Worlds End Pub

The Worlds End Pub on Wednesday and Sundays is the place to be for Bingo and Pub Quiz fans.  Games are free to join and pay a cash jackpot for the most skilled and often the most lucky!

Cash Prize Bingo today from 11am SLT then Cash for Questions Quiz!

Pop into the Worlds End for warm pint and a cold pie any time!
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/London%20City/36/12/24

Genesis Release 1.4.706

 We very much hope that our current Genesis testers will continue to use the Nightly Builds. It is thanks to their testing that we can find and fix issues quickly. Those on the Nightly build will always get features and fixes quicker than the Releases.  This release build is identical to the Nightly build of the same number.

Download: Genesis Viewer, Forth Release 1.4.706

Changes since Release: 1.3.662

New:

- Group Chat History.  See group chat whilst you were offline, by opening the group chat.  Also shows the last hour if a group chat opens on a new message.  Older messages show in italic.  See Notes below.

- Added ability to have digital read out for FPS at the top or bottom right of the screen.  Prefs > Genesis > Adv. Features.

- A faster cache poke when initialising the viewer.

- Drag and Drop open IM floaters, reworked.

Fixes:

- Fixed rare cases of worn items moving to Lost and Found on login.

- Fixed login from command line, to launch the viewer from a command prompt and login.

- Fixed double message being received when group IM history opens on its own.

- Fixed sometimes an open IM tab needs to be pressed twice to bring it to focus/foreground.

- Fixed profile floater jumble on Spanish language.

Changes:

- Removed "please wait" on group chats when there is no need to wait!

- For bug a squashing introduced round-robin log files.  Genesis log will now keep the 5 latest log files and dispose of them first in, first out.   Format is: Genesis-yyyy-mm-day-session_starting_time.log

- Program Markers reflect Genesis as program name

- Change default value for CulTimeoutLowSpeedTime from 30 to 100 to help with older or not standard sample rate streams,  (but for optimum performance use 56k or 128k when possible).

- Changed default (on initial install) for online friends pop-up chiclet from True to False (hooray!).

- Tied in FPS to the cancel button which was missing on Nightly 700.

- BroadcastViewerEffects particle beams (when selecting, inspecting, editing) defaults to off on initial install.  Better for privacy.

Notes:

In an effort to get this release to you as quickly as possible due to the inconvenience of the Lost & Found server bug, we have held back a couple of fixes for testing and will get these done during the week for the Nightly build users.   They are:

We are aware that the search floater cannot be resized on 1024 x 768 displays and will fix this in the Nightly builds shortly.

Aware that FPS will show in snapshots unless you disable FPS digital readouts first.

Finally.. Group IM Message history is liable to change due to a bug Linden Lab found in their code.  We will adjust ours accordingly when they apply the new routines.

Genesis Viewer, First TPV with Group Message History

On Tuesday, Linden Lab announced:

The Second Life viewer and servers have added a feature for group chat, providing recent message history. 

Have you ever logged into Second Life and your group chat opens with the punchline of a joke? Now you’ll be able to read back and see what it was. The chat servers save messages from the last hour, so you won’t miss what’s happening.

A viewer update is required to use this new feature, and will be part of a future release.

Genesis Viewer is pleased to announce that we are the first TPV to have this feature fully implemented from our Nightly Build, 689 onwards.

Opening any group when you login will show you what was said in the hour before your session started.

Linden Lab intends to lengthen amount of time that group history is saved for, after initial testing.

You can download the Genesis Nightly Build 689 from https://genesisviewer.org

See the original post from LL here https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/12652-coming-soon-to-a-viewer-near-you-group-chat-history/

The London City Love-In

Find love in London City.  With over 3,500 unique visitors every day, your special someone is out there. You only need to finds them and what better way than to come to the romantic events planned throughout February?

Love-In at London City

Find that special someone in London City's diverse community, as they celebrate love and passion through February. Enjoy romantic concerts and settings, with daily themed events centered around the Valentine's season. New Residents are always welcome. For more details see mainlandlondon.blogspot.co.uk

Visit in Second Life

If you're not single, or not looking, no problem.  Bring a bottle and come and get sloshed on the dance floor, with the best grid parties ever to have graced a virtual world.

We hope you will join us.

Genesis Viewer New Release - What has changed since Release 594

 New Release of Genesis Viewer is available! 

