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As a Second Life Resident, you have a profile that you can customize to share more about yourself. It’s opt-in and can be a lot of fun to fill out. Why bother? Many fellow Residents surf profiles, and if you’re open to making new friends, a completed profile makes you a much more fascinating person [...]

Whether you’re in a corporate environment or have a few computers connected at home, your network likely includes firewalls, which prevent security intrusions and other kinds of unauthorized access. If you’re trying to connect to Second Life behind firewalls that are too restrictive, you may be blocked unless you open ports and otherwise allow the [...]

What’s a HUD? In Second Life, objects can be worn on one of the eight HUD (short for heads-up display) attachment points. HUDs are essential to understand, since every SL Resident eventually comes across them sooner or later. A HUD typically consists of a control panel with different buttons you can click on to do [...]

There’s an amazing array of events in Second Life. Many of them have “real world” analogues… with a twist! For example, first life concerts aren’t inundated with nearly as many ASCII art audience reactions. Whether you want to attend a crowded party that packs the hizzouse or are more into relaxing art shows, all that’s [...]

Ah, skyboxes, a special part of Second Life culture alongside other product types like animation overrides and terrain extenders. Not only can our avatars defy gravity, our buildings can, too. That’s right, you can rez (create) something in the air and it’ll just stick there. Somewhat self-explanatory skyboxes have been with us since near the [...]

Friendly greetings fellow avatars! We’ve been getting so many questions about the Appearance Editor! Longer-term, following intense usability studies, we plan to fix design flaws you’ve reported (many of which are already on the Issue Tracker). But today, in the here and now, you want to understand how to get the most out of Viewer [...]