Orkut Shutting Down Tuesday, Last Chance to Export Your Data

If you want to revisit your long ignored Orkut profile, now is the best time to do so. Google is going to shut down its Orkut social network on September 30, as it had announced earlier. Orkut was the search giant's first foray into the social networking space, which failed to take off due to tough competition from rival services such as Facebook and Twitter.


Google later launched another social network called Google+, which may not be giving sleepless nights to Facebook, but turned out to be far more popular than Orkut. While Orkut wasn't a big success across the world, it was very popular in India and Brazil.


In a blog post, Google had said, "Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell."


If you want to save the data you have on Orkut, we've written a complete guide on how to download your Orkut scraps, testimonials, and photos.


Google had said that it would save an archive of all Orkut communities after it shuts down the service on September 30. The company had asked people to remove their Orkut account from Google permanently if they didn't want their name or posts to be included in the community archive.


Both Orkut and Facebook were launched in 2004. While Facebook has become the world's largest social network with over 1.2 billion users, a Reuters report said Google declined to comment on the number of users Orkut has.


Orkut's fortunes floundered a few years ago and it is finally being closed.

Orkut

Orkut Logo

Orkut was a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google. The service was designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. 
Orkut Founded January 24, 2004 (10 years ago)

On June 30, 2014, Google announced it will be closing Orkut on September 30, 2014.
No new accounts can be created starting July 2014. Users can download their profile archive by Google Takeout

Orkut was one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil in 2008.
In 2008 Google announced that Orkut would be fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in the city of Belo Horizonte. This was decided due to the large Brazilian user base and growth of legal issues.

Traffic on Orkut by country
Traffic of Orkut on March 31, 2004
	United States		51.36%
	Japan		7.74%
	Brazil		5.16%
	Netherlands		4.10%
	United Kingdom		3.72%
	Other		27.92%
Traffic of Orkut on May 1, 2014[1]
	Brazil		48.4%
	India		14.9%
	United States		5.9%
	Japan		5.8%
	Pakistan		3.4%
	Other		21.6%

State censorship

In Iran

Orkut was very popular in Iran, but the website is now blocked by the government. According to official reports, this is due to national security issues, and Islamic ethical issues about dating and match-making. To get around this block, sites such as orkutproxy.com (now defunct) were made for Iranian users. Other websites such as Yahoo! Groups and Google Groups have communities dedicated to receiving updates on the newest location of Iran's Orkut proxy. At one time it was possible to bypass governmental blockage of Orkut, but the site has closed its HTTPS pages on all anonymous proxies. Now it is almost impossible for ordinary users to visit this site inside Iran.

Many other sites have been published in Iran since Orkut's blockage, using the same social-networking model – examples include MyPardis, Cloob and Bahaneh.

In the United Arab Emirates

In August 2006, the United Arab Emirates followed the footsteps of Iran in blocking the site. This block was subsequently removed in October 2006. On July 3, 2007, Gulf News revisited the issue, publishing complaints from members of the public against Orkut communities like "Dubai Sex", and officially bringing the complaints to the attention of the state telecom monopoly Etisalat. By July 4, 2007, Etisalat had placed a renewed ban on the site, which remains in effect despite Google's promise to negotiate the ban with the UAE.

In Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is another country that has blocked access to Orkut, while Bahrain's information ministry was also under pressure to follow suit.

Session management and authentication

On June 22, 2007 Susam Pal and Vipul Agarwal published a security advisory on Orkut vulnerabilities related to authentication issues. The vulnerabilities are considered very dangerous in cybercafes, or in the case of man-in-the-middle attack as they can lead to session hijacking and misuse of legitimate accounts.The vulnerabilities are not known to be fixed yet and therefore pose threat to the Orkut users.

A week later, on June 29, 2007 Susam Pal published another security advisory which described how the Orkut authentication issue can be exploited to hijack Google and Gmail sessions and misuse the compromised account of a legitimate user under certain conditions.

Joseph Hick performed an experiment on the basis of the advisories published by Susam Pal, to find out how long a session remains alive even after a user logs out. His experiment confirmed that the sessions remain alive for 14 days after the user has logged out. It implies that a hijacked session can be used for 14 days by the hijacker because logging out does not kill the session.

