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Can Orkut get funnier?

Orkut is the social networking website run by Google. It has been around for quiet a while and is giving some tough competition for myspace and facebook. Orkut can be used with your Google account or any other email ID. Important features of Orkut include sending scraps, messages, testimonials and albums.

Recently Orkut went under a complete change. The old simple look was gone and the new look was brought into it. Many many new features were added into it, especially applications and stuff like that.

Well the funny part about Orkut is that it is just evolving into the next facebook. Look at the similarities, applications are a common thing to both and some of the applications are same but with different names. Well Wall in facebook was like a modification of Scrapbook on Orkut. Who in the world had the idea of telling “Bad, bad server. No donut for you”? (This may result in my website being banned from Google, pray that they take it with a sense of humor). Its Google we are talking about, the egg heads (smart fellows) there should be quick in fixing stuff like this.

“Can Orkut get funnier?” was a cliche, I do a lot of working around on Orkut, social networking and stuff, but I expect a lot more from guys at Google. Some people do say that Orkut is just Google’s way of tracking its users (well it can be true!). I work a lot on Orkut (now I have stopped) and will be a private eye to spot errors on it and report it (here and to guys at Google). You do that too.

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Facebook does have some errors

There was a lot of hype about facebook and it is good. It has a lot of features and a nice design. It was marketed very well too. In spite of the all the praises, there are incidents when errors occur here.

Facebook has a very good design with a blue and white look, has man features like testimonial, wall, albums et cetera. It is pretty fast too. Some can find it to be a bit complicated though, but it will be easy for all the geeks.

This error was spotted twice while loading the top friends section in a profile. The error is ok but the way they put it is nice, unlike Orkut. Facebook simply accepts the fact that there is something wrong with it and politely tells us to get lost from that part for a few days (until its fixed).

Facebook is real fun if you love social networking. The features on Orkut and Facebook are similar now. Errors on Orkut have reduced now, after the recent update.

Technology Blog permalink changed

Just like the design, we at Tech36 are experimenting with the link structure. The new difference in the link structure is that date comes in between.

This trend is a new trial. We will let you know if this was beneficial for the website ranking and visitors.

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Tech36 Team

Subscribing to a feed using Live Bookmarking

Subscribing to a feed can be helpful if you want to follow new news and updates on a blog or a website. Feed is a XML based document containing the different articles or posts within a website. Subscribing to a feed using Live Bookmarking (in Firefox), makes it easier and simple.

To subscribe to a feed to the following:

Go to the feed URL. Usually the feed URL is shown using a Orange Box.

After going to the feed URL following will be shown in Firefox:

Now select Live Bookmarks as your option and click on Subscribe Now.

Using feeds is very simple. A tab will come on your browser, click on it to see the new posts. This feature is not only in Tech36 Technology Blog but also can be seen on most of the Blogs which run on wordpress and also in many other blogs and websites.

It is the best way too stay updated with the blog/website you like.

Google note this, notebook feature

Here is something fun that you can do on Google, if you have a Google account. Note some of the interesting web pages that you come across Google search. There are lot of such cool features on Google that we miss. So it is suggested that you have a Google Account before you search on Google.

The screen shot shows the Google notebook. After making the search, below each search result, you can see the note this link (only if you have a Google account). When you click on the note this link, a box will open up asking you for some additional details. With note this feature, you can have an online bookmark list. Google is also doing its part to get into the social bookmarking region.

Keep looking around in Google, you will find many features like this. Let us know if you know any.

Privacy on Orkut

Search Engine giant Google’s social networking website, Orkut allows you to set the privacy level of your profile (your page on Orkut which others see). All these features were not there in the old version of Orkut, but the new version of Orkut allows it all.

First of all a small intro on the dangers that people used face, it has also been accused as a medium for the death of some people. Some muslim countries have blocked Orkut.

Now Orkut is doing more for the privacy of its users. New features like only friends get to see albums and videos et cetera. This will considerably reduce abuse, unless you add bad people or unknown people into your friends list.

Go to http://www.orkut.com/PrivacySettings.aspx and change the settings as you like and thats all. Better be safe than sorry.

Windows XP Service Pack 3

It was the hot buzz all over that Microsoft will release it’s service pack 3 version of Windows XP. Finally it has and it is available at the Microsoft website for  download.  It  comes along with many hot fixes for better security and performance.

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 is known to have many flaws and features. There were claims that someone had released Microsoft Windows XP Ultimate, just like Windows Vista Ultimate. This version has over 1000 fixes for the bugs in Windows XP SP2.

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Text generator clarification

Tech36 recently launched a new in house software, Text Generator. Many people, especially from Digital Point appeared clueless about why I made such tool.

Please remember, this tool was not made to fool search engines or increase page rank of your website (I have clearly mentioned about Googlebot being smart). It was a trial software made in Delphi.

To prevent massive abuse of search engine spamming, I didn’t allow people to copy text that it had generated.

This software was a trial version and doesn’t have 1% of the power that the full version has. The full version of this software will be released in 3-4 months.

Google’s new image search idea

Google, the search engine giant, have a new technology up their sleeves, this will be coming soon. It is a new type of image search. Just as Google gives page rank to every web page in its index, it is going to give images with a similar ranking.

Scientists from Google have submitted the paper. In this they claim that computers will be used to analyze not only the text associated with the image but the things in the image too.

Search engines today solely rely on text associated with the image, but this new technology will ensure that people will be able to get the right image results.

The above search was made on Google’s Image Search section and the tag red was used. From the above image we can see that all the results depend on the text associated with the image.

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