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Top 4 Free web-hosting providers

2009-06-20T20:03:00.002+10:00

Some time ago we were having some discussion on our DFS community about the best Free web-hosting providers. After some investigation on this topic we ultimately found best ones in this field. Although there are many Free web-host now a days giving loads of bandwidth and space, they are indeed over used resulting in slow server speed and huge load time. Also many web hosts shows their advertisement on your web-page which does not look good!

So here is a complete list of FREE web hosting providers giving ad-free hosting and plenty of space with relevant bandwidth.

1. 50 webs (unlimited Bandwidth):

The best at this service. Gives only 60 MB of space but the bandwidth is unlimited and also it is the top rated by all users. Below given are some of the features:

Overview

Monthly price /paid annually/:$0.00 /mo
Hosted domains: Unlimited
Disk space: 60 MB
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Setup fee: FREE
Ads: No ads of any kind

Domains and subdomains

Domains hosted : Unlimited
Subdomains: Unlimited
Full DNS management
Custom WHOIS details
EPP transfer protection
Registrar lock

Site management tools

Easy Control Panel
FTP accounts: 1
Web based file manager
Integrated WYSIWYG / HTML editor

Misc features

Instant account activation

OS, connectivity and back-up

Stable Linux with Apache
Unrestricted bandwidth

The only disadvantage of this is that it does not give PHP support for Free hosting. If you want to make your Web-site totally HTML based then this will be the best choice for you.

Link: Click Here

2. Awardspace (Best PHP scripting server support):

The second best for Free web-hosting and best when we talk about features. Supports Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP4/6 [LAMP] and also Perl and CGI. Below are some Features:

Overview

Monthly price /paid annually/:$0.00 /mo
Hosted domains: 2
Disk space: 200 MB
Bandwidth: 5GB/month
Setup fee: FREE
Ads: No ads of any kind
Advanced control Panel

Emails, Scripting & Databases

MySQL database: 1 with 10 MB storage
PhyMyAdmin: Yes
Email account and Alias: 5 each
POP3/IMAP: POP3
Firewall Protection: Yes

It is good if you want to design your own PHP based web-site from scratch. Awardspace server is pretty fast and they don’t give scripting errors. So for newbie PHP developers awardspace is the best option

Link: Click Here

3. Zymic (5GB space with 50GB bandwidth):

This web-host serves best for bloggers. Supports PHP, MySQL [All you need to install wordpress]. The only disadvantage is you will not get an automated installer for Blogging software like Wordpress. So you need to install them manually [Which generally does not take more than 10 mins]

Overview

Monthly price /paid annually/:$0.00 /mo
Hosted domains: allowed
Disk space: 5000 MB
Bandwidth: 50GB/month
Setup fee: FREE
Ads: No ads of any kind
ZHCP (Zymic Hosting Control Panel for easy management)

Emails, Scripting & Databases

MySQL database: Supports 5 databases
PhyMyAdmin: Yes
PHP version: 5.1.6

As said above, Zymic is good if you can install PHP based software at your own. Also their servers are pretty fast and they give unlimited number of websites to be hosted.

Link: Click Here

4. 07x (5GB space, 50GB bandwidth & 50 MySQL db):

The best web-host for beginners. Supports PHP, MySQL and also gives advanced Vista Panel from where you can install popular Blogging and site-builder tools at one click. Below are some features of 07x…

Overview

Monthly price /paid annually/:$0.00 /mo
Hosted domains: 50 addon domain
Parked domain: 50 allowed
Disk space: 5000 MB
Bandwidth: 50GB/month
Setup fee: FREE
Ads: No ads of any kind
Control Panel: Vista Panel

Emails, Scripting & Databases

MySQL database: Supports 50 databases
PhyMyAdmin: Yes
PHP version: 5
Support for Web mail
POP email accounts
One click script installer for PHP-BB, Wordpress, eCommerce and many more software

If you wish to start a Blog on wordpress without a paid host and don't have any php knowledge then 07x is best for you. But note that you won’t get server response similar to awardspace.

Link: Click Here

So that was our complete list of 4 top free hosting providers available on Net. Choose the one that fulfills your criteria. If you are serious about blogging then having a paid host is always recommended. (Else use blogger). Also do let us know if you have found any better free hosting service than this!

