September 03rd, 2010

Look Out New Babbage – They’re Back!

On the morning of September the First, New Babbage Hotel Proprietor and Certainly Not A Timelord Victor1st Mornington pushed open the front door of his luxury hotel... only to find that he was trapped. By a New Babbage tram. It has been a long while since the trams have run in town, but recently Maceholder Cleanslate has been attempting repairs to the fleet and the cars had been put back into

September 03rd, 2010

Belted Stiletto High Heels

Sculpted feet (no more ugly SL feet)
Full HUD control (no more messing clicking the Shoes) + Resize
x12 Skin feet tones presets, 100% compatible with [rQ]ss-Type Skin Line
Easy feet tone adjustment, tint Darker, Lighter, More blue, More gold, More red, Less blue, Less gold, Less red, No tint
(no more RGB color code confusion);
4 Walk sound + Volume control;
Resize.

>>ROOTS<<00H100012

How to wear:
Hells Attachment including Invisible Prim (classic shoe)/to wear with the shoeBASE (right click, and Wear)
Heels Attachment for Viewer2/to wear with the shoeBASE and the shoeALPHA (right click, and Wear)


September 03rd, 2010

KamreK Creations helps too !

I already posted about the huge Project of SL !

Lots of Designer participated and made extra for this Unicef Project and not so expensive – 50 – 100 %

goes directly to Unicef to help the Pakistani People, which lost all cause of the Flood Crisis !!!

Also Kamrek has made extra two poses for this Project but you can get completly three poses to donate and help

Each Pose costs about 50 L $ and goes 100 % to Unicef  - Also a Freebie shirt is available in Store

Important: The Unicef Project goes from the 4th – 19th September

Ich habe bereits einmal über das grosse Projekt in SL gepostet !

Viele Designer nehmen Teil und haben extra für dieses Unicef Projekt Sachen erstellt, die

nicht zu teuer verkauft werden, wobei der Erlös zu 50 – 100 % direkt an Unicef geht um den

Pakistanischen Leuten zu helfen, die bei der Überflutung alles verloren haben !!

auch KamreK hat extra zwei Posen für dieses Projeckt gemacht und insgesamt kann man drei erwerben und so helfen

Jede dieser Posen kostet 50 L$ und geht zu 100 % an Unicef  Es gibt auch ein Freebie shirt im Store selbst

Wichtig: Das Unicef Projekt geht nur vom 4 – 19. September

KamreK

Unicef Project  4 – 19th September


September 03rd, 2010

Heather by TIK TOK

Tik Tok has an new Skin named Heather

Heather is available in different skin tones and make up available

Each Skin is with an clean version and with/without hairbase included

The Skin with the orange Skin is the current Groupgift available in the Store now

Tik Tok hat einen Skin namens Heather

Heater ist in verschiedenen Hauttönen erhältlich und Make ups erhältlich

Jeder Skin ist mit/ohne Hairbase und in einer Clean-Version erhältlich

Der Skin mit den orangen Lippen ist das aktuelle Gruppengeschenk im Store

Tik Tok

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Dress: Vita´s Boudoir Esibelle dress
Skin: TIK TOK-Heather-mocha pack
Hair: .ploom. Seffy – Chocolate
Jewellery: [MANDALA] Lotus chain Bracelets &Earring /white

September 03rd, 2010

Hair Fair Preview: Shag’s Male Hair

As always, most of the designers only have hair for female avatars for sale, but if you look hard enough, you can find a few great male hairs as well. Shag has released Animal Nitrate (left) and Boys Don’t Cry (middle & right). As you can see Boys Don’t Cry comes in two versions.  Color packs cost 250 L$, and fatpacks are 1.000 L$. I’m wearing Animal Nitrate in black and Boys Don’t Cry in umber.

~ Taxi to Shag’s Hair Fair Booth! ~


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September 03rd, 2010

Hair Fair Sneak Peak

I was lucky enough this year to be added as one of the bloggers for Hair Fair. They opened it up a day early, today (9/3) as “Bloggers Day.” Hair fair this year spans four sims and is home to new styles from countless amounts of designers. There are alot of well known names as well as many I had never heard of before. Hair Fair opens September 4th (tomorrow) so be sure to get your lag fighting get-ups ready. You definately don’t wanna miss out!

