Add Friends from AOL,Hotmail and Yahoo in ORKUT

UPDATE:  Now you can only add friends from GMAIL account. Other email services has been removed for now.

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You wished you could add your friends having other then Gmail account in your orkut friends list ....Then your wish has been granted !!!

Now Google’s social networking site Orkut has added a new feature, that lets you to “find friends from non-Gmail account". You can find friends from your address books on Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL.

How to do that?

1) Login to your Orkut account.

2) Just choose the email provider (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or AOL), from the drop down which is on the left- hand side bottom conner of Orkut home page as shown below.

3) Enter the user name and password for your email account, which you have selected as the email provider in the step 1.

4) Orkut will then show you the contacts from your address book.

5) It will also show who are already on Orkut.

6) The best part is that you can invite friends in bulk. Now that's a great feature in itself , what do say ?

If your email provider is not on the list, don’t feel left out, Google is working on adding more.

Note : The email provider list is not country specific, so find your friends no matter where you are, or where they are. For example, if you have a hotmail.com.in or yahoo.co.in email address, simply select “hotmail” or "yahoo" from the drop down. Remember, orkut values your privacy and security and will never store your password nor transmit it over non-secure channels.

So say my HI !! to your friends ....

A WORM named SCRAPKUT is fast targeting Orkut users

How dose a WORM named SCRAPKUT targeting Orkut users ?

1) A malicious scrap message which is posted to victim’s scrapbook.

2) Clicking on the link, redirected to some malicious website which prompts you to download the file “flashx_player_9.8.0.exe” disguised as a flash upgrade.

3) The victims whole system comes under the virus attack.

4) When a user visits Orkut and starts a session from the infected system, maindwxp.exe injects Javascript code into the active Orkut web session and executes in context of the Orkut domain and user authenticated session.

5) And your friends end up getting fake mails (ones you never sent) from you, which starts over again.

The cyber security wing of the department of information technology (DIT) has suggested all Orkut users refrain from downloading any fake link to YouTube video looking as if it is from a known member of its friend list, The active Orkut virus was tracked on Friday last week while other viruses have been active on several other social networks for a few weeks now.

Similar attacks on Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo! MediaGrid have also come to light in recent weeks. On Facebook and MySpace, the user may be caught unawares while uploading photographs. After executing the malicious binary code, disguised as flash memory, the Scrapkut virus downloads further binaries-windosre-mote.exe, logservicess.exe and win32chekupdate.exe - to perform malicious actions on victim system. The downloaded file logservicess.exe copies itself as maindwxp.exe to different locations to ensure its execution on every start-up of infected system.

Here's how you can PROTECT YOURSELF

1) Orkut users should remain cautious while visiting any link provided in there scrapbook.

2) Keep anti-virus and antispyware signatures up-to-date.

3) And most important of all do not visit untrusted websites.

Multi-Login in Google Account

Now you can use Multi-user Gmail account with out entering Username and Password every time....
How dose that sound, and best part is that there are two ways to do it, choose which one suites you better or both can work together.

1) Firefox Add-ons: Which allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

2) By the help of a script.

1.Firefox Add-ons:

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Update: Firefox add-on

• Firefox add-on has been updated and it works with Firefox 1.0 – 3.1b2.
• With new features which helps you have a better control over your account.

- It has option which uses "Secured Connection" when checking your account.
- It gives you the "Unread Count" of Inbox, Spam, Labels and also shows you the space used.
- It has great "Notification options" as well Check message time, Sound and new mail snippets.

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This is a useful feature of Multi-user Gmail Manager, a great Firefox add-on by Todd Long that notifies you whenever you receive new Gmail messages, is that you can easily log in to a different Gmail account without entering the username and password after adding it once.

Here are the following steps for installation:

This script is not compatible with Internet Explorer since it uses Greasemonkey, a Firefox Add-on. If you want to enjoy this and countless other hacks and scripts then Switch to Firefox

1) Download Firefox if you don’t have it.

2) Install (updated version) Multi-user Gmail Manager by Firefox add-on. Once it is installed it will ask to Restart Firefox click the button and after some time Firefox will restart.

