In my store I have a wonderful model bot showcasing my products. I've done some light tinkering with the fantastic libopenmetaverse, and from what I've found it's quite powerful. I now have my wonderful model running with Robo2SL, which uses libopenmetaverse. As long as you're running Windows, or have Mono installed (which is true if you're using Ubuntu, like myself) you can run your own model bot with relative ease.

Thoys offers you a product that will be able to command your other avatars without having them on the Secondlife Client. This will spare a lot of memory and processing power. You can let them follow you for instance. You can talk through them. Listen through them (through instant messages). They are able to sit and resit when they get kicked off something. And a lot more.

The PikkuBot can e.g. work as a model in your shops (catwalk) or just can follow and listen to the master in many ways... and many other features.

A fancy windows application which permits you to easy control your alternative characters.

Browser based Second Life client, created by Katharine Berry. The only web-browser client which made it a lifeline for residents who could not use a full graphical viewer, or who could not download other text-only clients because of limitations such as corporate firewalls. On Sept 8th 2009, Katherine posted on her blog: "AjaxLife is currently down, due to being banned by Linden Lab. I will re-enable it when I have figured out why." Google Chrome is suggested.

The primary goal of Imprudence is simple: to greatly improve the usability of the Viewer. In particular, there are 3 aspects of usability that we intend to address: Approachability. Improving comfort and ease of use, especially for new or non-technical users. Efficiency. Improving speed and ease of common tasks and workflows. Satisfaction. Improving the emotional effect of the software on the user. This is not to minimize other aspects of usability, such as reliability, accessibility, or internationalization/localization. We recognize their importance, but lack the expertise to properly address them. We welcome people with such expertise to join the project and help.

Radegast is feature rich GUI client. With it's full support for all communication within a virtual world (chat, IM, group IM, friends conference) it's ideal for situations where full 3D client is less than ideal solution, for example, an office environment, too slow a machine and similar. It's written using libopenmetaverse, and it runs on any platform that supports .NET/mono. Its being actively tested on Windows and Linux. Inventory (allows manipulation, deletion of the items, moving them around, sending to other people by dropping item on their profile) Backup of all scripts and notecards from the inventory World map (very fast implementation using Google maps) Object finder - list objects nearby, sort them by distance, name, see details A.L.I.C.E AI chat - turn it on in tools menu and have fun with automatic responses to chat/IM generated by a built in Artificial Intelligence Streaming music Text-To-Speech for reading out loud incoming messages Speech recognition for controlling UI and entering text in chat

Previously known as "Greenlife Emerald Viewer" - changed to just "Emerald" in October 2009. This is a home-brew viewer which adds new functionality to the viewer with the intent of easing the users interaction with the environment. It's developed by multiple people. Versions for Windows and Mac are released, an internal Linux version exists as well.

SM is a light client for the virtual world SecondLife. It doesn't have all the 3D graphics but a simple messenger interface, like Skype, MSN Messenger or Yahoo.

OMVViewer-light is a text only client for 3D metaverses such as Linden Lab's SecondLife (tm), but is also compatable with other virtual world based systems using the LL protocol, based on servers such as OpenSim or Simian.

An impressive contribution to the viewer from NiranV Dean, new preferences which expose more graphical options and tweakage normally buried deep in the viewer. Also took the time to improve the installer to allow custom install locations.

Previously known as "Greenlife Emerald Viewer" - changed to just "Emerald" in October 2009. This is a home-brew viewer which adds new functionality to the viewer with the intent of easing the users interaction with the environment. It's developed by multiple people. Versions for Windows and Mac are released, an internal Linux version exists as well.

METAbolt is an SL text client. It is light weight and cross grid, which means it will work in Second Life as well as other grids that are based on OpenSIM. METAbolt is Open Source so it's free...it is built ground up using libopenmetaverse and it is not a modified version of the official SL viewer. Currently METAbolt is only available for Windows platforms.

Meerkat is a fully open source fork of the Second Life viewer. New features include: Grid to Grid teleport. On your map screen you'll find a list full of new grids to explore. Content import/export. Bring objects, scripts, and textures that you've created to other grids or work offline in OpenSim. Avatar List. Lock on and view any avatar in a sim. No more wasting time trying to find someone 10,000 meters in the sky.

This viewer, codename "RestrainedLife" is an attempt at enhancing the experience of people who practice BDSM in Second Life. It is used jointly with simple scripts made to use its features in-world, such as making an attached object undetachable, preventing chat and such. An API (Application Programming Interface, a text file) is provided so that every content creator can create their own scripts to interface their own items to the viewer and use its features.

The Phoenix Rises From The Ashes Of Emerald.. Public repository: http://hg.phoenixviewer.com Beta downloads: http://www.phoenixviewer.com:3000/projects/phoenixviewer/wiki/Betadownloads

An OSX SL client.