2013 1stHELP: Newcomer help

Newcomer help 

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Watch on YouTube

• How to get into Second Life without really trying 
• Viewer
• You, appearance, profile
• Look around
• Moving and travel
• Communication: summary 
• Animations
• People
• Babies, Pregnancy
• Groups
• Places
• Newcomer help; places, resources, and free stuff
• Entertainment
• Land and houses 
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate
• Lindens
• Preferences
• Search
• Cautions
• About this blog. Mission, goals, themes
• Themes on this blog and how to find the relevant articles

    

Quick Trix

• Need help on a button?  Hover the cursor over it, look for a yellow explanation.
• Need help in on a window? Click  the question mark near the upper right corner 

Start

• How to get into Second Life without really trying 
• World Map. Find your place in Second Life.
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Connect with Second Life communities
• Basic skills in a virtual world (V3.2 and Phoenix) 
• Linden Help Portal
• Appearance for beginners 
• Help in languages other than English 
• The secret of the right-click windows 
• Defense against the Dark Arts  Lag, griefing, damage, bugs
• Quick tricks for things you do often 
• Sex in Second Life. Get to Adult places. 

Viewer and keyboard

• Viewer 3.3+ Preferences window, Summary
• Viewer 3.x help Summary 
• Viewer 3.3.Main screen, marked for beginners 
• Basic Camera Controls: See, Zoom, roam, and tag
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Third Party Viewer Directory 
• Debug menu, find settings you may want 

You and your stuff

• V3.2 Avatar button (M and F figures)--select 
• V3.2 Appearance button (tee shirt) 
• Your Stuff. Inventory
• Your things, your Lindens, your inventory
• Appearance, summary, 
• V3.2 Profile Button (framed head) 
• Managing resources in Virtual Worlds 

Look around

• See, Zoom, roam, and tag
• Camera Tutorial, zoom and roam

Moving and travel

• Basic Moves: Move, Teleport, Travel, Fly. Sit  
• Travel Secrets of Second Life(R) 
• How do I stop dancing (or any other animation)
• Landmarks, teleporting, and SLurls
• YavaScript pod tours

Animations

• How do I kiss? Animations and gestures

Communication

• Skills you need to enjoy Second Life
• Communication: summary 
• Voice
• Second Life Forums

People

• Search: find: friends, places, events in SL
• Who is near me? Use the people window 
• V3.2. Profiles. Yours and theirs 
• V3.2 People button (2 heads) 
• How do I meet people? 
• The Etiquette of Friending in Second Life

Groups

• Connect with Second Life communities
• How to use groups in Second Life, Summary

Places

• Where am I? Where do I want to be? 
• Sex in Second Life. Get to Adult places. 
• Home points and login settings 
• V3.2 Places button (globe) 
• V3.2 Map button (folded paper)
• V3.2 Picks button (pushpin)
• Search: find: friends, places, events in SL? 
• Adjust the sunlight in your world to suit you
• Destination Guide (Second Life)
• Premium sandboxes

Helpers and free stuff

• Newcomer help; places, resources, and free stuff

Entertainment

• What you need to hear/see audio and video
• Hear/see music/video media/BOP in Second Life 
• Be sure to see the BOPs in Second Life
• Live Musicians & Singers. Promotes music events 
• Second Life Events Calendar

Land

• Rental properties and related services in SL
• Land and houses 
• Home: How can I get one? 
• Parcels: How to subdivide and join parcels Terraforming, Starter page
• About Land Window

Languages

• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate

Lindens and money

• Businesses in virtual worlds, beyond creators and entertainers. Summary
• Looking for a job in Second Life? Try Job Directory
• Your things, your Lindens, your inventory
• Jobs, Ads, TreasureHunt. JobFox brings it together  
• Premium perks add value to premium accounts
• Second Life : Basic or Premium? 

Linden Help

Floating help
Need help on a button?  Hover your cursor over it for a moment, look for a yellow explanation to pop up
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Help on a window
Need help in on a window? Click on the question mark near the upper right corner (next to the - button).

• Answers
• Forums
• Knowledge Base

Preferences 

• Preferences window, Summary
• Viewer 2.7. The Preferences window, tabs overview
• Preferences: General Preferences: Chat
• Move, Teleport, Travel, Fly. Sit (Oct.) Preferences 
• Preferences: Graphics Tab. Quality Versus Lag
• Preferences: Move, Teleport, Travel, Fly. Sit (July Update)
• Preferences: Setup window. Bandwidth, auto-downloads
• Preferences, Privacy Preferences: Notices. Suggested starter setting.
• Preferences: Media. Sound. Prim browsers. Video 

Search

• Search: find: friends, places, events in SL
• World Map. Find your place in Second Life.
• How to search this blog and the Hobo Kit
• How do I find: friends, places, events in SL? 

Cautions

• Phishing scams on the web -- including virtual worlds
• Defense against the Dark Arts Lag, griefing, damage, bugs
• CAUTION. You can't buy to own 
• CAUTION. Deeding land to a group
• Caution: What you need to know when you sell land
• Troubleshooting, cautions, getting help in SL. Summary 

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Art

• Art done in virtual worlds Summary
• Linden Endowment for the Arts

     
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Video-Machinima

• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

      

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• Creative Commons License, attribution only.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans