Ambrosia Dance Club

Ivoni Miles, official photographer for Ambrosia Dance Club, was recently asked by the Lindens to take some photographs for the official Second Life Website! Her photograph as seen below is now featured when people sign in to the Second Life Home page. And who is the lovely model in the picture? It is our very own Musical Maven, Venus Petrov.

For great profile pictures and commercial work you need go look no further than Limelight Photography. You can check out her Ivoni Miles Gallery right in the club at Ambrosia. Also check out her work on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/32960490@N03/?saved=1

More and more people are adopting mesh viewers in Second Life so that fewer people are making comments like, “Hey, did you know you are wearing a big green pickle like thing on your body?” Tha Big green pickle thing that they are seeing is actually a really chill hoody with a skull logo on it, but if you are still using a legacy viewer such as the old Phoenix, you will not be able to see all the badass mesh items that are available for sale and that people are starting to wear.

There are some bugs of course. Sometimes, even if you have a mesh viewer, you won’t be able to see all the detail because the level of detail is set to low. To correct this, you need to go into the advanced menu and select the debug menu. From there choose meshmaxConcurrentRequests and put the setting to 100. Supposedly, this will cause the mesh objects people are wearing and that are displayed around the grid to totally render thus eliminating the ghosting and invisibility problems that some people are currently experiencing with mesh. This setting is also persistent according to my source so you don’t have to set it each time you log in, which is a big bonus.

Make sure you go to the Yasum Designs store in the Ambrosia mall to check out some of Azlyn’s latest mesh creations for men and women. In the coming months,all of the Ambrosia retail partners will be rolling out mesh creations to make eveyrone’s second life a bit more awesome with levels of detail never before seen.

If you have not witnessed what is possible with mesh you are certainly missing out. Right now there are many free mesh items available so even if you are Linden Poor yo can still afford some free mesh items to try out. And then all your friends can complain that you are the one who is wearing the big green pickle.

If you are looking to test your luck you need to head on over to our siser club GRIND and check out the lastest craze that is sweeping the Second Life Grid. Byngo Bonus is similar to the Bingo that you know and love in real life with aan added new skill factor that makes it TOS compliant for Second Life. The greatest thing about Bonus Byngo is that it is networked across the grid and hosted on outside servers separate from SL so that as many as 400 cards could be out for any given time. This creates the potential for gigantic jackpots.

A recent winner at the GRIND just pocketed 29000 Lindens, which is no small potatoes. That represents 110 US dollars at current exchange rates, which is enough to get most people’s heart rates going!

Gameplay could not be any easier. After you arrive in the sim just pick out a lucky chair and have a seat. Touch the main board in front of the room and watch as a card appears in front of you. Pay attention as the countdown begins because as each number is called out you will need to tap the corresponding number that appears on your card. But pay close attention, because if you become distracted you could miss crossing off a number in the alloted time and lose out.

The skill element of the game comes in to play when a Bonus Byngo marker appears. There are 5 per game essentially acting as a joker and you must place them strategically. The winners of the game are awarded lindens for completion of one though 4 lines and for a full card.

Additionally,each Sunday is a special round of Bingo that you must qualify for that has prizes up to 20000 Lindens. Speaking of large prizes, there is a Bingo Superpot up for grabs that is awarded to the player that completes a bingo card in 50 rounds or less. Recently that pot has been as high as 800,000 Lindens which translates into almost $3,000 US Dollars at the current exchange rates. There is also a sim wide put that runs concurrently that pays off a progressive amount for filling in a card in 55 rounds or less!

Make sure you come to THE GRIND to check out this exciting new way to kill some time and brain cells and deplete your linden account faster than you can say Bingo!

Just follow this SLurl to find the amazing freshly decorated and sumptuous new BINGO parlor located in the sky above the GRIND.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Grind/165/169/650

By Phil F. Kearny

Without much fanfare the latest Linden Viewer has hit the grid. The good news is that the hated and despised sidebar has now been eliminated and replaced with totally customizable buttons that you can add to either the left, right or bottom of the screen. To access this option you go to Me – Toolbar Buttons or use the shortcut Ctrl + T and then drag either into or out of the box that appears all of the various shortcuts to any location you wish on the edge of the screen.

Other major changes include the removal of the search bar at the top of the screen and replacement with a “shop” button which brings you directly to the Marketplace. This should effectively kill in world sales and complete the Linden’s plan of pushing everyone to buy on Marketplace so they can get their commission on sales.

The Basic and advance mode have now been eliminated in favor of total confusion for noobs and veterans alike.

Chat notifications have moved from the lower right to the top right side of the screen in a clear nod to the users of the old viewer. Personally, I was getting used to the new position in the lower left, but whatever.

The bottom of the screen sees the removal of the visible chat bar in favor of a button for chat which you now have to press manually in order to converse. I can’t think of the logic for this extra step since chatting is a basic function in world.

So now if you want to type you can hit the CHAT button or you can also hit Enter and the chat bar will appear and you can reposition it where ever you wish.

The inventory window now has an extra button which allows you to bring up multiple instances of inventory windows which is infinitely useful.

My opinion is that this is a giant step forward in since it eliminates the hated sidebar and allows for people to configure the viewer into whatever they want. Anything that brings the Luddites that are clutching on to old version 1.23 viewers into the mesh compliant future is a good thing. The biggest pain in the ass is not having uniformity between viewers and the inability to help others with problems because you have no idea how their viewer works anymore.

Try this new viewer, you may like it.