Heres my favorites I was able to snag :)


Mustache – Aveli (Black 4)


Atomic – The Affair


Berries Inc – Sam (Black)


Fri.Day – Fiona (Cynical Black)


Lamb – Heart


Lamb – Lovelier Girl

Credits:
Skin: Laq – Elena (2)
Eyes: Hermony – MP Eyes (Smog)
Shirt: OhMai – Racerback (Concrete)
Pose is by Glitterati


September 03rd, 2010

eMo Dress by Vita´s Boudoir

Vita´s Boudoir has an new eMo Dress

its wonderfull black and makes me so delighted :) do you know the feeling that you never want

to wearsomething different ? I do :) the Dress has also an Hat within and birds

are cathed inside the balls over the shoulders and from time to time they seem to escape :P

vita´s Boudoir hat ein neues eMo Kleid

es ist wundervoll schwarz und macht mich so glücklich :) kennt ihr das Gefühlt dass man

ein Kleidungsstück nie mehr ausziehen möchte? I schon :) es gibt auch einen Hut dazu, und in den Bällen

über den Schultern sind Vögel eingesperrt und von Zeit zu Zeit scheinen sie zu entkommen :P

Vita´s Boudoir

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Skin: :N:* A urora. 03/06
Hair: Maitreya Faye – Charcoal
Eyes: PIDIDDLE – Motion Sickness Eyes – Empty
Dress: :N:* A urora. 03/06

September 03rd, 2010

wHo HaS bEeN tO cStAr SkIn?

...that I have been glued.. I MEAN Seriously Glued to Cstar generosity. The pink Hunt is on.. and you don't get one skin.. You get 12 skins from Cstar Skin and all in different tones called .::CStar::. PinkHunt Skin *2010 Edition*.. and not only would you smile out of there... you can be lucky to  also win the September Skin called .::CStar::. Miss September *2010 Edition* - Caramel which will be ongoing for the whole of September but this is different .. no more lucky chairs you get to hunt for different makeup every 3 days intervals... From 1st-3rd September .. you get this dark skin in yellow makeup , very Hot and sexy :-), so if you missed the first set .. don’t miss the others .


I'M IN LOVE!!!! YAY.



September 03rd, 2010

Check here if you want more options

In the Snowstorm Product Backlog Office Hour Tuesday, I commented that "I think options are bad for users and bad for code quality". If you read that whole transcript, you can probably see that it was interpreted badly. The most extreme variant, reported by someone who was watching in-world chat afterward, held that Linden Lab wanted to remove all options from the Viewer. Let me start by saying that is not the case and never would be, nor is it something that I or anyone at Linden Lab has ever seriously contemplated.

However, I still stand by my original comment -- options are problematic for lots of reasons.

Let's see why:

First, every option has to have a way to control it. In many cases, you have to have multiple ways to control it. From a user interface design point of view, that means creating option interfaces. For the SL Viewer, those are a) the preferences dialog, b) the debug settings, c) checkable menu items, and d) options within dialogs that control other features.

You'd normally like to put options with the things they affect, but screen space is always at a premium and many options are only changed infrequently. So instead, we group options together in a preferences dialog. But there are enough of them that it becomes necessary to create some means of organizing prefs into a hierarchical structure, such as tabs.

But as soon as you do that, you find that you have trouble because not everyone agrees on what the hierarchy should be. What tabs should you have? Where does each option go? When you get too many options for one tab, how should you split them up?

There's no one answer and there's rarely a right answer.

And then, once you have a place to put them, you have to decide what to call each option and what the default is. And if those decisions were easy there wouldn't be a need for an option!

Second, options add complexity to the interface. Every time you add an option, you add a decision for the user to make. In many cases, someone might not even know what the option controls or whether it's important. Too many options might leave someone feeling that the product is too complex to use.

