500px helps you keep track of your stats with Insights for iPhone

500px is helping photographers who want to keep track of their statistics with a new iPhone companion app called 500px Insights. It allows you to see a map of your geotagged photos as well as find out your most-used categories and tags. You’ll also be able to see when your account is active and popular, latest notifications, and how many actions happen to your account on a daily basis.

You can also view certain stats about other users, including most viewed, commented, favorite, liked, and highest rated photos. You’ll even be able to find out what the most popular cameras used are, where the photos are taken, and the like. The app has been optimized for iPhone 5 and runs on iOS 7.

Source: The Next Web

First look at the Nokia X Android smartphone

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The Nokia X is the Android powered smartphone designed for emerging markets and for the low-end of the smartphone spectrum. This device isn't slated for North America or Canada but we ordered one from overseas to get a better feel of what Nokia is doing in this specific segment. The Dual-SIM Nokia X is surprisingly sturdy and feels rock solid even if it does have lower-end specs. We've just unboxed our unit and are putting it through its paces to see what this device offers and will have a full review in the coming weeks. For now, enjoy the slideshow.

Facebook photo features you must be using

Uploading photos on Facebook is a rather easy affair. But are you making the most of the experience? The people behind Facebook suggest photo features you should be using on the social network.

Select your audience

You can tailor-fit your image posts to a specific group of friends on Facebook. Select the drop down menu the right hand corner of the album to pick who can view a set of photos, including ‘Friends’, ‘Public’, ‘Custom’, or ‘Only Me’. You can even do this to individual images by selecting the audience selector tool beside the post button.

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Google adds Google+ auto backup for photos on Mac

Users of Picasa on Mac computers now have access to auto backup feature of photos for Google+. It works much like the Apple iCloud but is generally a free service. It automatically allows you to sync photos up to 2048px without taking up any space on your Google Drive account. If you go beyond that, that’s when it starts affecting your cloud storage space. But since were not picky, 2048px is plenty big.

If you want to use this service, you would have to download Picasa though (even if the feature really isn’t connected with the program). But that minor inconvenience gives you free online space for photo backups. That in itself should be worth the tiny download.

Source: Uber Gizmo