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This week’s tip is courtesy of the ever-patient Feliciana Zabaleta, who has helped many a poor soul through these troubled times in SL:

Being a long time Lulu product user and also supporting it, I tend to get a bit over confident when I transfer settings to a new HUD or do a reset. Tonight just taught me a lesson not to be.

Having received my new 4.13.05 HUD, I figured, no problem attach, wear and go as I normally do, with 6 gags and both sets of cuffs I don’t give it much thought these days.

Many of you know this already, but some might not know that the Signature Cuffs (and PLUS Cuffs too, actually) have a somewhat hidden feature: promiscuous mode.

It’s hidden because it’s only available to the sub’s owner. Many features of Signature toys are like that – some buttons will only show for the sub’s owner. (Hint: a sub can play with these features by just setting herself as her own owner! *evil laughter*). The button is found in the the cuff’s menu (“/1c”) under the “other” menu.

You’ve worked hard to chalk up the hours to get up to the next Gag Circle. Not easy considering the crashes that SL dishes out these days. Anyway, you are afraid that if you upgrade your gag to the latest version (or to a Release Candidate), you’ll lose all that hard work.

No you won’t lose your Circle – you can transfer the stats over to your new HUD. Just do this:

1) Get a new gag HUD at the Update Switch at the Warehouse (either coz your gag is outdated, or SL borked your current gag and you wanna start afresh)

These days, when Second Life is acting up almost daily, it’s quite often that things don’t work the way they’re supposed to. Problem is, it’s difficult to tell when it’s an SL problem, or it’s a bona fide bug. If it’s the latter, than I’d like to know, and I’d want to squash it.

Here’s how to tell.

• If you find a reproducible pattern, i.e. you can consistently reproduce the bug by doing a series of actions, then chances are, it’s a bug (could still be an SL bug though, but it could be mine, so this will definitely get my attention)

Welcome back to this week’s Tip of the Week. I just want you to know upfront that though it’s called Tip of the Week, I don’t really expect 52 tips in a year. I’d say half or three-quarters would be about right. There are times when it’s just not possible. Just so you know.

Okay, now, this week’s tip.

The Signature Command HUD menu has an “offer keys” button, if you’re the sub. If you’re the sub’s owner, you will instead see “take keys”. Sometimes it’s not so obvious what these buttons are for.

Tip #4 is courtesy of Layla Slade, who is well qualified as she sits at the top of the Signature Gag Scoreboard at a whopping 360 hours! She gives us some tips on how to get your name up there:

“1.- As weird as it may be a lot of people expect you to talk normally even if you’re gagged so always try to have a titler to state you can’t speak while gagged. It saves you a lot of time and if they don’t pay enough attention you can always point to your titler.

If you are using the Signature Command HUD v4.10.x and above, you will notice the big “HELP” button on the HUD menu. Now, if you encounter an unusual problem, where to find help? Well, the various help options are right there on the help menu after you press that button:

• group help (Lulu’s Designer Club).
• 24/7 Online searchable help – great place for searching for keywords (if your keyword doesn’t turn up anything, try other keywords – seems MySQL search sometimes doesn’t work very well).

Welcome to Tip #2.

Setting up the Signature toy or activating a plugin could be a harrowing for some people, especially they’re not very comfortable with windows and dialog boxes or if English is not their native language.

Did you know that the guided processes is designed so that a more experienced friend can easily help another through the steps? Yes, each step, there’s a “public” feedback either on whisper (within 10 meters from the avie), and/or hovertext on the Yellow Setup Ball. So, even though the friend can’t see the avie’s blue menus, he can pretty much tell which step they’re at, and what to do.

Welcome to my first Tip of the Week. Short, sharp, for busy avies. On how they can make full use of their Signature toys’ many features, some of which are not prima facie obvious.

Tip #1 is for subbie’s happy owner, and revisits that little prim key you have in your pocket. Yes, the Signature Real Key, which has been around since the early days of the Signature Gag (circa 2006), that requires you to not only be near your sub, but also facing her for you to use it (yes, yes, laws of physics come to Second Life, blah blah.)