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Add a loft or wall to your Linden Home in Second Life

Just because you can’t move the walls or floors around on your Premium Linden Home doesn’t mean you can’t add new ones, or even cover the old ones with a new wallpaper or paneling pattern.  When I acquired my Tahoe … Continue reading

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Searching Second Life Marketplace – A Better Way

Search the Second Life® Marketplace Listings using Google Search: The box above only searches for items listed in the Second Life Marketplace. This is a little tool I made for myself, but you are welcome to use it.  I have … Continue reading

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Learning to Surf the Virtual Waves in Second Life

Aloha! Being a beach lover, one of the first things I did in Second Life® was to check out some of the many beach locations.  Surfing virtual waves is an activity offered at many of those beaches.  I was intrigued, … Continue reading

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Second Life Teleporter Script using llSetRegionPos

This is an LSL teleporter script for use in Second Life that uses the new llSetRegionPos function.  When placed in a prim this script will turn the prim into a regional teleporter.  This teleporter is suitable for simple tasks such … Continue reading

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How to Make a Ceiling Light in Second Life

This is a detailed step-by-step “How to” for creating a ceiling light for a room in Second Life®.  This light is not just decorative, it will shine light on all the objects in a room.  If you have a Second … Continue reading

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How to Make an Invisible Light Source for a Second Life Home or Shop

One of the first things I noticed in my Second Life® Linden Home was that the lighting changed with the time of day.  Sometimes it just seemed to change randomly.  This was very annoying and eventually I realized it was … Continue reading

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How to Make a One-Way Glass Window in Second Life®

Unlike the real world, creating a one-way glass window in Second Life® is easy, even on a pre-fab Linden Home.  This window is tinted or completely transparent from the inside so you can see out, but it is completely opaque … Continue reading

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Buy Linden™ Dollars, More L$ for Less $ € £ – Second Life® Money

Did you realize you don’t have to buy your Second Life® Linden™ Dollars from the default Lindex™ Exchange on your SL viewer?   There are other companies that also sell Secondlife Linden dollars.  Using an independent SL Exchange you can often … Continue reading

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Random Red Arrow on Screen in Second Life®

Problem: How to get rid of the random red arrow in Second Life®.  Sometimes a solid red arrow appears in random locations on the screen, also a red vertical translucent light column (beacon) can be seen, often in the distance. … Continue reading

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Using the Beacon Locator in Second Life®

If you know the region name and coordinate of any place in Second Life® this article will show you how to find your way there.  Or maybe you tried to teleport someplace in Second Life and the teleport failed, or … Continue reading

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