[List][Tuts] Great GrandMother of all the Photoshop Resources

2009-05-05T07:44:00.019+10:00

We have been collecting links of all the photoshop tutorials and collections and finally decided to post the links. You are welcome to share your own resources and feel free to leave your feedback in the comments section.

This list is composed from the contribution from all the DFS Community Members without them this comprehensive list would not have been possible. Keep up the good work.

TUTORIALS:

SixRevisions: 35 Basic Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop

Vandelay Design: 20+ Tutorials for Working with Photoshop’s Tools

Smashing Magazine: Best of Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials

Grace Smith: 115 Insanely Useful Photoshop tips & tutorials

Smashing Magazine: 70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials

Design Reviver: 20 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers

dzineblog: 27 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials to Design Decent Web Layouts

HONGKIAT: 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects

Best Sites List: Best Photoshop Tutorials and Tips Sites

PSD TUTS+: 20 Insane Comic-book Style Photoshop Effects

Elite by Design: How To Master Photoshop In Just One Week

Plasticmind Blog: 10 Tips For Creating Website Mockups In Photoshop

HONGKIAT: 50+ Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Emma Alvarez Site: 50 Free Photoshop Gradient Sets

Abduzeedo: 14 Great Abstract Photoshop Brushes for Light Effects

DesignM.ag : 500+ Photoshop Brushes for Creating Textures

DesignM.ag : 600+ Nature Brushes for Photoshop

Brusheezy : Website

Smashing Magazine: 40 Photoshop Tutorials On Rain Showers and Water Drops

TUAW: How to use Photoshop's Lens Blur tool with masking

Smashing Magazine: Photoshop Tutorials To Improve Your Modeling and Design Skills

Photoshop Roadmap: 30 Awesome Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

WebDesign Ledger: 28 Powerful Photoshop Lighting Effects

PSD Fan: 20+ Super Professional Photoshop Light Effects Tutorials

WebResources Depot: Free Photoshop Plug-ins Collection

DesignM.ag : 60 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements

1st WebDesigner: 45 Sites, Free Icons And PSD Resources For Web-Design

Smashing Magazine: The beauty of Urban Decay

HONGKIAT: 50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark

Minervity: The Ultimate Collection of The Best Ornament Photoshop Brushes

Naldz Graphics: 40+ Most Amazing Wallpaper Tutorials in Photoshop and Resources

PSD TUTS+ :

Links you MUST Bookmark/Subscribe:

Adobe Video Workshop
Video Tutes
dZineblog: 45 Sites to Download Photoshop Brushes
DesignM.ag : Photoshop Toolbox
MakeUseOf: 10 Websites To Make You A Photoshop Ninja
Smashing Apps: 40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In March

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Image editing on Corel photopaint - Excellent Double body effect

2009-04-10T12:33:00.003+10:00

Our Blakut Team member Mac is Back has made this excellent tutorial on editing through Corel Photo-paint. With the help of this tutorial you will be able to embed your face [well or anyones] on anything you want. Its quite simple but effective. Normally Image editors cut the face and merge it with other but sometimes face was not matched, and it clearly shown that the edit, for good editing quality we should follow this tutorial! Here is what you need to do- Firstly we preassume that you have Corel Photo-paint on your PC. If not then grab one for you from these warez sites given on Blakut previously. Now that you have everything on your hand lets start for now. STEP-1: Opening the Pictures on Corel Photopaint:

We can use any picture of our choice. For this tutorial we are using these two pictures
PIC-1 : My own picture
PIC:2 - Picture to be edited
Now open both the pictures on Corel Photopaint. This will open them up on several tabbed windows.

STEP-2: Masking the image where we want to place custom face

Cutting down the face is an easier method but not at all recommended. Besides if we do masking then things will be much professional and original type and its quiet easy too.
Select MASK TOOL from mostly left side of the toolbar for masking on Image or click and hold 2 second on mask tool for different types of masks.
Select third FREEHAND MASK TOOL
Decide yourself which part of picture u want to mask. You can ADD or SUBSTRACT mask with CTRL and SHIFT key like these
Ones you satisfied with your mask, (I mean see the shahrook’s face completely cover with the mask) press DELETE KEY.
Now Image is like above picture, Select whole PIC with RECTANGLE MASK TOOL, and press CTRL + UPARROW (Create an Object),
Open Object docker from MENUBAR > WINDOW > DOCKERS > OBJECTS (CTRL + F7). Find a Background in Object Docker. Select Background and delete it.

