So... ya gots your new Nokia Internet Tablet and you want to get started streaming music and viewing photos via the WeBot application.
Here's some step by step instructions to get you started in the right direction. Check it.
1. Sign up for an account/download application
The first thing you need to do is create a WeBot account from our website from any platform, any browser. Sign up just like every other web site in the world and you'll instantly be served an application download. Our site will sniff out if you are on a mac or a windows machine and give you the proper download. .dmg for mac and .exe for windows. to get the Linux.tar you'll need to log in then go to the config page (sprocket icon) and hit add a bot, then click the link to see all available downloads -- you can choose between win/mac/linux.
2. Install the download.
On windows this means double clicking on the .exe you downloaded (or chose "run"A if you are on IE). Agree with everything and in less than thirty seconds your first bot will be installed.
for mac: open the installer package and double click. As with Windows, agree with everything and your Bot will be installed.
Here's where there is a slight variation between Macs and Windows.
With windows you merely click on the WeBot icon that will have appeared in your sys tray (red at first -- then turning white when it connects). This will launch your default browser logged into the WeBot application with the same account as the installed bot. Tre' cool.
For Mac it's a bit different. When the Mac Bot installs you'll get a pop up screen that asks you to name your Bot and sign in with your account credentials (user email address and password). when you do this your default browser will launch landing on the WeBot application. WE recommend FireFox for Mac btw. Safari has some flash/flex bugs that are a bit of a pain.
There you go, all installed and launched. what next??
Get some content associated with your bot and start streaming.
Actually, we automatically go to your default music and photos folders and index your music and images to get you started. Click on the Config page (the icon tab that looks like a sprocket) and you can see what has been automatically found and indexed. Of course you can remove these share points or add more. We're just trying to make it simple and easy on your first visit.
If we've found all your content, fine but if you've placed mp3s and images in other folders (iTunes....) or on remote drives or networked drives, dig in and add them to your bot. You only have to do this once and then you can forget about it unless you decide to move or re-organize your stuff! The cool thing is, the folders are dynamic. Meaning, if you drop more images or burn a new cd in to the shared folders (or remove for that matter) the folder will refelct the changes in the application. It's kinda cool, actually. For example I've set up my wmp to burn cd's for me from the cd drive. I set it to put the new music files into a specific folder which is shared to WeBot so anytime I add a new cd to my collection it's available in WeBot in just a few moments.
Once you've finished adding photos and music to your bot, you can then instantly access it in your Tablet. Simply go to WeBot.com and sign in to your account. You'll see easy to navigate music and photo pages. You'll need to create your musical playlists and custom photo albums on your mac or pc but once created, they'll instantly be accessible on your Nokia tablet.
I hope this helps you out. If you have any questions or run into snags of any kind, feel free to ask here or come over to the WeBot forums and we'll do our best to help you out asap.
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