She's Famous now!!

Our dear  Deatoris 'Dea' to friends got herself interviewed for 'The Herald'. We are so proud and would love you to read it too.

http://snurl.com/u71bj


She is an outstanding DJ at several places like Alt7 and Popscene and you really need to go and hear her (Fred likes to brag he persuaded to get her  into the DJ-ing) Go and listen for yourself and not only for her sweetest and most sexy 'French' accent.

TLE will be back and will be stronger and bigger and .............

Some days ago we were suddenly aware of the fact that Kitviel Silberberg was getting back online. Kitviel is the founder of TLEeducational Network. Due to a really bad experience with sim-owners and other SL related badness they had to close down all of their projects. Over 3 months it was very quiet. But ................. TLE Educational Network is coming back to Second Life. And we are very happy with that. Not only because we had a very good business-relationship with them. Mainly it's because of their profounding and never ending optimism. TLE Educational Network is a free university for anybody who has acces to the internet. They provide classes on so many different levels and interests. They publish books on a great varity off  topics. By using the internet they try to bring "Art" closer to the audiance. Their World History Museum and Zoo are an interactive way to provide knowledge about our life on earth and it's history. Stay tuned on what will come soon .............

TLE Educational Network we welcome you all back to Second Life and we hope your return will be an even bigger succes then it already has been!

Suspended on Twitter??!!

Ok I am totally flabbergasted but we are supended on Twitter. Today i got this on our account:

Account Suspended

This account is currently suspended and is being investigated due to strange activity. If we have suspended your account mistakenly, please let us know. SeeSuspended Accounts for more information.

Well that made me read the rules and as far as I can see everybody is twittering against them. I have followers and I follow people but not to spam them. I like to be part of the community over there but if it means that I have to watch whatever I say i think it's gonna be the end of our twitter account. I submitted a ticket and wrote an email so lets hear what they have to tell us.


Last Updat: as if it was a miracle today the account is back to normal and nothing has been said or done about it 0-0 sometimes I wonder ................


Wel at least the whole thing made me enter plurk wich is a fun place to be too sooo 
this has been for the best.

Step Up!!! For Content Creators In Second Life!

Ok it's finally time to Step Up! On Thursday the 5th of November 2009 we content creators are going to show that we step up for content creators and want LL to do something about the copybot (and all other versions) users. We are way to long been abused and ignored. I know most people don't give much about who made what. But to us it is a big matter and I hope that most of you out there will support us on this. Get a free ribbon or a free backpack at XStreet and let us know you support the case.
http://stepupsl.wordpress.com/ http://contentcreatorsassociation.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/stepupsl/
http://step-up-sl.ning.com/
Step UP! Headquarters on Planet Mongo 
Inworld search for the group:
Step UP! Against Content Theft and join for free

Get a free Step Up kit at Xstreet


There are too many people victim of this for LL to keep on ignoring us!
If you are a content Creator or you are a blogger and supporting this cause please sent me your url and I will list you in here!!

IMF InSync Music Factory is opening soon ...............

Told ya that we are working on something new? Long, Long time ago Fred was a DJ in SL. But the DJ-ing got him into a lot of drama. So after we ended up he slowly got out of that. Not that I wanted him too but he did. I know he misses it. He knows so much about music. He also is capable to make wonderfull sets. he can capture his feeling at that moment with the music he chooses. So after me nagging on him he decided to get back. Well if he has time for it. So we decided to get out the factory and remodel it. It's becoming a great club. It won't have the purpose to get it running for the whole week. It will be a place where Fred can run his sets and maybe some of his friends will have some sets there aswell............. it's a growing thing and we don't have excact idea of what it will going to be.we will go with the flow! We will anounce our sets through facebook and twitter become friends with us and you will know when it is happening. It will be impromtue and there will be no real timeing for it. Just for enjoying music and having fun together!

Follow the SLURL and come and have fun!!!!!!

10 websites with Second Life machinima

Ok maybe I am just very obsessed with it at the moment. But through twitter i have seen more machinima of second Life then I have ever seen before. but they are all on different places and I thought it would be fun to explore those ............................

1. Of course there is You Tube!

2. The Second life Group M.A.G. has it's own ning!

3. Koinup is a familiar one too!

4. WeGame is one of the ways to capture your inworld machinima. But besides that it let you save it on their side too. becarefull because you cannot take it away yourself only by asking the siteadmin.

5. Xfire is a simular one.

6. Machinima.com sounds like the right place doesn't it?

7. Even Flickr got it's own group

8. Blip your way to them!!

9. Machiniplex is a cool place to look around. Some of them are from SL.

10. metacafè is closing the ranks.

10 sites about Second Life Names .........

Did you think it over when you started SL?? That the name you picked would be the one that almost feels like your own? Well i didn't but after 3 years it does. Maybe it's because I choose a name that was close to my own. I was playing Ceasar and on the forums when people dragged me into SL. So that's why i came up with AEster. Adding to that that I loved the hospital series ER and nurse Hathaway was involved with the ever so adobo George Clooney .....................