STEP3: Placing the custom image over the original image:

Now open the PIC - 1 (My pic), Select the whole picture with RECTANGLE MASK TOOL, now press CTRL + UPARROW KEY or select MENU BAR – OBJECT > CREATE > OBJECT COPY SELECTION…
Now you can see that the selection part is as a new object. Press CTRL + C (copy to clipboard), Open PIC – 2 (MENUBAR -> WINDOW) and press CTRL + V (paste) it; you can scale the image at your choice.
Choose a MAGIC WAND MASK TOOL n just click on white area (Shahrook’s face), you can see that whole white area covered with mask, press DELETE KEY to delete it. Like this…
Now select the PIC - 1 ( MY pic), you have to send that pic behind PIC - 2 (Shahrook’s pic) so follow this step MENU BAR - OBJECT > ARRENGE > ORDER > BACK ONE (CTRL + PGDWN) It’ll look something like this
Now scale and adjust PIC - 1 (MY pic) as you like
Select PIC – 2 (shahruk’s pic) and goto MENUBAR – OBJECT > FEATHER (CTRL + SHIFT + F) (feather it with 5 or 10), your pic’s border area will be semi transparent after feather. So both pics will automatically match with each other.

So the final Image isVoila! Its MAC on the photo!.... Quite effective isnt it! Please do leave a comment telling us how like this! And for any help you can goto this thread of our DFS community to directly ask Mac Some Tips in between your work:

You can switch between two windows, follow these steps: -
MENU BAR – Window > File 1/ File 2
Rollover and Roll down your mouse roller for zoom in and zoom out, you can do your work pixel to pixel.
With “ADJUST Menu” you can adjust color, brightness, intensity, contrast etc…..
If this simple work is not simple for you, you can use EFFECT Menu for different creativity n destroy the Image.
Every time u you make a mistake hit Ctrl + Z (undo)(After more practice you will less use undo)

Remember this is the basic tutorial; more practice would be created new Ideas in your mind…… NOTE:

This thing can be a part of game, prank etc..... so totally for fun nothing serious....
Don't used this to make an offensive and dirty image....
Have sportsman spirit and enjoy editing in Image and have fun....

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[Tip] Be an Invisible Man on Orkut - How to make an Invisible Profile with Invisible Community containing Invisible Topics

2009-02-13T16:07:00.049+11:00

Have you ever came across any Invisible Profile and/or an invisible Community Topics ? This trick is not hard at all , even you can do it . You need Firefox for this to work. Just follow the instructions below:

Invisible Profile Name Trick:

There are a number of ways to do this. I'll tell you two easiest ones:

Copy the code inside the brackets and paste it in your profile name. [ㅤ] or [ㅤ] (Exclude the brackets)
Go to this Profile, You will find two dots. Copy the dots to your profile first and last name. Now from each field delete one dot. Now your profile will become invisible in community posts.

Invisible Community Name trick:

Same as the step 1 of above. Just copy the invisible code to the community name

Invisible Profile Display Picture:

Use this Display Picture (Right Click>Save Target as to download)

Note that the DP will show up in community posts. Everywhere else it will look invisible.

Invisible Community Display Picture:

Use this Display Picture as your Community DP. (Right Click>Save Target as to download)

This will make your community invisible as well as non-clickable.

Invisible Topic name Trick:

You can make a post with non-clickable link where others would not be able to see or click on the topics (except if someone is using scripts to view the last post).

Follow these steps:

First Create a new Topic
Then on the Subject field and message field do this: click on the field and press and hold down alt key and then type 0173 from the Numpad of the keyboard! Then release the alt key. Repeat the procedure for both the fields.
Then click on Submit and you will see a topic without link and only with your profile name [If you still have not made that invisible yet]

Invisible Events and Polls:

The tricks are same as above.

On Question, Description and Option put alt+0173 (as mentioned earlier) and the Poll will be invisible
For events do the same for Title, Location, Event and City

Invisible Scrap Trick:

If you want to scrap a blank message to your friend then you can easily do this by scrapping him/her HTML codes without bodytext! For example send him/her these codes

<h3></h3>
<font></font>
<a href=/></a>

etc...

