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Today is your last chance to buy Grandfathered Homesteads!

Date Posted: June 30, 2009
Author: jack@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - Land and Sea
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

As we recently announced in this post, the monthly fees for newly purchased Homesteads are set to change tomorrow.

Homesteads purchased or re-enabled today will have their monthly fee Grandfathered at USD$95 per month. Tomorrow the monthly fee level for new Homesteads will be rising to USD$125 per month.

If you want to take advantage of the Grandfathered monthly pricing for Homesteads you will need to have purchased them (or have filed a re-enablement support ticket) before midnight tonight PST. If you have problems using the Land Store then please contact support immediately so that we can help you through the process.

To make your purchases please head over to the Land Store. Remember, you need

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Running SL on extreme hardware

Date Posted: June 30, 2009
Author: Peter Stindberg
Syndicated from: Second Stindberg
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

A couple of years ago I was a strong vocalist for regular PC's, defending their "horsepower" and versatility as superior to any laptop or notebook. Until I embraced the liberty a laptop gives you. For a while I smiled at the people with small and lightweight notebooks, loving my IBM ThinkPad with its nVidia graphics card and fast processor. However the laptop did not like being transported twice a day on the bicycle much, and also my upcoming vacation made me wonder if there is something ... well... lightweight.

A lot of people suggested I should ...
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Contest Reminder

Date Posted: June 29, 2009
Author: Surrealia
Syndicated from: ::ANA_Mations::
Filed Under: MV-SL-Fashion



Just a quick reminder that the "Want Your Face here?" Contest is ending Wednesday. If anyone would still like to enter, the rules are:

*A folder labeled "Your name" - ANA_Mations AO Contest
*1 Headshot
*2 Full body shots - 1 wearing jeans and a tank top
- 1 wearing a suit and tie
*A notecard with your name, timezone, and the best time to contact you.

Please send the folder to Faith Rosenberg before Wednesday July 1st, 2009.

There will be 4 winners in total. Each will receive an Infinity AO, L$2000, and your face on ...
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Group Gift, Free Fatpacks for Bloggers & Designers, and Poster Contest Reminder!

Date Posted: June 27, 2009
Author: Tigerlily Koi
Syndicated from: Calla
Filed Under: MV-SL-Fashion

I've sent out a group gift! It's a lovely sculpted Lily to wear in your hair. If you didn't get it, check the notices history of the in-world group if you're in that. Or if you're in the subscriber group, come to the store and touch the sign. Choose "History" and then the message from today, 6/27. It will be sent to you again.



A few reminders: There are only a few days left to submit your pictures for the Store Poster contest. They must be in my Tuesday at 11:59pm SLT. The prizes are a 2000L$ Calla Store Card as well as a pack of your ...
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Contest Deadline Extended

Date Posted: June 27, 2009
Author: Surrealia
Syndicated from: ::ANA_Mations::
Filed Under: MV-SL-Fashion




Due to unforeseen RL issues we're going to be pushing back the "Want Your Face Here?" Contest deadline to Wednesday July 1st. The Winners will then be announced Thursday July 2nd. Our apologies for the delay and any inconvenience.

The rules again are as follows:


*A folder labeled "Your name" - ANA_Mations AO Contest
*1 Headshot
*2 Full body shots - 1 wearing jeans and a tank top
- 1 wearing a suit and tie
*A notecard with your name, timezone, and the best time to contact you.

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First Look: SL Dashboard

Date Posted: June 26, 2009
Author: Peter Stindberg
Syndicated from: Second Stindberg
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

When I checked the transaction history for the store alt, I got an invite to test the new SL Dashboard. The first impression is graphically appealing and reasonable fast.

The single elements can not be moved around as one would expect. Also the opened/closed setting is not persistant between sessions.

What I like is the direct integration of Xstreet SL under "Merchant Tools". What I dislike is that the Transaction History takes a lot more screen real estate.

If it would be possible to permanently delete elements and move elements it could actually quite ...
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Zindra: An Update

Date Posted: June 26, 2009
Author: jack@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - Land and Sea
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

Last Monday the new adult continent known as Zindra was officially opened to the public. After a week of comments and feedback, we'd like to take this opportunity to update the community to some small changes we hope will make the transition from the mainland and the migration to Zindra a bit easier. An updated map of Zindra to showcase the addition of double primmed areas has been attached.

