Yoics Basic is a FREE remote access solution, for Windows or Mac computers and a variety of Powered by Yoics network devices.

 For users that need more than what Basic offers, we offer Yoics Pro.  Advantages of Pro include:

• 10x the number of daily mobile and web accesses
• 4x longer connection time per access
• Maximum available mobile/web connection speed
• Advertising-free access
• Advanced Guest Pass feature lets you grant any e-mail address remote access to files and data streams (e.g., music, live video) from your devices.

Use the table below to compare service plans.

Web Browser and Mobile Access	Yoics Basic (Free)	Yoics Pro ($24.95/Yr. *)
Web/Mobile Connections per day	10	100
Web/Mobile Connection time per session	30 minutes	2 hours
Simultaneous Web/Mobile Device Connections	1	10
Web/Mobile Connection Speed Per Log-In	Variable Based on Traffic	Maximum Available Speed**
Advanced Sharing Controls (time limits, etc.)	No	Yes
Sharing with non-Yoics users	No	Yes
Advertising-Free Access	No	Yes
List Price (U.S. $)	Free	$24.95/Yr. *

All registered Yoics users automatically get the Basic service. To upgrade your account to Yoics Pro, login to the Yoics web site and click the Upgrade button in your account summary page.

*    Price subject to change.

** Connect speeds are limited by upstream Internet connection of the host computer. Most US home upstream networks are limited to about 40,000 bytes per second. Mobile connections may be limited to carriers mobile network download speeds, depending your plan.

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1. Save the Yoics Upgrade license to your local disk after receiving it from Codewave via email.
2. Open the Yoics Windows Desktop on the same system hosting your FREE Yoics MyTunes service.
3. Right-click on the MyTunes service in your Yoics device list and select “Open Scripts Folder”.
4. Click “Yes” on the warning message then Windows Explorer will open to the folder where the license file resides.
5. Copy the saved Yoics Upgrade license for MyTunes into the opened folder.
6. Right-click on the MyTunes service in your device list and select “Disable/Stop”. Wait for several seconds to complete then repeat but selecting “Enable/Start”. This will restart MyTunes with your new license and upgraded features.
7. That’s it ! Open your MyTunes service and enjoy the new features.

Note: You will also receive a license that can be used on the full version of MyTunes. This version would need to be downloaded from www.codewave.de and installed according to the manufacturers steps. More information on MyTunesRSS can be found at http://www.codewave.de/products/mytunesrss/?lang=en.

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The bundles include the first year Yoics Pro service and a permanent MyTunesRSS 3.8.x license. There are two MyTunes upgrade options, one allowing a simple upgrade of the FREE Yoics MyTunes features or a more advanced upgrade to install a standalone version of MyTunesRSS.

To upgrade, login to your Yoics web account and follow the Upgrade links. An upgrade license will be emailed to you with instructions on how to apply the new license.

Use the following upgrade information to determine what upgrade works best for you.

Yoics Free –> Yoics Upgrade
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- On the portal page you have an album/artist/genre/track count with links to the browser pages.
- A library browser link which starts on the artist browser page.
- A playlist link to the page where you see playlists created in MyTunesRSS. You can create/edit playlists here.
- Also in the browsing pages you can start editing playlists.
- On the portal page you have special playlists like random/all/etc.
- In the settings you get the configuration for the special playlists and you can enable RSS feeds.

Yoics Upgrade -> MyTunesRSS Regular Full
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- Full configuration interface (local GUI and simple remote JMX via web browser)
- Optional Postgres or Mysql database for better peformance
- Any number of database update schedules
- Any number of iTunes XML files, watch folders and YouTube URLs for data sources
- Imported file types can be configured (media files or even images)
- Enable/Disable certain playlists
- Configuration of multiple users for the web interface with permissions, quota limits, etc.
- Notifications to configurable admin email address for certain events (e.g. upload, login failure)
- Configuration of Apache as proxy server possible
- Simple statistics for admin
- Support for external transcoding tools (e.g. AAC -> MP3 for target devices that do not support AAC but only MP3)
- Support for user created themes and languages for the web interface
- Remote control feature (remote control Quicktime playback on the MyTunesRSS computer via the web interface)
- Uploads of single media files or ZIP archives via web interface which will be imported into MyTunesRSS library
- Download ZIP archives of playlists, albums, etc.
- Create RSS feeds of playlists, albums, etc.

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Sharing from Yoics.com

1. Select the “gear” icon next to the device you want to share.
2. Select the “+” to expand the sharing controls.
3. Select what type of sharing you’d like to provide & enter Yoics ID or email into the “invite” box.  Then click the ’share” button.
   • View (only allows friend to view content)
   • Change (allows friend to change content, note: must be supported by device)
   • Guest (guest access, drop-down menu specifies duration etc.  PRO only)
4. Shows who the device is shared to (by email address), and allows you to remove (delete) them from sharing.  By default your email address is shown.

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All service plan purchases are protected with our 30 day money back guarantee.  In you are not satisfied with the paid service, just contact us within 30 days of your purchase for a full refund.  All we ask is that you give us a chance to improve your service experience before canceling.   Please email us at support at yoics dot com for more information on the money back guarantee.

Yoics basic services are FREE for consumers to use when installing our Windows or Mac desktops or when purchasing a Yoics enabled product. We offer a “Pro” premium service plan for users that require additional remote access services.  New premium services will come online soon with all “Pro” members will get those features automatically at no cost.

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So you’ve got a web-cam and you’d love to create a daily time-lapse video.  With Yoics, it couldn’t be easier.

