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NCI Class: SL Skills – STARTING A BUSINESS

colleen Criss — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:55:17 +0000

NCI Class: SL Skills – STARTING A BUSINESS
When: Sunday, 6pm to 7pm, 1 hour
Instructor: colleen Criss
Location: Boomer Island, NCI Classroom

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Where 7 HOT features moved in Viewer 2

torley@lindenlab.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:03:21 +0000

We're getting LOTS of HOT questions about:

"Where the heck did [insert feature] go in Viewer 2? I can't tell if it was moved or removed!"

The good news is we're planning to help you learn this in a pretty nifty way. (Details TBA.) The even better news is, heck, with all the questions coming in, we just can't wait. And that's why I've made this video which covers EXACTLY WHERE TO FIND THIS STUFF IN VIEWER 2, NOW:

Upload files
Profile picks
Friends permissions
Parcel coordinates & properties
Media controls
Various shortcuts
Lag Meter & Statistics Bar

Did you see our Release Notes?

Dessie Linden put together some beautiful Release Notes. I know what you're thinking, those are usually for geeks! But these are special: they have a simple version with pictures breaking down bits of the new interface, including transitional tidbits. Don't miss out.

AMPLIFY THE AWESOME

Share this with your friends so they, too, are relieved knowing these features are still in the Viewer. And if you find you still can't get used to the changes after weeks of intense Viewer 2 usage, your emotional stories are welcome. I've been there too.

Special thanks to Kiiko Karu for penning one of the most beautiful letters on this topic. If you need to get in touch, you know where to reach me privately.

Wuts next?

By the way, those of you wondering about the Block List (formerly the Mute List), showing where that moved and other differences is my next tip!

I'm hoping to do another batch of "WHAT'S MOVED" so let me know your suggestions in the comments, you know I read 'em because we be cool like dat.

NCI Class: SL Skills – EVENT ORGANISATION

colleen Criss — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:59:43 +0000

NCI Class: SL Skills – EVENT ORGANISATION
When: Sunday, 6pm to 7pm, 1 hour
Instructor: colleen Criss
Location: Boomer Island, NCI Classroom

How to create a post for SecondList

Kesseret — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:13:40 +0000

Creating a post is SIMPLE in SecondList, although the user interface is not exactly the way Mr. Craig’s website is laid out. When I was putting the site together I worried about that, but the way the SecondList software is written it is actually an improvement!

So lets start so everyone can start posting the dramz:

In the upper left hand corner of the website (under the logo) you will see a navigation menu that looks like such:

Each of these are links that direct you to important parts of SecondList. In particular we are interested in Post Ad or Post Event. (Events and ads are treated as 2 separate things, however you can post an event to have it show up on the calendar, located underneath this menu, AND you can post it in the events subcategory, located in the community category) Click on POST AD. When you do it will bring you to a page where in the middle you will be asked to select a category like such:

Note that Events is listed there, this posts an event where it will be listed on the event calendar and the front page will have an alert the day that event is happening). Click on your category you’d like to post in. I am going to post in personals. So I will click personals* (the astericks is there because it’s adult- be prepared for surprises!) but if you want to post elsewhere you can pick which ever category you wish.

Now you are prompted to choose your subcategory as such:

Note the astericks mean SURPRISES of an adult nature. I am going to click on rants and raves. This is my favorite section on Mr. Craigs website! Rants and raves subcategory is where you speak your mind! Rave about anything in Second Life® or rant about anything in Second Life®; you are only limited by your creativity and imagination. When you click on rants and raves you will be directed to a page to put in your info as such: ( will explain each input box below)

A. That is where you put your title.
B. This is location. This can be a SLURL or can be left blank.
C. Put your post info there. There is a little bar above it which allows you to format your text. It allows URLS, Blockquote, formatting for code, and other formatting options)
D. This is a preview of what is in your post. This shows you how it will look.

Here’s the rest of the form:

E. This is where you put your email. Your email *should* be valid so you can approve your own post. However for those of you who really like to stir the pot or just love to be anonymous there is a way to do anonymous validation. Fille out the form with a fake email address. Make it like cat@example.com. Then go to the contact page of the SecondList blog and fill it out per instructions there. An admin will then validate the post within 24 hours. The radio dials before that give the option to a) “do not display my email” this will leave no form and no way to contact the poster, b) “do not display email but have a contact form” this option will put a contact form under the post where if someone types in it and hits send it will email you. (it is captcha as well so spam is nonexistant) or c) “display my email” This displays your email on the post for everyone to see.
F. Captcha to prevent spam. It does a damn fine job too!
G. Upload your pictures here. Max is 2MB.
H. If you check the “People can contact me for commercial interests” that’s pretty self explanatory. You must check the box to abide by the Terms of Service.
I. Post now button. Self explanatory.

