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Getting Started



What is the PixSense?

With PixSense, you can;

  1. automatically upload media you take from your camera phone to a personal secure online account
  2. upload media from your PC to a personal secure online account
  3. share your media with your friends and family via SMS & email
  4. publish your media to third party social networking sites
  5. set privacy options to make your media public or keep them private
  6. add title, post comments, set tags on your media
  7. view slideshows
  8. manage friend's media
  9. sync and manage your phone's native address book

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What do different icons mean in the application?

Green arrow — means media is uploaded to web
Downwards Green arrow — means media has been downloaded to the device
Yellow arrow — means media is in queue for upload
Globe — means media privacy is set to Public
Lock — means media privacy is set to Private
PC — means the media is was uploaded from PC to web

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Uploading your first photo/video

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How do I take media?

Use your phone camera to capture media
These, as well as any media already on your phone will automatically be added to the PixSense Gallery and uploaded to the PixSense website

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How do I upload selective media?

Launch PixSense on your phone. Navigate to My Media. On the media you wish to upload, select Options > Upload. A small yellow arrow will appear on the media indicating that they are in queue for upload. Once the upload is complete, the arrow will turn green. Photos and videos that have not been marked for upload will not have any icons next to them.

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How do I upload multiple media?

Launch PixSense. Navigate to My Media. PixSense automatically categorizes your media by date. Select Options > View by Date. Highlight the collection you wish to upload and select Options > Upload. This action queues all media in that collection for upload.

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How do I share media with friends via email?

To share media via email from your phone,

  1. Launch PixSense.
  2. Navigate to My Media. Select media you wish to share
  3. Select Options > Share By > Email
  4. Select Options > Add contact. Select the people from your phones native address book with whom you wish to share. You could also directly enter the recipient's email address
  5. Select Options > Send

Your friends will receive an email message with your shared media.

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How do I share media with friends via SMS?

To share media via SMS from your phone,

  1. Launch PixSense.
  2. Navigate to My Media. Select media you wish to share
  3. Select Options > Share By > SMS
  4. Select Options > Add contact. Select the people from your phones native address book with whom you wish to share. You could also directly enter the recipient's phone number
  5. Select Options > Send

Your friends will receive an SMS with your shared media.

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How do I set privacy for my media?

To change media privacy settings,

  1. Launch PixSense.
  2. Navigate to My Media
  3. Select the media you wish to change privacy settings for
  4. Select Options > Make Public. A prompt will display telling that the selected photo/video will be reviewed first and then made public. Conversely, select Make Private to remove a photo/video from public viewing

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What is friend's media?

Friend's media displays the media shared with you by other PixSense users. When a friend, who is also registered as a PixSense user, shares media with you by email, you can have the media added to your friend's media tab by clicking on the "Add to friend's collection" link on the left hand side of the media view. Similarly, whenever such a friend shares media by SMS to your phone number, the PixSense application does a number match with your credentials and adds it automatically to your account. You can comment on the shared media. You can also block a user from sharing media. Select the media collection of the user you wish to block. Select Options > Block this user

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How do I publish my media to third party social networking sites?

To publish media to third party sites,

  1. Launch PixSense.
  2. Navigate to My Media
  3. Select the media you wish to publish out
  4. Select Options > Publish
  5. From the listing, select the web sites to which you want to publish media to. (You might need to configure the sites from the My Sites menu to publish your media)

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How do I configure my third party social networking site account on PixSense to publish my media to them?

To publish your photos/ videos to third party sites, you need to first configure them,

  1. Launch PixSense.
  2. Navigate to My Sites
  3. From the listing, select a site to configure and select Options > Configure. Certain sites require you to configure them from your online account; otherwise, enter your account credentials. Once a site is successful configured, a green check will appear next to it

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How do I block someone from sharing media with me?

You can bar users from sharing photos/ videos with you

  1. Launch PixSense.
  2. Navigate to Block list
  3. Select Options > Block new user
  4. Enter the name of the contact you want to block. The contact's name will appear on the block list
  5. Check the box next to the contact to prevent them from sharing photos/ videos with you

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How do I add title to my media?

  1. Launch PixSense.
  2. Navigate to My Media
  3. Select the media you want to add a title to.
  4. Select Options > Open
  5. Select the Title link and enter desired text

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How do I add tags to my media?

  1. Launch PixSense.
  2. Navigate to My Media
  3. Select the media you want to add tags to
  4. Select Options > Open
  5. Select Options > Add Tag. Enter the tag text

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How do I comment on my media?

  1. Launch PixSense.
  2. Navigate to My Media
  3. Select the media you want to add comments to
  4. Select Options > Open
  5. Select Options > Add Comment. Enter the comment text

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How do I delete media?

To delete individual media;

  1. Launch PixSense.
  2. Navigate to My Media
  3. Highlight media you wish to delete
  4. Select Options > Delete
  5. If the media is uploaded to your PixSense account on the web, you will be prompted if you wish to delete them from your phone only (Mobile only) or from your phone and your online account (Mobile and web).

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How do I view my application's data usage?

To delete individual media;

  1. Launch PixSense.
  2. Navigate to Data usage

From here, you can view data (in kilo bytes) uploaded/ downloaded by the mobile application since a certain date. (Note: this does not include data when viewing the public WAP gallery)

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How do I change my PixSense mobile application settings?

In the PixSense mobile application, navigate to Settings.

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