Legal issues

India

On October 10, 2006, the Bombay High Court's Aurangabad bench served a notice on Google for allowing a hate campaign against India. This referred to a community on Orkut called 'We Hate India', which initially carried a picture of an Indian flag being burned and some anti-India content. The High Court order was issued in response to a public-interest petition filed by an Aurangabad advocate. Google had six weeks to respond. Even before the petition was filed, many Orkut users had noticed this community and were mailing or otherwise messaging their contacts on Orkut to report the community as bogus to Google, which could result in its removal. The community has now been deleted but has spawned several 'We hate those who hate India' communities. Prior to the 60th Independence Day of India, Orkut's main page was revamped. The section which usually displayed a collage of photos of various people, showed a stylized Orkut logo. The word Orkut was written in Devanagiri script and was coloured in Indian national colours. Clicking on the logo redirects to a post by the Orkut India ProductManager, Manu Rekhi, on the Orkut internal blog. There has also been some media outcry against Orkut after a couple of youngsters were apparently lured by fake profiles on the site and later murdered.

On November 24, 2006, Bombay High Court asked the state government to file its reply in connection with a petition demanding a ban on social networking site, Orkut, for hosting an anti-Shivaji Web community.

In 2007, the Pune rural police cracked a rave party filled with narcotics. The accused have been charged under anti-narcotic laws, the (Indian) Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropics Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS). Besides the NDPS, according to some media reports, the police were deliberating on the issue of charging the accused under the (Indian) Information Technology Act, 2000 perhaps because Orkut was believed to be a mode of communication for drug abuses of this kind.

The police in India have entered into an agreement with Orkut to have a facility to catch and prosecute those misusing Orkut since complaints are rising.

Brazil

On August 22, 2006, Brazilian Federal Judge José Marcos Lunardelli ordered Google to release by September 28 Orkut user’s information of a list of about twenty four Brazilian nationals, believed to be using Orkut to sell drugs and to be involved in child pornography. The judge ordered Google to pay $23,000 per day in fines until the information is turned over to the Brazilian government. According to the Brazilian government, the information would also be used to identify individuals who are spreading child pornography and hate speech. As of September 27, 2006 Google has stated that it will not release the information, on the grounds that the requested information is on Google servers in the U.S. and not Google servers in Brazil, and is therefore not subject to Brazilian laws.

Shutdown

On June 30, 2014, Google announced that Orkut would be shutting down completely on September 30 of that year. Users can export their photo albums before the final shutdown date of September 30, 2014. Orkut profile, scraps, testimonials, & community posts can be exported until September 2016. Google engineering director Paul Golgher said in a blog post: "Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell. Orkut was the result of a 20 percent project in which Google workers got to spend a fifth of their time on ideas not necessarily related to their job responsibilities". 

How to merge two Pages in Facebook

1. This option is only available for Pages that represent the same thing and have similar names. Merging Pages combines all of your likes and check-ins, but all other content such as posts, photos and the username will be permanently deleted from the Page you merge.

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Nokia 701

   Nokia 701

Manufacturer:Nokia

Series     Nokia 100s

Compatible networks     Quad band GSM 850/900/1800/1900
GPRS, EDGE
Pentaband UMTS (W-CDMA) 850/900/1700/1900/2100
HSDPA 14.4 Mbps
HSUPA 5.76 Mbps

First released     September 2011

Availability by country     Q4 2011

Related     Nokia 700, Nokia C7

Type     Smartphone
Form factor     Slate

Dimensions     117.2 mm (4.61 in) H
56.8 mm (2.24 in) W
11 mm (0.43 in) D

Weight     113 g (4.0 oz)

Operating system     Nokia Belle

Updates Available:

Belle Feature Pack 1
Belle Feature Pack 2



CPU     ARM11 at 1.3 GHz, 512 MB
GPU     Broadcom BCM2763 at 250 MHz with 128 MB RAM
Storage     8 GB
Removable storage     up to 64 GB (FS: FAT32) supported w/ microSDHC support

Battery     BL-5K 3.7 V 1300 mAh Li-Ion battery

Data inputs    

    Capacitive multi-touch display
    Key lock switch and eight keys for power, call creation, menu, call termination, volume up/zoom in, volume down/zoom down, voice recognition, and camera
    Virtual keyboard; multiple text-entry options
    Two microphones for noise cancelation or stereo recording
    Sensors: Accelerometer, Ambient Light, Magnetometer, Proximity
    GPS with A-GPS

