We recently received a few request with people asking us how it is you go about editing your photos contrast, red eye, rotate or even crop on Pikchur.com
So we decided to write this short 3 step post on how to get started.
Step 1: Login, Go to your photo and click “Edit Photo”
Step 2: Go to the bottom and Click “Edit With Picnik”
Step 3 Begin to edit!
And thats it!
Hope that helps, as always thanks for choosing Pikchur :)
Sorry for the late post, we sent out word that we support the new echo Auth functionality twitter released but forgot to write a blog post about it.
For documentation on how to integrate the new support please review our API Docs @ : http://bit.ly/dbWGQe
Feel free to reach us any time @ API@Pikchur.com for support/feedback.
~The Pikchur Crew
Hey guys,
As you know Twitter for the iPhone is out, and allows for “custom” photo posting. To Add Pikchur support to your Account simple follow the steps below.
First Click More
Next Click Settings
Now Click Account & Settings
Select Services
Next Click Image Service
Then Select Custom
And Finally enter this URL
(Custom Photo URL http://api.pikchur.com/twitter)
And thats it, you now have the ability to post directly to Pikchur via Twitter for the iPhone.
As always feel free to reach us anytime, we love to hear from you.
~The Pikchur Crew
Hey, you can now post images & videos to Pikchur from Twitterrific, how sweet is that!? Here is how you do it:
1) Launch the application and tap on the Compose button in the upper-right corner of the screen.
2) In the window that appears, tap on the camera icon and select “Change Upload Service”.
3) At the bottom of the list that’s displayed, you’ll see “Other…”. Tap that and you see a text field where you can specify the “Media Service URL Endpoint”.
4) Enter “http://api.pikchur.com/twitterrific” and then tap outside the popover window to dismiss it. Done!
That’s it you’re set to use Pikchur in Twitterrific for photos & videos :)
What’s nice is that this media end point supports twitters new echo oAuth functionality so no need to update your settings with the Restful API is shut down.
Hope you guys like it :)
-Pikchur
Thanks to @Davidedichillo suggesting we add the end point, and helping us write the how to get Pikchur on the iPad instructions.
Great news, triggers now work within our API as well as our mms/email posting methods. Which means any application that supports Pikchur will now be able to 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 subject of your post in the following format :
To turn posting OFF for a service: -triggername-
To turn posting ON for a service: +triggername+ 
Twitter( tw )
FourSquare( 4sq )
Flickr( fk )
Tumblr( tr )
Jaiku( jk )
Facebook( fb )
FriendFeed( ff )
Plurk( pl)
Identi.ca( id )
Koornk( ko )
Totspot( ts )
Brightkite( bk )
For example if your account settings are :
Lets say you want to not send to twitter but you do want to send to Plurk.
All you would have to do is in your subject/message is add the following triggers -tw- +pl+
When we recive your request we will override your account settings to match your trigger request and filter out the triggers from your message for that one upload.
We are working on some pretty neat things to be released really soon, so keep an eye out!
~The Pikchur Crew
Pikchur Teams up with @France2TV to launch a contest for a chance to win 2 tickets to the Coupe d’Europe de Rugby 2010.
Homepage: http://france2.pikchur.com/
Timeline: http://france2.pikchur.com/timeline
Media Landing Page: http://france2.pikchur.com/OsK
“Envoyez une photo typée Rugby à rugby@pocarles.com et vous la retrouverez ici http://bit.ly/9YAfuM Les 2 plus RT avant lundi gagnent ! :-)” - @France2TV
In order to win you must have the most Retweets, we look forward to seeing what Piks come in and good luck!
~The Pikchur Crew
We here @ Pikchur have been working really hard on a few things lately. The first is our joint venture with 39llc to develop a Foursquare application that allows you to check-in with multimedia.
It’s called SquarePik.
The application allows people to check-in with a photo or video. In addition, the app will show users all photos and videos dropped at a particular venue. Along with some of the expected features such as, the ability to add locations, search for locations, and view your friend’s last checkins, we hope to provide a supplementary application to the already popular Foursquare iPhone app.
The app is built on top of our new “GeoSocial” API (more on that later) and is available in the iTunes store for just $1.99
Now, our new Geo-Social API is aimed at providing developers of geo social apps such as Foursquare the ability to quickly integrate the following features:
- Multimedia check-ins (Photos & Videos)
- Pull feed of Media Dropped @ a venue
- Pull feed of Thumbnails for a list of venues.
- Allow for multimedia tips (coming soon)
Documentation for our API can be found here : http://groups.google.com/group/pikchur-api/web/geosocial-api-documentation
We also added the following to Pikchur.com:
- Landing pages with Foursquare venue badges: http://pikchur.com/Muq
- Geo social venue specific timelines: http://pikchur.com/timeline/foursquare*368848
- Nifty venue RSS feeds: http://pikchur.com/rss/geosocial/foursquare/368848
Well that’s it for now, stay tuned as we improve SquarePik and our Geo social API.
As always, feel free to reach us with your comments, concerns and feed back @ info at pikchur dot com
Thanks,
The Pikchur Crew.
Wether you guys have been naughty or nice this year, doesn’t really matter to us! As thanks for all the support you have given us, we decided to throw a short but sweet holiday contest.
Head over to the contest page, check out the prizes, and start sending in those holiday photos for your chance to win.
To enter this holiday cheer contest all you have to do is send in a photo or video that is holiday related to your Pikchur account with the hashtag #holidays09
We will select a winner based on a few attributes
1. Number of Re-tweets
2. Number of “UNIQUE” views (not view counter on landing page)
3. How creative the photo or video is.
4. Your entry must be dated after our contest has started (Don’t tag one of your popular photos or videos :-])
Happy holidays :-)
Pikchur
Hey, you can now post images to Pikchur from Tweetie, how sweet is that!? Here is how you do it:
1. Open Tweetie and go to settings, should be under account.
2. Click on Image service and then go down and click on custom.
3. Enter http://api.pikchur.com/tweetie as the posting url.
That’s it you’re set to use Pikchur in Tweetie for photos :-) If they add a custom url for video posting then you will also be able to post videos to Pikchur via Tweetie.
Happy Friday
-Pikchur
