Cool Orkut Font for Scraps and Testimonials

This is an exciting cool Orkut font. Your text will automatically get converted into a font like the screenshot above.
Simply write scrap or testimonial on your friend's scrapbook/testimonial field. After you are done, simply copy the below code and paste that in your address bar. Hit enter. And your text will automatically get converted into a Stylish Orkut Text.

Code :

javascript:var txt=document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];txt.value=txt.value.replace(/A/gi,"α");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/B/gi,"ь");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/C/gi,"с");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/D/gi,"d");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/E/gi,"є");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/F/gi,"ƒ");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/i/gi,"ι");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/m/gi,"м");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/n/gi,"и");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/p/gi,"ρ");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/r/gi,"я");void(0);

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Firefox,The Faster Browser

FireFox is a web browser created by Mozilla, the original creators of the Netscape series of browsers. Version one was released in November 2004 and quickly gained new fans because of its open source license and multitude of features.Open source means that the source code for the program is available to anyone who cares to download it. Any programmer can use the initial code to develop FireFox, whether they are creating customized options for themselves or working to improve the browser for all users. Being open source makes FireFox infinitely adaptable.
ome of FireFox's specialized features include pop-up blockers and advanced privacy settings. FireFox also offers tabbed browsing. You can open more than one website in your browser window and tabs on the screen allow you to easily switch between them.The browser also has several advanced search options. There is a Google search built into the toolbar, but that's not necessarily unique. What makes FireFox stand out is the ability to create Smart Keywords that will work with your favorite sites the same way a Google toolbar search does. You can go straight to the information you want without having to visit unnecessary websites and menus. In addition, a specialized Find bar allows you to search for text within a site without having to bring up any additional editing prompts.FireFox can be a highly personalized browser. And not just for programmers who can download the source code and tweak the browser to fit their needs. The average user can modify their toolbar look and settings and download extensions and themes. Themes simply change the look of the browser while extensions provide additional capabilities like mouse gestures or games.Hoping to win computer users over from other browsers, FireFox features quick downloading and easy improbability of settings like bookmarks and passwords from other products.

Negative points of Internet Explorer (IE)

Comparison	IE	Firefox
Controlled by a tyrannical corporation that abuses its monopoly.	YES	NO
Embodies pure evil	YES	NO
For the "benefit of the consumer" is pre-installed on every currently shipping version of MS-Windows and the uninstall option has been removed.	YES	NO
"Integrated" In to the OS so you can not have multiple versions of the web browser on the same computer.	YES	NO
Comes with the number one e-mail program for spreading viruses.	YES	NO
Bundled with active X security hole.	YES	NO
Will happily trash your hard drive if you install it.	YES	NO
Takes your entire OS with it when it crashes.	YES	NO
Sexually molests .dll files on your computer.	YES	NO
Causes system resource leaks.	YES	NO
Source code is safely locked away so nobody can see what is in it.	YES	NO
Active Advertising all over the place.	YES	NO
Automatic BS receiver.	YES	NO
Looks cool when set on fire.	YES	NO
Latest version refuses to run under Windows 95.	YES	NO
Browse your hard drive as a retarded web page.	YES	NO
Lacks versions for the bazillion other operating systems out there besides Windows.	YES	NO
Lacks a cool mascot.	YES	NO
Blatantly ignores web standards.	YES	NO
Installed with and required by just about every Windows application out there.	YES	NO
Breeds inside Windows PCs. When they mature a big slimy green hideous alien like thing bursts out of your CD-ROM drive.	YES	NO
If stupidity could be harvested as a fuel, the browser would power the entire planet for 1000 years.	YES	NO
Without warning drops support for commonly used standards such as browser plug-ins.	YES	NO
Replaces your desktop shell with itself for no humanly explainable reason.	YES	NO
Written by demons from hell.	YES	NO
When translated to English the EULA contains the phrase "all your soul are belong to us".	YES	NO
Has been declared an environmental hazard by the EPA.	YES	NO
Multiplies when fed after midnight.	YES	NO
Without warning will suddenly start translating your web pages in to Latin.	YES	Requires plug-in
Its primary food source is human brains.	YES	NO
Can be used to induce vomiting.	YES	Minimal support
CD makes a good coaster.	YES	NO
Inspires states to sue the company that makes it.	YES	NO
EULA forbids running the browser under any OS other than what it was designed for.	YES	NO
Is now the mandatory standard browser of the planet Earth.	YES	NO
Uninstalling this browser is forbidden by law.	YES	NO
Has mostly ceased development.	YES	NO
The web the way Bill wants it. (tm)	YES	NO
Brought to you by the fund to make Bill Gates ruler of the universe.	YES	NO
Its internals are fully undocumented.	YES	NO
Enables remote control over you PC by the company that makes the browser.	YES	NO
Support for M$-Bastardized HTML.	YES	NO
Bill has complete control over your user settings from his bathroom.	YES	NO
Built-in auto destruct.	YES	Add-on is downloadable from the Internet.
Zombies love it!	YES	NO
Will be responsible for the end of the universe.	YES	NO
Attacks and disables foreign software.	YES	NO
Inspires dozens of hate web sites.	YES	NO

