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December 23, 2008

Hack:View Locked Orkut Albums


Well you might have ended up here after a long search for finding a hack for viewing locked orkut albums.I am not gonna fool you like all those before me have done.I will save you from the horror. Quite frankly you cannot view locked orkut albums as for now.All those hacks which might have worked before won't work anymore because the loopholes were all fixed by orkut.But you can surpass orkut's latest restriction to save photos from an open album.I will tell you how,but first things first.Lets list out the popular so called hacks that are no more working.

1.The javascript ain't working


javascript:alert("Wait for few seconds for pic`s to load......");nb= document.all[0].innerHTML.match(/[0-9]*.jpg\)/g);nb=parseInt(nb);document.body.innerHTML=”
ALBUM HACK
SCRIPT BY Ethical Hacking Community
”;for(i=1;i<=100;i++){document.body.innerHTML+=’



’;};void(0)

Don't bother copying and pasting this code.I wonder if this hack ever worked.


2.The greasemonkey script ain't working.

The script 'View Locked Album in Orkut Style' won't get you through locked albums either.

These two things have been filling the entire google search pages for some time.So never even care to read if what they are gonna tell you is one of these two.

And about saving album photos.Orkut disabled the right click on album photos and hence you cannot save using the right click option.I think that this kind of some imposition is unnecessary as there is the 'Lock album' feature for those who want to protect their photos.There are many hacks to this.

1.If you use firefox.Direct to the album page.Go Tools>Page Info>Media>Point to the image from the list>Save as.Ooh la la.

2.Easier method.Drag the image to the address bar which will in turn show the address of the image.Hit go and the image will appear where you can right click and save.

3.Take screen shot.Hit print screen key on your key board.Open up a new file in MSpaint and click Cntrl+V.Or you can use modern screencapture tools like Snagit or Faststone.

Hope this helped.

April 25, 2008

Paypal Might Block Apple Safari,Opera And Other Browsers Classified As Unsafe.

Paypal has plans to block browsers classified as unsafe.The classification is based on exclusion of anti-phishing tools.Mozilla Firfox3 and IE7 has included Extended Verification SSL certificates which is expected to be the standard of browser safety and paypal expects the unsafe browsers include this on their updated versions.Browsers run on mobile devices iphone and gaming systems like Nintendo wii would also be barred.This information was provided by paypal for its shareholders.

Paypal is also planning improved security measures with Yahoo to prevent fraudulent mails faked as been sent by paypal.Paypal would notify the user on his first login using the unsafe browser.After that the browser will be entirely blocked.

Yahoo Fighting Click Frauds.Invalid Clicks Wont Be Making Money

Yahoo has introduced a new system to eliminate invalid clicks or what may be termed as fraudulent clicks.The system is called 'Click Protection System' and the publisher will be getting a 'Click Filter Report' on his YPN homepage.This report will be a summary of the clicks identified as invalid.Yahoo has introduced this system so as to ensure quality traffic to its advertisers.In Yahoo 's terms this would be a big blow to all click fraud mafia who targets a particular industry in most cases.

The practicality of this system is yet to be seen.However Yahoo seems to be optimistic about getting positive results.The report is anyhow made customisable with option to include details like Impressions,invalid clicks, invalid click rate, and average cost-per-click.This new system introduction will be followed by many such plans as a part of Yahoo's quest for quality traffic production.Yahoo's tie up with 'Click Forensics' might be one of the best measures ever taken by the YPN.

December 15, 2007

How To View Locked Scrap Books In Orkut?

Orkut allows users to set scrapbook access to private.In such cases only friends of the person can view his scrapbook.This is similar in the case of photo albums and videos.How ever you can get pass the scrapbook block using a grease monkey script which allows you to view locked scrapbooks.

You need to install Greaemonkey plugin for running the script.Install Greasemonkey from here

If you already have greasemonkey installed,install 'view locked scrapbooks' script from here

Similar:10 Most Useful Greasemonkey Scripts

July 08, 2007

VideoRonk-Search for videos on Youtube,Metacafe,ifilm and many more simultaneously

If you are one of those who ditched T.V ever since Youtube was launched,this one is for you.Many times you may want to find videos on a specific topic and in most cases you will search on "Youtube" with the keyword and get a list in an order Youtube only knows.While in many cases this would do the job.But there may be a better video more closer to what you were looking for.Youtube boasts of record number of uploads and largest user base among the online-video sharing sites and noone comes even close to it's status[Metacafe is the only commendable opponent].However if we put together all these smaller sites what we get is a bigger pool of videos covering on every single subject you can name.So next time you are upto discovering a video give these tools a shot which let you search many video sharing sites including Youtube simultaneously.

VideoRonk lets you do the same.Its a must try for those video crazy people on the net.Search Youtube,Dailymotion,Metacafe,ifilm,Vimeo,Myspace,blip.tv,revver and more.They also have a plugin for IE7 and Firefox2.0 browsers.Top videos on Youtube,Google,Dailymotion,Metacafe and ifilm can be found on its frontpage.Interface is quite inmpressive and you can download the videos without leaving the site.Check it out.

May 12, 2007

Google Adsense to go for site maintenance on Mother's Day

Google adsense will take some time to spend with their mamma[not google,irony]this mother's day.You won't be able to access your account but ads will continue to run.It'll be a four hour break for adsense and reports will still track all activity during this period.
Here's the maintenance start time converted for a few cities around the world:

London – 6:00 pm Saturday
Bucharest – 8:00 pm Saturday
New Delhi – 10:30 pm Saturday
Jakarta – 12:00 am Sunday
Tokyo – 2:00 am Sunday

April 30, 2007

Got nothing to do??Become Youtube Editor.