Once you post your ad you will have to validate it (either an email will come to you or you will do the anonymous validation) and then your post is up!

Happy posting!

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Drag websites to show Shared Media in seconds

torley@lindenlab.com — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:30:39 +0000

As easy as Shared Media is to get started with — as I showed you earlier — you can show a webpage on a prim even easier. How? Drag-and-drop an URL from your web browser right onto Second Life Viewer 2! I know I've mentioned this before, but it's worth sharing again:

As you can see, it's much more friendly than editing a prim, clicking the + button to paste in an URL, and so on. What a snap to show a friend a webpage you're looking at.

SLURLS TOO OMG

The fun doesn't end there. One of my fave thangs about Viewer 2 is improved SLurl handling. If you drag SLurls — links to Second Life locations that usually begin with slurl.com or maps.secondlife.com — they're automatically recognized, too. Your sidebar pops open with more information and you can teleport in seconds.

Related protip:

Click the location bar to insta-convert your current location into a SLurl. (It'll look like http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Here/119/125/26 )
Select, right-click and Copy the SLurl for maximum sharing. You can paste it anywhere websites can be. Maybe you're even hip to social networking like Twitter and Facebook. ;)

You may find the above really appealing if you regularly keep both Viewer 2 and an external web browser open.

Special thanks to Callum Linden who encouraged me to show this — he and Rick Linden did the work that made this possible. There are so many great stories of how Viewer 2 came to be and as scribed in Howard Linden's "Behind the Scenes of Viewer 2", I hope we have many more to come so you understand how Resident feedback transformed into a shipping product for your everyday enjoyment.

And OH… because I'm psychic, I anticipate inevitable questions about:

"Why don't you let us drag files onto the Viewer so we can have an easier way to upload textures, share Word documents, and more?"

This falls under the "to be continued" banner, but we've definitely heard ya. :)

Photo Tips : Rules of third

muerte — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:40:00 +0000

Introduction
Hello,This is Muerte. Today, I introduce "Rules of thirds" which helps you to arrange a photographic object.

When I try to take or trim a photo, I think " where should I arrange this photographic object?!".

The rules of thirds is good for such situations. This rules means dividing a photo into 3 areas, and arrange a object to the 4 intersections which you like. 4 intersections is below.

Try & check
Today's sample photos are below. This photo was taken at "". The SIM looks very cold and some animals like fox were staying. Very calm situation fits the winter image.

This photo is not applied rules of 3rd.

This photo is applied rules of 3rd.

The latter photo brings tight images for us. Accordingly like this, rules of 3rd is good & simple way to arrange a object, when you are at a loss what to do.

But this rules isn't almighty. Sometimes, professional photographers don't use the rule on purpose. You have a tight image of a photo, leaving from the rules makes a fantastic photo.

That's all for today, thanks!

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Selectively disable Shared Media ™

torley@lindenlab.com — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:32:39 +0000

Shared Media invites a plethora of rich movies, sounds, and more to be experienced inworld. However, you may run into instances where several things are simultaneously playing audio and it sounds like an awful jumble. (I anticipate some of you will, if not already, use the positive upside of this to create layered, Brian Eno-esque art installations in tandem with sound-emitting prims.)

By using the media controls in the upper-right, you can turn all media (both Shared Media and old-style parcel music) on and off with a single click. You can also target individual media.

Furthermore, this panel empowers you to find Shared Media. Since Shared Media isn't spatialized (like open voice chat), you can't tell where sound is coming from just by listening. But by double-clicking an entry in the list or clicking the magnifying glass (zoom) icon, your camera automatically locates the media so you can see what it is without wasting time hunting around. (Creative use: tracking shots for machinima.) Give it a go!

BUT WAIT I JUST WANT TO TURN OFF MEDIA ON OTHER AVATARS

Shared Media can be played on attachments, and unfortunately, like other obtrusive attachments, can be used to be a jerk.

You can right-click an avatar and choose Block.

Or if you'd prefer to disable it in general yet leave other inworld media intact:

Choose Me menu > Preferences.
Click Sound & Media tab.
Uncheck Play media attached to other avatars.

