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My Tiny Life Now Free

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:39:34 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: Might be something to look into.

My Tiny Life Now Free

About ten years ago, when I was wandering around the library at the University of Virgina looking for something that would teach me about the shape of community online, I found My Tiny Life. I pulled it off the shelf and started with the first few pages in which the author confronts a RL server in Palo Alto that happens to contain LambdaMOO.

Well, the main point of this post is that Julian has made his wonderful book available as a free download. You can get it here, in a very spiffy PDF file. The Web is now a richer place.

Eloh Eliot's Full Perm Skins

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:37:29 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: Play around with these in Photoshop, or another paint program, and make your own SL skin!

Clip Source: www.vintfalken.com

Artisans these skins are provided as separate textures and can be used to gain knowledge AND to help the new. Double threat :) If you have an interest in skin making or know any broke avies, don’t miss these designs by the great and generous maker Eloh Eliot. Deck the halls with good looking avatars!

These 12 free skin textures (each skin exists out of a head texture, a lower body texture and an upper body texture) are full perm, which means you can export them back to RL to play with them - and learn from that - in Photoshop. The way to do this:

In Second Life, find the texture you want to copy to your hard drive and open the skin texture so that it shows on your screen.

Make sure it’s selected: it should be in front and the frame is dark grey, not transparent.

Go to the File menu and choose ’save texture as’.

… the rest of the process should be familiar. ;)

This just gets better & better. Eloh Eliot has made the original .psd files of the skin textures available:

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:22:46 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: Might be worth checking out.

Clip Source: www.secretlair.com

Technology writer and acquaintance Daniel Terdiman has authored an indispensable book for those wishing to plan, launch, and maintain their own Second Life business schemes. Entitled The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life, it stands as a comprehensive examination of Second Life business basics, largely based on the input of selected residents of the virtual world. The Guide speaks in a language even Second Life newbies can understand, and offers practical solutions to common commerce challenges. Thankfully, Daniel hasn't penned a "get rich quick" manuscript, but rather offers a balanced look at what goes in to making real money from in-world entrepreneurship--in short, a hell of a lot of work.

It was only a year ago that a reported 3,000 SL residents were earning at least $20k USD annually in-world. Since then, Second Life's population has skyrocketed, so it's probable a lot more people are making decent money off the virtual world. Not me, though.

Colours

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:44:36 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: Very useful.

Clip Source: blogs.electricsheepcompany.com

Kuler (http://kuler.adobe.com) is a Flash-based site brought to us by our patron saint, Adobe. To get the site’s full functionality you’ll need to sign up for an Adobe ID (and if you don’t have one already, you should, as Adobe has some great downloads courtesy of its community base at Adobe Exchange) - but even if you don’t, good ol’ printscreen will do you just fine.

COLOURlovers

(http://www.colourlovers.com)

is more of a broad-based color fan’s source - they offer related articles on color, discussions, even trends and jobs - but again the core idea here is creating and sharing color themes with fellow users.

I'm a mentor now!

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:26:05 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: Hurrah! Visit my mentor blog at http://kendracharlton.wordpress.com/

Clip Source: blog.secondlife.com

Hello there

Today, early this morning, I was accepted for a position as a Second Life mentor. It is only a volunteer position, but I am extremely excited because there are so many doors that can be opened. I am also looking forward to getting the chance to use my skills that I’ve learned from past jobs! I’m in the middle of getting a new job in my first life, so the blog may not get updated as much as I would like to, but I will certainly be out and about within Second Life!

Tips of the Week Now Available for Streaming/Downloading!

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:23:45 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: Yay! Streaming these videos will be great for events!

Clip Source: blog.secondlife.com

Tips of the Week NOW available for streaming inworld…

… and download too!

» Video Tutorials (click me!)

SL Inventory Issues

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:19:49 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: Read and be warned! Be careful about what you are rezzing at this time!

Clip Source: blog.secondlife.com

[UPDATED] SL Inventory Issues at this time

[Update 9:21 PST] We are still examining this issue and looking into resolving it. Keep an eye on this post for further updates. -Elle

Second Life is currently experiencing Inventory Issues. It is highly recommended that Residents do not rez or edit any items in their inventory or attachments on their Avatars. Second Life at this time is restricted to Linden Login only until this issue is resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Snipr

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:33:08 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles

Clip Source: torley.com

I've been using TinyURL for awhile, and it's a good companion to SLURL, since Second Life URLs can get so very loooong. I tend to run my SLURLs through a Firefox toolbar tool so the newly-tiny URLs can be copied-and-pasted for brevity — this is especially important for emails, where line breaks mangle lengthy addresses.