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1) How do I claim a plot if nothing is parceled?  The original idea behind keeping a majority of Zindra unparceled was to allow more freedom for the Residents in their ability to request land. We realize now though that a lack of

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Business messenger

Date Posted: June 25, 2009
Author: Rika Watanabe
Syndicated from: Through the Broken Looking Glass
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical


There’s lots of non-graphical clients for Second Life out there, starting with AjaxLife and friends and ending with Metabolt and friends.

And all of them are better than nothing when you can’t use a real viewer, but none of them were, in my opinion, satisfactory for what I would want a lite viewer for – and for what, I believe, most people who actually need one would want one for.

That is, customer support, when I’m not capable or can’t be bothered to start up a real viewer.

Almost all of the existing light client offerings suffer from specific shortcomings:

None of them saves logs. Dunno about you, but for me this is a showstopper, because I rely on logs instead of ...
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Brand Newness!

Date Posted: June 23, 2009
Author: Surrealia
Syndicated from: ::ANA_Mations::
Filed Under: MV-SL-Fashion

Brand spankin' new male AOs!

The Leo AO, and the refurbished ArieX, Skorpio, and GeminII AOs with all new stands, sits AND walks. There is also a 3 in 1 Trinity AO pack (containing Ariex, Skorpio and GeminII) and a 4 in 1 Infinity AO pack (which contains the three mentioned above plus the new Leo AO aswell).

*Please Note that the old Aries, Scorpio, Gemini AOs have been discounted to 200L each and 25L per stand. And the old Trinity AO is marked down to 500L. They can be found across from the new male AOs*


Also...drum roll please...


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Snowglobe – a first look

Date Posted: June 23, 2009
Author: Peter Stindberg
Syndicated from: Second Stindberg
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

Yesterday my SL sister Trinity Dechou mentioned the "Snowglobe" project to me, an open source approach initiated by Philip Linden. While the regular viewers are open source too, it takes rather long until fixes and extensions added by the community find their way into the official viewers. This causes quite a lot of frustration in the community and contributes to the perception of the Lab being "slow" or "uninterested", but basically has to do with the quality assurance procedures behind the scenes. The slowness of the Lab to adapt community fixes and expansions has led to a whole ...
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ARC and lag revisited

Date Posted: June 22, 2009
Author: Peter Stindberg
Syndicated from: Second Stindberg
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

I wrote about lag and the myths regarding ARC a lot of times in the past, and often referred to Gwyneth Llewelyn's one year old article on the issue. Today, Gwyneth has made an update to the article. Read "Anatomy of Lag" as a guest post on Ana Lutetia's blog.

Personally, I want to once again point out that the introduction of the "Avatar Rendering Cost" display was one of the worst things Linden Lab ever did. The ARC display has a certain informational character, however the (completely arbitrary) red/yellow/green tinting, and the way it was publicized turned it quickly into a tool for discriminating fellow residents. The ARC display does not tell ANYTHING ...
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REZpectable: Donut Launcher

Date Posted: June 21, 2009
Author: Peter Stindberg
Syndicated from: Second Stindberg
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[REZpectable is a blog dedicated to gadgets and gimmicks in SL. I co-founded it together with Shockwave Plasma and Rick Pfalz a while ago, in the meantime Nissa Nightfire has joned the team of authors. Here is a teaser to my most recent article - read the full post on the REZpectable blog.]

The combat potential of baked goods has been grossly neglected over the milennia. Countless times a hard and dry breadroll or ciabatta has saved a life during a melee fight. And also the French baguette gets underestimated in its ...
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Koreshan Bake Sale!

Date Posted: June 20, 2009
Author: Surrealia
Syndicated from: ::ANA_Mations::
Filed Under: MV-SL-Fashion

Come on down and stuff your face with some tasty treats!

We'll be selling limited edition animated doughnut innertubes, mini doughnuts, and lollipops!

This weekend only.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Koreshan/136/84/24









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Newness, Dollarbies, and a Skin Sale

Date Posted: June 20, 2009
Author: Tigerlily Koi
Syndicated from: Calla
Filed Under: MV-SL-Fashion

Three new releases this weekend! One of each release is 1L$ only for the weekend. Each release has one color for sale for 1L$ through the weekend. It will go back to regular price on Monday.

Skins are on sale this weekend for 30% off, fatpacks included. That makes a single skin 350L$!

