firefox 3.5.2 Has Been Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:38:00 +0000

Last month Firefox 3.5.1 was released which fixed critical security vulnerability. Today Firefox 3.5.2 has been released which fixes some additional security and stability issues. The list of fixes in Firefox 3.5.2 are as follows

Fixed in Firefox 3.5.2

Heap overflow in certificate regexp parsing (Critical) – More Info
Compromise of SSL-protected communication (Critical) – More Info
Data corruption with SOCKS5 reply containing DNS name longer than 15 characters (Low) – More Info

These are some of the major bugs which has been fixed in latest version of Firefox. However if you want to get a complete list click here.

How to get Firefox 3.5.2

You can update to Firefox 3.5.2 from click Help -> Check for Updates option to update your browser. (You would have to restart your Firefox after updating to Firefox 3.5.2)
Direct link to download Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2

Orkut Sharing would also request all its subscribers and Firefox 3.5.x users personally to apply this update as soon as possible.

[ source: Mozilla ]

[Giveaway] Demonoid Invitation code Giveaway-3

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:36:00 +0000

UPDATE:

This giveaway has been closed..!

From the day I started sharing invitation code for Demonoid I’m getting lot of request for it so today Orkut Sharing is back with giveaway–3 for Demonoid invitation code. This time I have 3 Demonoid invitation code which I would like to share it with you all.

You can win one of the free invitation code to open an account for popular private torrent tracker Demonoid.com by following these two simple rules.

RULES:

You must be our email subscriber, if you are not then please subscribe to our feeds and verification is must.
And post a comment in the comment section below saying why you really need a Demonoid invitation code.

Each participant can post as many comments as he/she wants in order to increase chance of winning. However, each participant can only win one invite code. If the same winner is again picked for the second time, it will be ignored and will be redraw to another winner.

To be fair I’ll use Random.org to pick 3 winners randomly who will receive an invitation code by which they can register themselves at Demonoid account.

Deadline Date: 9 August2009, all the comments posted before or on this day will be valid. Please make sure you give a valid email address as you will be contacted by the same email id.

Orkut Sharing reserves the rights to change the terms and conditions of this giveaway at anytime without prior notice.

Announcing the winners:

Random numbers are taken out as shown in the below snap-shot

And the winners are

Anonymous (ara)
raiderblog
Judas

Congratulations to all the winners, you will be contacted by email id which you have provided and the invitation code will be sent to you soon.

Orkut Sharing would like to thank you all for taking part and supporting this giveaway. People who have not won an invitation code in this giveaway don't have to worry as whenever I’ll get any more stuff to share I will surely share it with you guys because, I believe Sharing is Everything.

NOTE: Many of the participants dint follow the first rule due to which they were ignored and I had to redraw for the participants who followed both the rules. I would request all the participants to follow the rules next time as next giveaway might come soon…

Free Partition Wizard for Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Windows 7

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:31:00 +0000

Partition Wizard is a Windows based partition manager. Using Partition Wizard you can easily perform partition operation safely and quickly. This could be a great tool for those people who are not familiar with the manual partition or formatting. It also has a Enhanced Data Protecting technology which keeps your data safe even in case of power outages or hardware failure and the best part of Partition Wizard is that it’s absolutely FREE for Home and Business edition.

Home Edition:

Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager designed by MT Solution Ltd. Partition Wizard Home Edition is designated for home user only. For more details click here: Home Edition

Business Edition:

Partition Wizard Business Edition is optimized for business environment with better performance. For business edition you would have to do one time registration to get a free business edition license. For more details click here: Business Edition

Main Features of Partition Wizard:

Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows7 (32 bit & 64 bit) operating system.
Support RAID.
Extend system partition to improve computer performance to maximum.
Manage the hard disk to get the best performance of computer.
Create , Delete and Format partitions with simple steps.
Disk Copy to protect or transfer data.
Support disk and partition size larger than 2 TB.
Convert partition format from FAT to NTFS.
Partition Copy: Copy the entire hard disk to another one.
Copy Disk Wizard: Copy the entire hard disk to another one without windows reinstalling.
Disk Map - Visually demonstrate your disk/partition configuration; preview the changes before applying.
Hide/unhide partition, set active partition, etc. - Change partition properties.
Explore FAT/NTFS partition

Go ahead and give it a try, you don't have to loose anything for it and let us know if this helped you.