Recently, I found out about Snipr (also known through several other names like the slightly longer "Snipurl"), and appreciate that I can create a custom, memorable nickname instead of relying on a cryptic jumble of letters & numbers, no matter how short. (Looks like they've been around since 2000, so I'm surprised I didn't hear of them earlier.)

News:Atlanta furs take on 'Klingons' in bowling tournament

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:10:40 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: The video of the fur suiters bowling is just too cute!

Clip Source: furry.wikia.com

News:Atlanta furs take on 'Klingons' in bowling tournament

It was the battle of the fandoms on September 29th, 2007 when Atlanta furries took on a challenge by Klingons in Furries vs. Klingons, a bowling competition held in Atlanta, Georgia between a group of furries and Klingons. The Klingon team - most of whom appeared to be humans in regular Star Trek uniforms - emerged victorious, with a score of 32 to 27.^[1] However, the furry team had far more members than the Klingons.

The furries were at a disadvantage as fursuits made bowling difficult; specifically, the paw gloves made holding the ball tricky and the costume head obstructed vision. However, not all furries - or Klingons - were in costume.

Video of the event. Source: Patrick J. McCart

Video of the event. Source: James B. Clark

New SL Home Magazine

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:02:03 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: This should be interesting.

Clip Source: forums.secondlife.com

New SL Home Magazine

First issue of SL Home Magazine in hot off the press! We plan on featuring the great designers and homes of SL as well as lifestyles, building projects, travel, and decor.

Pick up a copy in the lobby of Seaview Condos at [url]http://slurl.com/secondlife/Echo/89/154/50[/url]

We can't wait to hear your feedback and suggestions for future issues.

Pierre Potvin

New Fashion Mag

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:52:43 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: No offense, but do we really need another?

Clip Source: forums.secondlife.com

METRO Virtual Fashion - a new fashion magazine

The issue is available as a .pdf for download from here:

http://metromodels.slfashiononline.com/book.html

The prim version of METRO Virtual Fashion is available in world at various kiosk locations. Touch to receive your copy! You can get it at the Metro Event Stage:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Narcissus%20Island/203/171/22

To receive a kiosk for your own land, IM Alaska Metropolitan. The kiosk looks like a modern magazine rack and is only 4 prims.

Using DS as Musem Guide

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:18:39 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: An interesting way to use a DS.

Clip Source: www.plasticbamboo.com

The National Museum of Western Art in Ueno, Tokyo, is providing visitors with a Nintendo DS Lite and special cartridge that allows the console to be used as a portable guide to the museum. Using various access points (below), the DS can detect when a person moves from room to room, and can therefore display new and relevant information onscreen. If the user happens to see a painting that they like in the museum, then they can simply browse to it on the console and hit ‘print’. The printout will then be waiting for them when leave the museum.

Via Newlaunches

Tags: tech, technology, nintendo ds

Elecom USB hub

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:32:18 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: I need one of these.

Clip Source: www.plasticbamboo.com

New Elecom USB hub

7th February, 2007

Elecom has launched a hub that makes me wonder why there’s not more designed like it. It looks like a cross between a necklace and that wrench-thing for car wheels, and is available as a 2, 3 and 4 port hub in 3 different colours. The hub is priced from 1,600 to 2,200 yen ($13.30-16.30/�6.60-9.30) depending on the number of ports you want.

Via Akihabara News

Posted in Technology by manda | 1 Comment »

Tags: technology, tech, usb

Nameneko

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:25:06 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: The cats are cute but...I can't help but wonder why someone came up with this.

Clip Source: www.plasticbamboo.com

Created in 1980, the Namennayo Cats (Nameneko), took Japan by storm. 2 years, 500 promotional items and 100 billion yen in revenue later, it was all over. Don’t worry though; the dressed-up cats are back to celebrate their 25th anniversary (not the same cats I assume), with a whole bunch of new nonsense to sell (see Strap-Ya for an example). Read more about them on the amazing official Nameneko site. Here’s a video of them back in their heyday.

Pics from The Pelorian Cat Project.

Tags: cats, cat, japan, japanese

Missing Item Finder

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:19:48 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: I need one of these...

Clip Source: www.plasticbamboo.com

Missing item finder

16th February, 2007

If you’re bad for losing things all the time, then the perfect item has just been launched - a missing item finder. In the pack are 4 different coloured receivers and a remote unit. You simply attach the receivers onto frequently misplaced items, like your mobile phone, glasses case or keys for example. Then, when you can’t find any of these items, you simply press the appropriately coloured button on the handheld unit, and an alarm sound will lead you to the location of that item. A very slightly different pitched noise is associated with each receiver too. The receivers seem a little big though. It’s priced 9, 765 yen ($82/�42).

Watch a boring video of the item in action:

Source: Impress Watch

Posted in Technology by manda | No Comments »

Tags: technology, tech