This is a great Trick by Gaurav Verma to use orkut on widescreen..
I was quit annoyed when i used orkut on my Laptop..
as it had widescreen and the orkut Homepage looked silly with a lot of space being wasted...

Here are the screenshots (Taken from Gaurav's Post) :



But,you have a widescreen monitor and orkut's new design doesn't look good on it.what you want to have is this


How to do this :
First download Firefox
Then Install Greasemonkey on it
Then Go to http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11782 and click on the "Install this Script" link on the right side


Thanks Gaurav..
[Through Gverma]

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