Hidden message in Scrap and HTML enabled Community Post:

The main idea behind this trick is to use 0 sized font! Note that the message will only be hidden under Firefox web browser! Under Google Chrome it will be shown.Write your message under this code:

<font style="font-size:0pt">Your Hidden Message</font>

~~~~*FIXES*~~~~

Now we shall discuss on how to edit see and modify even these invisible Topics and profiles

To fix the invisible Profile name:

This is quite easy and can be done by simply using this Greasemonkey script. Prefer to our previous posts for getting help on installing Greasemonkey. Once done >>install this script<<

To see the Hidden messages on Scraps and Community Posts:

This is a little bit tricky. Follow these instruction and refer to the screenshots for more help.

1. First select the blank scrap or Community post along with the profile name and then Right Click and select "View selection Source".

2. Now a new window will open. You can find the hidden message after the line div class="para" as shown in the image below.

To get the Link to the invisible Community Topic:

This is the most trickiest part. But not something which you cant do! So have patience and follow these instructions very carefully.

1. Select the profile along with the invisible topic as shown in this picture.

2. Right click and chose View Selection Source as mentioned previously. A new window will pop-up.

3. Now note the number after this line a href="/Main#CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=***&tid= as shown in the image below.

4. Now you need to note down the community number. You can do this easily by hovering your mouse over the community name and noting down the community id from the link shown in the status bar. See this screenshot for reference.

5. In the link below replace "xxxxxx" with the community number you have noted in step 4 and "yyyyyy" by the topic number you have noted in step 3.

http://www.orkut.com/Main#CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=xxxxxx&tid=yyyyyy

Now just copy paste the modified code in the address bar of your Browser and you will be on the hidden thread. Now you have enough knowledge for being invisible in orkut while making others visible! Enjoy and as usual.

Special Thanks to: Ashwin S. [Member of Team Blakut] -for doing extensive researches on the invisible community post, DP's and Polls & Events Sunny [Member of Team Blakut] - for finding the codes for invisible profile name

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[TUT] How to find IP Address and Location of an Orkut Profile User

2008-12-28T23:10:00.016+11:00

First Step, Create a Blog. I would use blogger in this example, but you may use any blog which allows embedding HTML and JavaScript Codes. Don't use a popular blog which gets many hits because it would be hard to track the user of the Orkut Profile Create a StatCounter Account and "Add new Project". Setup is very simple you just need your blog address and access rights. Install the StatCounter code in your blog, you have two methods one is in the StatCounter Website and other is manually embedding the code. For both you have to click Install Code after you have successfully added the project. Your Code would look something like this.

You have to install that in your blog as in the illustration below. Now the final step. You just have to compose a convincing enough message for your target to click on (Not very hard eh!). It can be through Scrap or Community whatever way you can get through. If you cannot contact or get the person to click on the link then this method would not work. Once he/she click it, a detailed record would come up in the StatCounter Website.

If the target has been harassing you or doing something illegal, you may contact the police and get more details from the ISP. Now you all know it! :)

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[Featured] Add Live Chat-Rooms to your Orkut Community

2008-12-26T21:03:00.004+11:00

If you are a community owner, you can create a chat room for your community and put the link to room in your community description.

Go to Chat n Play App Just copy your Community ID and Paste it here. and that's it, you have created a Live Chatroom for your community. Just paste that link on the community description.

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Use Animated Smileys to Make Orkutting Better-HUGE COLLECTION

2008-12-25T00:08:00.039+11:00

ALL IN ONE SMILEY COLLECTION

-Provided by Blakut Team Captcha free and compatible with scrapbook and HTML enabled community

Previously we gave you the scripts to use Yahoo, Rediffmail and Hotmail smileys. Now we shall provide you with all the animated smiley scripts available which you can easily post in your friend's Scrapbook or even in HTML enabled communities. We shall also Update this post to provide you with the latest and greatest smileys. So DO BOOKMARK THIS PAGE. To use the smileys you need to First follow these INSTRUCTIONS:

These smileys are basically script based. Will work only with Firefox web browser having the GreaseMonkey Addon installed.
You can get Firefox from here.
Then You will need the Greasemonkey Addon which you can get from here. Now you are all done to use the smileys. Just make sure that you have checked whether Greasemonkey is enabled or not. You can easily check this by: Right click on the greasemonkey icon(yes that small and cute little monkey icon) at the lower right corner of your firefox and tick the enabled box.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT STEP to avoid the script Errors. Follow these steps carefully: a. Open Firefox and in the address bar type about:config b. Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" c. Now on the filter box type script and search for dom.max_script_run_time. Then right click>Modify and set its value to more than 50. For more Information on how to edit Firefox configuration check here
Installing the script is simple. Once you go to the link we have provided just click on that "Install" button.
~~You are done. Now enjoy these scripts without any errors. The smileys will appear just below the scrapbook and community reply message. Click on them and the smileys will automatically get inserted in the reply box/scrapbook.

Note the smileys are Captcha free only for scrapbook not for communities~~

Large Emoticons in Orkut!(By Blakut Team)

Exclusive Pack containing 90+ smileys Link: Click Here[GreaseMonkey will install automatically once you click the install button there]

Smilies++ for HTML communities and Scrapbook(By Blakut Team)

Exclusive Pack2 80+ smiley

Link: Click Here[Greasemonkey will install automatically once you click the install button there]

Monkey Animated Smilies For Orkut(By Blakut Team)

Link: Click Here[Greasemonkey will install automatically once you click the install button there]

Large 3-D style animated smileys for Orkut!(By Blakut Team)

Link: Click Here[GreaseMonkey will install automatically once you click the install button there]

Large MSN style animated smileys for Orkut!(By Blakut Team)

Link: Click Here[GreaseMonkey will install automatically once you click the install button there]

Dragon Ball Z animated smiley(By Blakut Team)

Link: Click Here[GreaseMonkey will install automatically once you click the install button there]

Alok smileys for Orkut

Link: Click Here[GreaseMonkey will install automatically once you click the install button there]

Large Yahoo Smiley(by AKKI)

Link: Click Here[GreaseMonkey will install automatically once you click the install button there]

NEW Smiles FOr Orkut(T5) BY SANJAY

Link: Click here[GreaseMonkey will install automatically once you click the install button there]

Amazing Smilies For Orkut (By AKKI)Link: Click here[GreaseMonkey will install automatically once you click the install button there]

Some TIPS to avoid Hangs and reduce memory usage

After opening Firefox switch to your scrapbook and wait until all the smileys get loaded properly. Then start your Orkutting.
If your Firefox is running slow due to too many animations then just HIT THE ESC KEY for once. This will make the smileys stop animating. But you can still use those as normal and they will animate after being posted. This actually decreases the load on Firefox.
Avoid opening too many tabs where smileys are being displayed.

Update 20/3/09__

Cute Animal Avatar for Orkut (Team Blakut)

Link:Click here[GreaseMonkey will install automatically once you click the install button there]

Gmail Smilies for Orkut scrapbook and HTML communities

Link: Click here[GreaseMonkey will install automatically once you click the install button there] Recently we made a complete tutorial on making Smiley scripts by your self in only six easy steps ;). Many people, especially our DFS member Dhawal have created their own collection after the release of the tutorial. Here are the best ones from their collection

Dusty Smileys by Dhawal for Orkut scrapbook and HTML communities

Link: Click here

All emoticons by Dhawal for Orkut scrapbook and HTML communities

Link: Click here

XP Smileys for Orkut scrapbook and HTML communities

Link: Click here

Vista smileys for Orkut scrapbook and HTML communities

Link: Click here

Black Smilies for Orkut scrapbook and HTML communities

Link: Click here

Shaddy Smilies for Orkut scrapbook and HTML communities

Link: Click here

Here are some nice smilies made by δεεJαγ ( σ.σ)

Update 22/03/09__

3D Smilies for Orkut [Made by Dhawal]

Link: Click here

Glassy Smilies for Orkut [by Dhawal]

Link: Click here

Gmail and Gtalk smilies version 2

Link: Click here

Wording Smilies (by Dhawal) for Orkut

Link: Click here

For more such collection dont forget to visit our DFS exclusive smiley thread

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[Security][TIP]How to prevent and identify XSS hack attacks on Orkut

2008-12-13T16:38:00.020+11:00