Got a Shared Media tip? Let's have at it!

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Selectively disable Shared Media

torley@lindenlab.com — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:32:39 +0000

By using the media controls in the upper-right, you can turn all media (both Shared Media and old-style parcel music) on and off with a single click. You can also target individual media.

BUT WAIT I JUST WANT TO TURN OFF MEDIA ON OTHER AVATARS

Shared Media can be played on attachments, and unfortunately, like other obtrusive attachments, can be used to be a jerk.

You can right-click an avatar and choose Block.

Or if you'd prefer to disable it in general yet leave other inworld media intact:

Choose Me menu > Preferences.
Click Sound & Media tab.
Uncheck Play media attached to other avatars.

Got a Shared Media tip? Let's have at it!

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Resident-shared tweaks

torley@lindenlab.com — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:45:28 +0000

We're designing Viewer 2 to be easy-to-use without extensive modification. However! One of Second Life's ongoing strengths is the many diverse communities we have: more technically savvy Residents can help non-geeks discover under-the-hood changes. Even if you're not very technical, the running joke is that like a certain trademarked brand of potato chips, you can't change just one debug setting. And that's how you learn. (We've moved some of those obscure things into more common places in Viewer 2 because they're so darn useful.)

Some Residents have already been sharing their

Viewer 2 Tweaks

Adding older functionality back is part of it, as is exploring the new debug settings. Some of these tweaks require modifying XML files, which can be done in a text editor. I like TextMate on Mac and EditPad Pro on Windows. Basically, you backup the old file, then copy-and-paste over the altered selection.

I emphasize, to set expectations, that these tweaks aren't officially supported. TWEAK AT YOUR OWN RISK. We can't guarantee these hacks (in the best sense of the word) will work, and if something seriously messes up, do a clean install of the original Viewer 2. But if it benefits you to make your V2 transition smoother, then that's cool. And if you have a useful tip, since the tweaks page is a wiki article, you can add to it.

Also related, some tweaks are being passed around in the forums. Thanks to Suella Ember for pointing out: Eternus Soulstar's "Dominating the Beta Beast" thread (which makes me visualize V2 as a sort of anthropomorphic tauntaun).

What's your fave tweak? Seeing this exciting kind of "active feedback" (where you're not just talking about a change but making it) may help inform feature design.

Photoshop for beginers : retoucing by Lens filter

muerte — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:40:00 +0000

Hello. This is Muerte. Today, I introduce "how to use Lens filter". This skill is very simple and speedy.

Today's Sample Photo
today, I try to retouch this warm image photo. The original photo is below. This SS was taken at "Isla Menorca". The SIM has warm & blossomed much.

1.Select photo layer & click "Lens Filter".

2.adjust slider. & finish.

All processes are these 2 steps. This retouching will be very hard & painful if you try without lins filter. Lens filter is useful, because this command don't bother original photo date, so you can change anytime.

Basic use of Lens Filter
Lens filter used to be taken for retouching bad photo image. For example, too obscure sky, very dark sea and more.

Try More!
Some another lens filters are loaded already. You can use another yellow type, blue types and original types which you can select color. Samples are below.

and

That's all for today, thanks.

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Giving inventory, including with group notices

torley@lindenlab.com — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:25:12 +0000

An always popular feature is…

GIVING INVENTORY

as in "Giving a gift to a friend".

You're getting used to Viewer 2 and learning what has moved where.

So what happened to giving inventory? It basically works the same but is done through the sidebar.

One of the big changes we made in Viewer 2 is the sidebar: so much functionality is effectively packed into the sidebar, reducing clutter.

Watch this video tutorial to learn how you give inventory with the sidebar!

But we've also heard — and I can relate to this — requests to show multiple "floating" windows at the same time. For example, in 1.23, I'd often have many profiles open at once so I could surf picks (the new location bar goes some way towards solving this for my particular style of exploration).

While you can't do that for profiles in 2.0…

YOU CAN STILL OPEN MULTIPLE INVENTORY WINDOWS

Simply:

Click the suitcase icon on the sidebar to open your inventory.
In the inventory's own set of menus, choose File > New Window.

You can keep doing that if you want more inventory windows (go craaazy!).

WHOA DUDE WHAT ABOUT GROUP NOTICES

This is also part of a solution to the HOT question that's coming up:

How do I attach an item to a group notice in Viewer 2? It tells me to drag and drop but I can't see my inventory at the same time!

