PixelPipe On Nokia Share Online Rocks!
If you like uploading your photos and videos online before you even get home, you need to check out Pixelpipe. I’ve talked about Shozu and Mobypictures before, but Pixelpipe really stands out as the winner. Not only does it work with Nokia’s own Share Online, but the also provide a lot of places you can simultaneously upload to. Now there’s no reason for me NOT to upload to Ovi Share.
My Pixelpipe pipes
Usage
To setup: Go to pixelpipe.com/nokia from your handset to get your Share Online client configured.
To use: In the Gallery with a photo selected (or mark multiple) choose ‘Options>Send>Post to web’. You can also select the ‘Post to…’ icon to upload immediately after taking a photo.
Pipes or Destinations
You can choose from a lot of services you can upload your photos and videos. Take a look at this screenshot below.
Routing tags. Another cool thing about Pixelpipe is the use of on-demand filters. For example, if you signed up for 10 destinations, you can still upload a photo to certain services at specific momenst. You can set a ‘routing tag’ for each service and simply type these tags on the title before you you upload. If I want to upload my photo to Facebook and Flicker only, I’ll type “@fb @fl Photo Title Here,” so it will only upload to those two instead of all default destinations.
Thoughts
Pixelpipe is really a must-have for anyone with Nokia device. Since it is patched with Share Online, there’s no need to install third-party apps that runs in the background like Shozu.
Pixelpipe is also similar to Mobypictures that I previously liked, but it proves to be a lot better. The amount of destinations is a lot more to choose from. I can’t think of any negative things about Pixelpipe. You should go ahead and set it up on your phone!
Mike Macias on 16 April 2009:
Amen. This is my new favorite service. I love how it lets you pick where you want the image to go. Make sure to set the upload size to “Original” in Share Online's settings. The default is re-sized smaller. Not a pixelpipe issue, but a Share issue.
Ms. Jen on 16 April 2009:
My thoughts on PixelPipe are “meh”. I am thoroughly underwhelmed. It is just another service that hosts your photos on their server and then they allow you to post your photos to another service of your choice. ShoZu does this. Flickr does this.
[Here comes my "Own Your Own Stuff" rant:]
I was really really really really really hoping that PixelPipe would allow me to moblog directly from the Pixelpipe share online to my blog without stopping at an intermediary server.
Folks, what happens to your photos when PixelPipe goes away? Goodbye photos, bye bye.
Mark Guim on 16 April 2009:
I'm not hosting any of my stuff on Pixelpipe. I'm simply using them to forward my stuff to the right places. Flickr is the main place I store my photos, but if I can forward them to Facebook, Ovi, and Twitpic, why not?
By the way, Pixelpipe is great for Twitpics.
arek on 16 April 2009:
The service looks very promising. I've just connected my Flickr, Picasa and Ovi acocunts to it and it works like a charm.
One question though – is there any way to set a private album on Ovi as a default for photos uploaded with PixelPipe? I tried to look for such an option but with no success.
Ms. Jen on 16 April 2009:
Mark,
If you look at the code, the photo lives on PixelPipe and is forwarded to the other services. PixelPipe is not just making the link, they are hosting the photos as well, esp. if you are sending the photo to a blog.
smiles, jen ;o)
Solos on 17 April 2009:
Unfortunately I can't activate Pixelpipe from Ovi Share from my N95 8GB. I enter login data correctly and after hitting Sign in I get the same login page again and again
Jade Bryan Jardinico on 17 April 2009:
very good app..i like it
Mike Macias on 17 April 2009:
Interesting. I think you are right about pixelpipe owning the photos that are sent to a blog or twitter, but photos sent to Facebook, Flickr, Share on Ovi are uploaded to those servers and not pixelpipe. Unless I'm completely missing something. I looked at the code.
Pixelpipe on 17 April 2009:
We only host the media when the service you are posting your content to does not provide a hosting capability. This would include most of the blogs and micro-blogs out there that do not accept media uploads like WordPress & twitter. All other sites will get the original media at full resolution uploaded to them as if you'd sent the file yourself.
Ongoing we'll be offering a feature that will allow you to choose where your media will be hosted when needed, you'll simply just need to link your Photobucket, Flickr… account and we'll upload the files to the host and create your post for you. Believe me there's no advantage to us hosting the files since we do not charge for the hosting or advertise, we're just doing it as a service to our users.
Pixelpipe on 17 April 2009:
We don't use your regular Pixelpipe password since the connection between the phone and are servers in unencrypted from Share Online. To protect your privacy we generate an application key for you that you can use in place of your password, the big advantage is that you're able to protect your account from unauthorised use.