Visiting other profiles now became dangerous Identification and prevention method discovered by blakut team

After fixing the XSS hack on the "Orkut Album Comments", Users with programming knowledge have came up with Application XSS hacks. In short, When you will visit an unknown person's profile you may get some unexpected JS alerts like the one given in the image below!

There may be a risk that your cookies may get snatched or you may get redirected to another site or even get logged out from Orkut. ALSO YOU MAY GET REDIRECTED TO A FAKE ORKUT LOGIN PAGE WHERE YOUR PASSWORD MAY GET EXPOSED TO PHISHING. Hence before visiting any profile whether he/she be on your friend list carefully remember these points: 1. These tricks are done through a number of applications. The most dangerous applications are called "Dog of the day", "Cat of the day", "Pet of the day" as they have HTML coding enabled under "edit profile" option. 2. While visiting any profile if you find the above mentioned App then immediately close the page or else you may also Hit the "Stop" button on your browser to make Firefox stop loading the page to avoid those hacks. 3. To identify whether an app has been messed with XSS codes take a look at that app and search for the small box type characters shown in the image

4. If by some how you get the JS scripts popping up on your screen then DO NOT HIT OK BUTTON, BUT HIT THE CLOSE BUTTON on the top right. In this cases force closing the browser is recommended. 5. If you get yourself redirected to a page where you see that you have been logged out then DO NOT LOGIN FROM THAT PAGE. Close your browser, clear your cookies and then login from www.orkut.com 6. If you get yourself redirected to a page where you see that your profile has been deleted then do not panic. Just switch off your browser and start orkut again. Every thing should be fine. 7. Avoid the remember me option from the Login page for some time. 8. Use FireFox Web Browser install the no script addon prevent most of the Hacks. This seems to be the most effective way to stop the Hacks. Note: Orkut has started fixing this Hack. Many application has been tagged with "Warning - Potential Vulnerability in this app". DO NOT CLICK ON THE APPLICATIONS WITH THIS TAG. _____________________ Update[ 18th Jan, 2009]: Orkut still has not fixed this bug entirely. So it will be better if we install Install the AdBlock Plus addon on Firefox and Block the loading of Orkut G-Module. This can be done as follows: 1. Switch to Firefox 2. Install AdBlock Plus Addon. Click on the Add to firefox button there. 3. Restart Firefox. 4. Click on the dropdown arrow key you see on the red coloured ABP icon at upper right corner of your firefox. 5. Click on preference 6. Click on Add Filter 7. Add this code http://*orkut.gmodules.com* and hit enter.

8. Click on OK button 9. You are now safe!!!

Suggested by Navneet Saini ALWAYS KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE ADDRESS BAR BEFORE ENTERING YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD. THE PROPER LOGIN PAGE SHOULD START WITH www.google.com/...

Just remember these tips and every thing will be just fine

Happy Orkutting

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[TUT][SCRIPT]Better Orkut

2008-11-21T22:18:00.004+11:00

Features * Better My Communities Box - which shows the most frequently viewed communities rather than orkuts default ordering * Shortcut Link - Direct link to the last page on the forum topics page and community page, Direct link to community forum on my communities box and communities page * Quick Reply - quick reply feature in forum * URL Shortener - Truncates long urls in forum posts * Quote - Quote feature for forums * Last page on reply - Jumps to the last page on reply * Skin Switch - Switches all pages to your profile skin * Easy to use Settings page - Allows you to turn off and configure any of the features * More readable forum topics listing * Feeds Application - An Application that lists RSS Feed entries in profiles * Update Notifier - Script update notification Screen Shots:

Installation:

This script will only work on Firefox

STEP 1: Open Firefox and Install Greasemonkey STEP 2: And Install the Script MODIFICATION[MUST]: 1. Right click on the greasemonkey icon(yes that small and cute little monkey icon) at the lower right corner of your firefox. 2. Click Manage user script. 3. Select "Better Orkut" from the left box. 4. On the included page replace the link by this one http://www.orkut.*/* 5. On the excluded page replace the two links by these two http://www.orkut.*/Main#* http://www.o

rkut.*/AdsIframe.aspx* 6. You are Done. Now you can enjoy the features.

~~Dont Forget to rate it!

Original credit to the author of this script.

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[Tip] Find the Email Address of any Orkut Profile

2008-11-14T06:02:00.000+11:00

[ORIGINAL AUTHOR ASHWIN.S]

