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Facebook App For Android Gets Automatic/Instant Photo Uploading

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The official Android client of Facebook may have its fair share of critics, but one simply cannot deny the fact that the app has been constantly improving, courtesy quite a few useful feature additions and performance enhancements that it gets with each subsequent update. Already a viable source for users to access their social world on-the-go, the official Facebook Android app now caters to your photo backup needs, too, as it has just been updated with the much-anticipated Google+ and Dropbox-like instant upload feature. That’s right, the mobile app now supports the Photo Syncing feature which, if enabled, automatically and instantly uploads all photos lying in your Android’s default camera (DCIM) directory to a private album on your Facebook Photos. Uploaded images can be found under the Synced from Phone tab on your Facebook, and can be shared with masses via a new post, moved to an existing/fresh album, downloaded to the computer or deleted altogether. Maximum storage capacity for photos backed up using the Photo Syncing feature is 2GB per account. Further details and the method to activate the feature will be discussed past the break. Read More

Instamail Photo For iOS Lets You Attach As Many Photos As You Want To A Single Email

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iOS is a pretty user-friendly mobile platform, and almost anyone can use it without having to be a geek. Having said that, this simplicity can, at times, cost the OS in terms of functionality. To keep things simple on the surface, there are areas of iOS that can become annoying for users due to their lack of certain capabilities. One such feature is the restriction on sharing photos via email. By default, iOS allows users to attach a maximum of 5 photos with a single email. Even if the photos are a few KBs in size, you will have to keep sending new mails to share more than 5. Instamail Photo is an app for iPhone and iPad that counters this issue by letting you attach as many photos as you want to emails. The mails will still be sent by the default mail client configured on your iPhone, but there will be no hindrance when you try to select more than five images to attach to the mail. Read More

TweetPixx For Android: Explore Geo-Tagged Twitter Images On Map

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Back in June, we reviewed Instamap – a free Android app that lets users explore geo-tagged Instagram photos on map. Then, just a couple of weeks ago, the official Instagram Android and iOS apps got updated with exactly the same feature. The point I am trying to make here is that, with so many geo-location based apps available across both leading smartphone platforms, and with the amount of photo sharing going on over Twitter, is there an app that merges both concepts into a single package? Well, as I just happened to find out, TweetPixx has the answer. Available in the Google Play Store for free, this brand new app brings a refreshed Twitter experience on your Android, as it lets you explore the vast world of the world’s leading micro-blogging network via geo-tagged images. Whether it’s a photo from your own Twitter Timeline, stunning visuals shared by your friends, pictures that you’ve favorited, photos shared from your vicinity, or any image shared from within the range of a user-specified area, TweetPixx is capable of showing them all on map, as well as on a grid. In addition, the app lets you explore local trends (via hashtags), browse images via Google’s Street View, search for Twitter photos by keywords, explore Twitter user profiles, bookmark favorite items, log browsing history, share the best content with your buddies, and use various customary Twitter tools to have your say on shared content. Read More

Instagram 3.0 For Android & iOS Lets You View Geo-Tagged Photos On Map

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If you thought that Instagram would always remain a case of applying a handful of retro filters to your photos, sharing them over the social network and then viewing them on monotonous-looking lists and grids, you were wrong! Along with introducing several slick UI enhancements in the latest Instagram update, the team behind arguably one of the most popular social photo-sharing Android and iOS apps has introduced a brand new feature called Photo Map. The update sees the official Android and iOS client of Instagram move to version 3, and while there are no new filters for you to play around with, there is this amazing new Photo Map that, as its name implies, instills a touch of geolocation to your photo browsing and sharing experience. In simple words, you can now view your and your followers’ geo-tagged images on a map to see the exact location where those wonderful moments were snapped. Also introduced in the update is a totally revamped and well-polished user profile page, Popular photos grid, and uploader screen. That’s not all; the update also brings with it snappier performance, infinite scrolling of feeds (say goodbye to the ‘Load More’ button), option to report users, and copy image URLs (iOS only). Read More

Transfer Photos & Videos Between PC & iPhone Over Wi-Fi, Share Over Social Networks

