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Installing iCyte

Firefox Users

1. On the iCyte home page, click the Create Account button.
2. Click the iCyte "Free Download" button.
3. If Firefox displays the following message, click the "Allow" button:
4. Firefox will ask you to verify the add-on. Click "Install Now"
5. Once the iCyte add-on is installed, you will be asked to restart Firefox. Click the “Restart Firefox” button to complete the installation.
6. Close the Firefox Add-ons box.

Internet Explorer Users

1. On the iCyte home page, click the Create Account button.
2. Click the iCyte 'Free Download' button
3. When installing the program in Internet Explorer, you will see a ‘File Download - Security Warning’ box.
4. Select ‘Run’ to continue.
5. You may get a further security warning saying the publisher could not be verified. Select ‘Run’ to continue.
6. Follow the iCyte Setup Procedure, and chose the default location. Once installed, the iCyte button will appear on the top right hand side of the screen, next to the Home icon.

Bookmarklet Users (Google Chrome & Safari)

1. On the iCyte home page, click the Create Account button.
2. Drag the 'Cyte This' and 'View Cytes' buttons from the webpage up to your browser's bookmarks toolbar. Google chrome users on Windows who cannot locate their browser's bookmarklet bar can press <ctrl>+b (i.e. hold down control and press the 'b' key) to display it.
3. Click the 'get started' button to start using the iCyte bookmarklet.

Setting up your iCyte Account

1. On the iCyte home page, click Create an Account
2. Click on the link "Already installed iCyte? Create an Account"
3. Fill in the details on the activation page.
4. Once you have submitted the form, you will be asked to verify your email address. Check you email and click on the link to verify.
5. iCyte is now ready to use. ‘My View’ will take you to your list of iCyte projects, and ‘Manage' lets you manage your projects and edit your settings. Or you can begin simply by searching and marking pages. For this, all you need to do is find the iCyte button.
6. The iCyte button is located to the left of the Firefox Location Bar (that’s the spot where you type in a URL or web address).

About the iCyte Plugin

Creating a Cyte

1. Once you have found a web page you want to mark and save, click the iCyte flag icon in your browser's toolbar.
2. You will be asked which project you want to add your Cyte to. Select from the pull down list. If you want to create a new project, add the name of your new project.
3. Optionally add any tags, or notes. See the Adding Tags & Notes section for more details.
4. Press the "Save" button
5. Tip You can mark a portion of text on a webpage by highlighting the text and/or images just as you would if you were going to copy text from the webpage (i.e. hold down your mouse button and drag it over the text you want to select). If you click the iCyte button after doing this the selected text will be highlighted and will remain highlighted when you view the saved page. This is a convenient was of drawing attention to just the relevant portion of webpages.

Browser Sidebar

The sidebar is a convenient way to see the Cytes you have created while you continue to browse the web. It allows you to view or search the Cytes you have created simply and quickly and without having to leave the current web page.

To access the sidebar, click the sidebar image located next to the create Cyte button in your browser's toolbar.

The sidebar contains a filtering search mechanism, which is updated in real time. To use it, simply type into the sidebar's search field and your Cytes will be filtered to only show those containing words which start with your search string.

Each Cyte in the sidebar contains links to view the Cyte on the saved webpage, the project the Cyte came from, and view or add comments associated with the Cyte.

Creating Projects

You can create a new project when making a Cyte, or you can set up your project before you begin your research.

1. Click the Manage button on the top right hand side of the screen, then choose the ‘Manage Projects’ tab.
2. Enter your project name in the “Add New Project” box, then click the plus button to add the project. Your project is not saved yet.
3. Select the access level of the project, it must be either ‘Public’ or ‘Private’. See the 'What is the difference between a private project and a public project?' FAQ entry for a description of project access levels.
4. Optionally add a description of your project
5. Optionally invite other users to join your project. Enter their email address and we will email them an inviting to join iCyte. Once they have been added you will see their name in your list of users for that project.
6. Don't forget to click the 'Save Changes' button to save your project after making any changes!

The ‘Manage Project’ tab also allows you to edit existing projects by clicking the name of the project you wish to edit. If you need to you can also delete the project. Watch how to invite a user into a project in our video.

Adding Tags & Notes

When you create a Cyte, you have the option to add tags and notes. These are important as they will help you to categorize and organize your research. For a detailed overview of what tags are and how to use them, see what are tags in the FAQ.

If you already have a list of tags for this project, an auto-suggest box will appear as you begin typing. You can add as many tags as you like, and tags can consist of multiple words, eg. ‘Organic Bakery’.

Separate multiple tags with commas, and remember that tags are case sensitive.

You can see your list of tags for a particular project on the ‘My View’ page. Select the project, and the list of all tags created for that project will be displayed.

Viewing Cytes, Tags, & Notes

An individual Cyte, when displayed on the ‘My View’ page contains a wealth of valuable information.

