Busy

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Devokan Hot Spot Myst-Uru Style
Devokan Hot Spot

I’ve been busy with RL, moving, unpacking, getting what little work there is done, getting cable to my new home for a good Internet connection, writing proposals for the company I freelance for…

I have new articles planned for here. One that is most in my mind is about Devokan (SL Map). It recently made the SL Hot Spots (these scroll off so I can’t link). Fans from Myst Online, a closed MMO, are building and playing in Devokan (link requires SL account). There is a story to Devokan. One can read the story on the Guild of Maintainers site in Developments in Devokan (the guild is a fan group from Myst Online).

I have a story about the SL RPG Land of NoR and the RPG’s spinning off from it. I just have to figure out how write about the drama if that saga without it being boring.

I also have a review of Babylon 5 RPG in SL. I need to up date it and get it posted.

I just need more hours in the day… 🙂

Photo Sharing Sites Review

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Nalates Urriah
Nalates

Update 11/23/09 – See Koinup below

I have not been blogging all that long. But I have learned images are important for a blogger. I suspect Torley mentioned my Emerald Viewer Review because of the images. What I am learning now is the number if images I need to publish. Also, I’m not making any money from this blog… I’m looking at how I might change that but that is another story. So, I need a free sharing plan.

I use Flickr, Photobucket and KOINUP. Each has some nice features. For my blogging use I find that I need albums, a way to group related images. For my gaming life I need Groups, which are a way to allow friends to share related images for social networking. I need an easy way to link to images for use in blogs.

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Greenlife Emerald Viewer Breasts Review

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Update 12/2/2009

A new version 1101 was released Wednesday. See: Emerald Viewer Review – Update

12/3/09: I’ve added an index to all the Emerald Viewer Reviews. See: Emerald Viewer Review Index

Update 10/18/2009

The 1.23.5 (950) version has been released to handle the new LL updates. Greenlife Emerald Downloads 950

Second Life Blog Thread: Female Avatar complete. End of “bouncing-Prim-Business”?

Emerald Impostures Warning: [Emerald] Imposters!

11/6/09 – Emerald License Violations – Emerald goes after abusers

12/2/09 – Second Life Inventory Loss & Recovery

Linden Lab 3rd Party Viewer registration coming: Discussion: Third Party Viewer Policy

Massively covering the issue: Linden Lab to alter third-party Second Life viewer policies

10/24/09 – Modular Systems Response: [Emerald] Regarding ‘Third Party Viewer Policy Changes’

10/21/09 – JIRA Report: Import “Breast Physics” feature from Emerald Viewer – This is about having the feature added tot he standard Second Life Viewer.

11/23/09 – Speed Rezzer for Emerald Review

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10/21/09 – Added Vertical IM or Chat Tabs info.
10/21/09 – Added CryoLife Detection + 10/26/09
10/21/09 – Added Emerald Viewer Manual
10/23/09 – Added Emerald Attachment Points
10/24/09 – Added WARNING: Emerald Losing Shapes

Original Post

This week Modular Systems released version 1.23.4 (904). This version has lots of new features. One the guys will like is bouncy boobies. One everyone will appreciate is the client-side-AO. Read on. (Continued from GreenLife Emerald Viewer Review)

Emerald AO

AO’s or Animation Overrides are typically prims with animations and a control list that attaches to the viewer window as a HUD (heads up display). They control the walking, running, setting, jumping and other animations by overriding the default animations. The AO’s contain little computer programs (scripts) to run the animations. The scripts add to the sim server load. Now the Emerald team has added a client side AO. Skills Hak added this feature. Running the script client side means less load on sim servers and frees up a HUD slot. Plus it expands the number of animations you can load. Scripts in SL have a size limit. Plus Linden Lab (LL) is considering limiting scripts in some way like they limit prims (think tier).

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Twitter Search Engines

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Seems there are now special search engines for Twitter. I look at twitter just to see what’s up. Lots of news breaks there. On fast breaking subjects real time results are wonderful. Search engines are figuring this out. Google and Microsoft are looking at buying Twitter. They have recognized Twitter’s value in getting new information on fast breaking subjects.

Those looking for new information on Second Life can scan Twitter, Plurk and whatever with some of the newer real time search engines. Most seem to focus on Twitter. Others provide a broader range of sources.

Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has their own new effort, Bing Tweets. Seems they have a couple of tools for watching tweets and a search engine that gives more weight to Tweets but still includes regular search stuff. The real-time scroll of Tweets on a subject is kinda neat but hard to read on fast scrolling popular subjects.

Twitter Search Review

Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest – Dated June and a bit out of date, but still a good list of sources. Their top 3 are:

Twazzup – Is simple Twitter search. Results update in real time.

Collecta – This is a more generalized real time search covering more than just twitter. One has to use double quotes for terms like “Second Life” to keep it on target.

Scoopler – This one is also a broad search using many sources but has a column of  Tweets on the right.

Imprudence 1.2 Beta 2 Viewer Review

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Second Life Viewers
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The newer Imprudence Viewer Beta is out. It works on Windows, Mac (OS X Intel) and Linux. This update has some major fixes for the previous Beta release. If you updated prior to 10/9 then you need to get a new download and uninstall and re-install.

Massively has posted an update on the Imprudence Viewer. Get the details there. See: Imprudence 1.2 Beta2 viewer for Second Life Also, check out the Imprudence Metaverse Viewer Blog.

Previous Imprudence Review Post: Imprudence Viewer 1.1.0 Review

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Another Second Life Scam Site?

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Massively is reporting a new Second Life scam site based in Singapore; VirtualGet.net. (Actually, it looks more like it is New York based.) This is a very XStreetLS like site. Various creators in Second Life are warning customers that VirtualGet.net is a credit card harvesting site. That is apparently unconfirmed. However, it is confirmed that products and images of products displayed on VirtualGet.net are there without the creators’ permission. Numerous DCMA complaints are filed.

There is a thread about the VirtualGet.net site in the Second Life Blog; Has anyone encountered the virtualget.net ripoff site? As of 10:58 Oct 7, 2009 Jeska Linden has locked the thread and provided a link to file your complaints.

The VirtualGet.net site is displaying and ‘OOPS!’ message as I write this. The claim is that this was a test site and products were pulled by an automated process to populate the site and show the client what the final site would look like. Lots of apologies there. Apparently a new site developer.

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