Please see https://genesisviewer.org for the release notes and to download 1.3.662

 

Genesis Viewer at Second Pride

A big thank you to Billy Arentire of ::boyberry:: fashion for sponsoring Genesis Viewer with its own store at Second Pride for the next 14 months.   An extremely generous thing to do for the project and this really helps to get Genesis Viewer on the map!

You can visit Genesis at Second Pride here http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Second%20Pride%20East/79/172/38

For more information about Genesis Viewer see https://genesisviewer.org

Amy Winehouse on Saturday

This weekend we invite you to Amy Winehouse in concert.

Amy Winehouse was a British singer and songwriter who experienced a brief and dazzling career.  In 2006 she became mainstream famous with the release of Rehab and quickly followed this up with Back to Black and You Know I'm No Good.

Later, she became as famous as her music for her drug fuelled chaotic lifestyle, frequently appearing on stage completely off her tits and sometimes booed by the audience for giving a less than satisfactory performance.

This extremely talented but troubled songwriter died suddenly in July 2011 aged just 27.

Her legacy is that of soulful deep dark and meaningful songs and her iconic image which will be recognised instantly for many years to come.

Enjoy the music of Amy Winehouse here in London City:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/London%20City/101/107/24

Party starts at 12pm SL (8pm UK) with the show at 9pm SL.

Happy New Year

Wishing you a very happy and prosperous New Year

It's Christmas!

Have a Happy Christmas!

Our sincere thanks to everyone who supports London City and for  making it what it is.  It would be impossible without you!

To our friends, the large, extraordinary, dedicated, loyal and skilled team, we offer our deepest gratitude for all that you do;  for smiling in the face of adversity, for offering encouragement and insight and for some of the most innovative ideas on the grid.  

We are so proud of this spectacular crew, the envy of the virtual world. Thank you for making it a pleasure to logon to London!

To the merchants and sponsors, our thanks for your business and your faith in this estate to sell your product and for investing your time and money in London City.

And to the visitors and members that form the London City community,  thank you for making London City the single most popular destination in all of Second Life; always busy, with something always happening. You are at the heart of everything that goes on here.

Substation, Madame Lala's and Worlds End Pub are open through the holidays, but please keep an eye on Group Notices as some times and schedules may vary.

Some of our team are having family time on 24th, 25th and 26th of December, but should you need assistance during these few days, please use the Support option on this blog and we'll respond in a timely fashion to your enquiry.

Have a great time wherever you are and whatever you are doing.   Drop by London City throughout the holidays, the city never sleeps.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

Let there be light ..

It is the shortest day, the Winter Solstice... but it is going to get brighter from tomorrow.

We can all enjoy some more daylight time starting this week, thanks to Civil Twilight.

Civil twilight is a scientific term, defined as “the period after sunset or before sunrise ending or beginning when the sun is about 6 degrees below the horizon and during which on clear days there is enough light for ordinary outdoor occupations.”

And from 23rd December, it starts getting lighter at night, by just a minute at first, and by up to 2 minutes a day in January. 

This may not sound much, but by the end of January sunset will be 5.23pm, a full 43 minutes more, and at 6.13pm in February.

Christmas begins..

Some pictures from the legendary Demis Roussos on Ice concert, last night in London City.

Genesis Viewer Release #2

There is a new Genesis Viewer Release.

Version 1.2.594

This release is primarily to address the Chromium updates that bring the viewer in parity with Second Life Viewer's media abilities for shared streamed content, in particular, the rise in the popularity of HiVid TV.

HiVid TV media is now supported. 

We added a cache system for Contact Sets to make them respond faster.

The Active Speaker list can now be paused, reactivated and refreshed.

The GenxProfileFloater is a new experimental profile floater that you can opt in and out of by enabling it in Debug.  When fully implemented it will become an option in Preferences, but already, you can upload a profile picture without incurring any upload fees.

Added some hover text help for some ambiguous settings in Preferences.

Added an additional 7 skins for the User Interface. You now have a choice of 11. Check out 'Second Love' if you like extra colourful, or  'Snow White', if you want a Wintery theme.

Developers and Support team can now be identified by "Genesis Viewer Team" appearing in their profile.

The Script editor now uses a mono space font.

A group invitation is offered (once) to the account logging in on the first session of a new install.

Download (or read the release notes) from https://genesisviewer.org