The thumbnail to the left of the screen provides a snapshot of the page.

Displayed across the top of the Cyte is the title of the webpage the Cyte was made on. Next to this is the name and picture of the person who created the Cyte. Clicking on their picture or name will take you to their ‘User Profile’. Here you can see something about them and a list of the Public Projects they have created.

Next to the name of the iCyte user, is the Project Name. Clicking on this will take you to the Landing Page for the Project. This page provides the name of the project, the project originator (user who created the project) and a description of the project. Also shown is the tag list for the project and any other users.

If you want to join the project, click on the name of the project originator, and send them a message, letting them know you would like to be a part of their project.

If you want to, you can comment on the Cyte. Click the comment button (next to the project name) add your remarks and click the ‘comment’ button to save. Use the back key to return to the Cyte.

Clicking on the ‘Details’ button will expand the view and show any tags or notes for the site.

Clicking on the ‘Live View’ will take you to the original website. The ‘iCyte View’ will take you to the version saved on the iCyte server.

Clicking the ‘iCyte View’ will bring back the saved page. When on the saved page, clicking the plus button allows you to see who created the Cyte, the date the Cyte was made, the project it belongs to, and any comments made.

RSS

You can keep up to date with all new Cytes in a project by subscribing to its RSS feed; see wikipedia for more details about what RSS is. Within iCyte, an RSS feed is available for any public project.

To access the RSS feed for a project, click on the RSS icon on the project landing page (which is accessible by clicking the project name on any Cyte). More information on using RSS is available in our video.

Sharing with other websites

iCyte offers a convenient way to share a Cyte or project with other popular websites such as twitter, facebook and digg. This allows users of other tools to easily see the Cytes you've been making in iCyte.

To share a Cyte, click on the 'share' menu items in the actions menu for any Cyte. You can share a public project by clicking on the 'share' icon on any project landing page (which is accessible by clicking the project name on any Cyte). An example of how to do this is included in our sharing video.

Embedding Cytes into your website, wiki or blog

You can embed any Cyte or project into your website, wiki or blog. View our video on how to do this.

Editing Cytes

Click on the small cog icon directly below the title on each Cyte to access the Cyte actions pulldown menu. If you created the Cyte, or it belongs to a project you are a part of, you will see the following menu options:

• 'Email' allows you to sends the Cyte in an email.
• 'Share' allows you to share the Cyte with social network websites, such as Twitter and Facebook
• 'Embed' helps you generate an embed code to allow you to embed the Cyte on a blog, wiki or other website
• 'Change' allows you to edit the Cyte title, tags, notes and project.
  
• 'Copy' lets you copy the Cyte to another project
• 'Delete' removes the Cyte

If you are viewing a Cyte in a public project that you are not a member of, you will only have the options of adding the Cyte to one or your own projects, or emailing the Cyte.

Manage - Profile and Settings

The profile and settings page lets you create and edit your profile.

Add as little or as much information as you would like. To upload a photo, click the browse button and select a picture of yourself. Don't forget to press 'save changes' when you've finished editing your profile!

Your profile can be seen by anyone you share a project with. If you create a public project, other users can search across the iCyte database to find your Cytes (searching is based on key words). Clicking on your name will show them your user profile.

Manage - Projects

In the ‘Manage Projects’ tab, you can create new projects, edit existing projects (change its name, the description or the public/private access level) and invite other users to join you project.

See the Creating Projects section for more information, or watch our video on how to invite a user into a project.

Search

iCyte allows you to search for Cytes that you or other users have made by using the search bar that's included on the top of every page on our website.

By default iCyte will search across all public Cytes contained within iCyte, along with all of the Cytes in your projects (regardless of their access level). You can change this behavior by clicking on the "search in your projects" link at the top of the search results page. This will cause iCyte to only search for Cytes in a project that you have explicitly been granted access to.

You can search for Cytes based on any of the following information:

• webpage title
• highlighted portion of the webpage
• note
• tags
• webpage url
• project name
• user name

Search Syntax

• If you enter multiple terms, all terms must appear in the Cyte
• If you put a search term in quotes, the words in the quotes must both appear together in the Cyte
• If you put a - in front of a word it must not appear in the Cyte
• If you put a + in front of a word it must appear in the Cyte

Example Searches

New York will return all Cytes that contain the words New and York

"New York" will return all Cytes that contain the word New immediately followed by York

nytimes.com will return all Cytes made on the nytimes.com domain

New -York will return all Cytes that contain the word New but not York

Tips

When highlighting text, it is often easier to start at the end and scroll up the page to the beginning of the section you wish to highlight.

When working in the web browser, clicking on the iCyte icon, and selecting ‘view Cytes’ will take you to iCyte and your ‘My View‘ page.

Once installed, you can access iCyte through the icon/button in the browser menu bar.

Instead of printing receipts for online purchases, save them to iCyte. Saves on paper, saves on time and means you’ll never lose them again.