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Linden Homes

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On February 17th, LindenLabs unveiled their Linden Homes for premium customers. As a premium customer, in world for less than a year, regardless of what my “rezdate”
may say (I rolled up an avatar, wandered around for about 20 minutes, and logged out, not to return for several months.), this news made me pretty happy. I should say now, that while I'm a happy premium customer, I only..

 

Original gift ideas for Valentines

Blogs - Fashion Patrol

Did you buy your partner a teddy bear for valentine's day? Do you know that he or she might be dissapointed, that you didnt put in some effort to find a novel present for them? In this article I am going to give you some really cool ideas that are surely going to impress your loved one!

 

There’s Magic in the Air at Frank’s Jazz Place

Blogs - Second living

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We are all too familiar with that feeling. Our avis become leaden; each movement seems a struggle against some unseen force, infecting even our chat boxes that spew out words to the barest of trickles. This frustrating Second Life experience is summed up by just three letters: L-A-G. Crowding of avis in one single sim is one major cause of the lag problem in SL, no doubt about it. Logically, what we’d want to avoid are the crowded, laggy sims as our avis pursue the many splendors to be found in this metaverse called SL. However, there are some in-world spots which defy this logic, and standing out among these is Frank’s Place Jazz Club.

   

Live like a Na'vi on Pandora in Second Life

Blogs - Second living

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I've seen Avatar, not once, but four times, and soon will be watching it for the fifth. I'll be in line to get that DVD when it comes out. If you're like me and many others, wanting to experience the forests of Pandora, to fly an Ikran, and to ride a direhorse, you can! Or if  you identified more with the military and the collection of Unubtanium, you can also do that.

After seeing Avatar each time, I'd return home to search Second Life for Pandora worlds, signs of the Na'vi wandering about. For weeks my searches produced zilch. Then one day, after returning home from seeing Avatar again..

 

Seeing Second Life in Different Ways

Blogs - Second living

Seeing Second Life in Different Ways

The Linden Labs  Second Life  viewer is what most of us use when we are introduced to Second Life (SL). But you have other options, ways of seeing and interacting with this virtual world. Why change? There are other graphical viewers that work more efficiently, render graphics better, and provide more features than the Linden Labs (LL) standard viewer. In addition, some other viewers have bug patches and fixes sooner than LL produces them, or you may want to use a non-graphical viewer to communicate with people in-world while you stay out-world.

LL lists quite a few alternate viewers you can try out, graphical and text-based. I went through this list, and downloaded and tried them out. How each of these work on your system is going to depend on your hardware, so may be a bit different than my experience.

   

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