- What is Pikchur?
- Does it cost me anything?
- How long does an MMS/email take to post?
- What services do you support?
- What is a posting email and what the heck is MMS?
- How do I post pictures to my accounts via my mobile device?
- I'm on the go and I dont remember what services I'm posting to? Can I override posting on the go?
- What is a Pikchur password for?
- What do you need a contact email for?
- What is Oauth?
- What delivery methods does Pikchur currently support?
- Why should I signup for a Pikchur Account?
- Location Based Posting and Checking In?

Pikchur is a simple service that updates your social networks / micro-blogging platforms with pictures! No need to signup! Just login with one of our many supported platforms and start sending your Piks today!

Nope! Our service is completely free, but if you are sending photos from your mobile device, please verify with your wireless carrier with respect to your MMS/email capabilities and fees.

On average it takes between 6-10 min for us to process your request. If you should see that it takes longer than 30 min for your post to be active please verify that the posting email you sent it to is valid, if so please feel free to contact us @ support[at]pikchur.com.

We currently support » Pownce, Twitter, Tumblr, Jaiku, Facebook, FriendFeed, Identi.ca, Plurk, Rejaw, more to come soon...

A Pikchur posting email is where you will be sending your photos to via MMS/email from your mobile device.

As far as your second question "What the heck is an MMS?", well an MMS stands for "Multimedia Messaging Service" it's how most phones send photos from one phone to another.

We accept both MMS and emails , if your photo does not show up within 10 minutes of sending please drop us a line @ support[at]pikchur.com , with your service provider , and phone type so that we can resolve the issue.

Updating your micro blogging and social networks "on the go" via your mobile device is what we do best here at Pikchur.

To update your accounts all you have to do is:

1) Login with one of the many supported platforms.

2-a) Create a pikchur posting email.

2-b) If you would like you can also sync all your other platforms while your at it under "Accounts" in your user settings page.

3) From your mobile device either by MMS or email send your photos to your "posting email". If you are using MMS the "posting email" goes where you would normally place the phone number of the person you wish to send the photo to. For quick access the next time be sure to add your posting email to your phone book!

4) Please remeber to add a status message in the subject line of your MMS/email.

Glad you asked, we have a basic trigger system which will override your posting settings on the go! We have plans to include some pretty slick custom triggers really soon, but for now refer to this list of service triggers.
To override any of the services you are posting to simply include the trigger in the body of your Email/MMS message in the following format :

To turn posting OFF for a service: -triggername-
To turn posting ON for a service: +triggername+

Your Facebook and or Plurk badges show up as a camera if you are logged-in or viewing the site via https. Due the the higher levels of security allotted by SSL (Secure Socket Layer, aka nerd speak for one of the things your banks use to keep your info safe) , we can not have "mixed" (non https and http) media content displayed.

Because we link directly to the badge image on your Facebook and or Plurk accounts and they both do not have https image counter parts , we here @ pikchur replace them with cameras. If you select your Facebook and or Plurk badge to be displayed, your image will show properly if viewed from a non-https page.

If you see a red cross , that indicates that something went wrong. In most cases it is simply that you have changed your username and or password on that particular service and have not re-synced it here @ Pikchur.com. If you have already re-synced your account and are still having these issues please contact us @ support[at]pikchur.com.

Pikchur has recently enabled the ability to create a Pikchur password. This Pikchur password and your current display name can be used to authenticate with Pikchur.com via the login screen or any third party application.

We do not require a contact email and we promise, this email isn't for spam :-D

But by adding your contact email you will enable us to activate certain features that you might be interested in.

• One of these features is our comment reply system, basically it will email you when someone has commented on one of your photos.

• A second reason why you should save your contact email is in the event you get locked out of your account because of a change in username/password on a supported service or if you forgot your Pikchur password. In this case, all you would have to do is request that your Pikchur display name and password be sent to you via email, and lickety split you'll be able to log back into your account, re-sync any desired accounts and remedy the issue.

OAuth is an open protocol, initiated by Blaine Cook and Chris Messina, to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method for desktop, mobile and web applications. With this protocol you will never be required to give your password out to 3rd party applications. So for instance, if you choose to add Totspot to your list of accounts we won't ask for your Totspot password. Instead we will initiate an OAuth request for us to post to your Totspot account. Once approved your Totspot account will be ready to go. For a more detailed read see http://oauth.net/about/

We currently support 5 methods of posting Piks. Web,Mobile,Bookmarklet, API, and Custom apps.

• Web - Piks posted from the upload form on the site will be tagged with this source.

• Mobile - Piks that are sent in via mobile devices, for now they are generalized, in the future we'll include the exact device.

• Bookmarklet - Piks that are sent in from our nifty bookmarklet. (These are the funniest Piks on the site :-D)

• API and Custom Apps - These tags belong to Piks that come in via apps that are built on top of our API. These will either be tagged with a default API tag, or a specific app, such as Twitterberry.

Well, first off this step is completely optional. You can use Pikchur.com by logging in with any of our supported platforms. There are however, two main reasons why you should create an account:

• Don't get locked out - Say you are used to logging in to Pikchur with your Twitter account and that's the only account you have synced. All of a sudden someone decides to stalk you and you change your Twitter username and or password. Next time you try to login to Pikchur you will trick us in to thinking you are a new twitter user.. not good :-( . You can always drop us a line and we will sort this out for you, but we prefer to get a little sleep in. So if you have a global Pikchur account / password, you can always use it to log in and sync or edit your Twitter, or any other account you may want to add.

• Only publish to Pikchur - Some users prefer to not republish links or photos on their micro-blogging / Social networks. If you fall in to this case this option is for you. This means that you can publish your photos to Pikchur and use one of our nifty sharing methods (RSS, embed code, direct links) to get your photos out there. An example of this would be to add your Pikchur RSS feed to FriendFeed, from now on any time you send in a Pik it will show up on your FriendFeed timeline!