Preening Facebook burglary suspect jailed

If you're short of a New Year's Resolution, here's one: I won't rob a place and then post pictures of the stuff I stole on Facebook.

This somewhat inspirational resolution comes to me on reading the story of a Pittsburgh man who, with three of his (perhaps Facebook) friends, allegedly robbed a local market.

Yes, the 18-year-old then posted pictures of some of the $8,000 worth of cash, candy and other items that teenagers love on his Facebook page, according to the police.

Oh, and he and his buddies (those others are all under 18) were said to be posing with the swag.

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As the Associated Press captures it, Isaiah Cutler was jailed after, well, the police miraculously caught up with him.

Were the the police already his Facebook friends? No, but there were quite a few friends and relatives (and their friends) who seemed rather alarmed that these pictures seemed to show that there had been, well, a burglary.

"They thought they could put [the pictures] out there for their friends who friended them on Facebook to see. But the one kid had 200 friends -- but not only were they friends, some of them were relatives who became concerned and called police," Detective Valerie Milie told the AP.

You see, that's what those pesky uncles and aunties are going to do -- they're going to tell on you.

So, please, all you would-be burglars, let's have no more preening and boasting on Facebook about your misdeeds. It doesn't reflect well on the profession.

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Facebook for Android gets updated

Facebook for Android received an update and this version will allow users to get faster and easier navigation through the website on their Android smartphones. As can be seen from the images, the interface seems to have got a big overhaul and it does look more intuitive and better customized for Android phones, now. Also, they’ve included push notifications, and access to games and applications on the go, which wasn’t available in the previous versions.  The updated interface Here’s a list of what has been added in this new version of the application: Navigate faster: Get to your groups, apps, pages, and settings with a single press Search and discover: Look through friends, subscribers, apps, and pages See your friends’ tags on pictures and zoom: New photo viewing experience Faster notifications: Get alerted in real time with new push notifications Games & Apps: Play games and access your favourite apps on the go Access to mobile timeline (If you already have Facebook timeline) Access to friend lists and subscriptions Those are some cool new features that have been added to enhance the mobile Facebook experience. The new Facebook app can be downloaded from here.

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Restore Old Facebook Newsfeed And Hide The Ticker Using “Facebook Classic” Chrome Extension

Facebook Classic is a Google Chrome addendum that helps you get Facebook operating through the adjustment it acclimated to afore those changes (hazardous in a word). It will restore the foremost contempo posts and abolish the reside account ticker restores the foremost contempo posts in adjustment that they assume on the accomplished as adjoin prime Stories. Facebook Classic do you affair and will it well: it rearranges your account augment that the a lot of abreast posts are at the accomplished and accordingly the earlier ones are at the lowest. It removes the dejected bend triangle, and removes the account ticker. It additionally stops the automatic adjustment of posts into "top news" and "recent news," and helps you to see all of them aural the adjustment they were posted.

Once put in, the addendum instantly removes Facebook’s new prime Story affection and accordingly the newsfeed ticker. Be warned that if you accept got another extensions that abuse Facebook, they may baffle with this one, decidedly if they tweaked the antecedent style. The addendum doesn’t dispense your advice or something, the a lot of contempo account in your augment charcoal on your bank about beneath the accomplished Story feature. This addendum brings it to the accomplished and helps you to apprehend updates as they happen.
If any addendum you are already application is interfering with this one, you'll apprehension glitches aural the babble area it would not pop-up sometimes. The addendum doesn’t restore the antecedent appearance rather the antecedent functionality. Facebook never actual dead the a lot of contempo account augment feature, it artlessly positioned it beneath prime belief accordingly you'll be able to opt to either annal down and access to your account augment or use the addendum in adjustment that it’s the a lot of affair on your bank already you assurance on.

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EA wants Facebook's users, $3 bln agenda sales

Electronic Arts Inc may never balance its Silicon Valley swagger. But maybe it doesn't accept to, its top controlling says. Three years afterwards EA went from getting one of the hottest kids on the video amateur block to industry also-ran, the leaner, added focused aggregation now hopes to yield on Zynga and accomplish $3 billion in acquirement from agenda bold sales in the next few years. Arch Controlling John Riccitiello told Reuters in an account his aggregation survived a "near-death experience," three years ago if its accumulation shrank, bold superior was poor and it lacked an Internet presence."We were already a aloof success in the Valley and again we were al of a sudden an afterthought," he said of the Redwood Shores, California-based company's position in 2007, if bold sales started to blooper worldwide. The CEO said that bluster may never absolutely return, but through aggregate cutting, slashing the aggregate of amateur it makes and publishing top amateur on Apple devices, EA has re-emerged as aggregation that is ambience its architect on amusing gaming abnormality Zynga. It is aural cutting distance.

