Here is a great post from Torley Linden on the Second Life blog called 10 debug options you should know about that lets you know how to do things to make your Second Life experiences a little better. Such as turning that annoying typing animation and sound off, or the sound it make when you take a snapshot. How many people have been afraid to take a picture because they thought someone would think they were taking a picture of them? I did it just the other day when I was writing , there were two hot girls standing there chewing the fat and I wanted to take a pic. So I got tired of waiting and just took it, and they didn’t notice, but with the first of the tips below, you no longer have to worry about the sound it makes when you take a snapshot.

The Client menu formerly used to be called the Debug menu, and occasionally, you may still see it referred to as such. The reason for the change coincided with our Open Source initiative early in 2007, when we cleaned up the menus and encouraged community contributors to tap deeper into the secrets of Second Life so our platform can be improved.

Long story short, the general purpose of a Debug menu is to provide programmer-facing features not intended for the general public that assist us in reducing problems in the program (hence, DE-bug). But even we can’t resist including some Easter Eggs, as you’ll see.

10. Quiet Snapshots to Disk - Are you an avid shutterbug like me? Concerned that passerby will find the frequent whirrrr-click! of your screen captures annoying? Just select this option to enable it (it’ll have an X next to it when it’s on), and you can happily use File menu > Take Snapshot or Snapshot to Disk without the accompanying animation and sound. Source: 10 debug options you should know about

Check out the blog post for more Second Life Tips, you will be glad you did.

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