Here are the pics of the new releases:

Calla Calla Lily Earrings & Necklace Set

Calla Single Rose Barrette

Calla Double Rose Barrette

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Calla Poster Contest

Date Posted: June 18, 2009
Author: Tigerlily Koi
Syndicated from: Calla
Filed Under: MV-SL-Fashion

The Calla Poster Contest continues! There have been some fabulous entries, and I'm so excited about this!

Here are two from the Calla Flickr Group:





Keep the entries coming, there's just over a week before we pick the first round of winners.

Prizes:
A L$1000 Calla Gold Store Card (gives you a bonus 20% credit back on every L$ purchase in the store for 3 months)
A regular 5-pack or 1 Sultry color of your choice, of all of the new releases that month.
If we choose your photo to be used in the store posters, you will receive:A L$2000 Calla Platinum ...
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Welcome to Zindra

Date Posted: June 15, 2009
Author: jack@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - Land and Sea
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

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Many of you have been waiting patiently for the chance to explore the new adult continent known as Zindra. In coordination with the final release of the 1.23 viewer, we are pleased to announce that the waiting is over! Today, Monday, June 15th, Zindra will be officially opened for the Residents of Second Life. For those of you who have been following this topic since it was first announced back in March, the lack of a solid timeline for implementation may have been frustrating. The final release of 1.23 however, has allowed us the ability to specify certain key dates in the process of moving adult content. Zindra will be open

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Land Expo Survey/Feedback

Date Posted: June 15, 2009
Author: mjensen@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - Land and Sea
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

First off, I would like to thank everyone for attending!!  I feel it was a great success, and would love to hear from you about what you thought of the Land Expo!

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I would like to offer everyone a chance to submit feedback to me of your impressions of our first ever Land Expo.  Since this is a new event, your feedback will help us determine how we will change it and how we can make it better and better next time!

If you were a Exhibitor, Presenter or an Attendee I would love to hear from all groups!

Please follow this link: http://tr.im/landexpofeedback

The survey is 9 questions, most multiple choice.  Shouldn't

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Eliminating Colors

Date Posted: June 10, 2009
Author: Tigerlily Koi
Syndicated from: Calla
Filed Under: MV-SL-Fashion

I'm going to be eliminating some of the colors (at least half of them) due to space issues. The 175 colors per style are just taking over the store!

I want you all to be able to get in your vote though. If you don't vote for your favorites, I may cut them out and you'll not be able to get them. So GO vote!

Please, go here:

and fill out the form. It's kind of long because of all the color choices, but it only takes a few minutes to fill out.

Thank you kindly!

Summer 2009 Begins..

Date Posted: June 6, 2009
Author: Surrealia
Syndicated from: ::ANA_Mations::
Filed Under: MV-SL-Fashion



Inner Tubes for singles, friends, and lovers. Poolside sits to compliment any pool you have. Couples in the pool animations. Water logs for pond settings. So much stuff I had to make an entire new area in underground Jabberwocky just to let you demo, and there is still more on the way! Summer 2009 SL.. get ready, get set, grab your swimsuits, lets play!

Demos here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jabberwocky/109/155/21


Also, Famish has come to stay in underground Jabberwocky also! If you're looking for great fewds to hang from your mouth, fun accessories, or awesome chubby avatar shapes, come ...
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Three New and a 40% Sale!

Date Posted: June 6, 2009
Author: Tigerlily Koi
Syndicated from: Calla
Filed Under: MV-SL-Fashion

There is a 40% sale going on at Calla this weekend! Simply wear a Calla Store Card while you shop. Every time you purchase hair with L$, you'll get a 40% return on your Store Card!

This would be a perfect time to get some of the styles you've been thinking about, especially now that the Poster Contest is on!

The three new this week are in the Sultry Collection. Click on the pictures for a larger view.

Oleander:

Oleander

Red Primrose:

Red Primrose

White Lilac:

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Versastyle: Photo Contest & 40% Back Sale!

Date Posted: June 5, 2009
Author: Katoria Stevenson
Syndicated from: Calla
Filed Under: MV-SL-Fashion

Contest time! Real life has delayed the progress of the Versastyle project somewhat because Lily's had multiple surgeries, but we're now ready to get started!



This is your chance to see your photos on the website, in the upcoming Versastyle store catalog, and in the store itself! We aim to display a lot of posters in the store featuring Calla customers, and will be changing them regularly. We also want to compile photos of every hairstyle in the catalog, so there will be a lot of opportunities for you to get involved.



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