Why Firefox is Better Than The Best

Firefox runs everywhere you want it
-Runs on Windows, Macintosh, Linux and more
-Pages view identically everywhere
-Runs on older versions of Windows

Take advantage of powerful new technologies
- SVG
- CANVAS
- XForms
- XML events
- DHTML, JavaScript, and DOM enhancements
- Improved CSS2 and CSS3

Embraces modern, open web standards
- Most complete implementation of any browser
- Standards are the future of the web
- These are in Firefox NOW
More secure
- Avoids ActiveX security holes
- Safer scripting
- Open code base enables anyone to audit it

Great for developers
- Test older or newer versions without needing a second machine or different OS
- Powerful DOM inspector/editor
- Javascript debugger
- Enhanced page source viewer
Easier to support

- Installing/Upgrading will never alter your OS
- No need to reinstall your OS just to fix the browser
- Completely uninstallable
Compatible with existing infrastructure
- Compatible with Microsoft Proxy Server / ISA Server
- Technologies such as Sun Java, Flash, and Windows Media Player
- Modern standards based internet and intranet applications

What Firefox will do for you
- Free you from vendor lock-in
- Make your Operating Systems a true commodity
Future and support
- Firefox is actively under development and always improving
- Numerous public support forums
- Optional telephone support is available at a minimal cost

Save money!
-100% Free (unlike IE which is paid for with Windows)
-Reduced need to upgrade older OSes
-Enables you to use other less expensive OSes

Get the latest version of Mozilla Firefox now!

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Add Gtalk inside your Orkut page

Now Google Talk is integrated within Orkut, it will be above ( my friends) as (Show Gtalk) which is shown below, it also support for multi-user conference.
* This is the way it looks:-

* Installation Instructions:-
This hack is not compatible with Internet Explorer since it uses Greasemonkey, a Firefox Add-on. If you want to enjoy this and countless other hacks then Switch to Firefox

See the following steps:-
1) You will be needing macromedia flash for this script Download macromedia flash
2) Download Firefox if you don’t have it.
3) From your firefox page itself Install Greasemonkey.
After you install Greasemonkey successfully then you will see its icon on bottom right-hand side of your firefox page.
Click Here to Install Greasemonkey
4) Now Install the Script of Gtalk inside your Orkut page,
Click Here from firefox page
That's it …now browse orkut.com and gtalk gadget will appear above the( My friends) as (Show Gtalk).

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Remove Recycle Bin in Windows Xp

OS: Windows XP
If you are trying to delete all the icons on your desktop then you would notice that only Recycle Bin icon is not getting deleted where as all the icons like My Computer can easily be removed. This icon can easily removed & retained after deleting by following these steps :--

Deleting Recycle Bin icon :
Open registry Editor(regedit.exe) in Run Under start menu.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Delete the Key
{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} by right clicking on it & selecting Delete
Then close the editor.

Reboot or Restart your PC
after this your Recycle Bin icon will be removed from the desktop...Bringing Back Recycle Bin

Icon on Desktop again :
Open registry Editor(regedit.exe) in Run Under start menu.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ Desktop\NameSpace
Then right click on NameSpace,select New & then select Key & name it as {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Your Recycle Bin icon will again be restored....