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Although things have improved with the passage of time, iOS users still tend to avoid iTunes as much as they can. Even if you have completely mastered Apple’s data syncing tool, it is not always feasible to connect your iPhone with your computer via a USB cable and then launch iTunes just to transfer a single photo to your iDevice. Getting media files out of the iPhone is much easier, but still, everyone is bound to appreciate the convenience of Wi-Fi sharing of media over your social networks, email accounts and other online services. This is one of the features that the amazing MultiLoader app sports. Other than that, MultiLoader is sure to bring a lot of ease and efficiency to your life, with its ability to send and receive videos and image files from any desktop web browser. Read More

PhotoExif: View EXIF Metadata Of Images In iPhone’s Stock Photos App

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If you take your photography pretty seriously, and don’t use your iPhone’s camera just for Instagram, then chances are that the lack of iOS’ ability to let its users view EXIF data of photos has bothered you at one time or another. Apple’s smartphone platform does not even have options to display an image file’s name, and that can cause a lot of trouble if you are trying to keep the stock Photos app organized. PhotoExif is a Cydia tweak that allows its users to view all the backend information associated with pictures on their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Unfortunately, the tweak does not have options for editing or removing the EXIF data from photos, but being able to see relevant information about the image can prove to be really helpful in a lot of situations. PhotoExif lets you view the color information of an image, its resolution and even the details of the camera with which the photo was shot. Read More

“iOS 6 Photo Menu” Revamps Sharing Options In iOS 5 Stock Photos App, Adds Facebook & Google+

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It has been a week since Apple announced iOS 6, and by now, everyone who is even remotely interested in iPhone (or any other iDevice, for that matter) knows a thing or two about iOS’s sixth major update. The knowledge of Siri enhancements, Facebook integration and all the other sweet features expected to be released with iOS 6 has only served to whet the appetite of all Apple fans. So, if you are one of those people who just can’t wait till fall to get their hands on iOS 6, there’s at least one feature you can try on your jailbroken iPhone right now! The new Cydia tweak named iOS 6 Photo Menu will replace the boring old photo sharing menu in iOS 5 with the new and glossy one from iOS 6. The sharing menu in the stock Photos app has been enhanced in iOS 6 both cosmetically and in terms of functionality. The tweak adds a few changes of its own to this menu (like the omission of the Photo Stream button and the addition of Google+ sharing option), but basically, it emulates iOS 6’s menu pretty thoroughly. Read More

PicBackMan: Backup Facebook & Instagram Photos To Dropbox, Box & Image Hosting Services

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Image sharing is one of the most used functions on the internet these days. Hundreds of image sharing websites as well social networks are used by millions of people each day to share images among their friends family, and even random strangers. While the social networks, such as Facebook and Google+ allow you to share images with your friends and family, websites such as Flickr and apps like Instagram let you publish your albums for the world to see. When you have thousands of photos uploaded to various image hosting platforms, it is very hard to keep a backup of each and every image manually. PicBackMan is an application for Windows that lets you back up images from multiple sources (image sharing websites and social networks) by automatically uploading them to seven photo and storage services. Other than the images saved in online accounts, you can also upload images from local folders to different websites. PicBackMan supports backing up the pictures from Facebook, Foursquare and Instagram accounts and local folders to Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, SkyDrive, Dropbox, Box.net and Facebook. Read More

Share Images On Facebook Directly From The Stock iOS Photos App [Cydia]

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iOS 6 might not be coming to your iPhone any time soon, but the rumors of its features are certainly thick in the air. One thing that the next major update of Apple’s mobile platform is almost sure to come with, is Facebook integration. A lot of people really appreciated all the Twitter-related stuff that iOS 5 flaunted, and now everyone can't wait to see what changes will be made with respect to Facebook integration. If you have a jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, though, you don’t have to wait too long to try out one instance of iOS-Facebook combination. With the newly released FacebookThis Cydia tweak, users can post photos to Facebook right from within the stock Photos app! The tweak adds a new button in each photo’s options, and using that button, you will be able to publish photos to your wall without much ado. Admittedly, the Facebook option offered by the FacebookThis tweak is not as smooth or efficient as it would have been in an official update, it isn't too shabby either. Read More

Photo Saver Automatically Uploads Captured Photos To Facebook [Android]