Following top 10 list is a randomly one all about names in SL.

1.  http://slnamewatch.com/ has a top 100 of the most popular lastnames in SL you even can look if they are still available (if you are gonna join SL or making your alt)

2. Vint Valken has some good thoughts about creating your name. So you don't end up with names like Ivanerection ( no kidding, LL made him change his name at one point :)

3. ObiJan Technologies has the latest popular names, brithdays, lastnames, Lindens and many more.

4. Dahlia got a nice line up with funny names. I wished I wrote them down in during the last years.


5. If you are thinking about a custom name??? LL can get you that too. At Wiki/SL you'll read about it.


6. This post on Second Effects made me grin. Especcially the Hibbabalibba McMahon (try to pronounce it )


7. This forum contains some nice personal stories.


8. Couldn't help it but while searching for things I stumbled on this one and it made me go: awwwwwww
    https://blogs.secondlife.com/message/25802


9. A jira about making a name change after Second Life marriage ............


10. Tfhere are also funny name generators online where you can find just that one unusual name you are looking for!!!

Torley's Windlight Settings!!!

When I started to read about ma- chinima it was one of the first things I stumbled into.  I guess it's something a lot of people already know. I am as always slow and late with things. I am 1011 days old an just found out about X-cite parts (no kidding 0-0) Torley made outstanding very fast to use and instant giving effects. They are great to use with your photographing or machinima. As I made some pictures for Mynt the effect is very well showing off there. If you want to see more of them go to the Mynt Flickr-Page http://www.flickr.com/photos/mynt-slebs/ ............................... and have a look at all the pictures ...............  remember these pictures are taken while dancing. no posing. Just taking pics of peeps that are visiting and having a good time :)

Here's the link for Torley's work :
http://snurl.com/sm2ac

Halloween spot at InSync

In order to show of our animated- mirrors, our creepy girl and our scary family portrait we got a small halloween spot too. As you can see we have some other stuff for sell there too. Even the Steampunky Kinda Fun Jet is out there. It's only 55L$ and believe me it's all worth it. You also can join our group wich will inform you with the newest stuff and we're not big spammers so don't hesitate!

Thanks to Torley's great sky setting it even looks creepy don't ya think? ok time to grap the
#######tiny surl inside##########

Our shop started it's Second Life!!!!!

So here it is our new shop!!!! We dusted the houses, cleaned the ship and vacuumed the beach. It took us almost the whole weekend to set the whole lot of it. Well of course we needed some working platforms too and we needed to get up the workingbox aswell.
But it's all set and done now. up and running. what more metafores can I use.......... come and have a peek soon.

Oh and I just kept outof the view the giant kangeroo that is on our neighboursclub :)) I think they are Aussies but I ain't sure. Did I mention again that http://azureislands.com/ did a wonderfull job to help us out so quickly?? we are very thankfull to them.

Well last but not least I will hand ya the slurl (the tiny customised one yes!!!) so grab it and come and have a look :) #######tiny surl inside##########

Get a tinyurl and shorten that url!

You know those url's that are like 9 sentences long. You want to share something with somebody else but instead of that you get an url that is almost as long as a novel. These are also very hard if you want to add something in twitter because they limited the space you can use for each tweet you get out. To prevent you from any headaches about this there are some great services out there. You can easily paste your-almost-like-a-novel-long-url and by a simple click you get a very small easily to share or tweet url.
On my search I found several on the web. just check them out and try wich one works the best for you. I got it in my shortcuts and use it all the time now ..................... There are probably more on the web. and I have even heared some browsers have add-ons for it. Google your way here are already 3 of them

http://snurl.com/
http://tinyurl.com/
http://www.dwarfurl.com/

Update on the 'Deleted sim'

As for yesterday it was kindof a shock. We had to take sudden actions and. Today when I got online I got a notecard from the company that owns the sims that are still up. Appearently the following has happened .................................
The Holding we rented our sim was a company in Second Life since 2006. They were fully payed by renters inworld and the Tier was due in L$. Somehow the holding got into trouble. And they weren't be able to pay their debts. some of their sims they leased from another holding in SL and the other part was fromLL using the usual methods. Because of the problems,  those have never been cleared, the owner was found bancrupt on  October the 15th 2009. On the strength unpayd tier LL reclaimed 40 (!!!!!!!!) of the sims owned by them and after a good analysis the other company found themselves with no other choise then to take back the ownership of the sims they were leasing. Appearently we were on one of the LL sims they took back. LL gave us 24 ours to take our stuff. Unforunatly we were not here at that time. So for us nothing is left then to submit a ticket to get back the stuff. The company that took back the ownership of their sims is offering help of course but they need time for it. But as yesterday got very clear ....................... nobody will get their payed tiers back.
A good lesson out of this is: never pay tier upfront too much. Unless you cannot avoid it of course like when you are going away for holidays but in every othercase just pay it weekly ........ then you never will get yourself in situations like this. Unfortunatly there are a whole lot of people that had to learn this lesson in a very bad way and I am very sorry for that ...........................

A continuing story ............................

