The new official SL blogs are finally up and running. Glad to see this and I hope it means that we’ll hear more stuff from the Lindens. It’s been pretty quiet on their blog for months now. Check em out.

Here’s an interesting app for those of you who sometimes need to access SL on a slow/old computer. OMVViewer-light will let you log into SL (and opensim) without loading all the 3D objects and textures. You can chat, teleport, search,  and even access your inventory. Looks like it works on Windows and Linux, too. Thanks to Opensource Obscure for the link.

Hey Folks. I am in the middle of a RL move. Moving back to the Oregon coast to live, work, and play. :) I’m very excited about the move, but it will be a few weeks until I can devote any time to SL or Shiny Life. In the meantime you might want to keep on eye on the Shiny Mix for automated SL news updates.

This is a casul walking tour of my Sunset Myst Hiking Trails sim.  It’s been too long since I produced any video content in SL. I thought that this would be a great way to get back into the swing of things and showcase some of my recent work at the same time.

Download high resolution version of this video
165 MB .mp4 ~ right-click and choose Save Link As

Mal Burns points us at this great series of video tutorials from SubQuark. They are aimed at using SL as a rich media source for eLearning, but contain info that’s useful for just about anyone. THese vids include tips for creating movies, building, and even how to reduce SL viewer crashes.