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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
Short notice rolling restart
Filed under: Updates
According to the official blog there’s a rolling restart underway. Details are sketchy, but when they’re this poorly announced they usually mean it’s an exploit fix and we won’t get a lot of additional details, although it is also setting up for the new search, fixing sale auction IDs and […]
What?s Your Process?Seriously. I want to know. What do you do when you read a couple of sentences in a post or article that really resonate? How do you capture and organize those snippets? What tools do you use? How often do you recall those sentences, access them? How do you search for them? Is […]
Pushing Writing LiteracySo what does writing literacy look like in the context of these Read/Write Web tools? I mean think of the many different ways that we “write” in our networked lives, ways that differ from the modes that were in primary use just 10 or 15 years ago when I was actually teaching students […]
Can we call them SLphones?
Filed under: News
This Tech Digest story has it that TokyoZERO, in a partnership with a company calling itself Sun (though not Sun Microsystems, as that’s not their logo), are apparently working on a way to get SL on your cellphone. Or perhaps not you, but the Japanese. Now, we’ve been on […]
Billions more? (Update to "Is SL worth $5 billion?" post)The mystery deepens: Yesterday a Linden PR rep wrote me to point out that the reported 10% of Linden Lab sold by investor Catamount Ventures for $500 million represents 10% of Catamount’s holdings in Linden Lab, and not 10% of…SLHamlet