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If you are new on orkut then you might have reserved coming Sunday to fill up your orkut album as uploading 100 pics takes some time! Well you can save your Sunday by using orkuts new bulk photo uploader which let you upload multiple pics at once. Strangely orkut implemented this feature using ActiveX control which means this will work with Internet Explorer(IE) only. So no donut for firefox & non-IE users including me! :-(

Anyway IE user can read on…

When you will go to your album to upload pics, you will see a new link as shown in following screenshot…

Click on it will lead you to ActiveX Installation page. This is one-time procedure only!

After installation you will see a new add photos button in albums. Clicking on will open windows standard open file box. You can select multiple files at once. You need to click save button (not shown in following screenshot). Do not try drag-n-drop! It won’t work…

Once you done with adding photos, click Upload Photo button!

Thats it… All pics will be uploaded at once!

The feature is nice but orkut could have done this using Java applets instead of ActiveX. Its strange to see orkuts parent company Google actively endorses firefox but a nice feature like this disappoints firefox user community big time!

On lines of facebook, orkut added photo tagging feature to their social networking site. Using this feature now your friends can tag you in group photos.

Below are steps, how to do this….

#1. Go to any photo you have uploaded, you will see add tag link below it…

#2. Click on add tag and you will get a cross-hair mouse pointer. Select your friend you want to tag. Type his name in Add person tag box. Select your friend and click save.

Next time when anybody visits your friend profile, they will see photos of him option apart from normal photos uploaded by him. Similar photos of me link is present on your orkut homepage.

What about privacy???

Don’t worry! This time orkut really did great job for all people concerned about their privacy on social-networking sites. You can disable this feature completely by changing photo tagging setting on privacy settings page.

This works even if you do not have new orkut theme feature enabled on your account like unfortunate me. Also there is no manual effort involved while using this script compared to using themes from unofficial orkut theme directory.
Here are steps to install this script:Requirements :

• Firefox - If Not Installed.Click Here
  
  
  
• Greasemonkey - If Not Installed.Click Here
  

With recent launch of orkut’s country specific sites, all greasemonkey scripts stopped working. The reason is most greasemonkey scripts are domain specific and at the time of writing them, they were coded for url http://www.orkut.com which is now changing to http://www.orkut.co.in and so on depending on users country.

So all greasemonkey scripts for orkut needs to be changed now to reflect this domain change. Listed below are steps need to be followed by users and developers to make your favorite greasemonkey scripts work again on orkut…
For GreaseMonkey Script Users…

Just go through following steps for each greasemonkey scripts you want to modify…1. Open Manage User Scripts option from Tools >> Greasemonkey menu or right-clicking on small greasemonkey logo in bottom-right corner of your firefox.

Greasemonkey - Manage User Scripts.jpg

2. A wizard will open like below. Then…

* Click on a script you want to edit from left side menu.
* Then Click on right-sides included pages list.
* Then click on Add button.

Greasemonkey Scipt Managing-2.jpg

3. Clicking on Add button will open a pop-up. Put orkut’s domain name you have in your country their. Ex: http://www.orkut.co.in/* for Indian orkut users. Note /* at the end of domain name. You must not forget it!

Add Orkut Domain To Greasemonkey Scripts.jpg

4. Just click OK and the script will start working. :-)

For more detailed greasemonkey tutorial check this post!

For GreaseMonkey Script Developers…

If you are a newbie greasemonkey script developer then you may be wondering about long list of orkut’s country-level domains.

But with one small change in your scripts you can make them work with all orkut sites. Here are the steps…

1. Open your greasemonkey script is editor.
2. Go to @include line in ==UserScript== header.
3. Change http://*.orkut.com/* to http://*.orkut.*/*

This will make script work with all orkut domains plus few more domain like http://www.orkut.pk. But rather than listing all countries and making mistake on the way, this way is full-proof. Its also simple as all you need is to replace com in orkut urls with a * (asterisk).

You can do try-catch type nesting around your domain sensitive codes so that they will not clutter javascript error console in firefox. But this part is optional so don’t bother much if I sound like alien… ;-) . Continue Reading..

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Orkut Toolbar helps you to format the text of your posts in the Orkut forums, easily access all common functions of orkut, create and manage custom signatures and insert and view images and flash movies in orkut posts, scraps and profiles.

With Orkut Toolbar all you need is type your entire text without any formatting code and then select the desired parts of text and apply the format using the toolbar buttons. Much like you do in OpenOffice, MS Word or any other text editor.

Requirements :

• Firefox - If Not Installed.Click Here
  
  
  
• Greasemonkey - If Not Installed.Click Here
  

Description:

Scrapboy enables you to send and receive instant scraps in the Orkut website without a web browser. It gives you more Convenience and speed while scrapping.

Scrapboy is popularly called as Orkut Messenger. You can send your scraps instantly, just like chatting!!

Click Here To See Features.

Description:

• This script will allow you to add a friend with just a click of button.
• When you install this script, you will see a [F] beside every user on Orkut.
• When you click on this [F], you will directly taken to the confirmation screen.
• Press YES to accept as friend.

Description:

This is script creates shortcuts to scrapbook, album and videos of any profiles. This also create Reply and Last page links for any community topics.

After Installing The Script when you place your cursor on any profile or community link, a small drop down menu appear with the above said options.

This script gives you easy navigation on Orkut saving lots of time.

Description:

This script when installed deletes the scraps in your scrapbook rapidly.

Open your scrapbook after installing this script.

The script starts deleting all the scraps from the first/last page of scrapbook (according to the script installed).

The scraps will be deleted in the order of First in First out.

Uninstall the script after deleting all your scraps.

Description:

A Grease Monkey script which adds G to your Orkut pages.

This one is for the New Orkut theme and is beautifully placed aligned with the right sidebar.

You need to have Macromedia Flash.InstalledTo Use this.

Take A Look At Below Screen shots to get a Perfect Idea.