Good point. As shown in this video tutorial, you open a new inventory window, then drag and drop from that.

A related question has been emerging:

How do I send inventory to an informal group of people? I'm used to doing it in 1.23 and can't find how to do it in 2.0 because selecting multiple friends (or calling cards) to start a conference IM doesn't work!

While I'm not aware of a way either, rest assured, with these and related HOT concerns, our Viewer 2.0 gurus are investigating! I offer you the proverbial "stay tuned..." as our adventures continue, and more tippage to come.

As usual, check out the Viewer 2 Help page for more.

[VIEWER 2 TIP] How to add shared media to an object

torley@lindenlab.com — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:03:50 +0000

Viewer 2 introduces Shared Media™, which frees showing a movie or webpage from the confines of a parcel.

I repeat, Shared Media NOT dependent on a parcel of land (unlike the older parcel media, which has been that way since 2006).

That's right, if you WEAR an object with Shared Media enabled, like a TV screen on your head, you roam around inworld and others can see it. (As always, be awesome, don't violate the Community Standards.)

So you've seen our cool promo. How do you add Shared Media for yourself? Jeremy Linden made a step-by-step guide! You can do it in seconds. Check out:

Adding Shared Media to an object

Which includes this video tutorial where I get excited, because hey, that's what happens with me and Second Life:

Also! Protip: you can DRAG AND DROP addresses from your web browser onto a prim face in the Second Life Viewer window. Not only does Viewer 2 look and act more like a web browser, usability conventions like this also work!

Once you've got Shared Media setup,

learn how to navigate Shared Media

Omni-reminder: we've got a

ONE-STOP HANDY PAGE FOR VIEWER 2 HELP

so bookmark that as we go forward!

Next up on Second Life Tips & Tricks, I'll be covering some of the "how do I give and organize inventory?" issues that've arisen. And other requests have also been noted and shall be duly executed!

Photoshop Tips for beginner : Blight/Contrast

muerte — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:07:00 +0000

Today's entry is Photoshop Tips for beginners who want to adjust your SS. How to use "Blight/Contrast" tool is today's menu.

"Blight" is the tools for changing blight & dark, "Contrast" changes photo's light & darkness. This tool is useful for PS beginners to impress own SS.

Before retouching !
Before retouching your SS, there is necessary to think about the "goal". Retouching is very interesting, but many changes of photo makes bad effects.

1st, you have to watch your SS objectively. Today's sample photo was shoot from "J Peace island". Very quiet and elaborate SIM.

This SS is a little weak, dark and drowsy, so I 'll try to make more blight and a little vivid.

Try Retouching
1.blight +15.

2.contrast +20

These 2 step made the SS more blight and vivid.

BAD examle

This photo is blight+55 & contrast+34. It looks like good for my goal that I formulated first.

However, This photo delete gradation of sky , and panel's word "BICYCLE" blight like illumination. This retouching killed original image too much.

In general, you have to avoid these situations. Of course, if you formulate your goal as this type of photo, these retouching is not bad.

Thats all for today, thanks.

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Automatic camera zoom + new View controls

torley@lindenlab.com — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:41:03 +0000

In addition to the core "makes for great marketing copy" features that made it into Viewer 2, there are lots of little ones which may seem kind of ordinary, but that's precisely because they're intended to be useful everyday in your Second Life.

For example, we know how many Residents have a hard time wrestling with the camera. Once you've spent time living and breathing inworld culture, Alt-zooming becomes second nature to you, sure. But you may feel it could still be easier — including for family and friends you're introducing to Second Life.

Viewer 2 has automatic camera zoom.

You can right-click any object or avatar, and on the context menu, choose Zoom In. If the target is distant, the camera gets closer. You can use this on its own, or to supplement Alt-zooming or a simple flick of your mouse's scroll wheel (if your mouse doesn't have one, I recommend it!).

This means if you're not a "camera chorder", it can be easier to look at stuff. It can also be used to center subject matter when taking photos or for machinima shots (I know some of you are going to request variable speed). There's also a click action so you can make it easy for others to one-click zoom into your objects.

(Historical backnote: we had "automatic camera movement" when building, but Zoom In applies broadly.)

I'll give you a two-for-one tip: that's not the only camera improvements we've made.

The View controls have been revamped.

I've seen many recurring feature requests of, "Why can't you have a camera mode that looks at your avatar's front?" We can, and we do now.

