Mobile Grid Client

Increased Privacy

Kurt — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:50:13 +0000

Mobile Grid Client is available for over one year now. To say thank you to all our customers we have invested a lot of afford and time to further improve our service once again.
With the latest update (v1.13.852) the client now handles all the login stuff (sending username, password and more to the grid for authentication) on your device. There is no more need to transfer the password hash for login purposes to our servers.

Additionally Mobile Grid Client now supports the new login names (usernames) without a second name.

Now on Facebook

Kurt — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:39:33 +0000

We are now on Facebook also. The new Facebook page will be used to post all the latest news about Mobile Grid Client and all things concerned.

Long downtime yesterday

Kurt — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:58:21 +0000

We are very sorry, but yesterday the service was down for about 20 hours. Linden Lab has accidentally banned the IP addresses of all our servers. Everything should work again now as expected.
As a compensation for this all affected paid licenses have been extended by one week.
We are sorry for any trouble this has caused you.

Give your card, backup your conversations

Kurt — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:27:30 +0000

The new version (v1.10.650) allows you to give everyone your calling card and save protocols of your conversations by sending them via e-mail (to yourself or someone other).

You might have seen it on the right: We are on Twitter now. If you want to stay up to date, follow us.

OpenSim support

Kurt — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:02:13 +0000

The latest version (v1.9.624) with support for OpenSimulator grids is available via Android Market. I want to mention that OpenSim support is still in beta stage, so don’t expect all functions of Mobile Grid Client to work, especially teleporting and group handling.
License payment still has to be done via Second Life, so you will need a Second Life account with some L$ to acquire one.

Service was down today

Kurt — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:28:34 +0000

Our service was not available today from 6:00 to 15:00 o’clock UTC due to a misconfiguration of the server. We are sorry for that. The problem has been fixed and should not occur again.

You may also have noticed some updates of the client in the last days. The application did crash occasionally on some phones. We addressed that with the updates. Please give us some feedback via e-mail if you think something does not work as it should.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

New licensing model with lower charges

Kurt — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:59:48 +0000

We have introduced a new licensing model with prices starting at L$250 per month.

You can now choose from two different license versions, the Standard version and the Professional version. Main difference between those two versions is the background inactivity timer.
The Standard version will log you out from Second Life after the application has been 15 minutes in the background. The Professional version allows you to to put the application in the background for up to 8 hours.
But there is also a small feature limitation in the Standard version, see the comparison table under Licensing/Pricing for more information.

Also new is the possibility to buy a Professional license for a whole year, which gives you a discount of L$900 (two months) over separately monthly paid licenses.
The Demo version license has been extended to two full weeks (14 days) instead of previously ten days.

All current active licenses have been classified as Professional version licenses.

New features and improvements in v1.8.538

Support for SLurl.com and secondlife:// links was added. Clicking on a secondlife:// link (used by SLurl.com and other websites) now opens Mobile Grid Client and you will be asked before teleporting to the destination.
Mobile Grid Client is compatible with small and big screen devices. For example the HTC Tattoo.
We have improved the local chat: The entries now show how far your conversational partner is away from you, so you get a better feeling about your surrounding avatars.
Some time ago Elroy Sullivan mentioned by e-mail, that he would like to swipe between different IM channels. This is my first try in gestures and animations, please let me know what you (everyone, not just Elroy) think about it.
David Baril, also via e-mail, suggested the use of the full screen landscape soft keyboard, as long as there is the bug in Android that stops the dictionary from working with the other keyboard layout. This was added as an option in the preferences.
Finally we speeded up chat and IM lists a bit.

Give money to avatars

Kurt — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:23:05 +0000

Some of you requested the feature to give someone money (L$) and therefore the latest version (v1.7.506) supports payments to avatars. You will also be noticed if someone sends you money. I hope you like it.

The previous version (v1.6.472) introduced an issue with the friendlist, sometimes it did not update the online status. This is fixed now.
If you encounter some problems (like the one with the friendlist) don’t hesitate to contact me via a comment on this site or via e-mail.

Teleporting is better than walking

Kurt — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:38:54 +0000

The new released version (1.6.452) now supports teleporting to avatars in the same region. You will be teleported 2m to the east of the the selected avatar. This should make it possible to chat with everyone in the region and follow people to special places. I think it’s the best way to move without seeing.

Also new is the group notice feature, but at the moment only the message itself is displayed in the appropriate group chat channel, the attachments are not saved to your inventory.

Landmarks and calling cards

Kurt — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:59:36 +0000

With the latest version (1.5.408) of the client it’s now easier to teleport around in Second Life and to stay in contact with other people. Your profile now also lists your landmark and calling card inventory folder. Only the elements in the root of these folders are displayed. Duplicate calling cards are only displayed once.

The map also got some small enhancements and additionally shows now three red circles around your avatar indicating the chat distances (whisper, say and shout). Those of you who want to listen to the parcels music stream now have the ability to retrieve the parcel’s music URL (The guys from DroidLive are working to support the launch of the stream with just a tap).

All log messages (on/offline messages, inventory offers, …) are now logged in the local chat list.