Display     640 × 360 px (nHD), 3.5" capacitive, multi-touch IPS-LCD display with the Nokia ClearBlack technology and Corning Gorilla Glass
Rear camera     8 Megapixels (3264 x 2448 pixels), fixed focus, dual LED flash, 16:9 720p video, 30 FPS
Front camera     VGA camera (640 x 480 pixels), QCIF video (176 x 144 pixels), 15 FPS for video calling
Compatible media formats     Video Recording Formats:
H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, H.263

Video Playback Formats: H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, 3GPP/H.263, Flash Video, RealVideo 10, Sorenson Spark, VC-1, VP6, WMV 9

Image Formats: JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, BMP, Exif, GIF, MBM, OTA, TIFF, WMF

Audio Formats: MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, MIDI, Mobile XMF, WAV

Connectivity    

    Bluetooth 3.0
    USB 2.0 via MicroUSB
    USB On-The-Go
    Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n
    NFC
    FM transmitter (88.1 - 107.9 MHz)
    3.5mm jack TRRS connector
    TV-out via 3.5mm jack in SD quality (PAL/NTSC)

Other    

    Free lifetime voice-guided car and pedestrian navigation (Nokia Maps)
    Read PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents with Quickoffice
    UPnP/DLNA Server with Nokia Play to
    Voice command/dial
    Image Capture: Face Detection, Geo-tagging
    OpenVG1.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0
    Active Noise Cancellation
    Stereo FM RDS Radio
    Digital Dolby sound experience after update to Belle FP1
    ActiveSync
    Qt 4.7.4
    Java
    Python




Nokia 701:

The Nokia 701 is a multi-touch Nokia Belle smartphone released in Q4 2011. It has a 3.5" IPS-LCD display with 640 x 360 pixels. The brightness of the display is 1000 nits and uses Gorilla Glass. Nokia announced the phone on 24 August 2011. A Nokia Belle update (Feature Pack 1) increased the processor speed of the 701 from 1.0 GHz to 1.3 GHz.


Apps:
Additional Apps are available in the Ovi Store from Nokia. The Nokia 701 has several preloaded Apps: Phone switch, Quickoffice, Music Player, Social client for social network feeds, Nokia Maps, Nokia Browser, Nokia Music, Ovi Store, Vlingo, Microsoft Communicator Mobile, Shazam, Adobe PDF reader, WebTV widgets, Angry Birds Magic with NFC (free edition), and Asphalt 5 with NFC

How to Disable Write Protection

Step 1: Plug in your pendrive into your USB 2.0 on your computer. In order to make sure the computer has read your pendrive, you can go down to your bottom left on Windows, you will notice a small USB drive icon. If you click that, it will say “Removable Disk.” This means that the pendrive has been read successfully.  You can take a backup of your files from the pendrive or Memory card, Because we here are going to format it Completely.

Step 2: Next we need to open up Command Prompt. You can do this by simply going to “Start”, then just search for “Command Prompt”, or you can simply just type in “CMD” and command prompt should pop up.

Step 3: In the command prompt, type in the drive letter of your pen drive with a colon at the end, like this: “ F: ” but without the quotation marks.

Step 4: After putting in the previous command, type in “format” without the quotation marks. Here’s how to do it: “format F:” and then press “Enter.”

This should get the process started to Remove write protection in Pendrive. Make sure that you are entering the right command with the right drive letter. If you have more than one pen drive plugged in, make sure that you do select the right one as you can accidentally format the wrong drive, causing loss of data.

Step 5: After the process is complete, proceed to closing command prompt.

Steps to turn ON/OFF System Restore in Windows XP OS

1. Steps to turn on System Restore

   • Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
   • In the System Properties dialog box, click the System Restore tab.
   • Click to clear the Turn off System Restore check box. Or, click the Turn off System Restore on all drives check box.
   • Click OK.

To turn ON/OFF system protection for a particular disk in Windows 7 OS

1. To turn on system protection for a particular disk

   • Open System by clicking the Start button , right-clicking Computer, and then clicking Properties.
   • In the left pane, click System protection. ...
   • Under Protection Settings, click the disk, and then click Configure.
   • Do one of the following: ...
   • Click OK, and then click OK again.