These are just two of the many practical features in Viewer 2 I'll be highlighting as we continue on. V2 has only been out in the wild a couple days, so if you're having a tough time with some of the changes, it's natural and it's OK. I recommend keeping notes and chronicling how you feel now versus in a week or month — it's helped me make sense teaching these changes.

Remember! Check out the Viewer 2 Help page which is a one-stop hub for all things about learning the new Viewer; I've just added Wallace's Answers to a Few FAQs on Viewer 2.

Have you spotted a feature that deserves greater attention? Leave a comment and maybe I'll feature it!

AO Tutorial – Second Life

sasyscarborough — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:35:50 +0000

This is how I make my AO’s and how I have guided others in the past. This tutorial was supposed to have been done ages ago, but I could never get around to it until now.

The new VR Studio has made it an even easier method now with the new libraries, as in the past I would have had to do so with lots of stands. This is how I do it… and is just a suggestion as to how you can make your own unique to you AO by combining the animations and existing AO’s you may already have.

* Firstly rez all the AO’s you have in your inventory. see pic 1

As you may know already I love to shoot AO’s for fashion posts etc, so I have a lot of them as sometimes it can be financially viable to buy an ao and get lots of pics out of one animation, than to buy single poses.

* Unpack all the AO’s you have now rezzed on the ground. see pic 2

Click HERE to read more at Sasypants.com .

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viewer | Snowglobe 2.0

Ana Lutetia — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:55:14 +0000

The regular viewer wasn’t the only one getting a facelift. Snowglobe also has a 2.0 version:

This version of Snowglobe is available in the wiki: Snowglobe – Second Life Wiki

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viewer | Second Life 2.0

Ana Lutetia — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:21:42 +0000

Welcome to a modern version of your Second Life®:

You can downloaded the Second Life 2.0 Beta directly from the Second Life website.

Further reading:

Second Life® official blog :: Second Life Viewer 2 Beta, Now Available
Building 43 :: Second Life launches new innovative browser
New World Notes :: Robert Scoble Interviews Linden CEO Mark Kingdon About the Second Life 2.0 Viewer
Prad Prathivi :: SL Viewer 2.0 and Other News

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[VIEWER 2] Check out the new help awesomeness! And beyond…

torley@lindenlab.com — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:01:33 +0000

With a lovely new Viewer comes many questions… and the answers you hope for. I know, some of it's the proverbial "takes time to get used to", but like a fitting DJ remix of a dancefloor classic, I believe underneath the shiny armor, you'll find lots to snuggle up with. <3

Let me say this: Viewer 2 doesn't only deliver on some mythological promises (hello web-on-a-prim!), we've endowed it with the BEST HELP SYSTEM in a Second Life Viewer yet.

Built right in.

It's so simple to use.

On just about any control or thingy (technical terms, I know) you open, there's a ? button in its upper-right corner. Click that to see context-sensitive help, lovingly crafted by Linden Lab's Documentation Team for you. We've been working on it for quite some time and we're excited to hear what you think + feel. Really excited. So excited we could explode in a colorful cornucopia of helpage and shower you with the info-confetti. (Almost.)

The new Viewer Help is wiki-based. What the frak does that mean if you're not a geek? Simply put, we can update help in minutes, or even seconds. A quicker response to deliver the knowledge you need so you can learn and get on with your business.

Speaking of "quicker", if you're in a hurry to get started, you should

check out the Quick Start Guide

which Jeremy Linden was just making tweaks to minutes ago — it's also wiki-based, so you can view it in-Viewer or on the web (and print it out).

I hear some voices calling my name and they're not in my head.

Alright, I'm proud to introduce the

first round of Viewer 2 video tutorials (on our official YouTube channel)

There are 14, especially to show you what went where, how things are same same but different. For example, here's one introducing the new Notifications and Conversations system for managing system alerts and IMs:

There'll be many more in response to YOUR hot "How do you do THIS?" As well as a beginner's guide for compleat noobs (and I mean that in the most endearing way possible; we were all there once).

If you'd like to keep up-to-date with help without having tons of links in your pocket, it's easy. Just bookmark this page, which lists all the above and more:

Viewer 2 Help portal aka megapage

And you're set.

As more feedback comes in, more questions will be answered (and vice-versa).

Soon, I'll be doing a regular feature on this very blog showcasing need-to-knows and features-you-didn't-know-about-but-are-happy-you're-aware-now.

