In the wake of recent changes at Linden Lab, the new Third Party Viewer policy, the hasty release of Viewer 2.0, and several changes in the economic scheme of the Second Life platform, MechanizedLife must adapt to those changes in order to thrive and become more relevant in this context.

This is why we have decided to announce that MechanizedLife will be discontinuing a large part of our product catalog, and will immediately cease support of those products. We also announce that we will release MANY of those discontinued products under an OpenSource license, yet to be determined.

Starting right now, most of the products scheduled to be discontinued will be displayed on a discount wall at the MechanizedLife store for L$1. We will progressively update the vendors with full perm copies as soon as possible, as well as publish the source code on this website. We will also immediately retire RSS Viewer, ArchivesTV and Del.icio.us from the store, since the services they depend on will eventually be discontinued.

Note that those products, specifically the RSS Viewer, ArchivesTV and Del.icio.us tagger, depend on external PHP backends that we will keep maintaining for at least a few months, however we cannot guarantee their future reliability. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience, and will do our best to help our customers find alternative technologies where needed. We will also eventually release those source codes, including the PHP backends, but we can only do so when we shut down the backend scripts, for security reasons.

The discontinued products are:

• RSS Viewer (obsolete under 2.0 - NO immediate source code release)
• ArchivesTV (NO immediate source code release)
• Del.icio.us Tagger (NO immediate source code release)
• RezURL (source code will be released)
• MarketLink (source code will be released)
• FormXchange (source code will be released)
• Countdown Timer (source code will be released)
• Donation Server (source code will be released)

Products that will be kept in the MechanizedLife catalog for right now:

• CalendarCogs (all products: HUD, Board, SuperBoard, Kiosks)
• FilterCam HUD
• MachinimaCam HUD
• StatsCollector

Expect more changes to come rapidly, as we are re-handling our product catalog and planning future developments. We will make an announcement when the process of retiring discontinued products and publishing the source code is complete.

Thank you for your continued support,

CodeBastard Redgrave
Owner, MechanizedLife

Try repeating that title five times! Nonetheless, we here at MechanizedLIFE Multiversal HQ have received some requests about how to go about inserting your own pinups or other illustrations into the pinup calendar that is one of the ten kiosk choices you get with the CalendarCog Kiosk Boxed set from our store. BTW, our new store at Starlustian has all our Cog stuffs in a terrific Retro Computer motif!

Here is my Pinup CalendarCog Kiosk, providing marvelous memories as well as up-to-date information on the events of my life.

So if you really insist on replacing the wonderful Rouge Pinups, which include ML staffer Gabby Panacek as well as ML founder Alidar Moxie, here’s how you do it:

• Make a copy of the original calendar and archive it.
• Then rez a copy of it and use Edit>General to rename it to whatever you desire.
• While you’re in Edit mode, click on Edit linked parts, then click the picture prim of the calendar kiosk.
• Go to the Content tab and you should see a script called RotatePic. (If you don’t, you didn’t do this right–try again!)
• You can delete the script that’s there and use the RotatePic script that I can supply you if you IM or Notecard me. (I will give you a notecard with these instructions and the script embedded in it.)

Once you’ve followed those steps, open the script and follow the instructions: “replace the uuid1, uuid2, with your list of texture UUIDs. Don’t forget the last entry must have no comma at the end.” To find UUIDs, right click on a texture or photo and you will see an option for copying the UUID. Paste it into the script.

Click Save, then click Reset. The kiosk will soon show the new pics in rotation.

Contact Paypabak Writer for the notecard with the new script! Who knows? I might even include a pinup of myself!

As some may know, FilterCam has native support of glow layers since the beginning. However, since viewer 1.20, Linden Lab “broke” support for glow on the HUD as a tradeoff for an issue, namely inworld glow objects affecting HUDs. To fix this, Linden Lab completely removed glow support on the HUD, which broke existing content, namely FilterCam’s glow support.

If you would like to see glow come back on the HUD, at least with a debug option to enable/disable it in your viewer, please vote/comment on this JIRA here: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-3167

You heard well! FilterCam is now better than ever with it’s brand new menu system and support for multiple preset notecards! This opens the door to new extension packs that will become available shortly.

Current FilterCam owners can get a free upgrade simply by wearing their old FilterCam HUD. If the updater fails, please contact us inworld.

The new version is available from SLX or inworld at one of the MechanizedLife stores.

Thanks a LOT as usual for all the beta testers and code breakers, you guys are awesome and patient! Hope you will enjoy this version at least as much as we enjoyed brewing this version.

Thanks to Sasara Klaar and Gabby Panacek for the new filter masks, they rock! <3

We just fixed a nasty bug in CalendarCogs that rendered boards or kiosks blank under certain conditions. We also fixed the broken ONEDAY function in the boards. CalendarCog SuperBoard and Board have been released with version 2.1 and Kiosks are now version 1.9. If for any reason you didn’t get the upgrade, please send a notecard listing which products you own to CodeBastard Redgrave.