[via: Partition Wizard]

Firefox 3.5.1 Fixes Critical Security Vulnerability

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:26:00 +0000

Recently Firefox has released Firefox 3.5.1 which fixes one of the critical security problem. A crash that was determined which could result in an exploitable memory corruption problem which was reported by a Firefox user zbyte.

Problem Description

This issue happens in certain cases after a return from a native function such as escape() the “Just In Time” (JIT) compiler which could lead to a corrupt state and it could be exploited by any attacker to install malware.

Impact on user

The vulnerability can trick a victim into viewing a malicious Web page containing the exploit code and affect the users machine without their knowledge .

Workaround

This vulnerability can be avoided by disabling the JIT in the JavaScript engine which is only for Firefox 3.5 users, earlier versions of Firefox are not affect which do not support the JIT feature.

Steps to disable JIT

Enter about:config in the browser’s location bar.
Type jit in the Filter box at the top of the config editor.
Double-click the line containing javascript.options.jit.content setting the value to false.

NOTE: Disabling the JIT will result in decreased JavaScript performance and is only recommended as a temporary security measure. So I would suggest you to directly update to Firefox 3.5.1

Fix

You can click Help -> Check for Updates option to update your browser or it’ll automatically notify you about the update very soon. You would have to restart your Firefox after updating to Firefox 3.5.1

You can even use the given link to download the latest fix : Download Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1

Firefox 3.5.1 also fixes the following issues:

Several security issues.
Several stability issues.
An issue that was making Firefox take a long time to load on some Windows systems.
Check out the complete list of changes in this version.

I would also request personally all the Firefox 3.5 users and Orkut Sharing subscribers to apply this update as soon as possible.

[ source: Mozilla ]

New in Gmail Labs: Authentication icon for verified senders

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:02:00 +0000

Gmail is always trying to improve and work on new ways to protect Gmail inboxes from spam and phishing emails. They have recently come up with a brand new feature in Gmail Labs: Authentication icon for verified senders. Enabling this new feature you can at least be sure you’ll not get any fake emails from eBay and PayPal.

Steps to enable Authentication icon for verified senders:

Login to Gmail.
Go to the following path Setting –> Labs tab and scroll down to locate “Authentication icon for verified senders”.
Select “Enable” and then click “Save Changes”.
You are protected..!

Now you will see a key icon next to verified emails that are “supper-trustworthy”. Which is a technical term invented by Brad Taylor meaning

The sender, usually a financial institution, is a target of phishers,
All of the sender's email is authenticated with DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail),
Gmail rejects any fake messages that claim to come from this sender, but actually don't.

As this is usually for a financial institution that’s the reason this feature is limited to just eBay and PayPal for now, however Gmail will try to add more senders in future which would be great and I think most of us would agree on it, don't we ?

Gmail also claimed that whenever more of the senders will be added we would automatically see the super-trustworthy key icon appear by those senders too. Do let us know what do you think about this new feature.

[Source: Gmail blog ]

How to Speed Up Firefox 3.5 Startup on Windows

noreply@blogger.com (Ravish) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:04:00 +0000

End of last month Firefox 3.5 was released after that it captured more then 2% of the market and still counting. However many users counting me in found that Firefox 3.5 took long time in starting up. Usually it should take around 2-3 second, but if it takes more then that then you may be experience a bug in Firefox 3.5.

Reason of slow startup in Firefox 3.5

For security purposes on Windows Firefox 3.5 has to pull data from certain files randomly. Which could lead to slow startup in Windows. These flies involves scanning some temporary folders looking for bits normally added by OS and other applications. It also looks under the subfolders to increase its randomness where it hits the unexpected slow startup.

Workaround to solve this issue

So the main cause of the issue is that if you have many temporary files or folders it leads to slow startup. So by deleting these temporary folders and internet temporary files which is generated by Internet Explorer you can improve the startup time.

To clean temporary folders you can open these folders as follows and delete all files.

Note: Some files might be in use. So check them before deleting them.

On Windows:

C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Local Settings\History
C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
C:\Documents And Settings\*user*\Local Settings\Temp
C:\Documents And Settings\*user*\Recent

On Windows Vista / 7:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent
%TEMP%

You can also delete Internet Temporary Folders by going through these steps:

Go to Control Panel.
Open Internet Options.
In the Browsing History section, press the Delete button
Check all the options and press Delete.
That should do it.

I have personally tried these steps and it gave significant improvement not only for me but for other users as well. We would have to do these steps till this bug gets fixed which should be available with Firefox 3.5.1, expected in coming few weeks.

[Source: Mozilla Links ]