If you get around Second Life a lot, then you need to check out the SLTweets HUD, available inworld at DarkWood’s Magic Land and on SL Exchange. This handy little HUD allows you to post directly to your twitter account, a handy little feature and if you are interested my account is stoneculdesac.

But, the coolest features by far are the tagging and note taking you can do while in Second Life, and you don’t even need a twitter account for these. Using the command /123 note This is Avilion, Medieval Fantasy Role Play Community while I’m at Avilion, will place a page on your sltweets account map at sltweets.com that looks like this:

Buy using this command, /123 tag learning in second life, education, http://thegridlive.com while at the Ivory Tower of Primitives will place a page on your maps at Sltweets.com that looks like this:

Here is a pic showing you what the HUD can do:

Here is the complete listing of features from their site:

SLTweets HUD Twitter.com Features:

Twitter.com features require that you already have a Twitter.com twitter account.

Send Twitter Posts (Tweets) to your Twitter.com account from within Second Life (Ex. /123 post This is my first twitter post from SL).
Receive incoming Tweets from your Twitter.com Friends Timeline within Second Life.
Incoming Tweets and Alerts are displayed on the SLTweets HUD. (Tweet, who sent it and the time it was sent in SL time).
Tweet indicator notifies you of newly received tweets (flashing green Birdie Icon).
Twitter.com Proxy - When a posted Tweet fails due to Twitter.com being unavailable your Tweet will be stored for an attempted automated re-delivery.
Second Life location information is stored for each posted Tweet from within Second Life enabling you to use our Users Area to view interactive SL Maps of your SL Twittering.

SLTweets HUD Tagging and Notes (For research and more):

These features available by simply wearing the HUD and Tagging and Noting. Twitter.com account not required.

Save Tag’s for places you have visited or people you have met. (Ex. /123 tag convention center, nice build, ITE)
Save private Notes for places you visited, people you have met, shops or builds of interest, products, reminders or any other kind of personal note. (Ex. /123 note Great store, nice products, very low lag)
Second Life location information is stored for each Tag and Note made from within Second Life enabling you to use our Users Area to view interactive SL Maps of your SL Tags and Notes.

Additional SLTweets HUD features:

In-World Search - Search your posted Tweets, Tag’s and Notes from within Second Life.
Search results displayed in your chat window (Owner’s chat only), results include a Second Life Link back to the location the Tweet, Tag or Note was made.
Easy access to Users Area by saying /123 usersite.
Minimize button to shrink the HUD to a thin bar.
Completely Hide/Show the HUD while still being able to post Tweets, Notes and Tags and search.

Web based SLTweets features:

SLTweets Web Maps Beta - View your posted Tweets, Notes and Tags on an interactive SL Map.
Maps showing locations (visual map), time, type (Tweet, Note, Tag) and the content of the Tweet, Note or Tag. Source: SLTweets HUD Features and Updates

If you travel around as much as I do, you’ll have many tweets, notes and tags in your maps, and SLTweets makes it easy to search through them inside your account. You can also click on the maps that are created and add in markers that can be searched using the HUD inworld, believe me when I say this is one tool you need.

I plan on using it for the next few months and I will post a follow up of how it handles large numbers of notes and tags.

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Chevalier Encryption Keyboard HUD (The Encryption HUD) Only L$400 Lindens for 2.

If you have been inworld for very long, you know by now that there simply isn’t enough privacy in Second Life, and chat bug scanners can only detects tiny primitives (often called tortured- zero mass prims) or scripted devices. While useful, these can cause many false alarms. Sometimes what you have to say needs to be kept quiet. Worse yet talking on different channels does not guard you because of channel scanning scripts.

The Solution: The Chevalier’s Encryption HUD

What You Get: The Chevalier Encoder HUDS come in packs of 2, 5, 10 and 20. One for you and one for whomever you want to chat with securely, each avatar is required to have one to be able to join the chat.

How it works: The HUD, or heads up display, includes an on-screen keyboard, which you attach from inventory. It will attach itself to the top center location of your screen, which of course, you can change as you do you other HUD’s, and place it somewhere other than the top center.

To use the Encryption Keyboard HUD click the “Menu” button and select “New Chat” or “Add To Chat” from the dialog that pops up, you will be given a list of avatars in range (96 Meters), then select the avatar with whom you wish to speak to (or add to an existing session) in encrypted form and a notice is sent to their HUD, which they must be wearing. A random pass-code is generated and swapped between HUD’s, and then you can safely communicate with that avatar or avatars.

You may also choose a pre-determined pass phrase that everybody wearing the Chevalier Encryption HUD knows, by keying in the group pass phrase and clicking the “Set Pass” button, and everyone can talk in group chat- encrypted.

Communication works Sim wide once pass-codes/phrases are swapped and chat begins.

NOTE: This version of the HUD uses simple encryption so while no other avatars can read it, the text is still visible to Linden Labs. It is also notable that the keying in of information is slow using the screen keyboard; you can also enable a chat channel to speed up encoded chatting, although this is not as secure. A high numbered random channel is selected each time you enable this feature, but using presets can help, and the look of the faces of the enemy is priceless.

Instructions for Card: No card configuration required.

Features / Uses:

• Easy to use encryption.

• Team use
• Guaranteed privacy from eavesdroppers.
• Preset phrases let a team or army communicate quickly to evade channel scanning (Sim wide communication).
• Escorts may use it with clients and even up sell.
• The text is visible to only those with a key so it will look “garbled” to anyone else- totally unreadable.

The Lore Behind The Product:

During the battle of the Arden Forest against the forces of the Dark Road, Fiona Chevalier and Corwin Chevalier where cut off from the main body of the force and in dire need of rescue. The odds were grim and back luck turned their way when Fiona accidentally swung her mace wide and struck Corwin on the head.

The blow to the head caused Corwin to lapse into High Chevalian, a little used and archaic form of their home language, however the veteran troops understood and they were able to push back the forces of chaos and meet up with the main group unscathed.

After some study Bleys Chevalier, High Wizard of Mason Du Chevalier, determined the foe had developed a “Far Listen” incantation that allowed them to hear the Grand Master Knight’s commands. When Corwin lapsed into the archaic form of High Chevalian they no longer had the tactical advantage and were beaten back.

Since then the Grand Masters of the Chevaliers have been at work on a device that allows them to speak to each other in an encoded language known only to the initiated.

About House Chevalier: The Chevaliers are an eccentric branch of Second Life citizens who spend their time exploring, fencing, dueling, horse back riding, and creating things of interest.

Get it now for only L$400 Lindens at SLexchange.

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