Third, options add complexity to the code. Every option requires code to support all of the branches of the decision tree. If there are multiple options affecting the same feature, all of the combinations must be supported, and tested. Option code is often one of the biggest sources of bugs in a product. The number of options in the Second Life Viewer renderer, which interact not only with each other but with device drivers and different computers, make it literally impossible for us to exhaustively test the renderer. We have to do a probability-based sampling test.

You could say that it's our problem to deal with that complexity, and you'd be right, but every additional bit of complexity slows down development and testing and makes it harder for us to deliver meaningful functionality.

Fourth, options that are 50-50 probably do need to exist. Options that are 90-10 are addressing an advanced (and possibly important) use case. Having them in the preferences interface promotes them to a primacy they probably don't deserve.

Finally, adding options has a snowball effect. Having a small number of options is good, but having too many options is definitely bad for the product and for the customers trying to use it. Sure, advanced uses need advanced features, but we don't have to make everyone confront all of the complexity.

Add all of this up, and I think it becomes clearer why I said I didn't like options and would prefer to find alternatives.

So why have options at all, then? Because different people legitimately have different needs. Advanced users vs novices, or landowners vs shoppers. We get it. But it's also often an indication of a design that needs work.

There are alternatives to putting more checkboxes on the preferences screen:

a) Allow entire user interfaces to be "plugged in". This requires a major architectural change to the software. Although we've talked about it, it's going to be a while yet before we get there.
b) Allow options to be controlled close to the point of use. As I said above, this can clutter the interface but can be effective.
c) Make an interface that covers all use cases. This is the hardest of all, requiring real understanding and design, but is usually the right answer.

In short, I often consider adding a preference to the prefs panel to be the wrong answer to a real question. It's not that we don't consider different use cases, it's that we're trying to cover them in a better way.

So this has been my attempt to explain the thinking behind a statement like "options bad". I hope it's helped -- has it? Tell me in the comments.

September 03rd, 2010

Welcome to the Project Snowstorm Blog!

Over the past few weeks, we've been spinning up the Snowstorm Team. As I outlined in my original post, our team is committed to enabling the rapid deployment of new features and functionality in the Second Life Viewer.

The Snowstorm Team is working in the open - this includes meetings, documentation, code, and design discussions. We're planning to use this blog as a place to explain our point of view, kick off design discussions, share progress, successes, failures, and challenges.

In my office hour the other day we had a lively discussion about Viewer preferences and customization. Q felt he wanted to expand on and clarify that discussion so you'll see a post quickly following this one that does just that.

Expect more posts in this vein and please participate in the discussion with comments afterward.

September 03rd, 2010

New Mainstore New WDB

Womens Dreamy Bodyshop has an new Mainstore, just opened NOW !!!!

Skin, Shapes and Fashion from Womens Dreamy Bodyshop is available without an Break for the movement :)

Also there is an fee Group with Groupgifts

Womens Dreamy Bodyshop hat eine neue Hauptfiliale, gerade JETZT eröffnet !!!!

Skin, Shapes und Mode von Womens Dreamy Bodyshop ist ohne Umzugsunterbrechnung  erhällich :)

Und es gibt auch eine freie Gruppe mit Gruppengeschenken

WDB

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Hair: fri. – Amelia.2 AC- Timid Brown
Eyes: PIDIDDLE – Motion Sickness Eyes – Machina de Bella

September 03rd, 2010

Fall is Here!

Fall is Here!

Ingenue just released this new outfit - Falling Autumn. I am wearing it in Earth. You can also get it in Coal, Ash, Moss, and Rust. This outfit also comes with a cowl that is not shown in the picture. I saw someone wearing the Coal with Bax Boots and it looked perfect!
!BANG recently put out new poses. This one is from the Waiting in Vain set.
The Jewelry started with the Gold Leaf Earrings for the Platinum Hunt. Then the necklace and silver set was created. The necklace has a 1 script resizer and the earrings come in a large and smaller size. Get these at Caroline's Jewelry.