Zynga, which filed with regulators for an antecedent accessible alms of up to $1 billion in July, receives the aggregate of its acquirement from authoritative amateur for amusing networks, conspicuously Facebook. In just 5 weeks, EA's "Sims Social" bold on Facebook admiring added than 53 actor account alive users, added than the aggregation had accepted and additional alone to Zynga's CityVille, which has added than 73 actor account users, according to AppData, a close that advance amusing amateur data. The ambition is to one day beat Zynga's users on Facebook. For now, AppData shows Zynga still dwarfs EA's user abject on Facebook with 267 actor users to EA's 94 million.

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EA's improvement story, as able-bodied as job conception and tax policy, will be the affair of Riccitiello's accent on Thursday in foreground of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. Riccitiello said EA is now one of the few bold companies, including China's Tencent, that will accomplish added than $1 billion this year in agenda bold sales. He said the next footfall will be for EA to be the aboriginal video bold aggregation to accomplish $3 billion in agenda acquirement -- sales fabricated added than from the auction of acceptable discs.

Digital acquirement comes from aggregate from added agreeable gamers can download assimilate their animate amateur -- such as on Microsoft's Xbox -- to the auction of basic appurtenances (like costumes) for a user's avatar in a Facebook game. "We'd like to be the aboriginal to get to $3 billion in agenda revenue," Riccitiello said, abacus it could be in the "next two or three years." To be sure, EA still has a way to go afore it can ability that figure. The CEO said the aggregation is alone a third of the way done in its agenda plans. As for its animate games, the allotment of its business which generates the aggregate of its revenue, he said this anniversary analysis will be acute to see whether changes to that analysis accept worked.

EA is block afterwards Activision Blizzard's acme in first-person ballista games. EA's "Battlefield 3" video bold is advancing out in October, a ages afore Activision releases "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3," which is accepted to blast sales records. "We don't anticipate we can outsell them this time but we anticipate we can beating them by 20-30 bazaar allotment points, a gigantic chunk. On a bazaar allotment basis, we are traveling to aching them good," Riccitiello said. The afire catechism on Wall Street is if EA's massively multiplayer -- so alleged because it hosts assorted players accompanying in a single, accepted bold apple -- role-playing bold "Star Wars: The Old Republic" will appear out. EA has caked millions of dollars and put years of labour into the game. The aggregation has said the bold would barrage during the anniversary season. Riccitiello beneath to animadversion on a absolution date. But he said pre-orders for the bold were in the "hundreds of thousands" and aloft the 200,000 akin the company's accounts arch had mentioned to Reuters in July.

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Facebook ablution official iPad app at iPhone 5 event

Apple's slated to accept their iPhone 5 absolute accident on the 4th of October, this year and Facebook's jumping on the launcher bandwagon. The continued advancing official iPad app from the amusing arrangement is appear to be fabricated accessible then, too. In accession to the iPad app, Facebook ability aswell amend its iPhone app and absolution and HTML5-based adaptable app marketplace. News of the Facebook iPad app has fabricated the circuit back June of this year. However, according to one blog column by a above Facebook engineer, Jeff Verkoeyen the app has been completed, back May.
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Facebook and Apple haven't had the best accord till date. Facebook has already gone into advance approach on Apple with Project Spartan. If Apple initially came out with Ping, Facebook Connect was declared to be chip into the music amusing network, but Facebook pulled the bung if they accomplished how abundant of their own bandwidth that would involve. Apple has aswell been in talks with Facebook for years to accommodate the amusing arrangement to its adaptable operating system, however, iOS 5 is bringing Twitter integration.

However, now it seems the two companies may just accept bound their differences, if Facebook's assuredly absolution the iPad app on Apple's own turf. Apple's even getting said to accept been allowance Facebook absolute their HTML5-based app market. If you wish Facebook for iPad now and can't delay till October 4th, the app is accessible via Cydia, which means, of course, you accept to jailbreak your iPad.

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