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Loaded: Facebook's interface changes

2011-09-21
it's Wednesday September 21st 2011 I'm Wilson Tang on cnn.com and it's time to get loaded new changes to Facebook again switching between a list of top stories and recent posts is a thing of the past now top stories and recent posts are stacked together on users main wall with a little blue corner to mark what Facebook thinks is a top story for you but for those updates of lesser importance there is now a moving ticker on the right-hand side scrolling through recent comments and likes from your friends hover your mouse over and you can interact with all related comments it's like Facebook inside of your Facebook Apple and Microsoft might be anti adobe flash but adobe is like the honey badger it just don't care the software giant has announced a new version of flash and air which would be able to render graphics 1,000 times faster than the previous software the company is focusing on games advanced online video and data-driven apps flash 11 and air 3 will be available early October but the updates come during a time when Apple has banned the Flash plugin from its iphone and ipads and microsoft's new internet explorer 10 for windows 8 in the metro touch interface won't support any plugins at all regardless adobe pushes onward with support of the game makers like Zynga and EA images and details of the motorola atrix to have been released by the boy genius report the tech blog says when it comes out around Thanksgiving it won't support LTE 4G but we'll have a dual-core processor and an eight megapixel camera with 1080p HD video recording and gingerbread 2.3 point 5 images show that it looks pretty similar to the first atrix at ATT released in March hipsters get excited the smartphone app that makes everyone's photos look like they were taken by a Polaroid camera in the 70s has added new features instagrams free app update lets users see the effects of a filter before they snap the picture it also saves high resolution photos has four new filter effects plus an instant tilt shift for that depth of field look vimeo the video sharing competitor to youtube released a new music library today making it easy to add legal music to your videos yes that is right it is not legal to slap some jack johnson song on your wedding video and post it as your own creation but now vimeo has 45,000 tracks to pick from about 11,000 are free and others that cost just a dollar ninety-nine attract for personal use songs were professional or commercial licenses cost $98 track and in other music news remember kazaa yes yes it's a legal service now but this week it released its first mobile app for iOS the streaming music service is competing with companies like spotify and rdio the kazaa service is free to try for week but after that it costs ten dollars a month for unlimited streaming and downloads those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson tank for cnet.com and you've just been loaded
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