It is pure pleasure to watch how good projects develops. If you spent all your second life hiding in a slum and missed AjaxLife, it is a system developed by Katharine Berry from Teen Grid which enables you to log in to second life via your browser. For details, check the first post about AjaxLife. You can access it on https://ajaxlife.net/client or use the banner on the sidebar. And if you have a second life related blog, feel free to use the banner (hotlinking is ok for it) and spread the word.

As Katharine informs us, there are some improvements of the AjaxLife lately. First one, that comes on the login screen, is a really nice surprise. Now you can choose which grid to connect to. That means not only Linden Lab's main and beta grid but also OpenSim grids: OSGrid, DeepGrid and Zion/Ruth. Choice of interface languages is also there. And after logging in and message of the day you're quite equipped to do many things that doesn't require walking around and seeing the world around you. Your avatar is there, fully rezzed so have in mind how (un)dressed and where you were last time you disconnected.

Newly added features are:

• Inventory browsing
• Viewing of notecards, scripts and textures
• Teleporting to landmarks in your inventory
• Doesn’t Ruth any more, generally speaking.
• Region stats window
• Nearby avatars window
• Offering teleports via profiles
• MobileSafari (iPhone/iPod touch) gets a different login screen. Unfortunately, the login button on said screen isn’t implemented yet, so it doesn’t do much.

I don't want to sound like a pest but here are some of the tings I'm missing or which, IMHO, would be nice to have in some of the next releases:

• Current location is shown when you open the map, but it would be nice to have that info all the time, just near the L$ balance. Speaking of which, image of the place would be very welcomed. Not rendered image, just the picture that comes in search if there is one.
• Notecards and scripts can be viewed but not edited and saved. I'm not sure if there is a point of editing scripts if there is no compiler, but making a notecard and sending it could really come in handy. 
• Inventory is much more clear than in regular client, but, considering the mess in most of the inventories, there is a need for filters and sorting options.
• I would also like the possibility to select (multiple) items and to move or trash them. Yes, I am aiming at tidying inventories from the office :)
• Option where to rezz (last location/home/typed region) would save some people from embarrassment.

AjaxLife works from the most mayor browsers, though after these changes

it is highly unlikely this will work in IE6, and it may not work in IE7 either. However, I’m too tired to chase down browsers that don’t deserve to exist.

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