Dear customers,

Many of our customers probably already read about the roadmap of incoming changes to the XstreetSL marketplace as described on Linden Lab’s blog. Tho we will refrain from commenting this change in policy, we believe our customers can understand our concerns regarding the impact of such policy on the burgeoning and vast ecosystem of content creators. As we believe those policies affects XstreetSL as a free market, we also believe MechanizedLife must opt in for alternative web commerce solutions that will be beneficial to our customers.

This is why MechanizedLife will take the following measures in the incoming days:

• We will downsize our presence on XstreetSL to a strict minimum, only keeping our most successful products on there.
• After selecting what we consider to be the best alternative out there, we will redirect all of our current web product links to this new commerce portal.
• We will register and list our products on a couple of selected alternative commerce portals after we are done evaluating them.
• We will provide an alternative web mechanism for our customers to be able to get special freebies like our CalendarCog Password Resetter. We will also make such key items available inworld.
• We will retire all our other freebies from XstreetSL, including the popular SLURL HUD, which will only be available inworld at the MechanizedLife store. We may re-list it on alternative commerce portals.
• We will encourage our customers to visit us inworld as we appreciate both your business and your traffic, or shop from our alternative web store.

We apologize for any temporary inconveniences during this transitional phase, but we hope our customers will gain an improved shopping experience as a result of it. Thanks and kudos to all of our customers for their continuous feedback and support, and making MechanizedLife what it is today.

Codie <3

We just released this new Halloween Edition of FilterCam, including 5 new masks by the amazing Ryker Beck, and 6 very nice presets. FilterCam users, just wear your HUD to get the new update. Or else, get FilterCam in our inworld store at Rouge or from SLX. For an undetermined time, FilterCam is 50% off. Get it now!

Word has come to us that MechanizedLife products were listed on what seems to be a credit card phishing scam website called http://virtualget.net. All our valued customers must be aware that we DO NOT sell our products on ANY other website than http://xstreetsl.com. Any other website claiming to re-sell our products are doing so illicitly. Beware that if you buy a product on such unauthorized website, we cannot help you or deliver our products in any way, as we have no links with them. If you got scammed by such website, we suggest you open a support ticket at Linden Labs to report the fraudulent website. We are already aware of VirtualGet but if you discover any other website claiming to resell our products, please report them to us directly.

As we just launch CalendarCog Business 2.0, a complete CalendarCog package for your business, we are discounting it 50% for today only! See the SLX listing here.

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CalendarCog Business Pack
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Are you a club owner? Event manager? Show organizer? Fashion agent? Store owner?

Whatever the type of schedule you’re managing, MechanizedLife’s CalendarCogs fulfills all of the business calendaring needs of your organization.

CalendarCogs is a complete system for managing and displaying Google Calendar events to your customers and staff inside SecondLife.

It can display your calendar events as:
- a large, attention getting display great for the wall (CalendarCog SuperBoard)
- a smaller more discrete display for doorways or remote locations (CalendarCog Kiosk)
- a display and reminder HUD for individual use by your customers and staff (CalendarCog HUD)

The CalendarCog Business Pack is a bundle of all of these components designed to get your business up and running immediately while saving you 1399$L (versus buying the components separately.)

Things you should know about the CalendarCog Business Pack:
- CalendarCog is the ultimate event promotion tool to keep your schedule in front of your visitors and bring in traffic.
- the HUD provides a benefit to your customers and staff, as they can manage their own calendar as well.
- HUD users can sync events from your kiosks or boards, and be reminded to participate!
- the pack includes a HUD vendor, so it provides you the opportunity to earn as a reseller.
- the configuration of the system is primarily web based
(using the CalendarCogs website and Google Calendars to maintain your schedule)
- the system is both sophisticated yet simple to deploy.

CalendarCog Customer Service
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At MechanizedLife, we pride ourselves on our customer service. We have dedicated support staff, and support requests are addressed quickly and thoroughly.

Our motto is:
“No customer left unsatisfied with our products. We will go the extra mile to satisfy our customers.”

Contents of the CalendarCog Business Pack
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The CalendarCog Business Pack includes:
- 1 x CalendarCog SuperBoard (copy/no trans) - Large displays for clubs and venues 1,699 L$
- 1 x CalendarCog Kiosk (copy/no trans) - Low footprint calendar displays 499 L$
- 10 x CalendarCog HUD (no copy/trans) - Personal wearable calendar HUDs for your staff or customers 2,500 L$
- 1 x CalendarCog HUD Vendor with 15% commission. Revenue opportunity!
Reselling the low cost HUD to your crowd means more event attendance. They get reminded!
You can also buy additional HUDs for your staff, with a rebate. Additional savings!
- Special quick setup guide for your business

Value: 6,398 L$ (sold separately)
Price: 4,999 L$ (as a pack)
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Save: 1,399 L$

We hope that CalendarCog Business will suit your needs as a business owner, as we put much effort to make it easy to deploy for the smallest to largest organizations. Stay tuned for more!