• Second Life screenshot shows a fantasy cottage with lots and lots of scripted DFS trees and plants.
    Open Sim

    New World Studio: French news article needs translation

    April 12, 2012 - By 

    This article discusses some Improvements to New World Studio that are coming soon that I’d read about on Hypergrid Business, with some new preview images. Side note: they are looking for testers. I don’t speak French but I speak enough Spanish and Italian (and have seen quite a few subtitled French films) to get the gist. It follows similar announcements the developer, Olivier Battini, has made on NWS’ Facebook group about improvements; what interested me was the article writer recommends and links to the Dolphin Viewer, an easy and solid choice for connecting to OS or SL. DV doesn’t have…

  • Second Life : Keep Calm And Carry On
    Second Life

    Gather Ye 580GTXs Where Ye May: #SecondLife #Specs

    April 6, 2012 - By 

    My poor vidcard is probably toast. Le sigh. Hail, good and faithful friend that served so well and unexpectedly long. Sorry we never got around to drilling vent holes in the top of the case or ye might have lived longer to render virtual rosebuds (as ye may). I’m grabbing suggestions for good or ultimate system requirements for my next computer. The following places have helped me clarify what I’m looking for in a new computer – or at least what’s essential, and what would be nice to have. My partner Rock may be helping me to build a computer…

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    Second Life: The First Hour Should Be Shared With A Friend Or They’re Never Coming Back

    March 18, 2012 - By 

    A few years ago I started a new user avatar for a published author for an appearance at Lackamas Hall Reading Room in Pini – sponsored by Jackson Street Books. During the process at that time, I passed a number of brand-new potential Residents who seemed unable to figure out how to get OUT of the orientation area or off the island. Many were pretty much like this guy: Inara Pey started a discussion about Linden Lab’s new Destination Islands (welcome areas for new users) that quickly got a lot of people talking. I posted a long comment only to…

  • Second Life screenshot shows a fantasy cottage with lots and lots of scripted DFS trees and plants.
    Second Life - Steelhead St Helens

    Swimming With Dolphin 3.2.23198 On The Asthmatic Laptop

    March 17, 2012 - By 

    As a fairly casual Second Life Resident, I generally stick to the tried and true: music and dance animations are the social glue of Second Life, a good graphics card and fast computer is a must, and the official Second Life Viewer sucks. It frustrates long-time users with its irritating features designed with the first time (or more likely, “one time” ) user in mind. The sidebar flyout is greatly improved over the original version, though. Now the “sidebar” is a series of sticky boxes that can be detached at either side or bottom, and not all of them have…

  • Second Life screenshot shows a fantasy cottage with lots and lots of scripted DFS trees and plants.
    Second Life

    Lifeboat? Bolt-Hole? @MariaKorolov ‘s “Free #OpenSim in a snap”

    March 7, 2012 - By 

    I love my Second Life; my friends, my music streams, my favorite places. I love going to events in Steelhead and virtual church on Epiphany Island, and dancing at Cafe Wellstone on the mainland. I actually love the “old” Mainland areas where water, roads, rail, and quality builds make for a nice experience exploring or hanging out. I don’t love blingtards, or boobtards (pix!), or abandoned parcels littered with crashed police cars and random doors and bullets hanging 30m up in midair. I don’t love drama; I do love comedy. I don’t love Bug’s last name, as she used to…

  • Second Life screenshot shows a fantasy cottage with lots and lots of scripted DFS trees and plants.
    Second Life

    The Old New Frontier And The Not So Old New Frontier: Blue Mars Bought By Ball State

    March 5, 2012 - By 

    Here’s the SLuniverse thread on the recent acquisition of Blue Mars by Ball State University. One post referenced the Blue Mars blog; the original press release had been pulled pending contracts. Many of you have been asking about last week’s announcement by Ball State University. Specifically, many of you have noted that the press release was pulled earlier this week. The press release was removed due to some contracts that have yet to be finalized and signed. Once that happens, we will release more information about the deal. This is pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if one…

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    Chameleonic Possessions

    OMG Helpful: Care and Feeding of the #SLMarketplace Magic Box

    February 9, 2012 - By 

    The information in this post from DGP4SL Blog is extremely helpful and I really, really wish I’d known some of this before, as I’ve been somewhat (okay, alotwhat) cavalier about my Magic Boxes. Especially helpful: turns out its a good idea to have duplicates, in case your “main store” sim is offline. I’d never known how to get the Marketplace to update their list of servers: you have to go a bit “old skool” at the SL Exchange site. So THAT’s why it’s still live… That’s all well and good but how does the Marketplace know which Magic Boxes you…

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    Second Life

    It May Begin With A Plywood Box, But May End With “NOOOOOOOO!”

    January 31, 2012 - By 

    Thanks to Mar’s SL For Nowt post, I was motivated to sort a lot of textures scattered through many folders – some were class downloads, some were unnecessary product ads from hunt gifts and purchases, a lot were unsorted textures from packs, some were retrieved from my indespensable ETO texture organizer and never sorted into project folders or storage. All well and good, except that at the end of the night, I accidentally retextured the organizer itself with a standard texture grid – ALL the buttons, forward/back buttons, categories, the lot. NOOOOOOOOOOO! I was up until 2am fixing it. But…

  • Second Life screenshot shows a fantasy cottage with lots and lots of scripted DFS trees and plants.
    Second Life - Steelhead

    Chinese New Year in #Steelhead: Be There Or Be Eaten By Gojira

    January 9, 2012 - By 

    Ooh! Fun events to entertain and distract the discerning Steampunk resident: R.S.V.P. to Mr TotalLunar Eclipse; be there or he’ll eat you and stomp on your house, in that order. That may seem unnecessarily harsh, to destroy your home after you’re dead, but dragons are notoriously hot-tempered and really hold a grudge. Better mark your cslendars, I’m just sayin’. Also, too: SQUIRRELL!!1! Link: Eclipse: Chinese New Years in Steelhead 2012