Asof the fact that we were out of land for our shop and we desperately needed to find something new we got a great idea. Frederic contacted the owners of our 'building and living' land Ursae: http://www.azureislands.com/
They were very helpfull and within 40 minutes we got a new landoffer on one of their commercial zoned sims.
So we didn't have to think long about it. They were very kind and we could move in rightaway ..................
Because we accepted we had a busy evening. Everything had to be removed of the old parcel and need to be rebuild on the new. Including working-box, platforms and yes OMG yes we are working on our latest -InSync- project aswell. Altho it will not be public knowledge yet.

At least the shop is up and running .........................
follow the tiny SLurl!

Deleted Sim!

As we have been away from SL for some days it was quite weird to receive this notecard:

*** Holdings started with one man and his dream. A dream of building a virtual free state where the residents could proudly call Ancapistan home. Unfortunately even the world's greatest empires have endured hard times. These times are no exception. Due to the current economic status of the world and Second Life, it has become increasingly difficult to sustain 50 sims. *** Holdings will continue to exist, but we must take one step back in order to take two steps forward. If you wish to remain a part of our family at ***, we will be happy to relocate you to our original estate in the *** sims. Thank you for being a loyal part of ***. Here's to a bright future.

Well it was even worse. We didn't read that one ............... it was sent yesterday and today we got this as a last notice:

*** is disovled right now due to non payment to LL, if you are a displaced *** used be tenant, this is all that can be offered to you, Tenants from *** want to be relocated, ** can do that, 0 l to buy land but they need to pay tier.  Anything else you need to place a ticket to LL concerning.

So basically we are without a land for our shop. I do hate this kind of disputes tho. They cannot have decided this as from once. They knew about this all. So why not inform people in front?? Why not help them with relocating. With making sure people weren't paying tier to long in front?? that is one side of the story. The other side is that we are without any rights. LL won't get in between.

We're sorry: Linden Lab cannot verify, enforce, certify, examine, uphold, or adjudicate any oath, contract, deal, bargain, or agreement made by the Residents of Second Life. Please contact the Resident with whom you have a dispute, and request that they make good on the deal. While you may have a valid agreement with another person, Linden Lab is not a party to and cannot resolve your dispute.

That means you just have to swallow. Feel bad and move on ............................................

http://www.statcounter.com/ on your Blog!

We've been always quite curious if and when people are looking for us on the web. That's why we decided to get a counter. It's not visual to anybody and it will not show any statistics here. It's just that we wanted to know more and how we can even get it work better. Especcially with starting on twitter and facebook it will be facinating to see how it will develop. If you are interested of getting it on your own website foolow this link ........... http://www.statcounter.com/

In the mean time we are working on something new. It will be a new step in the exploitation of our -InSync- brand .................................. Follow and you will know.

Twitter and a background ........................

As said I started InSync on twitter and in that case it seemed nice to have a official own background. After some considerations I decided to make a collage of everything we did in the past year. So it became a mix and match of all kinds of things. From textures to tipjars to houses, boats and give away's. it was nice to wander through all the textures and all the logo's to see what would be nice there. here's a little view of it and if you like to see it bigger go to Twitter and join us there:)

Twittering .......................

InSync started to Twitter!!!. Twitter seems a strange medium. I can't say what it will bring InSync. But somehow it seems like it is another way to meet on the web. But the more I get into this the less I understand. sometimes I read things, I read it another time and even at the third or a fourth time it still seems like an Korean Ikea Manual to me.

At least I found a really nice twitter plugin wich you can find in the sidebar . For now Twitter seems like fun to me! If you like the plug-in I got it from Blogger Buster and here's the link:

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I guess it will make me want to learn more and it will drag me back to google again ............

Halloween is peeking .......................

YaY!!!! We are in time this time!! We always forget to make things for the holiday seasons. We are always way to late with cool ideas like steampunk eggs way after Easter. Not this time then!!!!!!

We have made several animated pictures for you to add to your spooky houses or gohst towns .................. We'll leave that up to you!! Have fun with them!!

Machinima, a new place to discover

I suddenly realised I have never even tried to make a movie in SL. It seems to be possible so I had to find out a lot. Of course there is the abfab Torley Linden with the most fantastic tutorials I have ever seen in SL. But heck that's why he gets payed for it I guess :) So after a day of swearing and shouting (that's quite normal when I start something new I don't have the patience to learn) I came up with something. So here it is!!! The first InSync machinima. It's a promo for our TinCan.

Enjoy it!!!!!!

How to get an animation to 'play' on your blog .........

This time I wanted to know why my animated gif images didn't work on our blog. As we make also animated gif's wich we use for various things in SL. I was wondering why I couldn't get them working on the blog. And after a 'google' around the world I found a rather good tutorial for it.

I will just give the link because it is farely well written and I don't want to take credits for his work

How to put an anitmated gif in your bloggerpost!!!

But I am happy to announce that from now we will be able to upload all our animated gif images and with that we can even better show you what we create and what we are cappable of in Second Life.

InSync is becomming more versitile then it ever was!!!

If you want to check us out inworld?? ........................................