You can find your private application key under settings after logging into pixelpipe.com.
heybige on 17 April 2009:
Great service, and as PixelPipe mentions, media uploaded to sites that host the images are the “owners”.
ie: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3348/3448405738_...
bn326160 on 17 April 2009:
I hope they will add netlog.. No netlog is no go for me
I want to use netlog with the built-in sharing app on my n85.
I there anyone with a solution?
bruno on 18 April 2009:
Hi
i have one question. I really like this service, but how i can update facebook status with it?
i have set up everything correctly, photos and videos go to wherever i want to, bu it seems that i cannot goe update to facebook status. it would be great that there is some way from share online to do that (sime string in photo description or something)
thank you
Pixelpipe on 20 April 2009:
Does netlog have an email upload interface? If yes you can set them up with the email pipe. We allow you to send as if from your personal email address or from Pixelpipe if you prefer.
We'll also look into adding them as a dedicated destination if they have an API we can access.
Jason on 21 April 2009:
I can't get this to work on my 5800.
How bout a tutorial?
Mark Guim on 21 April 2009:
Been using pixelpipe on the Nokia 5800. Just go to pixelpipe.com/nokia from your handset to get your Share Online client configured.
Jason on 21 April 2009:
OK, found a tutorial. It wasn't working the other way. Works now. Love it.
Thanks for always letting us know what is out there for our 5800.
I am very glad I get your post in my e-mail in box!
Keep up the good work!
Mark Guim on 21 April 2009:
No problem Jason. I'm glad you read the blog!
alwaysriding247 on 23 April 2009:
This is so awesome. Thank you so much for posting this. I've been killing myself trying to figure out how to EASILY upload photos from my N85 to Facebook. iPhones and Blackberries have a dedicated Facebook application, what the heck Symbian community? Pixelpipe works perfect for my photo uploads. Yay!
Jason on 28 April 2009:
how do i pick which of my pipes it uploads to. Currently it does all of them, (facebook, flickr, twitter, ovi, etc). Can I just upload to one?
Mark Guim on 28 April 2009:
You can set a ‘routing tag’ for each service and simply type these tags on the title before you you upload. If I want to upload my photo to Facebook and Flicker only, I’ll type “@fb @fl Photo Title Here,” so it will only upload to those two instead of all default destinations.
Stephen on 13 May 2009:
I can't get the config file from the mobile browser as the Full site opens like on the pc…
mykel on 19 May 2009:
hey. I cant make my 5800 work
all i can see from my phone browser is pixelpipe-account.cfg. downloading it and clicking it does nothing, browsing to the download directory and trying to open the .cfg does nothing.
please help! i really want pixelpipe
i have a 5800 from australia, shareonline version 4.0.08.49, symbian firmware version V 20.0.012.321.02
mykel on 19 May 2009:
okay, the pixelpipe after-initial-setup page has a link for “download the application directly” or something similar.
click that for an alternate cfg, “pixelpipe-setup.cfg”. opening that adds pixelpipe to shareonline.
then you have to open “pixelpipe-account.cfg” which activates your pixelpipe account in shareonline.
then youre golden!
gmane on 24 June 2009:
do you have an actual pixelpipe widget on your home screen? if not do you have any widget devoted to sharing on your homescreen? i put the share online with ovi but its acting very strangely.. help me out
Sanjay M on 12 July 2009:
Thank you your post was really useful and I've subscribed to your feed. Pixelpipe really made my day its an excellent application and to my delight I found what you've written is definitely true, its a must have
Denies on 28 July 2009:
I installed the widget on my N97 and, after restarting, finally managed to enter my login-data. Now I've downloaded and opened the .cfg-file about ten times (via the direct link, by pressing “Create configuration” in the widget and when prompted while trying to upload) and Pixelpipe appears in the “Send To” menu, but when I choose that, the browser opens, makes me download the .cfg-file yet again and then there's only the message “Waiting for the browser”. Any solutions for that?
Mark Guim on 28 July 2009:
I suggest you tell them about this directly at http://getsatisfaction.com/pixelpipe
Mark Guim on 28 July 2009:
I suggest you tell them about this directly at http://getsatisfaction.com/pixelpipe
Ben on 22 December 2009:
how do actually make it work? i downloaded the configuration settings for like 4x already.. then, still, the pixepipe option doesn't appear in the upload section in the gallery. i'm using 5800 btw. help.
Ron Roni on 31 March 2010:
I can't get this to work on my E63, how bout a tutorial ?
Rudy on 29 May 2010:
http://getsatisfaction.com/pixelpipe/topics/que...
Rudy on 29 May 2010:
http://getsatisfaction.com/pixelpipe/topics/que...