Uploading photos to Orkut has become very easy thanks to their very efficient Javascript photo upload script that allows you to upload multiple pictures at the same time and at a very fast rate!

To start things off, login into your Orkut account and in the homepage, you will be able to see the number of scraps, photos, videos you have in your account under the “Welcome, <username>” text. Click on photos.

You can now see all the albums you have in your account. To proceed further, you can either create a new album or add photos to an already existing one. If you want to create a new one, click “Create New Album” button and enter the details of your new album. If not, click on “Add More Photos” corresponding to the album you wanna add photos to.

Once you are inside the album, Click “Add Photos”. The Browse window will appear. Browse your system and select the photos – Yes, you can select more than one.

Click open and you will return to the browser. Click “Upload Photos”.You can see the progress of upload for each picture as shown below.

As a final step, you can add captions to each of the photos you have just finished uploading. You can also choose the photo which you want to be the cover of the album.

By following these steps, you can add photos to your Orkut account, either to existing Albums or to new ones. Enjoy!

How many of you know that your Facebook profile can have a custom personal URL? Yes, it is possible. Just like in Twitter, your Facebook profile can have your own personal URL into which you can easily direct your friends.

Usually, the link to your profile is long and confusingly full of symbols and weird text. This is very hard to remember. To avoid this, you can change the URL to your Facebook profile into www.facebook.com/<whatever_you_want>

This is a great feature and there is a simple way to activate it. First, go to this page.

The page will display few suggestions for your username which will make the <whatever_you_want> part of the URL. You can either choose from them or give your own username yourself. To do this, click More.

Some more suggestions will appear. The last option will have a textbox, which lets you type in the username of your own. Enter the desired username in it and click check availability.

A confirmation message will appear. This is very important. This message tells you that you can change your username only once and asks you to confirm it. So, please make sure your username is good enough and that you like it before clicking confirm.

The above mentioned message will appear to let you know that you have successfully modified your username, thereby creating yourself your own personalized URL. You can now use this URL to let people visit your profile. This is very useful if you want to let people who are not in your friends list yet, find you as it can be sent through your email, as a signature.

Think of a cool and unique username so that people know its as soon as they see it. What is your Facebook user name? Do you think people like it?

Google Buzz has become a trend today. It might not have as many users as Twitter, but it certainly attracts a lot of attention as it’s an integrated part of Gmail.  Most Google Buzz  users access it though the easy-to-use interface of Gmail. But what if you want to use Buzz without logging in to Gmail?. Here are two easy ways to do that:

Chrome Buzz extension for Google Chrome

Chrome Buzz is an extension for Chrome that shows you your Buzz notifications as well as allows you to post your buzzes,

There, just click on the install button to add the extension to your browser. Once this is over, you will be able to see the Buzz icon to the right of the address bar in Chrome as displayed below.

Click on the Buzz icon and login with your Gmail account. And that’s it.

From now on, every time you click the Buzz icon, a drop down menu will appear showing all of your buzzes and the buzzes of your followers. You can send out Buzzes from here easily.

Buzz It for Mozilla Firefox

Buzz It is as add-on for Firefox and it’s a little different than Chrome Buzz as it lets you post links to Buzz whenever you are visiting a website.

Once you have installed the add-on, the Buzz it icon will appear next to your address bar. Whenever you click the Buzz It icon and a small window will open up and you can compose your buzz. It even supports URL shortening. Pretty neat eh?

These are two ways for using Google Buzz without Gmail, any other ways you are aware of? Feel free to let us know your thoughts.

Running a contest on Twitter? Picking a random Twitter friend as a winner of a contest you run on Twitter is super easy with TwitRand. To use TwitRand, simple enter a Twitter username and choose if you want to pick a random winner from your Friends or Followers.

TwitRand will then use a script to pick a completely random user from your desired group as the contest winner. You can also use TwitRand to pick a random person from group of people who have ReTweeted the same thing. To use that option simple enter the URL or phrase and TwitRand randomly pick one of the ReTweeters as the winner. However, the number of ReTweeters must not be more than 1,500 people for this option to work.

It is a simple tool that does not require any download or registration and takes less than 30 seconds to pick up a random winner.

If you are one of around 75 Million users that actively play Farmville each and every month, you’ll love this little tip. You don’t really need to log into Facebook everytime you want to play Farmville. The company behind the game, Zynga, has also made the game available on Farmville.com. No need to register for an account or anything, simply sign in using your Facebook username and password.

Zynga is also expected to launch a separate social gaming website called ZyngaLive soon where users will be able to play all Zynga’s games, namely: Farmville, Fishville, Petville, Mafia Wars and Texas Hold’em Poker.

So if you are one of those users who love Farmville but would like to skip Facebook when gaming, give Farmville.com a try for a distraction free gaming experience