Notice anything different?

Look carefully… and click-through. Observe.

Word's out on the cyber-street, like what I posted @ the Flickr Second Life group:

Hi-rez, hi-quality Second Life postcards — they're here!

'Sup Second Life snapshotters! Just wanted to let you know that when sending postcards from Second Life, as of NOW, image size and image quality in the Snapshot Preview tool finally work. That's right folks, it was buggy and busted before, but I just got word from Zen Linden… he and Jose Linden fixed it, compleat with a cleaner, simpler template, and it passed through quality assurance and went live on the main grid with Joshua Linden's help.

Images can be up to 1 MB, so we'll be watching that if there's any problems. But just wanted to spread the good word; I've already notified several Resident admins of snapshot-showcase sites, and hope this'll allow us to preserve our memories even bettah. I've been pining for it so long.

If you have no clue what I'm talking about, log into Second Life, click Snapshot button on the toolbar, and click "Send a postcard". Then, look for "What size image do you need?" and "Image Quality". Now, when you send a postcard of that size — try mailing a test to yourself — it should arrive within all its glory within a few minutes.

For those of you who don't know me (yet), I'm a Product Manager & more at Linden Lab. I'll be doing a more comprehensive blog post on this and some more goodies about the history of postcarding in Second Life, so watch blog.secondlife.com tomorrow.

Here's a couple of me @ Bridie Linden's Viewer Crashes triage:

Sure feels good to open 'em up and realize we aren't constrained to 640×480. No siree, these are 1600×1174 (not exactly 1600×1200 because part of it is taken by SL's title bar) bigguns!

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