A Fish Tail
ELLiebob Bean sent me a message asking if I had a moment to make some fish for an aquarium in the shape of a mushroom. Better yet, the mushroom was a sculpted prim. ELLiebob uses…
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Why is there a hat in my butt?
So I'm flying around and teleporting to different sims and I notice this hat in my butt. The more I try to TP and such, the more things start getting out of place. Why does this…
TIP: How to find lots of people
Chocro Ewing had some problems with SL. They couldn't find anyone, or at least people they did find were doing wierd things. Hmm... I decided not to ask. "I thought many…
Clocktower Network
James Gill comes to check out some land I was selling and then speaks about his Clocktower Network. The network targets people who split land into 16sq. m. parcels and blacklists…
HigginsBenchModern BuildingDigital ScreensSocial Interaction
A new product search engine
I was introduced to a new search engine tonight for SL products. It works like most others, in that you rez an object and put your products inside. You tell it to update, and it…
Apez.biz API
I'm still working on my own website with tieing things together. Tonight, I started working with the Apez API. Just like SLExchange and SLBoutique, you can sell items to other…
Getting ready for an Irish day
I redesigned my infamouse classic top hat. I made a variation of it to give that festive feeling of St. Patricks Day holiday wear. I may put a few particles in it as well, or have…
High on prims
Have you ever wondered about how hacks are figured out? Half the time it is by accedent or assumption that things work because that is how they ought to. Other times, they come…
An Emotional Cube
I've enjoyed the FaceAnimCube for a while now, but I have found myself wishing for some extra features. I've started to build my own cube from scratch. Rather then using a dialog…
Good karma heads your way
Grandpa Winkler was walking about and asked me if I had a coin to spare. I gave him 1 L$ and he replied that good karma would head my way. It was nice to see someone who actually…
Photography Tip
When taking pictures of my products, I'll usually build up a box that has no textures, and set to full bright. This allows the product to be displayed on its own without any…
Flickr SLideViewer
Finn Poitier directed my eyes over to SLideViewer after I helped him with the RSS Reader for his feed. AngryBeth Shortbread and Kisa Naumova created a combination of LSL and PHP…
Relay for Life 2007
I think the Relay for Life is probably SL's most beneficial event. The whole grid gets really creative in building up fund raisers to donate L$ to battle cancer. Last year, I ran…
Turkey Lurkey Time
I picked up a turkey over in Calidon a while back. These pets are a bit fun and give my parcel some nice activity. You simply rez the turkey and click it and it goes about on its…
Reffletron
On of the coolest new gadgets out is the Raffletron. This is a networked raffle system that awards prizes monthly, weekly, daily, and hourly. Each ticket is always 10 L$ for…
Tulips Everywhere
I had a small project to create a particle generator with flowers. Most of the work was editing the image that I was going to use. The clients preference was to have tulips. I've…
Grassy Particles
You gotta love particles for making nature possible in SL. A while back, I created a grass generator for a friend of mine. A big circle of grass is created and each particle lasts…
Making Faces
Hamlet Au sent me an IM asking for a few photos of my avatar. He wants to show pictures of follow bloggers on his website - New World Notes. I didn't want to just take a regular…
The AvaStar Projects
I got a few branding requests from the AvaStar and had just finished up. Made some pretty dome earrings, a paper hat, a helmet, and some shades. The shades are a neat gadget. If…
Reusable Scripting
As a scripter, it is always nice to have a request come in that can easily make use of previouse scripts that I have written. Take my password generator for example. I created a…
Stage with RSS Icon Layout
I started working on making a place to give speaches and such to medium sized groups. I decided to make the layout look like an RSS Icon. I have a few products that have RSS/Atom…
Guns save Second Lives
A newbie dropped by begging me for lindens. He was past his 30 days, so money trees couldn't help. I only offered him my 5L$ survey and money tree. Well, it didn't go well, but he…
A little redesigning
I've been thinking about going over a new design lately. Rather then have everything laid out into individual vendors for each item, I'm thinking about going back to categorized…
Bomb King
I was working on a script for DrFran Babcock so that she could make little shoulder pets. I got the basics down to talk, whisper, shout, change names, growl, change channels…
A Particle Lab Class
I've been sponsoring some classes with DrFran Babcock. Today, Eleanora Newell showed up after class and asked a few questions about my particle lab. I logged into second life…
The Unfortunate Cookie
I keep telling myself that I'm going to do this one day. Well, it's finally being done. You know how most Chinese cookies have been getting really bad with there fortunes? I have…
Creating SL Artwork with ArtRage
I checked out Torley Lindens blog ( torley.com/ ) today and saw that they listed a few programs that they use often. One was an interesting one that caught my eye. ArtRage. I…
A build contest gone bad
Don't you just hate that? You put in a lot of time and the contest is almost over. Suddenly the owner comes by and returns your objects along with everyone elses to inventory. And…
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If only I had a heart
I was showing off how to make your avatar invisible to a few friends of mine. I was just making a giant invisi-prim that covered me entirely. Well, I headed on back to the…
Just a bit of Trigonometry
I am always amazed at these giant spheres and geodesic domes that people make on large builds. They are made of many prims positioned in a certain way to appear as a sphere. I…
Work is Work is Work
I thought I'd ask about advertsing oppotunities for the AvaStar since it is the latest hottest magazine out there. The staff that I spoke with really liked what I had and was…
Postcard from Second Life
I show off my little Particle Lab to DrFran Babcock. She purchased an expensive one from someone else on SLX that drove her crazy. If anything, the visuals are really impressive.…
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Did you know I have a podcast? Did ya?
I have a podcast that is a bit odd from other podscasts. I play music on it from time to time using podsafe music network, and yea - it's hosted over there as well. The thing that…
Prims, Prims, and More Prims!
Oh my gosh. I am just estatic. Higgins is my home sim. I once owned a quarter of it but then sold most of it off tiering down. I've since then become profitable to tier up…
RSS/Atom Feed Reader
I can't remember if I mentioned that this was finally done or not. However, the feed reader is complete for reading rss and atom feeds. Podcasters can benefit from this reader…
A familliar face returns
So I went ahead and invested in the S-Bot. It turns out that the bot is hosted over at pandorabots.com. The folks at Metaverse Technology mainly build the scripts to tie SL into…
Frontier Linden Bear
I was talking with Yxes Delecroix yesterday about Linden bears. She loves bears, and wasn't aware that just about every linden has a bear that represents them. You simply send an…
A meeting place
I teleported to my store and noticed a ton of people there. Well, maybe not a ton, but more people were comming in via TP. I walked on over to see what the group was so excited…
RSS Display
I've been working on making a similar product to my RSS Reader. Rather then displaying hovertext on a single prim, this one displays everything as letters on a back-board. I'm…
Name Dropper
Just a little thing I was toying with. This little object searches for someone within 30 meters every minute. Then, it drops every letter in there name. ... pointless, but hey…
Large Message Board Ready!
The smaller message board usually goes through without too many problems when upgrading it with new features. The Large message board is another story. The problem lies within the…