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Free Stocks Ticker, a slicker ticker

Free Stocks Ticker places a scrolling stock price ticker at the bottom or top of your screen. It displays current stock prices and news feeds from Yahoo, CNN, FOX, and your own sources. You can configure the speed, opacity, and colors of the display, and it's one of the nicest programs of its type that we've tried.

Free Stocks Ticker displays stock prices in a semiopaque black bar. The text is also slightly transparent but still perfectly legible, giving a nice effect that doesn't hide pop-up messages in the notification area. Price changes are color-coded; for example, … Read more

How to hide the Facebook Ticker (without a browser extension)

Facebook has finally added a way to hide the Ticker it introduced last year.

When Facebook introduced the Ticker to the News Feed last year, like many of new features it rolls out (cough, Timeline, cough), Facebook offered no way to disable it. I found Firefox and Chrome add-ons to hide the Ticker at the time, but now Facebook has added a control to the Ticker that lets you toggle between hiding and showing it, making it much more convenient to get rid of this newsfeed inside your News Feed.

Take a look at the Ticker in the right-hand column … Read more

How to get Facebook Messenger for Windows right now

Facebook Messenger for Windows has just leaked, giving users an unintended preview of the upcoming dedicated chat client from Facebook. … Read more

Facebook redesigns itself for expansion (roundup)

At its F8 conference, the already massive social network shows off new features intended to work itself ever deeper into the fabric of your life.

Zuckerberg's vision: All Facebook, all the time commentary In the future according to the Facebook CEO, every application would be "social" and, best of all from his point of view, inextricably linked to Facebook's platform. (Posted in Digital Media by Charles Cooper) September 23, 2011 10:49 a.m. PT

Facebook changes creeping out some customers Across the Web, folks have been chiming in on how they feel about Facebook's … Read more

Friday Poll: Is the new Facebook look hot or not?

We knew it was coming. There was no escape. The new Facebook look was unveiled yesterday at the F8 developers conference.

We saw sneak previews of the fresh Timeline and Ticker features that represent a radical departure from the spare white Facebook profiles of the soon-to-be past.

It's kind of like coming home and finding that your spouse has gotten Botox, a hair cut, a new wardrobe, and can't stop talking about the song he's listening to and which Paula Deen recipe is on the dinner menu. It all feels a little surreal.

Eventually, all profiles will go over to Timeline. It has a massive top photo and easy access to all your Facebook updates throughout the years so that you can wallow in that nostalgic moment four years ago when you ate a deep-fried Twinkie at the fair and posted about it.

Ticker will feed real-time updates about the minutiae of your friends' lives onto your profile. Now you'll know who's listening to Celine Dion at any given moment. There will also be more integration of social apps into your profile.

Change is hard. Not even the sight of Mark Zuckerberg's adorable puppy on his Timeline could soften the hearts of some critics. There has been a mixed reaction to the new look and features. Some folks like it, some folks are threatening to run back to the familiarity of MySpace or forward into the unknown of Google+.

Where do you fall on the scale of new Facebook love and hate? Vote in our poll and sound off below.… Read more

How to adjust app and Web site permissions on Facebook

A lot of changes are rolling out on Facebook, and the Apps area didn't escape this remodel. Currently, an app only needs you to authorize permission once. After permission is given, it can post and share activity on Facebook on your behalf without approval. If you want to check up on what an app has access to, or are tired of sharing what game you're playing, here's how to adjust those settings:

Step 1: In Facebook, click the small arrow near your name in the upper-right-hand corner and choose Privacy Settings.

Step 2: Scroll down to Apps … Read more

Scrambling to undo Facebook's changes as they roll out

The upgrades and additions to Facebook are rolling out of the f8 developers' conference today, while other developers are working furiously to come up with ways to undo them.

Better Facebook is a Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera extension that's been around for a few years now and allows a comprehensive set of at least 75 customization options to Facebook's look, feel, and features.

Since Facebook revamped its news feed this week--much to the chagrin of many users--Better Facebook has seen a big bump in traffic and new users, as developer Matt Kruse posted on the Better Facebook fan page late yesterday:

Wow, it's been kind of a crazy day. Big FB changes, Dropbox stopped serving my images (and started again), the web site got over 100,000 hits, and this page acquired 5,000 new fans!

The changes--including the addition of a real-time scrolling "ticker" of Facebook friends' activity--originally caused Better Facebook to "disappear" from the interface for many users. Kruse went to work updating the extension and adding new capability to control and mitigate the new additions. The latest version includes the option to hide the ticker.

New suggestions from users for possible "fixes" to be integrated into Better Facebook have also started to roll in to Kruse at an accelerated clip.

Kruse says donations have continued to flow in to support his work, which is a good thing, because he's likely to have a whole lot of work ahead of him. The redesign announced today will give Facebook users the ability to integrate "Open Graph apps" into their experience, adding music, TV, movies, news, and a whole lot more to the feed. That ought to keep Kruse busy for a while.… Read more

Facebook unveils new version of Open Graph

SAN FRANCISCO--After unveiling Timeline at F8 this morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Ticker, a part of the next version of the social network's Open Graph.

Last year, Zuckerberg said, Facebook rolled out Open Graph, a map of all of a user's connections in the world, and made it so users can connect to anything they want in any way they want. But now with the next Open Graph, he said, users will also be able to connect to an order of magnitude more things than ever before using what he called Ticker, a way to express "… Read more

Facebook's interface changes

Instagram adds real-time filter previews to its apps, Vimeo builds a new, legal music library that video creators can tap, and Facebook updates its interface again to add instant feed updates.

Links from Wednesday's episode of Loaded:

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