You may get a pop up as shown above(Click the image to enlarge it) , in that case u can click Edit option and Allow Orkutsharing.blogspot.com to install the software and try again this step by clicking here: Multi-user Gmail Manager (updated version)

3) Now right-clicking on the Gmail Manager icon in the status bar and then select the Add account... as shown below.

4) In Gmail Manager Account enter your Gmail accounts Ids and there password and then press Ok.

5) Now whenever you will receive a new mail in the account which you have added, it will be notified like shown below.

2. With the help of Script.

This script works with almost all language which Gmail supports, but only the US-English Gmail has the new version of Gmail. Besides other languages will work in all Google services except GMail. This script has been tested and works in google product's as follows:

a) New Gmail version (only available for US English)
b) Google search pages
c) iGoogle
d) Picasa Web Albums
e) Google Docs and Spreadsheets
f) Google Reader
g) Google Calendar
h) Google Bookmarks
i) Google History
j) Google Notebook
k) Google Webmaster Tool

Installation process:

This script is not compatible with Internet Explorer since it uses Greasemonkey, a Firefox Add-on. If you want to enjoy this and countless other hacks and scripts then Switch to Firefox

1) Download Firefox if you don’t have it.

2) From your firefox page itself Install Greasemonkey. After you install Greasemonkey successfully then you will see its icon on bottom right-hand side of your firefox page. Click Here to Install Greasemonkey

3) Now Install the Script of Multi-user Gmail Manager from firefox page

4) Now open your Gmail account and make use of this script, as shown below

5) You can add other accounts of Gmail and switch between them by using its Add Account and Change User.

Google maps on Orkut

Now Google has finally implemented their map in Orkut. On the maps, you can see where your Orkut friends are located Currently this is mostly used by Brazilians.

You can also click on the "tiny little blue men" to see your friends' locations. By clicking on one of these figures, a bubble will pop open to let you know which friend lives in that location as shown under.

This is still in its beta release as it’s not implemented for all the countries. So currently everyone will not be able to use the Google maps feature in orkut. We can expect Google’s Orkut team to add more features to it very soon. Google was always lacking in Social Networking area and look like Orkut is the answer to all problem. May be soon we will be able to see our areas (India) as well.

Now those who wants to check if its working in your country then just follow these steps:-

1. Login in your Orkut Account.
2. Click the "view friends" link in the "my friends" box on your orkut homepage (right-hand side).
3. Click the "friends map" tab at the top of the page.

You can click on a friend’s profile picture to see their location on the map. Please know that if we don't have map data for a particular region or if your friend chose not to put their location in their orkut profile, you'll see a message "(not on map)" below their profile name. As shown below.

And Other users can get a glimpse of it by logging in your Orkut account and click the link below :

www.orkut.com/map.aspx

By-pass the Orkut Image Verification

#About:-

Are you bugged up with the word verification when ever you try to send a link in your scrap to a friend....

This script disables the link, thus so need to enter the word verification ever again!!

When ever you enter a link in a scrap, just click the disables link button which is above the post scrap button as shown below.

Orkut makes it difficult for users to enter the hyper links, because they need to enter the word verification!....The time you click the disables link button it converts only the link into non-link form.This helps you for faster orkutting...

It has a drawback that once the link is converted into non-link form then it will not work as a hyper link. But the best part is that we bypassed the word verification....

The script was originally written by Sergio Abreu in Portuguese version and Bean translated it in English Version.

#Installation Instructions:-

This script is not compatible with Internet Explorer since it uses Greasemonkey, a Firefox Add-on. If you want to enjoy this and countless other hacks and scripts then Switch to Firefox

See the following steps:-

1) Download Firefox if you don’t have it.

2) From your firefox page itself Install Greasemonkey. After you install Greasemonkey successfully then you will see its icon on bottom right-hand side of your firefox page. Click Here to Install Greasemonkey

3) Now Install the Script of By-pass the Orkut Word Verification from firefox page

4) Now open your orkut account and make use of this script....