Got no job to do and surfing around for something creative that will kill time??.Then
Youtube is the place to be.Become Youtube(guest)editor and take charge of choosing videos to display on the featured videos list which is usually done by Youtube themselves.Before they hand over the job,you'll have to impress them with a sample list of some of the original videos you'd place on the home page if you were in charge.If Youtube likes it they'll contact you to flesh out your selections and plan the dates for your home page takeover. You should also be prepared to make a video statement to go along with your picks.So if you believe in glory for a day,go for it.
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April 28, 2007

BROADBAND TO GO FREE IN INDIA BY 2009

Broadband connectivity will go free in india by 2009.The government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through the state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL. While consumers would cheer, the move holds the potential to kill the telecom business.Read the full story from TIMES NEWS NETWORK

April 16, 2007

Google will control the economic fuel of the Internet:Microsoft


After loosing to Google in the bid for Double click,Microsoft is running like mad shooting bullets one after other on Google.

"By putting together a single company that will control virtually the entire market. Google will control the economic fuel of the Internet," said Brad Smith, general counsel for Microsoft.The statement says it all.After trying too hard to prevent the takeover Microsoft is desperate because they know,after this deal there's no look back for Google because the $3.1 billion acquisition, announced late Friday, would combine the largest providers of online advertising and make one giant online money maker which will propel millions or should i say a vast majority of websites and blogs and virtually the internet.

DoubleClick utilizes a technology that remembers sites a user visits and serves up relevant ads; Google keeps data about searches conducted on its site.Micrsoft points this as a privacy concern.Smith also added that Google would have "an unprecedented degree" of personal information about a person's activity on the Internet.My take is that Google is already a new age Bigbrother and no one seems to care about the vast information it's gathering everyday.So the privacy concerns is for vain dear Smith.The only group that'll have a problem is Microsoft.

[In response to a news article on Washington post]

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April 08, 2007

Orkut starts topic search.


Orkut is closing in to become a 'no secrecy online community'.Atleast that's what we can predict after orkut launced its latest feature 'Topic search'.Now one can go beyond communities and users while searching and reach any topic discussed in any community.

So what does this mean.This means digging into private conversations is easier and less sweaty than ever.But on the brighter side this will help Orkut squad to remove piracy from Orkut and stop explicit content discussions and trace back to the sources.But i don't think they have anything such idea in mind.[Lots of adult communities are still very much alive in Orkut].God save orkut.
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April 06, 2007

Google ads now neater and less annoying

Google Adsense is unavoidable for webmasters and in many occassions 'annoying' for users.But now,the ads are no more that lame.Adsense ads have underwent a makeover and looks more professional and neat.


The update process will be complete soon and ads on your site will be automatically modified.So there is no work from your part.And no one can opt out of the update.So you better pray that the new design works for you.

Related:How to display ads above posts in Blogger[out of beta]?

April 03, 2007

The Mybloglog-Adsense disagreement


I was skimming around Mybloglog stats for Blogger Whale for March27 when my eyes hung
up on the 'What users clicked' box.It showed that 5 readers clicked on the adsense ads i display on Blogger Whale.Call that 'Blogger syndrome' or 'Blogger instinct' i signed in to my adsense account in a flash.To my surprise,i discovered that those clicks hadn't got counted on Adsense.As an immediate response i quickly pounced on my G-mail and typed a message to adsense asking explanation.This is what i got as a reply.

"I understand that you are concerned about a potential discrepancy between
your own website tracking reports and the statistics reported within your
AdSense account. We count impressions only when the AdSense ad code is
executed by a user's browser. Therefore, there are several factors that
would cause the impressions you register to differ from the impressions
listed in your Google AdSense account. Instances that wouldn't execute the
ad code include:

· Other spiders, robots, crawlers from other search engines
· Browsers that don't have JavaScript enabled or don't support JavaScript
· Browsers that don't support the iframe tag
· Programs that people may have written to grab website content"

-Adsense team

The reasons for the 'uncounted clicks' were obvious and i wouldn't have cared to mail them if i didn't loose my senses after browsing through my own Mybloglog stats,thanks to Mybloglog for blinding me for half-an-hour.My dear readers don't get blinded.

March 31, 2007

Videobar and News reel:New features added to Blogger


Blogger has added a new feature or features should i call it.It now allows you to display clips from YouTube and Google Video for your readers to watch without leaving the page by using a new page element call Video Bar.That's not the only new feature
bloggers can now add latest headlines from Google News to blog using another page element Newsreel.Video bar is a thoughtful creation.You can even search for videos to display and guess what,there is a preview-strip which can display 4 preview images.Somewhat similar features comes with Newsreel.It allows you to choose news subjects.That's if you're a Technology blogger you can choose Technology news alone to be displayed.But use that one wisely or you may risk deviating your readers interest.

March 27, 2007

Technorati to have a clean-up.Spam blogs will be moved.

Technorati is going for a clean-up session as a part of their performance improvement plan.The first priority they have set is the removal of spam blogs so that they don't show up on Technorati search.Duplicate links and links from known splogs will also be removed.So you can expect a slight deviation in ranking

February 26, 2007

Links not counting at Technorati


Dilemma for Technorati and its users as the 'link counts' which form the basis of Technorati ranking is not working.The funny part is that the 'recent inbound links' category is showing the links which are yet to be registered.This malfunction has been around for the past few weeks and is more common to blogs created after Jan 2007.Lets hope Technorati fixes it up soon and bloggers get the rank they deserve.