Scrap boy : ScrapBoy is the best tool for accessing Orkut in convenient and simples way. You don’t need to use the browser at all and no need to visit Orkut too. It just sends you the updates (scrap, albums, birthday) right on your desktop and lets you scrap easily too.

Orkut Mass Delete Tool: It will do help you for mass deletion of the scraps. It will be very useful for all Orkut users and all the moderators of the communities as they need to delete the most of the spam topics.

Orkut Toolbar : Orkut toolbar helps you to format your posts in orkut. It helps you to create & manage custom signatures, insert & view images and flash movies in Orkut. (FireFox plug-in)

APC Software -Orkut Cute 9.4.27 :Its a account monitoring program available for FREE ,With it you can easily access your account and quickly check your scraps. I guess, its a tool Orkut users simply can’t afford to miss.

Free Orkut Toolbar : This toolbar provides you quick links to the most commonly used features of Orkut. Apart from that it has got Radio, Email notification, RSS feed reader and other handy utilities.

Orkut Alert 0.8 Alpha R2 : Orkut Alert is a tiny application which sits in the system tray and alerts you about new scraps, G-mail messages. You’ll find these functions in GTalk, so its really up to you if you want to use it.

Gladder 1.2.2.1 : Gladder is a FireFox plug-in which is a proxy tool and lets you access Orkut, even where it is blocked by firewalls. Must have for die-hard Orkut users.

Orkut has become a major social media platform for everyone. But to play around with orkut here are some orkut tricks which i have used and trust me they worked fine. So here we go....

1. Knowing a person email id in Orkut.

* Ignore the person in orkut you want to know the Email id.
* Open your Gtalk with same account as for Orkut.
* Go to Settings -> Blocked. in gtalk
* You will see the email id of that person.

2. Write Anonymous Scraps to anyone at orkut

* Create a fake account at orkut
* Write the scraps to the person you want.
* Delete the account and your scraps will become anonymous at orkut.

3. Finding those who has a crush on you in orkut.

* Add the one you think might have crush on you.
* If that person have already added you to their crush list , you will get an email.
* delete all from your crush list.

4. Write a Blank Scrap to anyone in orkut.

* Delete everything in the text box field.
* Now holding “alt” key down press 0 1 7 3 one after the other from left to right.
* That it..done
* Click Post Scrap or Submit.

5. Writing your text in reverse order at orkut.

* Type your text in the scrapbook.
* Type & # 8 2 3 8 without spaces before the message.
* Click Submit or Post scrap.

6. How to by pass the verification image while posting a url in a scrapbook in orkut.

* Change http to HtTp and www to wWw.
* Now post the scrap
* No Verification now needed.