As soon as I heard about SLeek I knew I’d find it useful. Notice I said useful, not appealing. Using the official Second Life client is a wonderful and unique experience and SLeek certainly can’t match it. What it can do though is bring a lot of the utility of Second Life to computers otherwise unable to run the official Second Life client. Even if you’ve got a fairly powerful system, running Second Life on a secondary display while trying to do anything else system intensive is likely to result in unacceptable performance all around. On these occasions SLeek appears to offer what we never knew we needed: a relatively light-weight SL chat client that provides additional functionality like the ability to move throughout the metaverse, IM friends or chat with those around you, and generally interact with the grid as if it were a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD). Definitely worth a look if you’re technologically adventurous and not terribly risk averse. My best advice? Use an alt if possible if you decide to give SLeek a try and avoid the inventory menu as if your inventory depended on it…it probably does!

I *finally* took the time to take a decent picture of my avatar in Second Life!

It’s about time!