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Facebook finally deletes the deleted

The top tech headlines for this photo-fun Friday:

Ustream will soon launch an app that lets you stream live video to your Facebook page. Called BFF (Broadcast for Friends), it'll be available in the coming days on Android and Apple devices.

Facebook has found an answer to the photo deletion issue that Ars Technica uncovered three years ago. The problem: Once you deleted a photo, it could still be found if you had the original URL. But now, Facebook says when you delete a photo it will be gone within 30 days. Ars Technica reported that it saw photos … Read more

How to 'finally' delete photos from Photo Stream

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When Apple launched iCloud and its Photo Stream service, there was a glaring omission: Apple didn't include the ability to delete photos that had been uploaded to Photo Stream. This was a problem that could potentially lead to some embarrassing situations.

There was actually a roundabout way of deleting photos from Photo Stream, but it required you to delete your entire Photo Stream, which wasn't very convenient. When the iOS 5.1 developer preview was released, the ability to delete individual photos had been added. There was hope!

With the release of iOS 5.1 and … Read more

How to delete individual photos from Photo Stream on iOS 5.1

Update, March 8, 2012: With the official release of iOS 5.1 by Apple, deleting photos from your Photo Stream is now available to everyone running the latest update. Along with the update to iOS, Apple also released an update to iPhoto allowing for the deletion of photos from Photo Stream as well. You can read about the updates and the process to delete your photos by visiting this post.

iOS 5 didn't have the easiest approach to deleting photos from your Photo Stream, requiring you to reset your entire stream on every iCloud connected device you owned.

With … Read more