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Second Life: Introduction/Beginner Tutorials

2016/09/02 by Nalates Urriah

I like to have a collection of tutorials to which I can send new Second Life™ users. Every so often I update my in-world note card list. I give that to new players I meet.

Strawberry Singh has a series of introductory(?) videos and she is adding to and updating her collection. Her post Introduction to Second Life is pretty much an outline of those videos. She has done a good job of answering questions new users have. Including signup, downloading, and installing the viewer, something often missed by tutorial makers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t3tNQ_53us

I find 1 or 2 posts a month in the Second Life Forum asking how to get into SL. These are people that signed up but somehow didn’t realize they needed to download the viewer. It has been a while since I signed up a new avatar. So, I don’t really understand how they miss understanding they need to download the ‘game’. I just know they do. And these are people that write well when posing their question. So, they aren’t mentally handicapped or simpletons.

Second Life Outage Explained – 2016-08-23

2016/08/26 by Nalates Urriah

April Linden has posted about Second Life’s down time last Tuesday. See: A Play-by-Play Retelling of Yesterday’s Downtime. I enjoy hearing what’s up with the system when there are problems.

Second Life: Marketplace Issues

2016/08/16 by Nalates Urriah

Word is getting around that the Marketplace (MP) has shifted to the new search feature. There are some problems with the new search. I like it, but nothing is perfect. One problem is items removed from the MP are showing up in search. Another is how title words and keywords are ranked in the search … Read more

Project Bento Update Video 2016 w32

2016/08/12 by Nalates Urriah

This is an interesting update on the current bugs and progress on the head bones. Matrice Laville, the programmer for AvaStar speaks about several issues.

One of the people working with Bento is totally frustrated. She provides us a textbook case of victimization and projection. Wow. She is having problems with the Bento Collada file in the SL Wiki dated Aug 6th. Even after several people downloaded and checked the file during the meeting then told her the file was complete but had bone position issues, which were talked about earlier, she couldn’t hear them.

Lindens Speak…

2016/08/02 by Nalates Urriah

A new post appeared in the SL Blog, 8/2 @ 9:33 AM… hmmmm… See: Recent Second Life Developments – What’s New and What’s Coming!

Project Bento is the first mention. If you have been following you know Project Bento is nearing a point where the viewer can promote to RC status.

Misunderstanding the Second Life Lindex

2016/07/29 by Nalates Urriah

A lot was written a few weeks ago about the instability in the Second Life™ Lindex. Darrius Gothly wrote: The Math Behind the LindeX. It has enough misconceptions I am moved to provide a counter point and more accurate information.

I’m moved to do it at this time because of a recent post in the forum. Some one thought selling L$ at L$265/US$1 on July 29 was setting the price to high… high!?! No that is pretty low, for a seller.