Second Life For Dummies -- About the Authors -- Dedication -- Authors' Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Part I: Second Life Overview and Basics -- Chapter 1: The Meaning of (Second) Life -- When One Life Isn't Enough: Explaining Second Life -- Second Life: It's Not a Game -- A Bit of History -- Who's in Second Life? -- Second Life is Web 2.0 in 3-D -- Chapter 2: Tweaking Your System: Adjusting Your Computer to Best Run Second Life -- Hardware and Internet Requirements -- Understanding Lag: Is It You or the Grid? -- Statistics: Finding Out the Source of Your Lag -- Preference Settings for Optimal Performance -- Chapter 3: Starting Your Second Life -- Creating Your Account -- Getting through Orientation Island -- Making Your Way to Help Island -- Exploring Help Island -- Chapter 4: Navigating the Second Life Interface and World -- Exploring the Basic Menus -- Getting Around in Second Life -- The Second Life World -- Creating and Using Landmarks -- Part II: Living Your Second Life - Exploring and Socializing -- Chapter 5: Creating Your Second Life Persona -- Avatar Anatomy -- Editing Your Avatar's Appearance -- Customizing Your Avatar's Appearance -- Getting Dressed -- Attaching and Detaching Objects -- Hair -- Accessories -- Quick Changes: Saving Your Appearance as an Outfit -- Wearing an Avatar on Your Avatar -- Chapter 6: Jumping into the Conversation: Express Yourself -- Where My Peeps At? -- Chatting with Other Residents -- Chat Options, History, and Logs -- Making a Resident a Friend -- Instant Messaging: Individual and Group -- Notecards -- Gestures and Animations -- Chapter 7: Getting a Social Second Life -- Your Second Life Profile -- Second Life Groups -- Second Life Events -- Chapter 8: Staying in Your Second Life Comfort Zone -- Understanding the Risks in Second Life -- Drawing a Line between Your First and Second Life.

Ratings: PG and Mature Regions -- Handling Problem Residents: Muting and Reporting Trouble -- Part III: Inventory, Cash, and Land -- Chapter 9: Becoming Materialistic with Your Second Life Inventory -- Using Your Inventory -- Searching Your Inventory -- Working with Objects -- Chapter 10: Understanding the Second Life Economy -- Money, Money, Money! - Linden Dollars and the LindeX -- Buying and Selling Linden Dollars -- Earning Linden Dollars -- Getting Your Weekly Stipend -- Referring a Friend -- Chapter 11: Spending Your Cash in Second Life -- What Should I Buy? -- Buying Things -- Finding the Best Stuff to Buy -- Bargain Shopping -- Paying for Things Other than Items -- Chapter 12: Staking Your Claim in Second Life -- Finding a Place to Rent -- Buying Land -- Setting Land Permissions -- Dealing with Unwanted Guests - Freezing, Ejecting, and Banning -- Part IV: Building and Customizing -- Chapter 13: Building Basics -- If You Build It, They Will Come -- Mastering Prims -- Using the Build Tools -- Dissecting Prim Properties -- Selecting Colors and Textures -- Working with Multiple Prims -- Cleaning Up -- Chapter 14: Taking Your Building Skills to the Next Level -- Building with Groups -- Writing Scripts in Second Life -- Second Life Open Source -- Chapter 15: The Clothes Make the Avatar: Creating Your Own Clothing -- Haute Couture: Using Adobe Photoshop to Make Your Own Clothes -- Editing Clothes Made by Others -- Creating Accessories by Using Clothing Layers -- Using Prims in Clothing -- Making Hair -- Chapter 16: Making a Statement with Poses, Animations, and Gestures -- Understanding the Terminology -- Creating and Using a Pose -- Making an Animation -- Creating a Gesture -- Part V: Real Life Opportunities in Second Life -- Chapter 17: Getting Paid in Second Life ( It's Not Easy) -- Finding Your Niche -- Selling Things in Second Life.

Finding and Landing a Job -- Kinds of Jobs Available -- Being Your Own Boss -- Chapter 18: Bringing Big Business to Second Life -- State of the SL Economy -- Current Big Business Strategies in SL -- Top Five Second Life Business Myths -- Industries with a Second Life Presence -- Chapter 19: Education in Second Life -- Learning and Teaching in Second Life -- The Teen Grid -- Touring Second Life Campuses -- Part VI: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 20: Ten ( Or So) Great Places to Shop -- The Top Ten Places to Shop for Hair -- The Top Ten Men's Clothing Stores -- The Top Ten Women's Clothing Stores -- Chapter 21: Ten Great Places to Visit -- Luskwood -- Spaceport Alpha -- Particle Laboratory -- The Ivory Tower of Primatives -- Isle of Wyrms -- Virtual Starry Night -- Nakama -- The Pond -- Paris 1900 -- Saijo City -- Index.