Get your orkut scraps delivered to your mobile

Get your orkut scraps delivered to your mobile

This article provides you with a very simple method to get orkut scraps delivered directly into your mobile phone as sms messages. The pages you may subscribe are scrapbook, community pages or even community messages. All the messages will be delivered free of cost. Following are the steps to get any orkut page as sms to mobile :

 

1. Register your mobile phone to MyToday. MyToday supports almost all networks in India.
2. Login to your orkut account and navigate to the page to which you wish to subscribe.
3. Copy the URL of the above page. It should be copied completely including http://. URL can be found in the address bar (where you enter www.orkut.com) of your browser.
4. In other window/ tab, open the orkutfeeds site and in the field provided, paste the above orkut URL and click on subscribe.
5. Now, copy the URL of subscription page as said above.
6. Open your MyToday account, and navigate to a page as seen in the snap in the following way.
   a. Under My tab, click on feeds.
   b. Under My Folders, click on Manage feeds.
   c. Under Folders tab, click on SMS.
   d. You will now get into a page.
7. Enter the name as you wish. Say, “My scraps” and at the URL field, paste the URL which you have copied from orkutfeeds subscription page, check Send SMS, click Create.
8. You’re done! Now, you can expect your scraps delivered into your mobile phone as and when your scrapbook updates.

 

You may use following methods to get your scrap directed to your mobile phone.
1. Determine your cell phone’s email id and use RSSFWD to send scrapbook feed updates to your mobile phone. Easiest way to determine your mobile phone’s email id is to send an email from your cell phone to your mail id (it costs you ) and look for from address in mail. In RSSFWD, you need to enter your cell phone’s mail id instead of your email id.
2. Yahoo! Alerts:
This is quite simple, you need to register your mobile for Yahoo! Mobile or Yahoo! Messenger. Goto Yahoo! Alerts page for feeds. Enter the feed url for your orkut scrapbook and select your mobile device to receive alerts. This trick did not work for me when I used my messenger phone (Spice, Karnataka, India.) to receive alerts. My network is compatible with messenger but did not work for alerts. For detailed description of using Yahoo! Alerts, I recommend you reading this post.
3. We have few more sites like SendMeRss or MyToday(India) or any other applicable for your geographic location. Just use the same trick, use the feed generated by orkut feeds and subscribe to that using any services like the ones above mentioned. Or use your cell phone’s email address and signup for that mail notification.