Torley Linden started this off by posting a video of how to turn the typing animation and sound off, something I have been doing for awhile, it is so much better without it. Here is the video:

SL TuTORial - How to turn off the typing animation and sound

Posted to Technology Videos by eubeenhadd on August 23, 2007

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Remember that command when you login, Ctrl-Alt-D to turn on the Client menu, Opt-Ctrl-D on a Mac, there are so many awesome settings there that you should play with to make your Second Life better, I always hit the quiet snapshots to disk, so people don’t think I’m taking pictures of them, and I disable the camera constraints, you won’t believe how much farther you will be able to see.

Some other nice tips came out of Torley’s blog post’s comments, like this one, click on the Edit menu, then Preferences, then Graphics, now you can adjust the UI, user interface, portion of Second Life and make it smaller or bigger. It is set to 1.00 by default; I moved mine to .75 and gained at least an inch all of the way around my monitor. You can go the other way as well if you think the UI is too small. From Buckaroo Mu.

If you are using the voice client and don’t like the consolidated chat and IM window, you can separate them from each with one click, just click on the box with the arrow in the middle, when you hover over it with the mouse it says “tear off”, and the chat window will once again drop to the bottom of the screen.

Another debug setting that I like is the AutoLogin, if you are the only user on the computer that is.
One Torley mentions on the wiki is this one,

DoubleClickAutoPilot - Some of you may find it useful for navigation. Set it to TRUE, then anywhere you double-click (with the left mouse button) inworld, you’ll automatically walk, run, or fly towards. Our autopilot is kind of flakey, so don’t be surprised if this doesn’t always work and you get an “Autopilot canceled” message. Nevertheless, a fun novelty. Source: User:Torley Linden/Debug Settings

Ohh and Torley will take video tip submissions, and so would I, upload your videos to Technology Videos, if your video is already on YouTube, you should search the site before you upload it, as it could already be there. And for Torley,

To benefit your enjoyment of Second Life amidst the hectic days of modern society, I’m starting a new video tutorial series: Tip of the Week. The guidelines for each tip:

Must be relatively easy to do!
Must be less than 5 min. in length!
Must teach you something useful and fun!
Is likely knowledge that’s commonly passed from Resident to Resident, but hasn’t been officially shared by Linden Lab!
Suggestions for new tips in the comments please! I can’t cover them all, but I’ll read through ‘em, and but if you make video tutorials too, let me know. Source: Tip of the week: How to turn off the typing animation and sound

Got a great tip? Send it in and we’ll post em here, or if you would like to write some reviews on Second Life sims, objects, businesses or events, contact us at eubeenhadd at gmail.com.

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