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Share, Tag Your Flickr Photos for Us

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:14:14 +0000

Flickr has introduced new content filter features that can make it easy for you to include your NMC Campus photos into this site (see flickr blog for more explanation).

Until recently, flickr considered accounts that included mostly Second Life photos as “screenshots”, marking these accounts as Not In Public Service Area, and thus, would not show up on search results or public tags. So before today, the photos in the right sidebar of the NMC Campus Observer site were limited to the ones we posted in our dedicated account.

But these new features allowed us to change our default content type, and request the NIPSA status removed.

So now, to have your photos included on our sidebar, just tag any SL photos taken on NMC Campus as nmccampus and they will get pulled randomly from the public tag set at:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/nmccampus/.

Thanks flickr for changing things!

Tip: SL Time Zones

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:43:04 +0000

Given that we recently had a change in the last digit of our time clocks (a sly way of saying, “Happy New Year”), we thought it worth sharing how we deal with events and time zones in Second Life. The ability to meet anyone from any RL location, means that timing is critical.

In this tip, we’ll review the “proper” notation for times in Second Life, and provide some tools you can use to set up easily clickable time zone converters, to help people from around the world show up to your event… on time!

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Tip: Pick Your Login Location

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:36:17 +0000

As part of our NMC Campus public service, we hope to start writing some more tips and things useful to SL users. If you’d like to help out as a writer for the Observer, contact me, or you can add them directly to our Campus Guide Tips and Tricks (a wiki).

In one of the Second Life client updates a few weeks back, they added an option to your preferences to help you have some flexibility where you land when you re-enter SL. Typically, you will rez (enter) at the location you last left Second Life. That’s fine, but f you know you want to quickly go to a specific place that was perhaps not the dance club you were at late the night before, this tip may help.

In your SL, client, select Preferences from the Edit menu. Then click the General tab. This new feature is at the top - click the check box labeled Show Start Location on Login Screen:

That’s it! Now quit Second Life and then start it again. You will see a new menu in the lower left of the main login screen that now offers you a choice where you will land when you enter:

You can go to where you were before (My Last Location), your home (My Home, whatever is set in your application as a “home”, if you have not done so, go to the place where you want home to be, and select Set This Location to Home from the World menu), or you can enter the Region Name where you would like to go, such as InfoIsland, EduIsland, Reuters, etc.

Use this if you want a little more control where you land! (Fortunately, there is no “random” option, which could be scary)