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Links: Blogs

Blogging Second Life: An ongoing project to index as many blogs about Second Life as possible, as a resource for the whole SL community.
Chic at Phil's Place: Great mix of freebies and non-freebies, fashion, homewares, etc
Dreamer's Virtual World: Hunts, group gifts, freebies, promotions, tutorials, and more!
Fabulously Free in Second Life: Industriously blogging every freebie they can find!
Fifty5 Thursdays: Blog for the weekly L$55 Thursday sale offers around the grid
Hunt SL: Love searching around for your gifts? This site is a humungous list of lots of hunts!
Mix 'n' Mesh: Freebie and cheapie style, just for the blokes
Nalates' Things & Stuff: Among other things, Nalates always posts about the latest updates in viewers, server rollouts and other stuff in SL. If you want to know about new developments in-world, you really should read her blog. She’s also on Twitter @Nalates
Second Life Freebies: A fabulous curated feed of various freebies from blogs and Marketplace.
Seraphim: THE place to go to find out what’s in almost any sales event in Second Life
SL Freebie Directory: A linked list of blogs. Some are freebie blogs, some are not.
SL Freebies, Cheapies, Dollarbies, Lucky Chairs, Hunts: Phew! All the freebie blogs, in one single blogroll. Hasn’t been updated in quite some time, though, so newer blogs won’t be on there.
SL Frees & Offers: Linked to the SLF&O in-world group, the blog posts regularly with a mix of freebies and low-cost items
SL Good Deals: A blog showcasing lots of deals, including freebies and weekend sale items
Steals and Deals: Blog for a sale event that runs every weekend, from Friday through Monday

Links: Helpful Articles

Berry's Windlight Settings: A great collection of Windlight settings, organised and curated by Strawberry Singh
Dealing with griefers: SL Wiki articles (goes into great detail) by Fr43k Paine
Freebie etiquette: Mar’s guide to the do’s and don’ts of freebie etiquette
Help, I'm a monster! Useful tips on what to do if your avatar is a cloud or distorted.
How to improve viewer performance: Official Linden Lab advice on boosting the performance of your Second Life viewer
Lag Myths Dispelled Gwyneth Llewelyn’s excellent article about lag
Optimising Windlight for Avatars Caliah Lyon’s tutorial for getting the perfect lighting to take photos of your avatar. This is a very old post and no longer relevant really, but if you’ve ever used the ‘CalWL’ Windlight setting then this is where it’s from!
Reporting Griefers – Very Detailed Instructions: From the SL wiki, some important info on how to report griefers.
SL Wiki – Video tutorials: Tons of great video tutorials. These are all pretty old now, but some are still relevant!
Writing an excellent Marketplace listing: Great advice for merchants from Mistletoe Ethaniel on how to write a good Marketplace listing

SLurls: Freebie Places

Evocative Free Design Gothic-themed clothing & jewellery
Fabulously Free in Second Life Anything & everything!
Magi Take Shop Lots of lovely low-priced items. Join the group and head upstairs for a ton of freebies!
Peppermint Blue Free Store Full avatar kits
The Free Dove One of the oldest freebie stores in SL

SLurls: Newbie Places

Firestorm Support Island An island specifically designed to help people learn about and get help with the Firestorm third party viewer. NOTE: This is not a place to hangout! It’s purely for learning and help.
NCI Beach One of the main NCI campuses. Lots of help for newbies here.
NCI Caledon A great starter place for newbies
NCI Kuula Always someone here to help you out!
NCI South One of the main NCI campuses. Lots of help for newbies here.
The Shelter Resident-run newbie-friendly location

SLurls: Sandboxes

Builders Brewery Backyard A sandbox, but also a great place to learn all about building things in Second Life. (Must join their group to use.)
Elderglen Infohub Sandbox Cross the bridge and walk into the big Infohub building. On the other side of it you’ll find a small sandbox for opening boxes etc.
Ivory Tower Library of Primitives Sandbox Also a great place to learn all about building things in Second Life
NCI Kuula Sandbox A sandbox at the NCI Kuula location.
Premium Sandboxes Two-page list of official Linden Lab sandboxes (for premium users only)
Sandbox: Help Island Public 2 A sandbox with a 15-minute return time on a (fairly empty) old official Help Island.
Skybeam Sandbox Somewhere to unpack boxes and to build

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