Silently, Orkut’s Favicon Undergoes a Minor Change!
It’s been a few weeks since I noticed Orkut’s favicon was been revamped little bit. Though the design was as usual, the new favicon looks more attractive as it has been made more glossy! Though I noticed it few weeks ago, it seems guys at Orkut did not find it worth mentioning on their official blog about such a good change. If you are not aware, earlier this year, favicon of other Google products were been revamped and now Orkut too, underwent a favicon change.
Bug in Orkut Makes it Unable to Decide Gender of a Profile Owner
In the past we saw many bugs and flaws in the world of Orkut – Google’s social networking site, but the one I am going to mention in this post is really too hilarious and I don’t understand what is making Orkut treat a Male as a Female. Actually few days ago, one of our reader – Dnyanesh informed us about this bug, which treats his profile as a female’s profile and shows all updates accordingly.
Google is getting Desperate to Make Money from Orkut
I remember well, about a year ago, Google’s social networking site – Orkut started displaying Google adsense ads on Orkut users’ homepage below the ‘Community’ section. Infact, we posted about it on March 2008 here. But its really amazing to see Google getting desperate about generating more revenue from Orkut users. Guess what? This evening when I logged into Orkut, I was surprised to see the placement of Google ads between ‘Friends’ and ‘Community’ section.
More Orkut Themes Released!
In my recent post published just 3-4 hours ago at Devils Workshop, I was talking about the old fashioned Gmail and Orkut themes that were making its users irritated. But if you are fascinated about themes feature, then its party time for you. 
After the release of customizable colors option in Gmail, even Orkut have got 3 brand new Carnaval themes. Here are a glimpse of all the three newly released Orkut themes.
Now Backup list of your Orkut Friends on your Hard Disk!
Its not too long that, Orkut Plus launched a scrap backup tool called Scrap Backup mate using which it was possible to backup a copy of all the scraps of Orkut scrapbook locally (i.e. on your hard-disk). Because of a huge positive response to this awesome tool, OrkutPlus has recently developed another similar tool using which, you can backup the list of people in your Orkut Friend’s list along with the link to their Orkut profile and their name and E-mail Address.
Orkut goes 5 Years Old!
Yesterday, Google team celebrated the fifth birthday of its social networking site ‘Orkut’. As a celebration initiative, you must have noticed the Orkut homepage displaying a doodle with Orkut logo in it. This post is nothing but a reminder about the birthday of Orkut, our favorite social networking site. Orkut Diary team wishes belated Happy Birthday to Orkut and all its team members dedicated towards development of new features every alternative day.
Beware Orkuteers while Logging Into Orkut!
This post is to aware you on how your password can be hacked within seconds. To prevent from such kind of hacking, you are requested, not to provide your Orkut login information in any other sites except in Orkut.
Backup your Orkut Scraps using Scrap Backupmate
Guess what? You want to view all your scraps right from the day you created your Orkut account, or you just want to review all your scraps. Do you think this is possible? If you have a lots of scraps, say 5000 then to view the first scrap will you keeping turning pages of your scrap book till the last page? Not possible, right? But using Orkutplus’ new tool – Scrap backupmate all such things is really possible.
Meet MTV Roadies on Orkut
“MTV Roadies” this is the term present on the ‘tip of the tongue’ of every Indian, specially among youngsters. If you are not a MTV roadie fan, then you must be knowing about it atleast. From pillar to post, you can find someone crazy about MTV roadie.. Keeping in mind the interest of Roadies fan, I am providing you the list of Orkut Profiles of MTV roadies 6.0 hell mates.. If you are a roadie fan too.. just explore your favorite roadie.
War Initiated between India & Pak in Cyber Space?
Recently after attacks in Mumbai there were hot discussions going on between India and Pakistan, and from sources it was revealed that Pakistani hackers defaced a lot of Indian websites, blogs and even Orkut communities. Also there were a lot of complains in Orkut Help Group regarding, hacking of a famous Orkut Community “Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s Fan Club” having approximately 200 Thousand members.
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