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Phoenix Hour Week 41

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You can find the latest Phoenix Hour video here: Phoenix Hour. The following is my summary of the Hour. There are several interesting items disclosed in the meeting. But, there are no ETA’s on FS (Firestorm) or PH (Phoenix) release dates. There is one BIG PROBLEM looking ahead, see 53:00.

01:00 – 1 year of Phoenix Hour Shows

02:00 – LL server upgrades – No one had any clue what they were talking about. You can skip this section. See the Server News here. In the menu  click The Stuff -> SL Server Related.

04:00 – Fake support groups. A number of fake support groups with rather rude and abusive support people pose as Phoenix support groups. This is resulting in complaint coming into the Phoenix Team.

One can tell if the group is a ‘real’ Phoenix support group. Look in the member list for Jessica Lyon or Ed Merryman. If a group is a real Phoenix group, it will have one or both of these names as the group owners. Use the fake groups at your own risk.

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SL Viewer Interface to Change

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Well… this should be interesting. We are getting a new Viewer Interface by the end of October or there about.

It also explains why the viewer development team has basically disappeared. While the Lindens were proclaiming they would never do another Hide and Develop project without user input, our new CEO having messed that fiasco has the Lab apparently doing exactly that… we’ll see how it works.

The announcement is at SLUniverse. This is an expansion of the recent SL Forum announcement of New Things in SL. The information is about a week old. Finding these gems of information in odd places plus some stats someone posted in the  SLUniverse thread about how many have read the SLUniver forum vs the SL Forum shows the Lindens have yet to figure out how to communicate with the users.

Dolphin Viewer 3 (3.0.10) Review

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Lance has release a new version of the Dolphin Viewer. A problem with it not saving your preferences has been fixed.

Download & Install

This one is a very standard download and install. Nothing new and no gotcha’s to deal with.

Experience

I stumbled across the Local Bitmap Browser that has apparently been part of the Dolphin Viewer since version 3.0.9. This feature allows you to work with textures on your hard disc without having to pay an upload fee. This is like the Temp Uploads in other viewers with some nice differences.

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New Development Viewers

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I came across an old wiki page that is getting new updates. Rob Linden started the page in 2006. For the last few months Oz Linden and Wolfpup Lowenhar have been updating the page almost weekly. If you are interested in what is going on in viewer development, you may find the page interesting.

Downloading test builds

You can get versions of development viewers made by the Snowstorm Team and TPV Developers.

Be warned that these viewers may have more or less problems than the current stable release of the SLViewer or related TPV.

The Snowstorm download on the ‘test builds’ page seem to the the same link found on the Snowstorm Project page.

The latest Snowstorm Development Viewer is: Second Life 3-1-1-242785 Development.

Adult Content News Week 41

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I like to write positive and informative articles. Adult Content should be fun. I also think Adult Content is a popular …item?… in Second Life. After all sex sells and meeting people is a major recreational activity. Just look at the online dating sites. I’ve long thought SL could be a new level in the Facebook and eHarmony type dating game. But, I have yet to see the Lab get a handle on Adult Content and take the sexual aspects of SL in a positive direction. They have yet to figure out how to move from escorts and hookers to matchmaking, casual hookups, and romance. So, I am rather negative when it comes to the Lab’s management of Adult Content.

It seems no agenda items found their way to Viale Linden, the Adult Content User Group (ACUG) facilitator, this week. You may or may not know agenda items are now handled by Viale via email now. The email address is on the Ault Content User Group’s agenda page…

Meeting Schedule Changes

The meeting time shifted from 11 AM to 10 AM SLT/PDT. Also this was the last weekly meeting. Meetings will now be bi-weekly. The next meeting is 10/24.

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#SL Commerce News

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It is never easy to know what is going on with the SL Commerce Team. One logs into their merchant’s dashboard and finds changes… That may be changing.

CommerceTeam Linden, a new Linden personality that is supposedly the team rep, posted that new release notes are being published in the SL Wiki. I suppose that means we won’t see updates in the forum. See Release Notes/Marketplace Current. This is supposed to be an ongoing thing. The updates there now have been made by Brooke Linden.

CommerceTeam Linden also posted this comment: Best ways to contact the Commerce Team. For those of us that have been around SL for some time it sounds familiar. Basically what is said is: post in the forum, we may notice and do something, but don’t count on it. Otherwise, file a support ticket or a JIRA. Well… isn’t that reassuring? We have a way to get something done… right.

Updated 10/12

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