How to use Photoshop to Create Textures With Alpha Channels for Second LifeThis will guide you step-by-step on how to make textures with transparency for Second Life using Adobe Photoshop CS. It includes tips on how to avoid blurry white outlines and a little info on masks and alpha channels.By: AsterAster
Teaching and Learning for GrandparentsVinny Vrotny is a technology integrator at an independent school in Chicago, and he was asked to put together a succinct presentation for grandparents about the work his teachers and students are doing. He came up with the following five ways that teaching and learning have changed at his school due […]
Warren EllisIf you don’t know who Warren Ellis is, you need to find out - simply put, he’s one of the best writers on the planet in any format he touches. And now he’s going to be writing a news columns from Second Life!
Today in Second Life - Tuesday 15 May, 2007.
Filed under: Odds and Ends
Today in Second Life we had:
The population figures and feeds remain stuck at 6,240,591 signups total for the last 138 hours.
A peak concurrency of 41,912 at 1:49PM, and a minimum concurrency of 20,592 at 1:04AM. Average concurrency for the day was 29,549.
Maxim’s Hot […]
Links for Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Jeremy Zawodny: How I Write a Presentation - “I just avoid doing anything until I can’t wait much longer. Then I sit down with a pen and paper to write out ideas in a fairly free-form bullet list. Then I annotate and expand the ideas until the paper is unreadable […]
Should SL Currency Follow RL Laws?
Filed under: Linden Dollars, Business, Odds and Ends, Making Money, Mixed Reality
Adam Reuters reports on this story, and gives us all a heads-up. The UK’s Fraud Advisory Panel recommends that governments apply RL money laws to SL’s economy, stating that fraud, money laundering, and other such crimes are more likely […]
Tateru’s Mixed Reality HeadcountCatriona Fitzgerald greets new visitors and regulars at Phat Cat’s Jazzy Blue Lounge. How well did real world organizations and companies engage the SL community last week? Tateru Nino runs the hard numbers: Site (* Native reality site) Estimated average…Tateru Nino
iPod Outsold in SL
Filed under: Odds and Ends, Mixed Reality
Being in SL is truly like traveling to another country; they do things differently there. Including, apparently, elevate the obscure Prism DuroSport mp3 player to better-seeling-than-iPod status. The DuroSport, manufactured in RL in Moldova, has been called the ‘worst digital audio player ever‘ by Medialoper.com. […]
VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE, REAL MONEYMeltemi Editore, a publishing house based in Rome, is sponsoring a contest to design their SL office, and the winners will be selected by a panel of architects, editors, and Mario Gerosa, author of Meltemi’s Second Life book. The design…SLHamlet
Giving First Life Gifts in Second Life using Amazon.comIn the virtual world Second Life it is easy to form very close friendships with someone you may never have the opportunity to meet in person. Second Life residents celebrate First Life holidays like Valentine’s Day and Christmas as well as personal celebrations; birthdays, weddings, anniversaries […]
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