If orkut ( or any other site) has been blocked in your school or office , you can still want browse orkut then you have to use a proxy site. A proxy site is mostly a single page website with lots of ads on it. At the bottom of the site (generally) you can see and address bar in which you can write the address of the site you want to open(like orkut.com) and hit the "go" button.
The proxy site will then take you to orkut.com. Normally if you or others open the proxy site a lot, then the system administrator will find out the name of the proxy site site you are using and block that proxy site too. Then again you have to find another proxy site and use that one for opening orkut.
To find out proxy site just type "proxy sites" in google and you will get lots of proxy sites to use.
Another cool trick to open orkut is http://images.orkut.com/  . This address is less likely to be blocked by the administrator and will open orkut directly without proxy.

If you ever wanted to generate glittering scarps to inpress your friends then here are some websites that generates glittering scraps for you. In these wesites you have to write your scrap text and select the style of glitter, and the text you entered will be converted to glittering text of your chosen style. Then you have to copy the "html" generated and paste to orkut scrap book.

Here are few sites to generate glittering texts.

orkutgenerator.com : This site can generate nice glittering text. Along with that you can get lots of sample love scraps, graphical scraps, led scrollersetc.

orkutfun.com : Orkut fun is another site where you can generate great graphical scraps, birthday messges, love letter generator and many more.
htmlorkut.com : This is another good site for generating scarps. Along with that it has many great orkut themes, widget. This site is a must see for orkut theme lovers.

http://www.greetvalley.com : Greetvally has many great graphical scraps to choose from.


http://www.scrapgenerator.com : Scrapgenerator has many scrap templates to choose from.

I hope orkut and myspace lovers will love these sites and your friends will be amazed by seeing your great looking scraps.

In this post I will show how to add add stunning effects to your profile picture on facebook, myspace or orkut . No, I am not going to write another photoshop tutorial. If you want to impress your friends by adding exiting digital effects to your profile picture with just few mouse clicks then you should visit http://www.befunky.com/. In this web site you can upload your reguler boring profile image and add several great effect with just few mouse clicks within 15 mins.
Here are some example to display what kind of effects you can add to your profile picture.


Original Image


Edited images after adding effects from befunky.com

Isn't it great? All these effects are free effects, there are many more great premium effects which you can use if you spend about $3/month (150/- INR).

In this post I will discuss how u can download youtube.com videos into your harddisk and watch the later offline.

Download using online websites : There are many web sites which let you download youtube videos using them. All you have to do is to copy the youtube video url from the address bar, go to the web site and paste the url into them. The website will download the video for you and give you the download link.
Some of these are
1) keepvid  
2) savetube.com

These websites can download the videos in different formats like  3gp, flv and mp4 format. You can download KMPlayer or VLC Media Player to play these files.




 

Most of us love to sms our friends with jokes , love messages and important notification throughout the day. Unfortunately, most of the mobile service providers charge money from the user for sending sms.
There are few websites who let the users send sms's across India to any mobile network. For those who want to send sms without spending money, can use these web sites to send free sms's to anyone within india.

160by2 :  160by2.com is another very populer free sms provider. The name 160by2 implies that you can use 80 characters for your sms text and rest 80 characters will be used for displaying ads. This way 160by2 can generate revenue from your sms and keep the service free for the sender. If you have a symbian 60 phone or higher version mobile phone , you can send free sms with full 140 characters from your phone. All you have to do is to download and install an application into your phone and send sms through that application. You can also backup your address book using the application to the 160by2 website, so , if your phone is lost of damaged you won't loose any of your contacts.

spicesms.com : smsfi.com is another web site which lets you send sms for free. The best feature is that you don't have to register to send sms.

smsfi.com  smsfi.com is another web site for sending free sms , with lots of cool new features. using smsfi.com you can set alerts for yourself, send group sms, backup your address book, send a automatic greetings sms .