One day or another, everybody needs a blog post like this. It could be very well possible that there is already a way to do these things, but I didn’t figure out how yet. Do tell me if that’s the case. ;)

1. The ability to highlight keywords in main chat. With good old mIRC there was the possibility to let certain words be highlighted and to get a sound notification when they were used in main/room chat. For instance, if I highlight ‘Vint’ and somebody mentions my name in the general chat, it would be in sparkling red so I don’t miss it, like I usually do. :D
2. A ‘mark as unseen’ option for objects, notecards, landmarks, … you receive. When you receive something, you have the option to keep or discard. I would add a checkbox in that panel that lets you mark these objects as ‘unseen at’. In your inventory next to the objects the same checkbox option would be available. That way you can easily mark the things you need to take a look at later, when you have more time. A simple ’show only unseen items’ option in the inventory would show you all of them. I know I can go into my inventory after receiving them and put them in a separate folder, but that’s just to much trouble. Please implement, so I won’t have any unpacked new clothes that I forget to wear in my inventory!
3. A ‘Warning! Laggy!’ before TP. I realize officially, there’s probably no such things as ‘lag’. But sometimes, on *coughs* rather rare *coughs* occasions, it does happen. It would be great if the client could somehow warn you before teleporting to extreme busy places with huge tons of lag. “The place you want to visit is rather crowed and doesn’t run completely up to speed, do you still want to go?”
4. Download / Upload figures. When checked, it shows you your Second Life data traffic in the SL taskbar. How much bytes kilobytes megabiytes gigabytes have you already downloaded and uploaded in total, in this session and the average per hour estimated if you look at the data traffic of the last 10 minutes. I know I can easily monitor that outside the client. If the SL client wasn’t that egocentric to eat the whole of my CPU and RAM on it’s own and would leave some for other programs, I’d probably do so.
5. Give me the possibility to offer a non-friend a TP back! You don’t offer friendship to every hitchhiker you take along, do you? Or to every handyman that comes to your house to do some chores?

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