Welcome App Instructions for Orkut Users

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These instructions are not reflecting many new features (support for YouTube, slides, updates, etc. ). More will be added when things will became more stable.

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Questions & Answers

Q. How to specify my preferences?
A. Click 'Edit setting' shown at the bottom of application widnow. Specify text labels, colors and trusted flash content providers.

Q. How to add a message to all friends.
A. Here is example how to add flash content as message to all friends.

Only specified providers allowed and flash width should be less than 400 pixels.
You need to save you message and you can check it by clicking 'View'.

Q. How to send messages to selected friends.
A. Here is example how to add a link as a message to a friend. The image of your friend should appear in your 'Outbox' list. Message title is shown when pointing to with cursor to this image.

Q. What information about users is show in the right top corner?
A. Here is example of a user with 'About Me' information obtained from his profile settings. The link to 'Welcome' application is provided for users with the app installed.

Q. Why there is shown 'Memory usage'?
A. Current implemenation of OpenSocial for Orkut allows you to use only 10KB for data storage. When you are approaching this limit, you can delete some messages to friends by entering blank values. You can also delete all of your data or just your bookmarks:

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New version for user preferences settings in Orkut