orkut has started many of new features like other compatible social network sites like facebook and myspace.

for example
- now can select and change the theme of your profile using orkut's official profiles.
- tag your friends and relatives faces in their album pictures.
- add various applications in profile.

but the thing is all these features are being enabled country wise. when used a proxy of india and login to my account all these features were enabled in it. and when used the proxy of china. it was not there. so if you can't see and modify them.but i hope it will be enabled for all countries soon. as the orkut is introducing and updating new features using orkut beta.

How to Change theme of your orkut profile?

you can select the new theme by clicking on 'change theme' link shown on the top right side of your homepage. and then can select the theme you like.


there are many other themes disabled, which would be under construction. and if you don't like them you can disable theme also by checking on the check box shown on the top of the theme list.

How to Tag photo in Orkut?

- open your photo album. click on the photo you want to tag on.
- at the below of the image, right side there will be a link "show all" and "add tag".
- click on add tag link.
- move the mouse and drag it on the the face of your friend. it will show the selection square box.
- leave the left click and the dialog box will appear to enter you friends name.
- it should be in your friend list. you can't tag photo of a friend which is not in your friend list.
- also you can tag multiple friends in one photo.

all the tagged photo will be shown in your profile as well as on your friends profile whom you have tagged. that link will be last in the link line starting with "scraps". it will be named as "photos of me".

Related:

• How to tag photos in myspace

if your internet connection speed of very law or you are using low bandwidth connection speed at your home or at any cyber cafe. use the new low bandwidth version of orkut. the name it self describes when to use this settings. it avoids downloading most of the images. because downloadin images by the browser make the webpage loading slow. and it also counts to reduce in your MB usage of the internet connection.

In friend list of user or in your homepage, only the name link will be visible to you. no images of orkut users in the friend list of any one's profile is visible. no photos in recent updates block on the home page. it will be for example "Cute Piscean ... added 6 new photos".

also in Scrapbook, images of scrappers are avoided. you can only view his/her image by clicking on it. by default be titled as "show photo".

To enable / disable settings to use low bandwidth of orkut. go to
settings->general and choose the appropriate option.

In earlier article texture scrap generator for orkut there was information about a tool to converts image into text. i found another online tool asciiconvert.com for the same. which more is efficiant. the result is looks pretty much clear.


it allows you to choose options like

• Colored character background
• Convert to grayscale
• Use white background
• Flip image horizontally
• Flip image vertically
• Monochrome output
• choose Characters to use in width

The black & white (using greyscale enabled) output is also very much clear and imressive.




Related:
texture scrap generator for orkut

we always looks the texture scraps which representing an image, while viewing profiles on orkut. and then wonders how does one can create the texture block that represent some image. in technical term it is called asciigenerator. and it is very easy to generate by the given tools. here are some freely available tools to generate the ascii texts of an image.

ASCIIArtist

The tool ASCIIArtist at the site toolpanel.org enables you to

• upload your image
• select the quality (1 for largest = best)
• colour mode
• hexadecimal colour
  
• you can select vertical and horizontal flips
• and other things.....
  

and then just click on render button. which will open a new window with your image in ascii texture format. now copy and paste the whole texture in your friends scrapbook text box. and surprise him/her.

This above tool is actually inspiration of Boosty's ASCIIArtist.

Boosty's ASCIIArtist

this tool is available for download for the developers. is for advance users.

ASCIIArtist is a class to convert Bitmap-Images
into nice ASCII Texts in HTML format written by Sebastian Röbke.

It is written in PHP and provides 3 different render modes
and support for JPG, PNG and GIF (if your PHP supports it, too).

This tool is available for download.
Link: http://www.sebastian-r.de/asciiart/
Related: convert any image to text image