Also See:
Improve System Speed
Disabled TaskManager?

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Choose the Best Domain

These days we are seeing a boost in Internet users all over the world. Now most of the people want to get recognized by their own web sites. Moreover the web sites can also be seen as the future money makers as the blogs have a lot of earning potential inside them if written properly.

If you are also one of those trying to get a new web site for yourself then always try to consider these following tips when choosing a domain name for your web site or blog :

* My most important recommendation is that always try to get a dot com ( .com ) domain. Its a fact that we remember the web site name with dot com easily rather than those .co. us or .co .uk , .org & others . It also helps in preventing confusion in web site names. Domains like

.co .uk .us .in

,etc are suitable if you have a web site representing your Business. Moreover dot org is suitable for those web site related with organizations or institutions.

* Short Domain name : Big web site addresses are difficult to remember & to type as there are mistakes often. But short names are easy to remember.

* Do not try to get a domain name which is an intimating address of some other web.
Try to get your own unique name.

* If you are having a domain name in your mind then you can check for its availability at web sites like Check Domain & get it registered at the earliest.

* Try to use short form of the name which is in your mind & then try to apply it as domain. It results into better & shorter domain name.

* So hurry !! up Internet Revolution is taking place register your domain name before some one other grabs it.

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Hide Orkut Community contents To non-members

It really seems orkut is very serious about privacy for their users. After implementing privacy in scrapbooks, albums, videos its now turn for our communities. Well its very obvious that people copy one stuff from a community and paste it in theirs. But at last now its a bit more secure . Thanks to orkut, a community's content can be restricted to its members only.
Its simple. Just go to

Edit Community >>>
name :
category :
type :
messaging :

Content privacy : >>
open - anyone can view the contents of the community
hidden - only members can view the contents of the community

Now in order tp keep non members out, select the hidden option

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Hyperlinking In Orkut - Make Words & Images Clickable!

Most People ask me This same Question again and again, that how to make Words which act as Text Links in Orkut. So I decided to post it here in detail. Is Actually Really Simple...Firstly I would like to mention what's a hyperlink! Well, hyperlink is an anchor text, used to link to a particular site. Example : Orkut Guide. Now if you will click on Orkut Guide, it will take you to our homepage. So, now I will tell you how to do this trick on Orkut.

Hyperlink For Scraps to Friends
Since HTML is allowed for Scraps to Friends Simply Use Html Hyperlink Code...


Note:
This Trick doesn't work on Community Posts.

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Orkut Safety Filter Will Block Suscipious Profiles

Now Orkut will mark profiles and communities as unsafe they have content that is mature in nature, but doesn't violate their community guidelines. For example, their community guidelines prohibit pornographic images, which includes things like frontal nudity and graphic sex, and such profiles will be deleted. However, our community guidelines don't prohibit images that don't contain nudity, but are sexually explicit, so we may mark such profiles as unsafe. Note that your profile does not get deleted if it is marked unsafe - it just becomes hard to access. you can also log into Orkut with Gmail Account.

Orkut guys are constantly working to keep orkut clean and beautiful. The safety filter lets users choose to show only profiles and communities that have been screened for potentially inappropriate images or text. By enabling the safety filter:

* Potentially offensive communities and profiles will be hidden from your search results.

* The pictures of potentially offensive profiles and communities will not shown in your community and friend lists - instead you will see a special icon.

* A warning message will be displayed before you access these profiles and communities.

If you'd like to enable the safety filter, just follow these steps:
* Click settings on the left sidebar of your orkut profile or homepage.
* On the general tab, find the 'safety filter' section.
* Select the bubble next to 'do not show inappropriate content.
* Don't forget to click the save changes button at the bottom of the page when you're done.

