I read with interest Heidi Ballinger’s blog post about the Danish media who were saying Second Life was as good as dead. There seems to be a great deal of people trash talking Second Life in the media and on the Internet in general. I’ve also seen videos on Youtube where people share their projects in Second Life, but instead of people applauding people’s creativity the comments are filled with overwhelming negativity about Second Life. (Here’s an example).

The fundamental problem is ignorance…
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I’ve added my twitter feed to this site, down the right-hand side.
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Online Notifier 1.4 now out. Minor updates are:

• If adding a name fails it now asks if you want to visit a webpage with more info and workaround.
• Added “Website” button to About menu.
• Faster refresh rate.

Congrats to ThatOne Guy for winning this week’s Tricky Quiz.

Crystal Gadgets is now on Twitter. I finally decided to find out what all the fuss was about with this microblogging lark. Okay okay I admit, I felt like being a fly on the wall and following gurus from Second Life and from the tech world in general, but hay it’s yet another way to follow stuff at Crystal Gadgets too.

Our Twitter page.

Heidi Ballinger was kind enough to let me know about a short video she made showing the Prim Finder in action. It uses the Inspector Gadget theme for background music! - ahh childhood memories.

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Our Send Invites software has been updated to v1.1. This addresses an occasional bug which prevented the macro from quiting when manually bringing focus to the software - it would subbornly continue processing the rest of the names.

It should be much more robust should you ever need to manually cancel half way through - for example you might need to do this if there’s heavy lag with Second Life’s server, or an avatar no longer exists in Second Life which throws the macro out of sync with the SL viewer interface.