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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Overview

The Yoics Remote Access gadget adds the device list into Gmail (iGoogle and Google Desktop).  Once installed you can access any of your Yoics configured computer, folder or devices, with a click of a mouse.  Just click on device hyperlink and a new browser tab or window will be opened up with the device.

Getting started

To begin, you’ll need to have some Yoics configured devices.  If you want to be able to remote desktop or remote access your computer’s folders, you can set it up for free by downloading Yoics for Windows or Yoics for Mac.  Yoics is also available for Linux, the Drobo network attached storage product and network cameras for Lorex and Astak.

Gadget url

In order to add the Yoics Gadget to Gmail, you’ll first need to enable Google Labs.

1. Select “settigns”
2. Select “Labs”

1. Enable “Add any gadget by URL”

1. Select “Gadget”
2. Enter the following url:  http://www.yoics.com/gadgets/YoicsBetaGadget.xml
3. Click “Add”

That’s it.  You’ll see the Yoics gadget added.  Simply enter in your Yoics user ID (or email address) and password.

Accessing your devices

• Clicking on the blue Yoics icon will open up a new browser window or tab with your device.
• To share a device, click on the share icon next to the device.
• To see the access log of a device, just click on the log icon.
• Clicking on the green Yoics icon will show your friends devices.

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OK, so you love your Mac, but wouldn’t it be great if it was a server too?  Or maybe you’ve got a Mac Book, no reason you shouldn’t be able to serve up files or photos to friends, even if you’re on-line at Starbucks right?

The latest version of Yoics for Mac is just about ready, but we’re so excited about it we decided to make it available as a public Alpha, so if you want to instantly transform your Mac into an Internet appliance now you can.

Because it’s Alpha, expect that there will be issues, but Tom our main-Mac-man, assures us that it’s pretty good, and that any feedback we get will get implemented ASAP.  If you do have some questions, feel free to comment here, post on the public Mac page on our forum , or you can send us an email at “macsupport [at] yoics [dot] com.”

Download the most recent pre-release here:

Overview

The Internet is all about easy access and sharing. Unfortunately even with high-speed broadband connectivity, your computers and networking equipment are hardly web friendly resources. Until now!

Yoics is a powerful network solution that transforms any computer or network attached device instantly into an easily accessible and shareable internet resource.

The Yoics desktop looks and works a lot like an instant messenger application, except instead of a device list, you get a list of devices . These devices can be yours or ones that have been shared to you. With the Yoics desktop you can make any data, service or even device on your network accessible to you from anywhere on the Internet.

During initial setup, you’ll have the option to use our setup wizard to auto configure your Mac for remote desktop, folder sharing, photo sharing and web-cam sharing.

Yoics also provides custom configuration, so that advanced users can configure just about any data, service or device to be accessible and shareable remotely.  We’ve got a separate page for advanced setup .

Yoics Web folders

Once you configure a folder with Yoics, it becomes instantly Internet accessible and shareable either via a web browser or a webDav folder.

The real neat thing about Yoics folders are that they are actually Apache servers on their own.  So if you’ve got some web-skills, select “web template” when you create your Yoics folders – and you can fully customize them to your hearts content.

Yoics Photos

File view is just one of the options that you have with Yoics Folders. If you have a folder with digital pictures, just configure it with Yoics Photos, and you instantly have a personal photo site, viewable and shareable across the internet.

Remote desktop

Sometimes accessing files or folders just isn’t enough, especially if you’re providing computer support for a less than savvy computer user that you know. Yoics features a pre-configured remote desktop server, so remotely managing computers with your keyboard and mouse is as easy as a double-mouse click.  So you can access remote machines without requiring complex virtual private network (VPN) or router configuration.

Yoics surveillance

Have an iSight or other webcam? With Yoics, now you can instantly “see” your camera from any browser, even the one on your iPhone. The motion detection/surveillance storage isn’t turned on yet for this Alpha version, but stay tuned, for your own personal web surveillance solution.