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Generally speaking, you’ll find two types of users out there – those who relish the opportunity to share on Facebook virtually anything they ‘like’, and those who don’t even bother taking a look at something just because it supports integration with said social network. If you fall under the former category, there’s now a very handy photo backup solution available for you in the form of Photo Saver. Fresh to the Google Play Store, this simple yet effective Android app has the capacity to automatically upload photos from your device to Facebook with ease. Uploaded content is stored under a dedicated Facebook Photos album, whose sharing option is set to ‘Private’ by default (for all the privacy-conscious people out there). However, automatic uploading of your fresh snaps is not the only feature that Photo Saver brings to the table. The app can also be used to create a generic backup of all the photos lying on your device upon request. Not only does Photo Saver let you control the backup mechanism, but also keeps you apprised of the last backup instance, as well as the total number of photos that have been backed up so far. Details to follow. Read More

PictureCollageMaker For Windows Boasts Countless Templates, Frames & Photo Effects

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Who doesn’t like making those beautiful-looking photo collages? After all, it makes the whole photo sharing experience a lot more mesmerizing. Previously, we have reviewed an umpteen number of photo collage tools, such as Cookiepix for Mac (review), Shape Collage (review) and the recently covered CollageIt (review), just to name a few. However, if all this isn’t enough to satiate your appetite, then go ahead and give PictureCollageMaker a shot. This feature-rich application has a quite a lot to offer, and is filled with a gargantuan amount of templates, frames, masks, clip art and photo effects.  You can create your collages either through a wizard mode, or by manually selecting various parameters, the latter of which is much more comprehensive. Read More

InFoto Generates Gorgeous Inforgraphics About Photos On Your Android Device

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Just recently, we covered a mobile camera benchmarking app called CamSpeed for Android and WP7 that provided users with information regarding several key parameters, including shutter time, focus time and image time etc. While the app was quite good in its own respect, how many casual mobile users among us really care about such hardcore information? What most of us photography-maniacs are looking for, is a simple and graphically-rich app that can let us know of our photography habits; some basic information that presents us with core data pertaining to how we use our mobile camera. This is exactly what InFoto brings to the table. Those who've used Photo Stats on their iOS-powered devices might cite InFoto as an Android replica of the app. It is, in fact, only slightly different. Basically, InFoto is an infographic generator that, through its well-polished layout and smart metadata analysis, shows you information relating to various locations where you have captured the most images from your device’s camera, among other details. Read More

PhotoPocket: Password-Protect, Tag & Edit Photos/Videos On Your iPhone

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Setting up a lockscreen passcode on your iPhone might be enough to deter casual privacy invaders, but if you are really careful about your photos and other media, you need something more. PhotoPocket is an app that provides this secondary layer of protection in a pretty optimized manner. Not only does this iOS app have the ability to act as a security vault for your photos and videos, the photo editing and sharing options on offer are quite good as well. If you like neatness and order, PhotoPocket can prove to be your perfect companion for managing your iPhone photos, as the app has a comprehensive tagging system, too, allowing users to assign graphical tags to each album they create. Read More

Slide.ly: Create Slideshows With Photos & Music From Popular Social Networks [Web]

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Creating slideshows for your favorite photos not only requires a lot of effort, but can also be a time consuming task, especially when half of your photos are on Facebook, others on Instagram or Flickr, and the rest saved on your computer. So, with all your pictures scattered, how do you create a slideshow? Slide.ly is a free web application that grabs all your photos/albums from multiple popular social networks, such as Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Picasa and Google Images, letting you create gorgeous slideshows with a mix of your favorite music tracks and effects. The app is easy-to-use and comes with a slick interface. Once you’ve connected all your accounts, the service will let you pick and arrange images from different sources. For instance, you can select five photos from Facebook, two from Instagram, a few from the local disk and so on. When the images have been added, you will be able to arrange or shuffle them, add your favorite music from YouTube or SoundCloud, and add bright dots, spots, dust or glow effects to your slideshow. Moreover, with Slide.ly, you can share slideshows on social networks, email, embed or copy the URL. Read More

Sony Releases “α” CLOCK for Mobile: A Time-Lapse Photography Android App Powered By “Time-shift UI”

