Nikpages » firefox http://www.nikpages.com Blogging about the web, social media and Technology Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:43:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to remove ads from Orkut pages http://www.nikpages.com/how-remove-ads-orkut-pages/ http://www.nikpages.com/how-remove-ads-orkut-pages/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:01:29 +0000 Nikhil http://www.nikpages.com/?p=242 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.

Why Orkut is showing ads ?

The Official Orkut blog explains that in this post as

One of the great things about social networks is their ability to supply you with information that’s relevant to you….On the Orkut team, we believe that advertisements should be no different

So the Orkut team thinks that these ads may provide additional information relevant to you.

But that might not be the only reason. There were rumors that Google might be shutting down Orkut. Running Orkut is a very expensive task for Google and they might want to earn at least some part of the expenses through these ads.

In fact they have created a micro site for advertising on Orkut that says Orkut is the best way to reach Indians online.

]]> http://www.nikpages.com/how-remove-ads-orkut-pages/feed/ 3 Vodafone Zoozoo smileys for Orkut http://www.nikpages.com/vodafone-zoozoo-smileys-orkut/ http://www.nikpages.com/vodafone-zoozoo-smileys-orkut/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 07:12:23 +0000 Nikhil http://www.nikpages.com/?p=178 One thing I loved the most about this years IPL apart from the on field action  was the Vodafone Zoozoo ads. I was really surprised to know that they were real humans in masks and not animation. Now you can get Vodafone Zoozoo smileys for Orkut.

[ via OrkutPlus ]

]]> http://www.nikpages.com/vodafone-zoozoo-smileys-orkut/feed/ 3 Save images from orkut albums http://www.nikpages.com/save-images-in-orkut-albums/ http://www.nikpages.com/save-images-in-orkut-albums/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:04:52 +0000 Nikhil http://www.nikpages.com/?p=24 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.

If you are using Mozilla Firefox, Easy DragToGo is a very useful add-on that helps you to save images by just dragging on them. Click here to install the add-on. This can be used to save image or open in  a new tab or open in new window etc according to different mouse gestures. Also this can be used to open links in new window, search a selected text etc.

easydrag

]]> http://www.nikpages.com/save-images-in-orkut-albums/feed/ 2 Add user menu to Orkut http://www.nikpages.com/add-user-menu-to-orkut/ http://www.nikpages.com/add-user-menu-to-orkut/#comments Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:55:44 +0000 Nikhil http://www.nikpages.com/?p=13 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

usermenu

This script works only with Mozilla Firefox free downloadable.

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Download Firefox here

Safari can be downloaded from here

For Firefox

  • Type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar and press enter
  • A list will appear on a page. Find out “general.useragent.extra.firefox”, don’t worry they are in alphabetical order
  • Right click and select modify, it would be something like “Firefox/2.0.0.14?, chang it to”Mobile Safari 1.1.3?  (without quotes)
  • Done
  • Now goto http://imgs.zinio.com/iphone/ and start reading your favorite magazines

For Safari

  • From menu bar goto Edit>Preferences and select the advanced tab
  • In the advanced tab,check the box corresponding to ’show Develop menu in menu bar’ at the bottom
  • Now  a new menu Develop will appear on the menu bar
  • Goto Develop>User Agent and select Mobile Safari 1.1.3 -iPhone
  • Done
  • Now goto http://imgs.zinio.com/iphone/ and start reading your favorite magazines

Here is the list of magazines you can read online

U.S. News & World Report
Playboy
U.S. News & World Report
Playboy
Saveur
Popular Photography
Men’s Health
Kiplinger’s
Popular Mechanics
Penthouse
Viv
Car and Driver
PC Magazine
Elle
Technology Review
Outside
Macworld
Esquire
NME
Macworld Espanol
Lonely Planet
Reders Digest

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