Yoics NOW proxy

Files and remote desktop are undoubtedly the two most popular things that people want access to. But lets face it, there are thousands of other network devices and services that would be awesome to have remote access into, and with Yoics NOW it’s immediately possible. Want to print to your network printer from vacation? No problem. Want to get to your router’s configuration screen without having to open a hole in your firewall? Easy. Whether it’s a dedicated network device or a TCP/IP service running on your machine, Yoics NOW allows you to transform it into a remote accessible and shareable internet resource.

Here you see MyTunesRSS , a media server, configured to work with Yoics.

iPhone access

At Yoics we’re big fans of the iPhone, so as you might imagine, most of our stuff works great when viewed from its browser.

System requirements

• PPC G4, G5 or Intel Core Duo processor
• ac OS X version 10.4.5 or later
• 512 MB RAM
• 80 MB HD space
• DSL or Cable High Speed networking at 384Kbps or higher
• Additional resources are required for systems sharing more than 5 active Yoics services.
• Systems sharing greater than 10 services will require premium computer systems and high speed network connections.

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The Internet is all about easy access and sharing. Unfortunately even with high-speed broadband connectivity, your computers and networking equipment are hard to get to and isolated. Until now!

Download the latest release: 2.7.101 with enhanced device support & integrated music streaming.

Early releases are as such early & might have some issues.  If you have any problems, please post them on our board.

Download Most stable release: 2.6.802 with YouTube/Twitter June 19, 2009

Yoics is a powerful network solution that transforms any computer or network attached device instantly into an easily accessible and shareable internet resource. Featuring an intuitive user interface, remote access and sharing has just gotten as easy as using instant messaging. If you’ve had issues with Yoics conflicting with your anti-virus software, upgrade to this version.

Overview

The Yoics desktop looks and works a lot like an instant messenger application, except instead of a device list, you get a list of devices . These devices can be yours or ones that have been shared to you. With the Yoics desktop you can make any data, service or even device on your network accessible to you from anywhere on the Internet.

During initial setup, you’ll have the option to setup remote desktop, folder sharing, photo sharing and web-cam sharing. Yoics also provides custom configuration, so that advanced users can configure just about any data, service or device to be accessible and shareable remotely.

If you are ready to go, download Yoics from the above link and off you go. If you have any problems, here are a couple of links to help you along the way.

• Yoics Installation for Windows
• Yoics Initial setup for Windows

Yoics Web folders

Once you configure a folder with Yoics, it becomes instantly Internet accessible and shareable either via a web browser or a webDav folder.

Yoics Photos

File view is just one of the options that you have with Yoics Folders. If you have a folder with digital pictures, just configure it with Yoics Photos, and you instantly have a personal photo site, viewable and shareable across the internet.

Remote desktop

Sometimes accessing files or folders just isn’t enough, especially if you’re providing computer support for a less than savvy computer user that you know. Yoics now features pre-configured UltranVNC server, so remotely managing computers with your keyboard and mouse is as easy as a double-mouse click. Our software also support multiple versions of VNC,  and we’ve pre-configured the free version to work with Yoics, so you can access remote machines without requiring complex virtual private network (VPN) or router configuration. If you’ve got your own preferred remote desktop program, no worries, Yoics is easily configured to work with the application of your choice. RealVNC personal edition, TightVNC , UltraVNC, and even Microsoft Remote Desktop are already drop-down menu choices.

Yoics surveillance

Have a webcam? With Yoics, you can instantly transform it into your own personal surveillance system. Not only can you view it live from any browser, motion detected footage is stored on your hard disk, which you can browse at your leisure.  You can also have a daily summary created or even a daily time-lapse and if you have a YouTube account, all your video clips can be uploaded – automatically.  You can even have a Tweet automatically sent out everytime video is captured.