Other items in image:
Hair by Maitreya
Skin Lelutka
Shoes Maitreya

September 03rd, 2010

Hide & seek

Hair – Pury {mellow MACCHIATO} | Hair Fair 2010 freebie (it will be open for public tomorrow) | !Ohmai

Skin – Petal FREX [Dark] Lovely-Firehouse 2 | previous group gift | Curio

Dress – Rosara (Tropical) | Hide and Seek Hunt item | AtomicBambi

Poses – fri.day


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September 03rd, 2010

Hair Fair – Preview

Pfiouuu ce n’est vraiment pas de tout repos d’être VIP ! A peine levée, je reçois des dizaines de notification, pas coiffée, pas apprêtée, je me suis ruée sur les 4 sims du Hair Fair !
Que vous dire à part : SUPER ! Pour le moment, c’est encore en travaux, mais il y a une vraie frénésie dans l’air. J’ai réussi à prendre quelques clichés inédits, j’ai même fait quelques petites emplettes avant tout le monde … gniark gniark ^^

Mais je ne vais pas tout vous dire, il y en a juste partout, pour tous les goûts et toutes les bourses ! Il y a aussi beaucoup de goodies, de freebies et de surprises évidement.

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Hair Fair website : Click
Hair Fair Demo Group : Click

September 03rd, 2010

You may have noticed..

I haven’t been blogging with the same fervor that I have in the past.

Real life responsibilities, combined with the fact that my SL landlord is selling off some parcels, and one of those parcels being sold is the one I have had my gallery on for the past two years, have forced me to put my blog on the back burner for now. I need to sort out a few RL things first, then figure a way to support my gallery in SL.

I do “park” Shang in game, so I’m usually available for messages, if I don’t answer immeediately it’s means I’ve gone afk. I’ll be back, not to worry.


September 03rd, 2010

CandyDolls – Just Jeans


Pants/ pantalones: Just Jeans - CandyDolls (New Release)



Other items/ Otros ítems

Skin/ Piel - Dutch Touch
Hair/ Pelo - Exile
Boots/ Botas - kalnins






September 03rd, 2010

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek is an new Sim and it celebrates ist Opening this days… .

and there is also an Hide and Seek Hunt

Here you see the Huntgift ot Atomic Bambi with an Pose of Juicy Olive (also Huntgift!)

Hide an Seek ist eine neue Sim und feiert  derzeit seine Eröffnung … .

und es gibt auch einen Hide and Seek Hunt

Hier seht ihr das Huntgeschenk von Atomic Bambi mit einer Pose von Juicy Olive (auch Huntgeschenk!)

Hide and Seek

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Skin: !Imabee: Petal – Serene – Only Love Matters / DKbrow /
Hair: fri. – Amelia.2 – Timid Brown
Dress: AtomicBambi Dress – Rosara
Pose: Olive Juice- HnS Here I Come

September 03rd, 2010

Designers United 4: Echo Star

Oh boy,

Designer’s United 4 AND the Hair Fair? I don’t know about you but it is exciting! Because the best part is heading home after hitting up both spot and unpacking all those bags! Get ready folks!

Hair: You’re a Star by CBC for Hair Fair

Skin: Morning Sun by (fd)
Dress: Echo Calamity by &Bean for DU4
Jacket: Luisa Jacket by Mimikri
Shoes: Saffron Pumps by [Lelutka]
Earrings: Wet Pearls Chandelier by [W&B] for DU4
Ring: Vain by Morantique Lush for DU4


September 03rd, 2010

AnA Lucky Board

Ana has different Prices by its new Sim on the Lucky board

one was this dance and Urban Poses or AO ( I´m unsure cause i didnt won :( …)

Ana hat verschiedene Preise auf der neuen Sim auf dem Lucky Board

einen mit diesem Tanz und Urban Posen oder AO (Ich bin unsicher, weil ich leider nicht gewonnen hab :( …)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hide%20and%20Seek/166/204/30


September 03rd, 2010

Hiatus

Taking a little break from blogging. I’ll still be on plurk and on the grid. For sure, my store, !BANG, will go on as well as my flickr will continue. Just not blogging for now.

Hiatus

See you all soon!

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