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Bustin’ a move on the virtual dancefloor and losing control is all fun and games — until you try to stop and yet your avatar just keeps on doing the electric boogaloo. When you find yourself in such a socially awkward situation: Go to Me menu > Movement > Stop Animating Me   FREEZE. This [...]

Do you find yourself bothered by too many notifications? Do you want to hide instant message popups without having to go into Busy mode? There’s a preference that can help with that in Viewer 2.4 and newer.   For text instructions and more details, see the “incoming chat popups” help page Second Life Blogs : [...]

Running multiple Viewers has become more accessible thanks to an easy checkbox in Viewer 2.4 Beta. If you run multiple Viewers (what are the official Viewers?) — for example, you prefer building in 1.23 but want 2.3′s communication enhancements, and are also testing the Mesh project viewer — certain aspects can conflict, especially if you’re [...]

If you ever mess up your avatar appearance, don’t worry. You can easily reset your avatar to a default one, including the avatars available when you first signed up for Second Life. This video shows you how:   For text steps and more details, go to the wiki help page counterpart. Second Life Blogs : [...]

This is another one of those “Mmm subtle” kinda tips. You may already know that with Viewer 2.x, we’ve superbly integrated SLurls (web-compatible links that teleport you to a specific Second Life place, as used in the Destination Guide), and that pasting a SLurl into chat shows it in brief. Side tip: Pasting a SLurl [...]

One of the new features we’ve introduced with Viewer 2.3 Beta are “hints“, little text bubbles that come up and tell you more about a feature when appropriate. You may be familiar with this convention in other apps. For example, if someone types to you, you get a prompt on how to text chat. And [...]