Firestorm Now With Improved Photo Tools And Legacy Search

Inara Pey is the viewer release Princess of all goodness when it comes to looking at viewers. I’m more of a traditionalist and generally stick with Official Linden Lab viewers. However something caught my eye about the latest release of Firestorm (4.3.1.31155). Inara took a look at the beta release last month.

The things that caught my eye about this release were the legacy viewer 1 search and the photo tools. Although there’s a hell of a lot more to this release than that, for full info read the release notes. Now first things first, when I first installed Firestorm, I couldn’t move because there’s a preference for wasd to control chat, not movement. This needed to be changed for me to even get going:

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Firestorm Movement

Chatting away to myself wasn’t much fun, do people prefer the default to be local chat for wasd? Anyway it was a simple change once I found it, so off I went exploring.

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Tyche Shepherd’s Private Estate Survey November 2012

Tyche Shepherd has published the findings of her November 2012 private estate survey, which took place on December 1st. The survey uses a random sampling of 5,000 private estates to draw its results.

I’m not going to publish the findings in full, as Tyche already does that, however I’ll highlight a couple of points. The survey estimates that there has been a small drop of 0.1% in terms of tier income this month, down to  US$4,316,000 +/- US$54,000, whereas last month’s estimate was US$4,319,000, so it’s down by around US$3,000. The survey uses known grandfathered rates for its results but doesn’t include any academic discounts or obviously, any deals between Linden Lab and landowners as these aren’t public knowledge.  The figures are also rounded down to the nearest US$1,000.

The top ten landowners account for 27.4% (+/- 1.2%) of privately owned land, which is down 0.3% since last month. The movers and shakers seem to be Zoha Estates, who are estimated to be up 0.5% and RGF estates who appear to be down 0.8%.

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World’s Collide As Virtual World Resident Takes To The Stage

So a man walks into a bar, he drinks a couple of pints and then along comes the singer, her name isn’t Pearl and she’s not standing up to play the piano, although her job is entertaining folks. Now there’s something familiar about this singer, but he can’t quite figure out what until he hits a Kevin Bacon moment and he realises this singer is Lady Sakai’s mate!

Now fortunately it’s way too early in the night for alcohol to be giving the impression that a Second Life avatar is on stage. However there is concern that a paradox may be caused in the lines of time, space and virtuality that could cause one world or another to implode.

He glances to the stage where the computer running the backing tracks has broken, uh oh, is it all going to go tits up here in the bar and I’m not even drunk yet!

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