Yoics NOW proxy

Files and remote desktop are undoubtedly the two most popular things that people want access to. But lets face it, there are thousands of other network devices and services that would be awesome to have remote access into, and with Yoics NOW it’s immediately possible. Want to print to your network printer from vacation? No problem. Want to get to your router’s configuration screen without having to open a hole in your firewall? Easy. Whether it’s a dedicated network device or a TCP/IP service running on your machine, Yoics NOW allows you to transform it into a remote accessible and shareable internet resource.

Here you see TVersity, a media server, configured to work with Yoics.

iPhone access

At Yoics we’re big fans of the iPhone, so as you might imagine, most of our stuff works great when viewed from its browser.

System requirements

• Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2/SP3, Vista SP1
• Windows .NET Framework 2.0 (installed with Yoics if not already installed).
• 1GHz CPU
• 1GB memory
• 100MB HD space
• DSL or Cable High Speed networking at 384Kbps or higher
• Additional resources are required for systems sharing more than 5 active Yoics services.
• Systems sharing greater than 10 services will require premium computer systems and high speed network connections.

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Yoics is the (almost) instant way to make just about anything you have connected to the Internet into your own personal web-site. Yoics Photos allows you to take any folder of pictures and make it viewable from any web-browser, even the one on your iPhone. Want to share them with friends? No problem, just like any web resource, Yoics photo folders are easy to share with any of your on-line friends.

Setup Wizard

The easiest way to configure your digital pictures for web access is through the setup wizard. The wizard will start the first time you run Yoics and is available anytime by going to >> Tools, Setup Wizard.

Just make sure the third option is selected, and the Wizard will automatically configure your computer for web photo viewing.

Yoics Manual Photo configuration

If you would like to select a particular folder for photo viewing (it can be a sub folder of My Pictures), you can easily do so through manual setup. Please go to the Manual Yoics Photo Folder configuration tutorial.

Accessing via the web

Go to yoics.com and login using your yoics credentials.

Once logged in:

1. On the left hand side is your device list, just look for the name of the Yoics Photo folder (default is My Pictures). Once you’ve located it, just click on it like you would any hyperlink.
2. Your Pictures will show up on the right hand side just as if they were on a Photo site, except in this case the Photo site is your very own computer.

iPhone Access

Accessing via the Desktop

Like all other Yoics devices, simply double-click on the device & a window with you Yoics Photo folder will be launched in a browser window.

WebDav access

In addition to viewing in browser mode, if you access via the Yoics desktop you can also choose to use our File Explorer mode, by right clicking on any Yoics folder and selecting the Open in File Explorer. The picture folder is opened up in the native operating system folder system allowing drag & drop access to/from the folder.

Sharing

All Yoics folders are shareable either through web viewing or webDav for full drag & drop access. Visit the Sharing tutorial to learn how. If you want to share access to your folder, simply right click any Yoics folder and select "Share with Friends" and simply add their email address or designated Yoics ID.

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Yoics for Windows

Yoics is a powerful software tool that transforms your Windows computer into a Internet accessible powerhouse. With Yoics, you can make any folder on your machine into a personal web-site, your web cam into a surveillance solution and an even remote access your computer from any internet connected browser. To install Yoics, simply download the Yoics desktop for Windows. If you are using either Mozilla (Firefox) or Safari (Apple) you’ll be presented the option to save the Yoics installer to your hard disk. In these cases, just look for the Red Yoics Icon.

1. Run the installer

Start the process by clicking Run (or save the file & click on the RED Yoics icon to start the setup program).

2. Click Next.

Once Yoics has downloaded, give permission to launch the setup by clicking NEXT.

3. The Setup Wizard

Follow the steps in the Startup Wizard.  Along the way, you’ll be asked to accept our license agreement & where you would like to store Yoics.

4. Installation complete

That’s it, Yoics is installed, and will run once you hit Close.  When you first run Yoics the Startup Wizard will guide you through initial setup.  Learn about the Startup Wizard.

5. Launching Yoics

Look for the Yoics icon whenever you want to run the desktop.

Learn about initial setup.

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