By Wesley Regenbogen
A while
back I wrote about the Firestorm Viewer that I tried out as a replacement for the standard Linden Lab viewer. After
using it for a while now, I've began to have issues with it the last few
times that I used it. My avatar
wasn’t loading and clearing the cache of the viewer didn’t work
either, so, I decided to search for another viewer to install.
After
consulting "Uncle Google" ( no family relation), I tried a few
viewers, like Catznip and a few others, but I had the same issue. Then I
came across Singularity Viewer and I installed it. And …
thank God! It worked like a beauty. So far I haven’t had any
issues with it.
In the
beginning there’s a bit of a learning curve, but it’s not that
high. So if you want to try out this viewer, don’t be afraid, it
will work fine. I chose
the 64 bit version of the software, because I have a 64 bit Windows
8.1 running and I have a 64 bit processor in my desktop as well. It didn’t
let me down yet and I hope it stays that way.
Although
it’s based on an older version of the original Second Life Viewer,
the look and feel is almost the same, but it has added a few cool
features. One of
them is “Streaming Audio Display” which serves as a “widget”
which will be added to the HUD of your viewer. It will tell you the
title and the artists of the songs that are currently playing when
you are somewhere, if audio is streamed, of course. The
toolbar buttons can be changed to the user preference, so it’s
possible to change toolbar buttons at the bottom of the viewer.
Too bad
there isn’t a “Landmarks” toolbar button, that would be much
more handy than going to the “Inventory” toolbar button and then
going to the “Landmarks” folder and get a listing of the
landmarks that you have collected.
When you
go to a parcel where there is audio streaming playing, the
Singularity Viewer will ask you if it’s allowed to play or not. So
when you push the “play” button on the media buttons on the lower
right corner side. You have
the option to either “blacklist” or “whitelist” a streaming
audio on a parcel. So, this
allows you to control whether or not you like to let the music play
or not.
As far as
I’m using this viewer, I’m satisfied with it. I hope it
stays that way, and I will keep on using it indefinitately.
More
information about Singularity Viewer can be found at :
Wesley Regenbogen
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