Orkut account Hacked / taken over ( and deleted after being hacked by someone.)
General methods of hacking Orkut Account :-
1. Phishing using fake page.
2. Using Keyloggers / remote key loggers.
3. Brute force attack.
4. Using Java Scripts

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5. Using greasemonkey scripts.
6. By cookie stealing method.
7. Other methods.
Explanation of each method is beyond the level and i dont wanna go in details.
Follow these steps:
1. Try to reset your password – Go Here or Here
2. If not able to do so then fill this form providing as much correct details as you can. ( the correctness of info provided will determine weather you will get back your a/c or not so give your best guess if you dont remember something.Contact Orkut for password reset.
3. If your Orkut Account has been deleted after being hacked. do fill this form (Click here ) immediately.
You will get password reset link through email. Do change your password and login to your Account as soon as you can.
4. Always remember these points:

• Donot ever login to any site rather than www.orkut.com
• Donot ever run any javascripts while logged into your orkut account, Never use any flooder in your account
• Donot ever share your password with anyone else and keep changing your password regularly.
• Donot ever click suspicious link while logged into Orkut Account. if you are curious you can copy the link and check them in other browser after cleaning it’s browser’s cookie and cache.
• Donot ever install any suspicious script on greasemoneky and always disable greasemoneky before logging in to orkut.
• Do your mobile verification also, so that you can get back your account if hacker doesn’t change the mobile number there.( Verify mobile here )

Social networking sites have probably become the most popular way to stay connected with your friends. Seeing so much popularity, developers of these websites always keep on trying something innovative and new feature to attract people towards their site. So today we are going to tell you about a new and innovative feature i.e Video Chat in Orkut.
All social networking sites have option to chat with your friends through text but recently a small plugin is developed for Orkut which will enable you to do voice chat with your friends. This plugin will integrate with your Orkut and you will just require a Web Camera and a Headphone to video chat with your Orkut Buddies.
This is really an exciting feature and am sure you all will love this feature. So if you want your Orkut account to enabled with this feature, you can read my tutorial below. Before starting my tutorial let me tell you best thing about this plugin that it not only works for Windows XP or later only, but even works for Intel Mac OS X 10.4 or later and Linux. Hence if your OS falls under above category, then you can start with the tutorial.
First you will need to download this plugin which is available at www.google.com/chat/video. Then you will need to click on Downloading link available on this webpage.

Once you click on this link, it will direct you to another page and your downloading will start in some moment. It will take less than a minute to download this tool.

Once it finishes download, this plugin will automatically get installed in your system. This process will again require a time duration of less than a minute.

Now once it finished installing, it will notify you to restart your browser. You have an option to Restart Browser Later but it is advisable to restart it now but still you can save your pages in current browser before restarting it as restart will close all your opened pages.

After this, this plugin will get successfully installed in your system. The best part of this plugin is that it works with all the Web Browsers. Now open your Orkut account and at the home page of your account only you will find new options being integrated in your chat settings. So now all you need to do is customize settings for video chat and then you can instantly start video chat with your online buddies.

This setting will get located in the more option available under your orkut chat box. You can see following snapshot to see where this option is available.

Now once you configured all the settings, click on any of your friend from your online friends and tell him to install this plugin and get ready with web cam. Once he also configure his system, you both can start video chat. All you need to do is to click on a icon available on your chat window and then your video chat will start as soon he/she accepts your invitation.

Once you start video chat, you can pop up chat window and even can resize the size of video interface on your screen. In simple click you can even switch to full screen mode and if you are not using it in full screen, then you will find it easy to move video chat window to any part of window. This tool enable you to experience the high quality video chat with your friends. You can still have a look at video below, to see more about its functionality.

With time we have been reviewing various useful extensions for google chrome, this time we came across another quite useful extension for apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users who can search apple app store apps directly from google chrome web interface.

After the launch of feature which allows you to open any apple store app description in a browser, this type of searching extension for google chrome will give apple device users more flexibility.
Click the link title link for a searched app to open in web browser, to read the complete description properly.

It allows to view applications for iPod and iPhone, Browsing categories, top25, top paid and top frees.
Download AppStore Search Extension For Google Chrome

There could a situation when you want to save the location map of a place you are going to, just for your own references so that you can later locate the roads and streets going to right directions by opening the google map downloaded for that area. 
GMapCatcher is a free program which can help you download google maps and then view them offline, It downloads CloudMade, OpenStreetMap or Google Map tiles automatically, display them using a specific GUI. It doesn’t depend on google-map’s java scripts so it should work even if google changes them.

In order to download maps for a particular area of the world, search the location first and then zoom it to the right level so that things you want to see visible like roads, streets etc and then click Download map button to start downloading the maps offline for that area.

Before starting the downloading, you can also specify the latitude, longitude, width and height of that area in km and then click the download button, these options will help you get the specific map portion you require to see offline.  
 
Also Read – Download Google Maps To Mobile Phone
Download GMapCatcher

Google Calendar is one such easy to use tool which allows you to organise, manage your meetings and events easily, but in order to use it you would need to open calendar.google.com in your Internet browser. We have already written a tip on how sync windows 7 calendar with google calendar, today we will tell you about free google calendar desktop tool called GMinder which lets you manage events in google calendar directly through its interface.
GMinder – is a reminder program that waits in your system tray and alerts you when you have an upcoming Google Calendar event. GMinder supports multiple calendars and allows you to configure how you want to be alerted. Since it downloads your events, it works offline and enables you to preview your agenda of events. New events can be added to your Google Calendars using a Quick Add feature.

Once this program is installed, you can double click the system tray icon of this program to see the current and future events scheduled in GMinder. Moreover you can quickly add tasks and event in google calendar by right clicking the system tray icon of this application and select Add Event

Now type about your event with message and day it will added automatically to google calendar.
 
Following are some key features this google calendar desktop tool

• Refresh rate - How often GMinder will check online for changes to your calendars
• Preload - How many days into the future GMinder will download events for
• Test connectivity before downloading events – If events will not download even if your calendars can be downloaded, then disable this option because ECHO is probably disabled on your network (possibly blocked by your admin).
• Always on top - Force the Reminder window to always display on top of all other windows
• Future – Set the background color for events that are in the future
• Soon – Events that are soon are about to start
  • Popup – Show the reminder window when an event will start soon
  • Sound – Play a sound when an event will start soon
  • Minutes – How many minutes before an events start you want to be alerted
• Now – Events that are currently in progress
  • Popup – Show the reminder window when an event starts
  • Sound – Play a sound when an event starts
• Past – Events that have ended
  • Dismiss – Automatically dismiss (remove) events after they end
• Sound – Change the sound that plays during an alert

Note: You can add and merge google calendar from multiple google accounts.
Download GMinder