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Seems like Sony has decided to leave Android users with plenty of visual goodness to savor over the weekend through a couple of great new apps. Just yesterday, we saw a beautifully-designed photo gallery app called 'million moments' released by the technology giant. Today, we’re going to present you with yet another fine-looking Android app from the company. "α" CLOCK for Mobile lets you experience Sony’s new Time-shift UI on your Android device. The app presents you with photos of several worldwide destinations (UNESCO World Heritage Sites) taken with cameras that use "α" Interchangeable lenses. From a single point, countless photos of each location are snapped at various times of day, and compiled into a single time-lapse photography package. Using the aforementioned Time-shift UI feature, users can enjoy breathtaking sights of the selected location from a preferred time of day. Though, that's not all the app has to offer. Read More

ReconBot Turns Your iPhone Into A Spy Cam & Audio Recorder

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You can use the camera on your smartphone in many ways, both appropriate and inappropriate; good and evil, if you may. The same holds true for ReconBot, an iPhone app that lets you play detective by secretly capturing videos and photos, recording audio and remotely streaming a photo feed captured by your device. The app comes with all the options necessary for a stealth camera; you can configure a trigger time for it, and when the capture starts, the screen will remain blank so that the target is not alerted. So, if you're in the mood to give Mr. Bond a run for his money, or just want to keep an eye on your toddlers while you're at work, , ReconBot is the app you need. More past the break. Read More

million moments For Android: Elegant Photo Gallery App With Smart Labeling & Flip-Style Transitions

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Developed by Sony Digital Network Applications, million moments for Android is a beautiful and customizable digital photo album that employs an elegant bookshelf layout and flipping page animations to showcase the most memorable moments of your life through various personalized albums (referred to as books within the app). It features a smart photo-labeling system to automatically create new albums and fill relevant images that might be residing on your device. Moreover, the app also supports native photo-capturing, tagging and captioning feature to let you instantly grab images of required events, places, moments et al, and place them under relevant albums. The option to sift through entire photo albums with flipping pages effect, combined with easy photo maneuvering, labeling, sharing and captioning options, make million moments one of the simplest yet highly intuitive photo browsing app to have hit the Google Play Store to date. Read More

Facebook Covers for Timeline: Upload Ready-Made Covers To Your Profile [Android, iOS]

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Whether or not Facebook should’ve left the decision of activation its Timeline feature entirely to the users’ discretion from the very first day is a debate that we’ll reserve for some other occasion. For now, all those who love embellishing their Timeline Cover with a brand new photo at frequent intervals, but feel short of quality alternatives in this regard, we have a very handy solution. Facebook Covers for Timeline (I hope the name says it all) is an Android and iOS app that helps you find some of the best Cover photos for your Facebook Timeline. Initially released in the iOS App Store, the app has just made its way into the Google Play Store to provide Android users with some fine quality Facebook Timeline covers. Unlike the iOS variant that currently costs $0.99, the Android version of the app is absolutely free. Featuring dozens of popular photo categories, each comprising a wide variety of regularly-updated images, the app lets you change your Facebook Timeline Cover photos right from your mobile device. Read More

Use Any Image As Background For Stock Photos App In iPad [Cydia]

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For many people, Windows Phone 7 isn’t mainstream enough to be included in most smartphone discussions, but I have been a fan of the Mango platform for quite a long time, and that’s why I couldn’t help comparing the new Cydia tweak 'RollPaper' with a stock feature in WP7. RollPaper is a pretty single-purpose jailbreak tweak, using which you can set any image as the background for the stock Photos app in a jailbroken iPad, just like WP7. RollPaper is available only for iPad, and that makes perfect sense, as the background is visible clearly only in the iPad version of the Photos app. The tweak has options to let users set both downloaded and system images as the app’s background, and if you want, you can even choose distinct backgrounds for all your albums within the Photos app! Read More

Relive: Sync Photos Between Android, iOS & Windows PC, View Them In A Timeline

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Relive is a cross-platform photo aggregating and exploring app for Android, iOS and Windows-powered devices. Unless you’re one of those few users who always carry their entire photo collection with them, Relive can prove to be a more than able companion, since it serves as an online photo aggregator as well as a reliable photo backup solution. The app aggregates photos from your smartphone, tablet, computer and even Facebook on its own cloud, and helps you easily keep in sync with all your various photo albums, regardless of the platform you’re currently using. Apart from collecting your photos under on roof, Relive also lets you explore all the photo albums by year, week, month or source on your mobile device and/or a web browser. Read More