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Orkut History

Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004 by Google, the search engine company. Orkut Büyükkökten, a Turkish software engineer, developed it as an independent project while working at Google (permitted by its policy). Some discomfort with this exists among users and potential users of orkut, especially since Google's other noteworthy product of 2004, the Web-based email client Gmail, allows the company to automatically scan the text of users' private emails in order to target ads toward them.
While previously working for Affinity Engines, he had developed a similar system, InCircle, intended for use by university alumni groups. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit against Google, claiming that Büyükkökten and Google based orkut on inCircle code. The allegation is based on the presence of 9 identical bugs in orkut that also exist in InCircle.
Originally, the orkut community was felt to be elite, because its membership is by invitation only. However, at the end of July 2004 orkut surpassed the 1,000,000 member mark, and at the end of September it surpassed the 2,000,000 mark.
While the intended invitation method was e-mail between two acquaintances, invitations to orkut are obtainable via the web with a bit of diligence or eBay, just like Gmail invites.
Orkut's use as a social tool is complex, because various people frequently try to add strangers to their own pool of friends, more often than not just to increase the number indicating their number of friends next to their name in their profile. Many "add-me" communities exist, solely for this purpose. A large number of bogus, cloned, fake, invisible and "orphaned" profiles also exist. [citation needed]
Orkut received its name from the first name of the its creator, who is a Turk. In Turkish, Orkut means "the holy meeting place.". In Finnish slang, it means "orgasms" or, more generally, "pleasure of the body".

Controversy

Popularity in Brazil
The orkut community has been watching a large surge of Brazilian users registering on its service. The number of Brazilian orkut users has reached more than 70% of the total users, followed by United States, with about 12% (As of May 25, 2006). Due to the number of Brazilian users and communities in the Portuguese language, users from other parts of the world became upset with the service, when it established Portuguese as the first "alternate default language," (as English was the primary default language) prompting many community owners to enforce an English-only posting policy. Some went as far as to start online communities and discussion groups dedicated to complain about this phenomenon. Hoaxes have also been spread, with the intention of tricking Brazilian users to change their nationality in orkut. According to statistics, orkut has also become popular in Brazil, where greater than 3% (June 2005) of the population are registered orkut users. This is the highest percentage of any single country's population using the service. In a recent interview to a Brazilian news site, the creator of orkut said he doesn't understand the phenomenon and complains about the fact that North-American press and users are ignoring the service and using similar services like Friendster, Myspace, and Facebook. He also noted that Brazil is actually the main focus of orkut.

Instant celebrity
During U2's Vertigo show in Brazil, which was broadcast by TV to more than 100 million people, Bono invited a Brazilian boy, Carlos Arthur Ortenblad Jr., to stage. This is a very common act in their shows, but the boy's orkut profile skyrocketed him into a celebrity status in orkut: On the week after the show, he received more than 35 million scrapbook entries, and more than a thousand communities about him were created. Recent rumours say that Carlos was invited by Rede Globo to become an actor, most likely to act in telenovelas.

Flooders and fake profiles
As the number of orkut users increased and due to the low reliability and security of the site, there was a rise in the number of fake and clone profiles, something that can be achieved just in a matter of a few minutes. Due to the large number of users and the deactivation of the jail system, the profiles were often left unremoved or, when removed, recreated easily. These profiles are normally created to troll, to spam, to flood or just for fun. It isn't hard to find users owning more than one profile, with some stating they own hundreds.
Later, the clones started to flood communities and scrapbooks by submitting topics or scraps hundreds or thousands of times manually. Shortly thereafter, by simply examining the source code of the page, they found it was possible to create Javascript codes to automatically flood the site. Soon (given that orkut is a complex social network), flooding wars started to occur frequently between some antagonistic groups. Another new phenomenon is Scrapbook wars, when a group of users are engaged to zero or increase the scrapbook counter of someone.
On January 1, 2005 a Brazilian hacker attacked orkut, stealing community ownership rights, using phishing techniques. Eventually, various phishing sites were developed with the intent of stealing other people's accounts and communities. A couple of months later, invisible profiles, communities and topics started to appear in orkut. This could be achieved by using HTML escaping codes and 1x1 pixel photos to fool the engine behind the site.
In the August of 2005 a freeware program made in Delphi called Floodtudo ("tudo" in portuguese means "everything" - this was developed by a Brazilian) was created specifically for flooding orkut. It quickly spread through the users and was easily downloadable (the most common Floodtudo versions were 1.2, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.2). As this program was massively used by thousands of spammers, a big spam wave struck orkut in September and October of 2005.
As the flooding of orkut was getting out of control, the developers implemented some features in order to stop this, such as not allowing two or more verbatim topics or scrapbook entries to be submitted, forcing the user to wait before posting another topic or scrapbook entry, and the usage of captchas. They gave more rights to community moderators as well, so that they can just ban users instead of relying on the developers to remove them, and now community moderators are able to mass-delete posts too.
Other ways of profile and community attacks still exist, like testimonial flooding attacks on scrapbook and member counters, multi-profile floods and social engineering.
Many reasons exist for flooding. As a social network, it's obvious that people have or develop enemies on the site, but some of them attack simply for the sake of trolling. Flooding is one of the reasons for orkut's poor site performance, as it causes a heavy overload on orkut servers, decreasing their reliability even more.

