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Second Life News 2015 Week 09 #2

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The Third Party Developers meeting Friday February 27 was a short meeting, about 25 minutes. It was almost over in 16.

A Garden Full of Magic
A Garden Full of Magic by Carthalis Rossini, on Flickr

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It looks like the Project Tools Update Viewer version 3.7.25.298862 will update in Week 10. I would guess it will promote up to an RC release.

This version is a feature locked version, meaning the build tools won’t get any more new things until this viewer is out and people are testing it. Once it release and data is collected another round of improvements will be embarked on. Apparently there is a cue of things waiting for this phase to complete so they can be implemented into the process.

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Firestorm’s Tool Tip Tuesday 09

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It was Tuesday again. Seems to happen every week. This last Tuesday another FS Tip came out.

In this one Jessica is teaching us about the command line available in the Firestorm Viewer’s chat. This is one of the way neat things about the Firestorm Viewer. There are plenty of neat features. But, this command line thing is something power users will likely use several times per login secession.

These tip videos are getting about 9,000+ views after a couple of weeks. This is a very small percentage of the Firestorm users. Since Firestorm is used by more than half, closer to three-quarters, of the users of Second Life that means very few people know about TTT Videos. Pass around the link to the YouTube Channel.

New RC Login Viewer

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Login Viewer version 3.7.25.298971 – Some time ago we got the multi-login buttons viewer. This version is a reversion to a single login button. No one has offered any explanation. I assume the Lab is watching stats and making decisions. I don’t see a related JIRA item.

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I sort of like the multiple login buttons.

Project Managed Marketplace Viewer version 3.7.25.298865 – This Project Viewer was updated on the 13th. The release notes list 22 fixes for this version.

There are 3 RC Viewers and 5 Project Viewers. Click the download link above to see them.

 

Firestorm’s Tuesday Tip 2015-08

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This week is the power users tool: Contact Sets. They have a 6 minute video.

This is a must know tool for those team combat games. It allows you create groups of people and to set those people to show as a specific color on the mini-map.

If you work with lots of people in any way, this is a tool that will make life easier.

The tip from 2 weeks ago, Auto Replace, has been watched about 9,000 times. Last week’s tip, People Panel, is showing about 3,000 views. This is not a lot of people considering the number of people using Firestorm.

If you point people to SL tutorials, please add this YouTube channel to your list of place to refer people to.

Firestorm Viewer 4.6.1 to be Blocked

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The Firestorm Team announced last Friday (2/13) that they will be blocking their viewer version 4.6.1. Versions 4.6.5, 4.6.7 and 4.6.9 will be the only versions that can log into Second Life. They strongly advise that you upgrade to and use version 4.6.9.

Official Firestorm Announcement is here.

An exception is being made for version 4.4.2 on the Mac side. The problems from Apple’s change to Cocoa have been the reason for this version being allowed to stay on the grid. The Linden position is the problems are from Apple’s upgrades and they are fixed in new Apple Operating System (OS) versions. I understand the updates are free, so there is little reason not to upgrade. But, old hardware can be a problem. But, some decent machines are going for US$200 on eBay.

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