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Make your own cool text and design. Use the Key Entry code to make the unicode symbols.

• ALT+ is the ALT key in your keyboard on the two sides of space bar.
• Press numbers from the numbers key on the right side of keyboard.
• While pressing numbers make sure that NUM LOCK is ON.
• Dont Skip prefix Zeros ( 0 ) in the ALT+ key combinations as they will result in different unicodes .
  For Example ALT+0174 = ® & ALT+174 = «

Google has cleared the hurdle of an anti-privacy case to go ahead with the launch this year of its Street View service which will offer ground level pictures of every British street online.

Street View faced opposition from lawyers who said it infringes civil liberties. Some said it would help burglars select their targets in advance.

Privacy watchdog Information Commissioner’s Office, however, brushed aside the objections. “We are satisfied that Google is putting in place adequate safeguards to avoid any risk to the privacy or safety of individuals, including the blurring of vehicle registration marks and the faces of anyone included in Street View images.

“Although it is possible that in certain limited circumstances an image may allow identification of an individual, it is clear that Google are keen to capture images of streets and not individuals,” it said.

The watchdog was satisfied by Google’s submission that it will have an online reporting window through which people can ask for their images to be removed from the system, reports The Guardian.

Google did not comment on the case, but the British launch of the service is expected later this year.

What is a craze in the US will now spread to Britain. In the US such is the popularity of the service that websites have cropped up to track Google’s cars from which the staff shoot pictures of streets.

Unless you are apart of the tiny minority who enjoys annoying the human race, you probably agree with me that spam is very evil.

Whether it’s in the form of phone calls, emails or Orkut scraps from strangers, spam is the worst time waster in my opinion, mainly because their is no joy in reading or hearing messages that you have very little interest in.

So for those of you desiring to live a “spam free” life on Orkut, here are a few tips that you can use to make surfing Orkut a lot more fun.

Defend Thy Scrapbook

One of the great things about Orkut scrapbooks is the ability to leave messages that all of your friends can read. Unfortunately spammers have often used scrapbooks as a form of free advertising to the world, which can be iritating to both you and your friends.

Google has done an excellent job in fighting this using word verification, although unfortunately those days may be quickly coming to an end.

In order to keep spammers at bay, you may need to change your privacy settings to allow only friends, or friend of friends to post on your scrapbook. More information about that can be found over here.

Replace or remove Orkut email

Although its great that Orkut has an email system, its filtering abilities are limited at best.

In order to keep yourself from wasting time sifting through annoying emails, I would recommend either replacing Orkut email with Gmail or disabling Orkut email completely.

In order to set this up simply visit www.orkut.com/NotificationsSettings.aspx, and uncheck every box underneath the “message” column…

…and either check the boxes underneath the email column to have your favorite email address handle the messages…

..or you can leave all of the boxes blank and spammers will have no way of emailing you through Orkut (although neither will your friends).

Note: Currently there is not a way for only your only friends (or friend of friends) to email you, like the scrapbook, although Google will hopefully add this to Orkut sometime after their API launch.

List Digital Numbers Only

Unless you don’t mind receiving random phone calls from strangers, you should never list your home or mobile number on Orkut (or any social network for that matter).

However, if you need to list a number online (for like business reasons), then you should list a “digital number” (with spam protection) instead.

Digital numbers are like regular phone numbers, and you can easily purchase one from Skype for a small fee, or from Google’s GrandCentral for free (note: currently open to US users, but if you need an invite simply email me).

To add (or change) your number on Orkut, simply visit the “edit contact” page over at www.orkut.com/EditContact.aspx and scroll down to the “phone section” and enter your numbers below.

Last, do not forget to adjust your privacy settings in order to limit who can view your numbers.

That’s it! These three tips have helped me avoid receiving spam messages while using Orkut.

It looks like Google has introduced a feature on YouTube that allows users to directly insert their favorite videos from YouTube directly into the Orkut favorite video list.

(Official Orkut Blog) Have you ever been watching a funny video on YouTube and decided halfway through that you must share it with your orkut friends? Previously, you had to go to your orkut “favorite videos” page and copy-and-paste the video URL to post these clips. Now you can share videos on orkut directly from YouTube! Click on the orkut logo under the video you are watching on YouTube, and you’ll be taken directly to your “favorite videos” page on orkut. The URL of the video you’re watching will already be loaded, so all you need to do is hit “add video” to post. Now that it’s easier than ever, go ahead and share videos with your friends on orkut.