If you haven’t already done so, download and install the latest version of Yoics for Windows.

You can either have the wizard setup your camera for you, or you can manually configure it by selecting Web/IP Cam:

Time-lapse

The Time-lapse setting allows you to create a daily video of your camera’s view, independent of events.   Images are captured every-minute then assembled into a video clip at the end of the day.

1. Click to enable time-lapse creation.
2. Click and adjust the time settings if you want to only create a time-lapse during a particular time of the day.

Like other video, the daily time-lapse will be uploaded to YouTube and a notification will be sent out (Twitter, email) if you’ve setup Yoics that way.

Instantly publish to YouTube

Yoics allows you to automatically publish your captured events on YouTube.   Simply enter in your YouTube credentials and video clips will be uploaded based on the criteria that you’ve selected.

1. Enable YouTube publishing
2. Only publish your daily summary (default)
3. Store motion events in your private YouTube (requires Yoics Pro)

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Whether it’s your initial setup or if you want to change your configuration, you start by selecting “Web/IP Camera” on the Yoics application.

Selecting that will bring up the general setup page.

1. Select the webcamera on your machine that you would like to use with Yoics.  Select Change, if the default device is not what you want.
   • Check “Enable motion detection” if you would like to use the surveillance features
   • Alias:  Give your camera any name that you’d like
   • Select the folder where you’d like video to be stored.
2. If you want to get to the Advance settings, select Change Settings.”
3. To remove a camera, select this buttom.
4. If you would like to monitor more than one camera, use this option to add it (Pro feature only).
5. Yoics will detect all video sources, if you would like the application to ignore particular ones (e.g. 1394 firewire port) you can select that here.

General settings

Selecting the “Chang Settings” will bring up the advanced setup pages.

1. Enter in the street location of your camera (optional).  This data will be useful if you like your camera to appear in maps mash-ups etc.
2. Select the rate per second that you’d like to capture events & what size (resolution) that you’d like to use.

Motion detection

1. Select to enable motion detection for your webcam.  This will record a video clip based on your specified parameters each time motion is detected.
   • Motion sensitivity: Select how much activity should trigger a recording.
   • Minimum Motion Clip Length:  Specify how long an event should be before recording (=motion+dead time).
   • Maximum Motion Clip Length: Sets an upper bound on the clip length
   • Local Motion Storage Limit:  How much room you want to have for video clips.
   • Motion Event End Dead Time:  How much time after an event that the program should wait, before stopping recording.
   • Maximum number of days to retain:  How many days to keep the video.
2. Motion area:  Use your mouse to select an area to detect motion, all other areas will be ignored.
3. This uses your hard disk storage most efficiently, where once it’s used up, it will start deleting  older video clips.
4. Selecting this will enable the creation of a daily summary, comprised of a time-lapse of your day’s events.

Time-lapse

The Time-lapse setting allows you to create a daily video of your camera’s view, independent of events.   Images are captured every-minute then assembled into a video clip at the end of the day.

1. Click to enable time-lapse creation.
2. Click and adjust the time settings if you want to only create a time-lapse during a particular time of the day.

Like other video, the daily time-lapse will be uploaded to YouTube and a notification will be sent out (Twitter, email) if you’ve setup Yoics that way.

Web Publishing (Yoics Pro accounts only)

Coming soon.

Notification

Notification specifies when/how you’d like to be notified if your webcam captures an event.

1. General settings
   • Minimum Clip Length:  Set the minimum length clip for which you want to be notified
   • Include motion images:  Include a thumbnail in your notification
2. Email notification
   • Set the interval for which you’d like to receive an email notification.
3. Twitter notification
   • You can have a Tweet automatically sent out for either your daily summary (default) or all of your events.

On-line storage (YouTube)

Yoics allows you to automatically publish your captured events on YouTube.   Simply enter in your YouTube credentials and video clips will be uploaded based on the criteria that you’ve selected.

1. Enable YouTube publishing
2. Only publish your daily summary (default)
3. Store motion events in your private YouTube (requires Yoics Pro)

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You’ve got a webcam.  You use Twitter and YouTube  Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could instantly and automatically send out a daily video clip of the days events?  Now you can, the latest version of Yoics gives you all those capabilities, plus so much more:

• Makes any web-cam into a surveillance system
• Auto uploads video clips to your YouTube account
• Auto Tweet when new videos are uploaded (all events or just a daily time-lapse summary)
• View the your webcam live from any browser, even your iPhone

So what are you waiting for, download Yoics now, it’s free!  If you’ve already installed the latest version of Yoics, you can see the advanced configuration on how to Tweet your webcam here.

Instant surveillance

If you have a webcam, with Yoics you now have a full fledged internet surveillance system, with both local and Internet on-line storage.

• User configurable motion detection window
• Daily time-lapse summary of daily events
• Auto YouTube publishing (requires YouTube account)
• Auto notification (email and Twitter)

Auto Tweet

Twitter has transformed the way that people communicate.  With Yoics, each time your webcam detects an event, you can have an auto-tweet sent out and if you’ve setup your system to automatically upload the video to your YouTube account, that link will be auto embedded.

Auto YouTube

In addition to capturing all motion events, Yoics will automatically generate a time-lapse summary of your days events.  And since it’s up on YouTube, you can embed it anywhere and even add an audio soundtrack if you’d like.

Live view

Since your webcam is now Yoics enabled, you can also view it live anytime, securly and privately from any browser even from your iPhone.

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