As always, feel free to chat me up in the comments.

Have broader V2 questions? Visit our very special SL Answers Viewer 2 channel.

If you're around tomorrow, meet me and my fellow Doc Team'ers inworld.

[LINDEN HOME] Help articles

torley@lindenlab.com — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:47:54 +0000

As I hope you've heard in Jack Linden's post, Linden Homes Launched Today! I just got out of an energy-filled meeting with some of the many Lindens who worked on Linden Homes — aren't we an attractively diverse congregation of avatars?

In addition to the big thing of simply making it easier to get started living in Second Life, Linden Homes helps solve a longtime confusion the Documentation Team I'm on has seen over… and over:

Now that I have a Premium account, where's my free land?

Since a Linden Home — themed house and land — is included with a Premium account, there you go!

We'll continue to increase the visibility of explaining the difference between tier (the potential to own land, tied to Land Use Fees) and buying the actual land itself. But if you need help with Linden Home, you should definitely see the...

Linden Home help articles

...that Kate Linden lovingly crafted and which I've been helping revise:

Linden Home intro
Linden Home FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions… FAQ yeah!
Linden Home Help Guide - Pretty pictures of the homes you can choose from, as well as how to use the control panel (that's not here yet, but coming soon!)

So check those out if you're curious; they'll help you make a more informed decision about whether upgrading to a Premium account so you can have a Linden Home, among other benefits (and everyone likes benefits) is right for you.

If there's something not addressed in the help but should be, you can use the "Contact us" link at the top of one of those articles, or let me know in the comments.

Happy Linden Home-ing!

[QUICKTIP] Forum discussions look all messy? Use FLAT mode!

torley@lindenlab.com — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:30:57 +0000

Yeah, we've been hearing LE PAIN about threaded view on this blog's forums. We're investigating if changing the default makes sense, and in the meantime, I'd like to let you know and make it more obvious that THERE IS A FLAT VIEW! Which is good if you're used to vBulletin and other forum environments. Carl Linden observes (emphasis mine):

Flat mode makes the pages load much faster, as the entire thread (which could be EXTREMELY long) does not have to load.
Furthermore, Flat mode makes it so the latest posts are at the end, rather than dispersed throughout the page - making finding new updates to a thread much easier.

Switching is EASY.

Change to Flat view in 30 seconds or less

(as found in our BLOG & FORUM FAQ!!!!)

When you're logged into this blog, look at the upper-left and click Your Stuff > Preferences.
Next to Thread Page View, click the dropdown to change it from Threaded to Flat.
Click Save.

I hope that saves you some trouble.

For a handy list of more useful stuff you can do here (but might not know about… yet), remember to check out the BLOG & FORUM FAQ!!!! I use those exclamation points for a reason.

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NCI Class: SL Skills – STARTING A BUSINESS

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Where 7 HOT features moved in Viewer 2

Did you see our Release Notes?

AMPLIFY THE AWESOME

Wuts next?

NCI Class: SL Skills – EVENT ORGANISATION

How to create a post for SecondList

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Drag websites to show Shared Media in seconds

SLURLS TOO OMG

Photo Tips : Rules of third

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Selectively disable Shared Media ™

BUT WAIT I JUST WANT TO TURN OFF MEDIA ON OTHER AVATARS

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Selectively disable Shared Media

BUT WAIT I JUST WANT TO TURN OFF MEDIA ON OTHER AVATARS

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Resident-shared tweaks

Photoshop for beginers : retoucing by Lens filter

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Giving inventory, including with group notices

GIVING INVENTORY

YOU CAN STILL OPEN MULTIPLE INVENTORY WINDOWS

WHOA DUDE WHAT ABOUT GROUP NOTICES

[VIEWER 2 TIP] How to add shared media to an object

Photoshop Tips for beginner : Blight/Contrast

[VIEWER 2 TIP] Automatic camera zoom + new View controls

Viewer 2 has automatic camera zoom.

The View controls have been revamped.

AO Tutorial – Second Life

viewer | Snowglobe 2.0

viewer | Second Life 2.0

[VIEWER 2] Check out the new *help* awesomeness! And beyond…

[LINDEN HOME] Help articles

Linden Home help articles

[QUICKTIP] Forum discussions look all messy? Use FLAT mode!

Change to Flat view in 30 seconds or less

(as found in our BLOG & FORUM FAQ!!!!)

[VIEWER 2] Check out the new help awesomeness! And beyond…