Prize winners for December were as follows.

• Profile Picks: Jayson Perway
• Tricky Quiz: Cheeto Eclipse

Congrats!

Winners of the November prize draws at Crystal Gadgets are:

• Profile Picks: Simonie Skytower
• Tricky Quiz: Clarissima Schumann, Flint Franizzi
• Twitter Trivia: Techwizworld Sweetwater
• Random Group Draw: Amon Demonge, Kimpire Kanto

Congrats!

Thought I’d try something different and do a L$1000 cash prize giveaway this weekend!

Rules are as follows:

• Step 1: Follow me on the Twitter social network for free: twitter.com/AnthonyHocken
• Step 2: At a random time this weekend I’ll give a trivia question on Twitter about Crystal Gadgets.
• Step 3: Send your answer to me within 1 hour by private message on Twitter or in Second Life.
• Step 4: A winner is drawn at random from correct replies and will receive L$1000 cash.

Best of luck!…

The prize draw winners for October at Crystal Gadgets were:

• Profile Picks: Aspen Munro (L$1000 cash + L$1000 store credit)
• Tricky Quiz #1: Missy69 Aeon
• Tricky Quiz #2: Myrna Braveheart
• Tricky Quiz #3: Zak Zamin
• Random Chat group draw: Melancholy Graves
• Random Updates group draw: Fadou Haystack and Kendall Weston

Visit our store if you want to try your luck in the November draws!

Prim Finder 1.3 is now available.

• The scripts have been reworked to use one 10th the overhead. It’s much less laggy now and uses a fraction of the total scripts. Ideal if you like to leave your Prim Finder rezzed in world.
• There’s now no moving parts in the display board. The demo prim uses smooth client-side rotation and the filter panel is made visible/invisible using a single scripted controller instead of sliding in/out using multiple scripts.
• The grid display uses an efficient 2 cells per script setup instead of 1 cell per script.
• Few minor tweaks. The info button gives a link to our website.

If you have an earlier version of Prim Finder visit our shop and click “Upgrade” on the vendor for your free update.

Sidenote: When Second Life 1.21 viewer comes out of beta I hope to release Prim Finder 1.4 which will require much less prims for the board itself.

Congrats to this months winners at Crystal Gadgets…

• RubyTuesday Ballyhoo won the Picks L$2000 draw.
• Prof Meredith, Eneias Pessoa and Kandace Sands won the Tricky Quiz.
• Anthoney Exonar and Irwin Wells win the random draw for being in this group. You guys can pick any two items from the store.

Prize draw winners for August at Crystal Gadgets:

• Profile Picks: Strathis Quandry (L$1000 cash + L$1000 store credit).
• Tricky Quiz #1: Tareeq Khandr (any two items from store)
• Tricky Quiz #2: Sweetpea Wise (ditto)
• Tricky Quiz #3: Davy Eales (ditto)
• Random group draw #1: Entropy Hax (any two items from store)
• Random group draw #2: Musicmaker Contepomi (ditto)

Congrats all.

Prize draw winners for July were:

• Profile Picks: Natmoud Mannonen
• Last Tricky Quiz: Elissa Sands
• Previous Tricky Quiz: Divad Mills
• Random group draw: JJ McGuire

Congrats all.

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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