User:Torley Linden/Vidtut ideas

This page is for scribbling ideas for Torley's Video Tutorials, including the omnifriendly "Tip of the Week" series. Feel free to add your own suggestions — if this page gets too long, we may need to organize it better, but for now, go wild using the format below:

== [TITLE OF SUGGESTED TIP] ==

* [FINER DETAILS]

* [MORE FINER DETAILS]

Here we go!

How to use streaming parcel media

• Cover music + movies.
• Show examples of playing .MP3s and .MOVs.
• Video capture of web browser and URLs.
• Make the very strong point that Linden Lab does not store what's streamed, we merely pass it along from an external webserver.

How to login with multiple accounts

• Explain command line parameters briefly.
• Show Second Life shortcut on desktop. (This will be Windows-specific, but in the text part of the blog post, there should be a link to Mac + Linux info.)
• Also show how to login automatically but if I do this, BE VERY SURE to explain security risks involved.
• Launch two viewers and show them both running momentarily.

How to terraform

• Useful for landowners and showing the benefit to those interested in land.
• Explain the somewhat-confusing UI and show what each tool does on a blank patch.
• I reckon I'll wait for Gigs' VWR-2331 to be added first, it'd add a lot of nuances to the art.

How to start your own wiki page

• This would primarily be web-based and showcase usefulness that most Resis don't know about. For example, User:Tid_Kidd.
• Show simple wiki editing. (I should look for a richer, easier editor tho.)
• Emphasize that it acts as an extended profile and can be linked to from inworld.
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:User_page has good ideas.

Explain how deeded land works

• Explain how one deed's land
• Advantages and disadvantages of deeding land to a group
• What the "Owner Makes Contribution With Deed" button means checking vs unchecking when deeding.
• How to recover land from a group.
• Warnings on making multiple owners of group owned land

Statistics Bar

• View > Statistics Bar (Ctrl-Shift-1)
• This could easily be a multi-part series
• Most important, Simulator tab, understand why your lagging
• What are all those pesky times (ms) ?