orKut scrapbook 4 IE

The files are way down below: 

PURPOSE – I want to reply to a scrap you have written. I click on your name on the side of the scrap, and land up in your profile. I say, “Hmm… You are the same person I have been seeing everytime I scrap you, now where is that link to your scrapbook”. Hell.. I donot want to go thru your profiles everytime, so I decide to change the url of my scrapbook by replacing my uid with yours, and Lo! I land up directly in your scrapbook. But changing this big number manually, or by copy & paste, takes too much time. I can do faster by going thru your profile with my broadband connection. So I made a small script file and a registry hack to add Orkut scrapbook as a context menu in internet explorer with k as a shortcut key. So I right click your name and press k. That’s all to start scrapping you.

WARNING – This is only a suggestion and might not work with your computer. Use it at your own risk
Well, that is the standard clause of all software installation packages. It implies that I donot give any warranty or guarantee that this will work, and if it crashes your PC, spooks your monitor or kills your cat, I am neither going to hear anything from you nor am I going to compensate you for your ingenious stupidity.

All said and done, this works with IE on Win XP and NS / Opera / Mozilla / Other users should write their own codes for menu extensions. For other Win OS versions, probably the registry file needs to be modified. If you are sadistic enough, go and directly edit your registry, kill your PC, or have a new menu extension at your onw risk.

TOC
1 Unzipping
2 Default Installation
3 Alternate Installation
4 Using the menu
5 Contact details
6 Copyright

1.0 Unzipping

1.1 Extract the files, preferably to C:\WINDOWS\WEB folder. If you have some problems extracting to this folder see section 3

2.0 Default Installation
2.1 With the files in the correct folder, run the file OrkutScrapbook.reg and accept the warnings. This is not going to bring down your machine, but adds just a menu extension to Internet Explorer. You can right click and choose edit/modify option to see the contents. It should be as below:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Orkut Scrapboo&k]
@=”C:\\Windows\\web\\OrkutScrap.htm”
“Contexts”=dword:00000022

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2.2 Refer to section 4.1 for how to use the menu.

3.0 Alternate Installation

3.1 Extract files to the folder where you have got write access.
3.2 Right click on file OrkutScrapbook.reg and choose edit/modify option to see the contents in notepad. It should be like this:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Orkut Scrapboo&k]
@=”C:\\Windows\\web\\OrkutScrap.htm”
“Contexts”=dword:00000022

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Now carefully edit the 4th line (@=”C:\\Windows\\web\\OrkutScrap.htm”) by changing the folder to indicate the folder where the OrkutScrap.htm file is located. In a registry file, folder demarcator “\” should be escaped as “\\”. This is very important. For example, if you put the same in your “My Documents” folder, the line should be modified to:
             @=”C:\\Documents and Settings\\USERNAME\\My documents\\OrkutScrap.htm”
where USERNAME is your user name. This applies for Windows XP OS, which I think you are probably using.

Now save the reg file.

3.3 Run the reg file – double click OR right click and choose MERGE option and accept warnings to update the registry.

3.4 Refer to section 4.1 for how to use the menu.

4.0 Using the menu

4.1 Open Internet explorer, login to your orkut account, right click on any friend names in friend list or scrapbook or anywhere else that normally the links to his profile (like his photo) and select “Orkut Scrapbook” in the context menu. You can right click and press “k” on keyboard for fast selection. The scrap book of your friend will open up.

5.0 Contact details

5.1 Check Orkut for somebody called Seby Manalel Isaac and send him a message. He might be willing (read able) to answer some of your smart questions and none of the stupid ones.

6.0 Copyright

6.1 I do not believe in copyright, but do believe in copyleft, GPL and the sort. If I did not wnat this to be copied, I would not have sent this to you in the first place. I am an ardent believer that software is created to be used and not for commercial exploitation. Ya, you all know that I use most of the “Genuine” software available in the market :-O

6.2 If it works for you, share the experience with your friends.
PS: I still enjoy sarcasm. So send me your comments on the utility as well as this write up. You know where to find me already. If not, start reading this instruction NOW !

The Files:

(just check the ” and ” quotes after copy paste! )

orKutScrapBook.reg

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00      

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMenuExtOrkut Scrapboo&k]
@="C:WindowswebOrkutScrap.htm"
"Contexts"=dword:00000022

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orKutScrap.htm

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<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2">   

// http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx?uid=16260132007885728923   

var srcEvent = external.menuArguments.event;   

var srcDoc = external.menuArguments.document;   

var srcElement = srcDoc.elementFromPoint(srcEvent.clientX, srcEvent.clientY);   

var srcAnchor = srcElement;   

var sURL = "";   

while(srcAnchor.tagName!="A" && srcAnchor.tagName!="AREA" && srcAnchor.tagName!="HTML") {srcAnchor=srcAnchor.parentElement;}   

// die with error on badformed document   

if(srcEvent.type=="MenuExtUnknown" || srcEvent.type=="MenuExtImage" || srcEvent.type=="MenuExtAnchor")   

{   

if(srcAnchor.tagName=="A" || srcAnchor.tagName=="AREA") {sURL = srcAnchor.href;}   

if(srcAnchor.tagName=="HTML" && srcElement.tagName=="IMG") {sURL = srcElement.src;}   

}   

//find number after uid=   

var iPos=sURL.lastIndexOf("uid=");   

sURL="http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx?" + sURL.substr(iPos);   

srcDoc.location=sURL;   

</SCRIPT>   

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just let me know if you have any doubts.

orKut scrapbook 4 IE details and code