In order to access this feature, users have to simply log into YouTube (and Google account, if they are not already connected) and click on the share button.

Last but not least, simply hit the “add video” button and your video should be imported within your Orkut video favorite list.

Note: Here is a video that I have just added to my Orkut favorites list, which may be familiar to those of you who saw Steve Job’s WWDC conference.

This feature is definitely a time saver (at least for me) and Orkut users will probably love this feature since half our planet is on YouTube anyways.

It came and it conquered! Orkut has become a worldwide rage, and is nothing short of the same in India too. I have compiled a list of all the orkut tricks which will spice up your orkutting. These javascripts are to be pasted in the browser only. No need to download any software or use any firefox extension. All Javascripts should be pasted in single line.

Flooding Scrapbook

Steps to flood others scrapbook:
==> Go to the profile of your friend.
==> Copy Paste this in your address bar

javascript:var i=1;function orkuttricks(){i=i+1;document.forms
[0].elements[2].value= “I have flooded our SCRAPBOOK by this number
of times”+”[green]”+i+”[/green]”;
document.getElementsByTagName(’input’).item(3).click();};
void(setInterval(orkuttricks,500));

Another Script

javascript:i=9874654;sar=’Flooding by Tricks4fun ..!![silver]’; a=document.forms[0];a.action+=’&Action.submit=’; setInterval(”i++; a.scrapText.value=sar+i; a.submit()”,500);void(0)

==> Press Enter

Steps to flood your own scrapbook

==> Open your own scrapboook
==> Copy paste this code

javascript:var i=” “;function tricks4fun(){i=i+” “;
document.forms[0].elements[2].value=” “+i;
document.getElementsByTagName(’input’).item(3).click();};void
(setInterval(tricks4fun,500));

Increasing Number of fans

==> Add yourself in any fraud account you have.
==> Log into the fraud account.
==> Go to http://www.orkut.com/Friends.aspx
==> Put cursor on the “fan” icon. You will see at the status bar of your
browser (at the bottom of your browser) something like
” FRUS0016756489/US209709881 “. Write down that thing in a copy.
==> Now write this code in the address bar:

javascript:i=0;for(i=0;i< =100;i++){sendRequest
(”/SetKarma.aspx?cat=”+0+”&
val=”+”3″+”&gid=”+”FRUS0009505081/US0014188150″);};void(0);

==> Change “FRUS0009505081/US0014188150″ with the one you have
written in the copy.
==> Press Enter.

Testimonial Flooding

>==> Open the testimonial writting page of your any friend.
==> Paste this in the address bar:

javascript:function tricks4fun(){document.getElementsByTagName
(’input’).item(2).click();};void(setInterval(tricks4fun,404));

Colorful Scraps

==> Write your message/scrap/ in community or scrapbook
==> Copy paste the code below in your browser and then press enter.
==> You will see change in the message you wrote,
Press Submit and enjoy.

javascript:cor=new Array(’aqua’,’blue’,’fuchsia’,’gold’,’gray’,
‘green’,’lime’,’maroon’,’navy’,’olive’,’orange’,’pink’,’purple’,’red’,’
silver’,’teal’,’violet’,’yellow’ ); varz=0;
txt=document.getElementsByTagName(’textarea’)[0]; txt.value=txt.value.replace(/(.)/gi,”§$1″);
txt.value =txt.value.replace(/\§ /gi,” “); for(y=0;y
{txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\§/,’[’+cor[z]+’]’);z++;if
(z==cor.length){z=0}}void(0)

Animated Orkut Windows

==> Just copy paste in your browser and see what happens:

javascript:R=-1;DI=document.links;DIL=DI.length;function A(a,b,c)
{return Math.sin(R/350*6.28*b+a)*c+c}function B(a){DIS=DI.item(a).style;DIS.position=’absolute’;
DIS.left=A(5,100,500);DIS.top=A(5.6,60,150)}setInterval
(’R++;B(R%DIL)’,15);void(0)

Reverse the Post

Just use this keyword..
“& # 8 2 3 8″ with no spaces and blanks in between.

Bigger Display picture

javascript:i=128;void(setInterval(”i++;document.images[2].width=i”,0))

Color Change Code

javascript: i=0; c=[”green”,”blue”,”yellow”]; a=document.links;setInterval(’i++;a[i % document.links.length].style.color=c[i % c.length]’,10);void(0)

HaPPy Orkutting …!!