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Comment on Doubleplus Ungood by Gwyneth Llewelyn

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:33:07 +0000

I've preemptively deleted my Google Plus and Google Profile accounts. Losing all access to Google is not worth it. But I still protest. Diaspora rocks, btw, and Google Plus just cloned them; it looks exactly the same, but it's a decentralised, federated social network. I couldn't get on the main hub (it's invitation-only) but you can use any hub (or install your own and join the federated network), like http://poddery.com/.

Comment on Doubleplus Ungood by Marx Dudek

Marx Dudek — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:28:53 +0000

Otenth: Give Duck Duck Go a try. I love the concept, particularly the fact that everyone receives the same search results and no tracking is done of searches.

Comment on Doubleplus Ungood by Otenth Paderborn

Otenth Paderborn — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:32:27 +0000

I’ve come to a similar conclusion. I haven’t deleted either of my Google+ accounts, but I have extricated myself from most Google products: pseudonymous email is now via my web host, as my main email has been for years; online RSS is now in NewsBlur (a small one-man operation, as far as I can tell, and one I’m happy to support); Dropbox works well for me for sharing documents, since I don’t usually need real-time collaboration; YouTube is now on a throwaway Google account; I’ve never used online photo services much, but there are lots around, or I can just post more to one of my own websites.

I gave Bing a try, but yuck. I figure I’ll continue to use Google search, it’s just that I’ll try to be sure to always be signed out of any Google account when I use it. (I know, they have my IP address.)

The only major app that I have found no good substitute for is Google calendar. I run a shared calendar for a SL community of communities, and I haven’t found anything as convenient–of course, if too many people abandon or are forced out of Google, then that calendar will lose its utility.

Comment on Doubleplus Ungood by Jessyka Richard

Jessyka Richard — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:13:08 +0000

http://liftedpixel.tumblr.com/post/9044514747/doubleplus-ungood

Posted on my blog. Great post. You hit all the best points of the topic, the kinds of things that might actually interest my ‘real life’ friends a little more.

Comment on Doubleplus Ungood by soror nishi

soror nishi — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:08:43 +0000

Yep, I’ve done the same, moved my blog to Iceland and saving as much stuff as possible. My online work is too important to leave in the hands of fools.

Comment on Animation Exporter Update (June 2) by Maximo

Maximo — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:04:30 +0000

Hi Jacek! I know that long time has passed since you released your blend file, but i was wondering if was possible for you to recode the exporter to be compatible with the new scripting API, since the last working version was 2.49b, deprecated by now. Otherwise i’ll have to keep an installer always handy ;-) no other tool is like blender, i’d cry if i was forced to move on another software ^^

Comment on Regarding Client Detection Systems by umba assa

umba assa — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:17:30 +0000

nice to see this little way of protection against copybotter is going killed by this post.

Comment on Saying Goodbye to Cuddlefish Junction by Widget Whiteberry

Widget Whiteberry — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:09:07 +0000

Eep! I managed not to know any of this till just now. I was singing the praises of Deliverator. I hope all goes well for you and will perhaps cross paths in OSG.

Comment on Regarding Client Detection Systems by Doctor Blauvelt

Doctor Blauvelt — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:17:24 +0000

Redzone collects IP addresses and correlates those with avatar names. I have been the victim of it, as it decided some pple in the same office were my alts. And since someone had it in for me (reasons related to ‘personal’ SL relationships aka SL divorce etc.), a few people got accused of being me.

Unfortunately, some SL residents relying on that information are not sufficiently technical to understand the underlying principle, and ‘swear’ that all those residents are my alt, cuz Redzone tells them so.

I have given up. I list the alts I have in my profile now (use them for a variety of reasons such as property groups & testing), and shrug at anybody being stupid enough to believe Redzone.

Doc

Comment on Animation Exporter Update (June 2) by GG Deezul

GG Deezul — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:42:52 +0000

were can I get help with this exporter… or even how to get Blender animations into SL…. how do people make couple animations that fit togeather??
I have been trying for 1 year and no luck… It seems the only way to make a couple animation (for two people to interact) is to spend thousands of dollars on Poser… I am not that rich, and I was under the impression anyone could create stuff for SL. This file works great for 1 person… but SL is not that isolated, there are many people to interact with, but impossible to make these types of animations. You need tonnes of real life money before you can be sucessfull in SL!!