How to remove ads from Orkut pages

orkut-adsYou must have noticed that Orkut has now shifted the position of ads to the top of Orkut pages. Doesn’t that make Orkut look dirty? I will show you how you can remove those ads from Orkut pages. This trick has been there for quite some time, but now that Orkut is showing them right at top of pages, I think it would be good to remove them.

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Save images from orkut albums

You must have noticed that Orkut has disabled right click on images in orkut albums. This means you can’t save images from an orkut album. There are a couple of tricks throug which you can still save images.  These tricks can be used to save images from many other sites with right click disabled.

The  simplest way is to drag the image to the address bar. You can also drag it to a new tab or to the new tab area to open in a separate tab.

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Add user menu to Orkut

This is a GreaseMonkey application that adds  a user menu to user profiles on orkut that provides one click access to their scarpbook,album,add as friend etc when you right click on user pictures. This is really cool feature and avoid wasting time by visiting the user profile each time.

There was some other userscripts for firefox similar to this that replaced user name with links to scrapbook, album etc, but this one is better and beautiful. See screenshot

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This script works only with Mozilla Firefox free downloadable.

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Read popular magazines free online

This post will show how you can read 20+ world’s popular magazines online for free. iphone users can read these magazines online for free. But you can read them without an iphone using an Apple Safari or Mozilla Firefox web browser. You have to set the useragent of the browsers to iphone. Internet Explorer doesn’t allow you to do that. You can download both Safari and Firefox freely.

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Download Firefox here

Safari can be downloaded from here

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