Orkut is going for a makeover in coming days and this will affect option to edit birthday date information in your Orkut profile. You will should see message reading, "Your orkut birth date will become unchangeable on April 7th. Please take one minute to double-check or edit your birthday
Enable high resolution video chat on Orkut
Get set to enjoy high resolution video chat on various Google services. We have already seen procedure to activate higher resolution & bigger video chat on Gmail. Now you can enjoy high resolution and better quality video chatting with friends on Orkut. After installing video chat
How to send private Scraps on Orkut
For starters: Scraps are messages that one Orkut user can send to other user in their profile. Ideally, a scrap is visible to every user linked to your Orkut profile. From now on, you can send private scraps which is only visible to Orkut user you are sending the scrap. Further, recipient
Add Google Maps to Orkut scraps
Google has added Google Maps integration with Orkut through scraps feature. Now Orkut users can spice up their scraps by adding location / direction to specific location through Google Maps reference. Just add Maps to your scrap message for other users to easily find location and explore
Share Orkut photo albums with only specific friends
Just like any other social networking website, Orkut users upload and share lot of photos. It is important to set sharing rules for each photo album containing your personal photos. You can enforce strict sharing setting that allow sharing of selective photos with only specific Orkut
Share photos, files on Orkut & iGoogle chat
Do you want to send any file to Orkut friend or Google contact on iGoogle? Now you can easily do this using floating chat window on Orkut or iGoogle. Ideally, we can chat on Orkut and iGoogle using in-built chat box. Now you can also share photos, documents and other files using same chat
Import Picasa images into Orkut photo albums
Google is integrating Picasa and Orkut for better photo management. Previously, it added upload to Orkut button for directly uploading photos to Orkut from Picasa desktop software. Now it has added 'Import from Picasa' option on web photo albums page in Orkut account. Direct Picasa to
Connect to Orkut friends on Android phone
Google's social networking website 'Orkut' is now available on Android powered mobile phones with launch of Orkut for Android application. Now you can connect with Orkut friends on the go through scrap notifications, direct photo uploads to orkut albums and a phonebook synced to your orkut
Upload photos on Orkut from Picasa desktop
For starters: Orkut(.com) is a 'Facebook' like social networking website from Google and Picasa is a free desktop photo editing software from Google. If you happen to use Picasa for editing photos and also an active user of Orkut, then editing and sharing photos on Orkut just became more
