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A recent discovery about audio streams (playable via your land settings) in Second Life: they are not played thru a utility MP3 player (like Quicktime) as a separate stream. They are somehow processed and re-compressed before being streamed thru the client.
http://secondlife.com/developers/mapapi/
FOR WEB DEVELOPERS
Want to display cool, zoomable, draggable maps to locations in SL on your web site or blog? Linden Labs provides a full, easy-to-use (if you have experience with JavaScript) set of code and routines to do just that!
FOR PROGRAMMERS & DEVELOPERS
So Linden Labs has released the Second Life client software to Open Source. A great move, in my opinion, and one that will accelerate the development of the client to everyone's benefit. The Second Life client truely has the capacity to become the world's first standard "3D-Metaverse Browser", so to speak.
The Second Life Knowledgebase now has an article that explains the stat readings and how-to for version 1.7 of the servers:
http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=091
with a related post here:
http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=174
http://www.wakatech.com/scripts/
A new area on the Waka Technologies site that has scripts with line-by-line and copy-n-paste versions, great for learning, discussion, and for posting your own handy scripts!