As always it is an Invitation only design and isn’t opened for everyone to try. So you need an invitation first if you would like to try out the new Orkut.

I’ve got an invitation for myself to try out the new Orkut design.And it looks far much better then previous Orkut. You can take advantage of all features of Orkut with lesser clicks and in a neat Environment and also on the same page.Pre –embedded with color themes and lot of new features. We would soon be listing all features as well.

For all readers of WindowsVJ i am offering our very first giveaway.That’s 5 Orkut New Invitations.

Conditions :

1. For twitter users Retweet this post on twitter “RT @WindowsVJ Orkut Invitation for New Design : Giveaway WindowsVJ http://bit.ly/1lyYcW”. You may also Update their facebook/Orkut to increase their chances.

2. Drop a comment below with your email address and I will invite you myself to try the new Orkut design.Comment on “Why you want Orkut new Invite”

I would be picking up 1 winner starting from 10th Nov till 14th Nov. If you are a winner i would add you on Orkut and would send you the Invitation.

                          

Many websites today have the feature to restrict the right click and thus restrict the user to save any media from their website. While copying down any image it either does gives you the alert “Right Click disabled” or the right click menu is not showed.

Mozilla Firefox has a feature by which you can see and save all the Media which is displayed on the webpage that is currently open.Page Info window in Firefox has a tab “Media”which has all the media including images,flashes from the webpage with their actual address.Navigate from here :

Tools –> Page Info  –> Media

Right Click on Webpage  –> Page Info –> Media

Now you can select any image and you can copy its path from the Frame above. Orkut images in the albums can also be saved via this trick and Flash files as well so there is no need to integrate an external Flash player as well.

                          

According to an article @ theHindu more number of American employers are turning to such sites before zeroing in on the right candidate for employment

A major chunk of the US employers are banking on social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace, to research on a candidate before recruitment, says a survey.

Nearly half of employers surveyed in the US by job portal CareerBuilder showed that 45 per cent of them use social networking sites to research job candidates. Last year, the same stood at just 22 per cent.About 11 per cent are planning to start using social networking sites for screening.Moreover, about 35 per cent of employers reported that they have found content on social networking sites that made them decide not to hire the candidate.

The survey was conducted online within the US by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com between May 22 and June 10, 2009 among 2,667 hiring managers and human resource professionals.

Going by the findings, Facebook is the most preferred among employers with 29 per cent of the employers using that site for online searches or background checks before recruiting candidates.Besides, 26 per cent of respondents use LinkedIn, 21 per cent surf MySpace, 11 per cent search blogs and 7 per cent follow candidates on Twitter for information.

The industries most likely to screen job seekers via such sites or search engines include IT (63 per cent) and professional and business services (53 per cent).

"Social networking is a great way to make connections with potential job opportunities and promote your personal brand across the Internet," CareerBuilder Vice-President of Human Resources Rosemary Haefner said.

Among those surveyed, 53 per cent respondents said candidates have posted provocative or inappropriate photographs or information, while 44 per cent said that many candidates have posted information about drinking or using drugs.

As per the survey, 35 per cent of respondents found that candidates bad-mouthed their previous employer, co-workers or clients and made them decide not to hire such people.Interestingly, 14 per cent of employers did not hire a candidate because he/she send a message using an emoticon such as a smiley face while 16 per cent decided against recruiting a candidate for using text language such as ‘GR8′ (great) in an e-mail or job application.

On the other hand, nearly 18 per cent said they found content on such sites that helped them hire a candidate.

So Best of luck for your Tweets & Scraps .May be that can land you up into your dream job.

                          

Most of us are scared to add someone to our crush-list because of the fear that he/she will get a notification from Orkut that you have added him/her on your crush-list.

YES, they will get such a notification.
But that is only if they too add you on their crush list.
In fact, you both will get a message from Orkut if you both have added each other on your respective crush lists.
This is a fantastic piece of innovation from Orkut wherein one-side crushes will not be notified and if mutual crush exists, then both sides will come to know of it.

Spreading this information is important.
It will help the cause of many people and who knows, you may be the lucky one too!!!

So start adding people to your crush-lists now and spreading this vital information!!!