I found this bug long back. I felt Orkut will fix it soon. It seems Orkut has no plans to fix this bug. So lets make full use of it. With this trick you can find the email ID of any Orkut profile.

Steps...

1) Select the Orkut profile email ID of which you want to know.

2) Send him/her a friend request.

3) Now go to the Friends Section of your profile. In the Friends section of your profile it will show waiting for to approve

4) Now on the right hand side you will find "manage contacts". In that click on "Export Contacts".

5) Enter the captcha

6) Open with Microsoft Excel.

7) Thats it.... Now you know the email ID of the Orkut profile you selected.

Dont forget to remove the profile from Friends if you dont want the person to know. (If the person has activated notification mails he/she will know about the friend request anyhow)

Credits to the Original Author - Ashwin S.

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[TIP] How to insert your custom pictures in Orkut Communities or Scrapbook (GIF Animations and JPG images)

2008-08-01T08:07:00.017+10:00

Orkut allows GIF Animations and JPG from Picasa Web Albums and Orkut's Albums. This means that you can upload any animation, smileys , glitter text or any image you find on the web and use them while Scrapping or in Orkut Communities Posts.

Step1: Find any Smiley or any GIF's on the web or from Google Image Search Step 2: Save them on you PC. Step 3: Upload them on Picasa Web Albums. Make sure that you keep albums as Public Step 4: Open that image and Right Click to Copy Image Location and paste that in Orkut Communities or your friends scrapbook. You can just bookmark that album and open it on other tab whenever, so whenever you need some custom smileys or animations of your choice, you can get them quickly. Alternatively you can use Orkut Toolbar for adding many more smilies or custom animations. You might want a smiley posted by someone which is really cool. You must be knowing that you can just Right Click and select Copy Image Location. This you can add to your Orkut Toolbar. First download OTB for your browser: Download Orkut Toolbar * For Firefox 3 * For Firefox 2 Then Install it and Restart your browser to activate OTB. Now Follow these steps: 1) Select Insert a Signature > Customise > New 2) Paste the link (GIF or Image Link from Album) in Signature 3) Select whatever description you want EX: Hehe or Angry Smiley Save it . Now you can use it even more quickly. Not sure how long Orkut will be allowing this. It's been a while that Orkut has allowed it, so hopefully they may not fix this. Have your own Style No Greasemonkey Needed. No Installation of Scripts. There is nothing to worry it is perfectly safe. RELATED: Follow through this Post in the community

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[HTML Codes] Make the most of HTML Enabled Orkut Communities

2008-06-23T08:08:00.027+10:00

Previously we wrote about HTML Codes for Scrapping. We would now discuss about posting HTML in Communities. The possibilities are infinite. Now let's start.

Copy Paste & Preview. Choose Font: <font face="Comic Sans Ms">Text</font> You can only view the fonts which are installed on your PC Choose Font Size: <font face="Comic Sans Ms" style="font-size:36pt">Text</font> Blink Text: <font face="Comic Sans Ms" style="text-decoration:blink">Text</font> Insert Third Party Images & Smileys: <img src="http://www.orkut.com/img/i_funny.gif" height="70" width="70"> You can change the dimensions of the image by changing the height and width values. Orkut accepts the following file formats for images: JPEG,GIF, PNG, or BMP. If your image is not appearing, that host is not supported by Orkut. Set Background Colour: <div style="background-color:#0099FF">Your Text </div> View HTML colour codes. Set Background Width: <div style="background-width=80%">Your Text </div> Default Width is 100% Set Height of Background: <div style="padding:17px;background-color:#0099FF;width:80%">Your Text </div> Align Text: <div style="background-width:80%;text-align:center">Your Text </div> Choose Left, Right or Center Set Right Margin: <div style="margin:80px;padding:7px;background-color:#0099FF;width:80%;text-align:center">Your Text </div> You can leave space on right before you start a sentence. Set Border Size and Colour: <div style="border:6px solid #000000;margin:7px;padding:7px;background-color:#0099FF;width:80%;text-align:center">Your Text </div><br> </div> You can increase the border size by changing border value. You can choose colour by changing Code for solid # Set Border Style: <div style="border:6px solid #347C2C;margin:7px;padding:7px;background-width:80%;text-align:center; border-style:double">Your Text </div><br> </div> You can change border-style from double to dashed or dotted for different effects. You can also change the size & colour of the borders to customise. --------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: Checkout our new tools

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