An update for our Send Invites tool is now available. This is a required update if you’re using Second Life 1.23 onwards.

A “Old Viewer” option has been added. If you’re still using Second Life 1.22 or earlier then you must enable this option.

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Prize winners for May were as follows:

• Tricky Quiz: Florabama Python and Beth Bohemian (won any two items from store)
• Profile Picks: Zuri Omizu (won L$1000 cash plus L$1000 store credit)
• Random Group draw: Steff Hendrassen and Randall Romano (won any one item from store)

Prize winners for April were as follows:

• Tricky Quiz: Judicael Carfield and Milena Soderstrom (won any two items from store)
• Profile Picks: Allie Gartner (won L$1000 cash plus L$1000 store credit)
• Random Group draw: Beach Lane and quicker Oates (won any one item from store)

Prize winners for March were as follows:

• Tricky Quiz: Haizu Criss, Igg Arbenlow and Ruth Lannock (win any two items from store)
• Profile Picks: Ali Ravinelli (win L$1000 cash plus L$1000 store credit)
• Random Group draw: Bernardo Kalinakov and Tiberius Botha (pick one item from store)

This free tool for Windows XP/Vista emulates the keystrokes for adding avatar names to the Group Invitations dialog in Second Life. Regardless if you have 1 name or 50 names this tool lets you do it in one step.

It is designed to work alongside our Group Subscriber tool but ultimately it doesn’t matter where you get the names from, so long as they’re in a comma delimited list sitting on the Windows clipboard.

New in version 2.0 is the ability to obtain avatar names from your transactions spreadsheet downloaded from secondlife.com. It handles the grunt work for you by filtering out duplicates, refunded items, non-transactions and removing names who have previously received an invite. It even includes a new clipboard-monitoring Importer tool so you can supply a list of avatar names upfront to prevent them receiving another invite - for example the names of everyone already a member of your group.

• NEW: Option to read transactions spreadsheets so you can send invites to recent customers.
• NEW: Importer tool which monitors the clipboard and auto-pastes anything you copy there.
• NEW: New sound alerts plus new options to pick customize the sound used.
• NEW: Checks for software updates on launch.
• Some minor tweaks to the UI and settings.

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Prize winners for February were as follows:

• Tricky Quiz: Braithe Eilde and Fenna Rexen (win any two items from store)
• Profile Picks: China Gausman (win L$1000 cash plus L$1000 store credit)
• Random Group draw: Tanisha Benoir and Lao Maa (pick one item from store)

Congrats guys.

Quick heads up that we’re on a new server now so hopefully everything will run smoother. We’re now with WiredTree. Yes, I managed to claw myself away from Dreamhost’s superb intuitive control panel back into the confusing murky world of cPanel/WHM, but it should be worth it in the end. WiredTree support have been perfect so far and the upgraded server means we’ll be able to roll out new services in the near future.

I thought I’d try out a new Twitter group service. It allows Twitter users to join groups and post their tweets to that group.

I’ve created one to discuss the gadgets and tools you like to use in Second Life: http://buzzable.com/gadgets

For more details about the Buzzable service itself here’s a Techcrunch article about it.

We’ve had an extended period of downtime. Apologies for the inconvenience. From what I understand It was caused by our web host moving files to new hardware and their rsync scripts were buggy. This downtime prompted me to arrange new hosting so we will be moving servers in the near future.

Prize winners for January were as follows.

• Tricky Quiz: Phoebe Haiku
• Profile Picks: Miton Mizin
• Random Group: Trevor Silverspar

Congrats everyone!