16 NEW quick tips to enlighten your Second Life

http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/05/28/16-new-quick-tips-to-enlighten-your-second-life/

By SL Hak

This is the latest video tips from Torley Linden and certainly worth 10 minutes of your time to run through. Torley has included 16 video tips of 2 minutes or less, choose a topic you wish to refresh your knowledge and make Second Life just that little bit easier.

The topics included are:

3 ways to get to About Land - Did you know viewing parcel info can be done via no less than a trio of paths?

Avatar Rendering Cost - ARC is a useful tool which shows you how much viewer-side lag other avatars incur.

Find Friends & Groups faster - Type in the first few letters of a friend or group to select them in the list.

Give stuff to someone nearby - Here’s how to transfer inventory to another Resident whose avatar is close to yours.

Give stuff to someone remote - Here’s how to transfer inventory to another Resident who’s far away (you can’t see them in-avatar).

Instant viewer download link - get.secondlife.com will instantly download the newest main viewer for the current operating system you’re on.

Learn the Lag Meter - Saying “lag” by itself is like saying “I hurt” to a doctor. But where, and what kind of pain? Have a look at the lag meter!

Make a 1-way tinted window - This simple exercise can be applied whenever you want to texture faces of a prim independently and differently.

Open the Advanced menu - Within this hidden menu are many powerful features which I’ve covered in other tutorials. Since they’re unsupported, use them at your own risk… be aware!

Scroll through tabs faster - Just click and drag the mouse button to blaze through!

Stop falling through floors - Have adjacent parcels of land which span more than one region? You’ll want to check out this workaround. 

Troubleshoot sound not playing - A quick run-through of reasons why you might not be hearing sound. Be sure your speakers are on, too.

Turn off annoying UI sounds - Want to silence the IM “ding-ding!” or any other user interface sound selectively? We have an Advanced menu option for that.

Unwear attachments to give them - Unintuitive but it works: you can give body parts/clothes while wearing, yet attachments (objects) need to be taken off first.

Use the pie menu quicker - By holding down the right mouse button and releasing it on a pie menu “slice”, you can use options with less effort.

What do parcel status icons mean? - Hover over to get a tooltip, or click to get an extended description.

 If you missed the link it’s HERE.