Hate groups
There has recently been controversy revolving around the use of orkut by various hate groups. Virulent racists allegedly have a solid following there. Because of the invitation-only structure, closed groups of like-minded people are able to thrive. Several hate communities focused on racism, Nazism, and white supremacy have been deleted due to guideline violation. However the number of these communities and profiles has not stopped growing because they can be very easily created and it is hard for orkut to check them.
In 2005, various cases of racism were denounced to police and reported in the Brazilian media. [1] [2] In 2006, a judicial measure was opened by the Brazil federal justice denouncing a 20-year-old student accused with racism against blacks and spreading defamatory content on orkut. [3]. Brazilian Federal Justice intimated Google [4] on March 2006 to explain the crimes occurred in orkut.

Copyright disclaimer
Orkut's terms of service state:
By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the orkut.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform and display such Materials.
This does not mean that any contribution to the orkut community (be it forum posts or photos) becomes the property of the site owner; while it means that orkut can use any submitted information for any purpose, the original submitter doesn't lose any rights to his materials.
Although other popular social network services such as Friendster and MySpace contain similar statements, this policy offended many dedicated orkut users, some who terminated their accounts as a protest.

Iranian censorship
Orkut was very popular in Iran, but the website is blocked by the government. As they say, it is due to national security issues, as orkut users have the ability to spread messages rapidly, but the government says it's due to Islamic ethical issues about dating and match making. To get around this block, sites such as "orkutproxy.com" (now defunct) were made for Iranian users. Other websites such as Yahoo! Groups and Google Groups have communities dedicated to receiving updates on the newest location of Iran's orkut proxy. Though it was once possible to bypass governmental blockage of orkut, the site has closed its HTTPS pages on all anonymous proxies. Now it is almost impossible for ordinary users to visit this site inside Iran.

Jail
Users who misbehave or are reported to misbehave are "jailed." Their account was suspended, their site access was reasonably limited, and their current profile picture was temporarily replaced with a silhouette of a man behind prison bars. Although this serves a useful purpose, the way users are selected to be jailed has caused heated discussions and complaints among orkut users: every user's profile has a "Report as Bogus" button, which, if pressed, automatically flags the user to be jailed. Conceivably, this means that anyone can be jailed at any time by pressing a single button.
Another way to be jailed is to "act like a robot." To safeguard against bots and other automation, users who add friends or join communities in a very quick or repetitive manner, or perform similar actions, are jailed. Often, however, this happens when a new user is invited to join the site and finds many people he/she already knows and tries to add them as friends immediately.
Users who were jailed were not informed of the reason, nor were they notified that they had been jailed. Jailing usually did not last long (up to 24 hours in most cases), but was often disturbing to users, as there is no direct contact to the orkut team (their contact form only answers with template emails) and jailing limits one to waiting or posting in a designated forum. Ironically, site users once reported that Orkut Büyükkökten, the creator of the site, was jailed. The jail system is currently deactivated due to its inefficiency.

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Error deleting file or folder, cannot delete folder: it's being used by another person or program

Unlocker 1.8.7

Unlocker application was designed to be a very useful Windows Explorer extension allowing users with a simple right-click on a file or folder to easily get rid of error message such as error deleting file or folder, cannot delete folder: it's being u

Helps delete locked files with error messages like:
Cannot delete file: Access is denied
There has been a sharing violation.
The source or destination file may be in use.
The file is in use by another program or user.

Task Manager disabled problem in windows xp
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

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