Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The Kokua Viewer team has Linux viewer out for Second Life™, at least a test version. It comes in both 32 and 64 bit versions, runs on Debian Stable, aka Jessie, and newer versions.
They need testers. See: KokuaNT is available for testing.
The third party Second Life™ viewer Dolphin Viewer is no longer updating. Lance has run out of RL time to work on it. The end was announced 2015/06/22. See: Good bye, and thanks for all the fish.
My Google Chrome has updated and the bookmarking and bookmark manager features, which have again drastically changed, again. The new system and manager are much more like the previous features in 2014. I think it is a major improvement.
I had been very unhappy with the features as they were designed and working during the first part of this year. See Google Chrome Bookmarks/Favorites Changing.
Well, they took out a couple… 🙁 but, next week they’ll look again. Because of the location of the incision, my palm, they are being overly conservative.
I did get a soft bandage. I can bend my wrist and mostly use my hand. I am surprised at how stiff my hand is. I have exercises to do. I can type faster. But, my index finger is really weak and semi numb. They say that may take a few more weeks to return to normal.
Whatever, overall it is better.
There have been a couple of updates to the Black Dragon Viewer since I started using 2.4.2.6. NiranV is up to release 2.4.3.1. The changes fix some minor problems, adds Windows 10 support (Win 10 coming the end of the month), and includes the change to how we can use clothing layers.
RLVa is still broken… but, that’s not a Black Dragon issue, if I remember correctly.
A new release of the Alchemy Viewer is out, Alchemy Beta 3.8.0. This not new news… I’m just catching up. There is not much one can say about what is new in Alchemy as they aren’t telling, deciding to let it be a surprise to users. Right.
The release notes read:
But, there are a number of Alchemy changes if you scroll down. One interesting one is the ability to export a group membership list to a CSV file. That could be useful. Exporting ban lists for use in other groups might be more useful. Also, added to the inventory panel filters is an option to filter LINKs, the basic entry used in the Outfits folder. Third party viewers allow LINKs to be created outside the Outfits folder. So, I can see a need to search for LINKs.