orkut skins using greasemonkey

Change the look of orkut by installing these cool looking orkut skins.
But first You need to install:
1. Firefox Browser
2. Greasemonkey Plugin

You can see an awesome collection of cool looking orkut skins here, and all of those can be downloaded from here.

“Inside Orkut” has also featured some good orkut templates
namely pinkut, bluekut, creamkut etc. etc.

How is it done?
Greasemonkey is used to add some extra bit of coding to webpages, coding is done in javascript. So all these scripts are coded in such a way that on being properly installed they will execute themselves whenever you visit orkut.com page. I myself is very fond greasemonkey userscripts and event tried my hands on it a few days ago. You can read more about greasemonkey plugin for mozilla firefox here at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey

Proxy for orkut

Now you can access orkut from those place where it is generally blocked by the system administrator. You must have seen “access denied” message that come up whenever you try to access orkut in your offices or colleges or even schools,
I have found some working orkut proxies that will you to login into your orkut account.

- A proxy by orkut itself http://images.orkut.com
- Also try http://images3.orkut.com
- http://www.atunnel.com
- http://www.kproxy.com or http://62.193.235.46/
- http://calculatepie.com
- http://bravebadger.com
- http://www.torperkut.com/

Please tell me about other proxies that worked well in your case. I’ll update the list whenever i find any other alternative for accessing orkut.

fast gmail and orkut login

For low speed connections logging in to orkut or gmail could becomes an irritating task. You must have experienced gmail login problem especially on a dial up connection. Login in to gmail is comparatively slower because of its rich user interface, because of that sometimes the gmail login screens gives an error. And in orkut also sometimes the login box does not appears and says “connection timed out” or “server not responding” kind of messages. Following are some tips and tricks to login into gmail and orkut faster even with low speed internet connections.
Gmail login tricks :

- Use HTML version of gmail instead of standard version. You can access to gmail’s HTML version directly from this url http://mail.google.com/mail/h/
- Also try gmail mobile version via http://m.gmail.com ,it is very lo-fi version of gmail but the speed of logging in really fast, it is opening instantly on my system. The mobile version of gmail login page is simple, fast and furious.
So no more gmail login problems now.
Orkut login tricks :
- Directly open the small orkut login box from this url, it will skip the homepage of the orkut which consists of some images and worthless text. It really works, so try it

Cool new orkut tricks

1. Writing a star in your orkut scrap - Write & # 9 7 3 3 before your scrap without spaces in between these characters. And see a cool star icon that comes up in the scrap on submitting.

2. Writing scraps in reverse - Add & # 8 2 3 8 before your scrap without spaces in between these characters. The whole text will get reversed on submitting it. Isn’t It Cool.

3. Make yourself invisible on orkut - In MS Paint, create a smallest image possible and then upload it in internet explorer. It will be unclickable and you are invisible now. Voilla ..!!

4. Adding cool symbols in orkut scrap -

alt + 987 - █, alt + 1 - ☺, alt + 2 - ☻, alt + 3 - ♥,

alt + 4 - ♦, alt + 5 - ♣, alt + 6 - ♠, alt + 7 - •,

alt + 8 - ◘, alt + 9 - ○, alt + 0178 - ², alt + 0489 - é,

alt + 0756 - ô, alt + 0742 - æ, alt + 0719 - Ï,

alt + 0739 - ã, alt + 0729 - Ù

Keep trying different key combinations for more cool symbols.