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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ those based upon OpenSim plattform. It is directly based upon source code of
 Ascent Viewer by Balseraph Software Group, which is in turn based upon source 
 code released by Linden Lab, with contributions from various sources.
 
-I, Siana Gearz (Second Life Resident) am the soul maintainer of Singularity
+I, Siana Gearz (Second Life Resident) am the sole maintainer of Singularity
 Viewer, and to the best of my knowledge and effort, Singularity is fully 
 compatible to Second Life/ Linden Lab Terms of Service and Third Party Viewer 
 Policy and shall stay that way.
@@ -45,13 +45,18 @@ Ascent Viewer, unless noted otherwise.
 General conveniences:
 * Identification of other viewers, avatar idle time
 * Double-click local teleport (partial support)
+* Pressing Esc to reset camera won't force to stand up
 * Phantom Avatar lets you avoid physical push when you're being harassed
+* Avatar Radar
+* Alpha Skins and Tattoo Layers
+* Enhanced Friend and Groups panels
 * Script counting to check yourself and those around you for your impact on the
   simulator performance
+* Sound and animation explorers
 * Multiple attachments per attachment point. Incompatible with Emerald system,
   but compatible to Viewer 2.1 and more recent. Nonetheless, Emerald-compatible
   attachments on other avatars can be displayed too. [NEW] in Singularity:
-  the worn items in inventory managed in Viewer 2.2 compatible manner
+  the worn items are managed in Viewer 2.2 compatible manner
 * Vertical IM tabs
 * Quick settings for performance and windlight in lower right
 * Command line from Emerald for common operations
@@ -60,18 +65,20 @@ General conveniences:
 * Built in pose stand
 
 Improvements for content creators:
-* Free texture upload for testing textures and sculpties.
+* Free texture upload for testing textures and sculpties
+* Preview animations on yourself upon upload
 * Copy and Paste in build panel
 * Embedded Animation Override editor
 * Rez Objects As Land Group option
 * Math expressions in build panel, from Imprudence
 * Alignment tool, by Qarl Fizz
+* Measure distance between any 2 prims
 * UUID display for various things - full perm textures, prims, avatars
 * Enhanced inspection floater
 
 Roleplaying:
 * Fake away status
-* Mu style posing, auto close AAC brackets
+* Mu style posing, auto close OOC brackets
 * Bouncy Breast physics effect
 * Emerald-style privacy controls
 
@@ -88,14 +95,16 @@ Thanks go to following people:
 * Hazim for developing Inertia on which Ascent is based. A really fine dude,
   although his viewer is not TOS compliant
 * Shyotl Kuhr who did many of the oprimizations incorportated in Ascent and
-  some new for Singularity.
+  some new for Singularity
 * Beeks and Charbi for Ascent. Ascent was started as a project to bring
   Inertia to TOS compliance, and went on further to incorporate more features
-* Robin Cornelius and Thickbrick Sleaford from Imprudence.
+* Robin Cornelius and Thickbrick Sleaford from Imprudence - have been a constant
+  help with general issues and tech
 * Henri Beauchamp and Lance Corrimal for being a great source to borrow from
   .oO(if Henri just wasn't such an unapproachable arse who doesn't respond
   to IMs or contact me when he bugfixes my patches?)
-* Tonya Souther and Wolfspirit Magic from Phoenix.
+* Kitty Barnett for contributing RLVa, Inventory Links and Current Outfit Folder
+* Tonya Souther and Wolfspirit Magic from Phoenix
 
 Time for some FAQ! The questions are anonymized.
 
@@ -107,7 +116,7 @@ Q: You are only 6 months old, thus you can't code!
 A: And you don't have a life.
 
 Q: You are only 6 months old, thus you must be a griefer alt!
-A: Still not a question. And no, i'm really an angel kitty -.-
+A: Still not a question. And no, i'm really a young angel kitty -.-
 
 Q: You are only 6 months old, thus you cannot know what Residents need!
 A: Even if i was 1000, i'd still only know either what i myself need, or
@@ -126,12 +135,38 @@ A: Oh thanks, a first real question! Because i haven't applied for it.
    control, unless Lindens set up a build farm which builds TPVs automatically
    from publically released source, you just can't know that it matches up.
 
-Q: I like your viewer! How can i help?
+Q: I like your viewer! How can i help? (QUESTION HYPOTHETICAL)
 A: If you are able to, fork my viewer source on GitHub, work your magic there,
    ping me on it, and i'll see whether i want your changes back in my viewer.
    Or build my viewer from source and find bugs.
    If you don't have necessary skills for that, your bug reports are somewhat
    unlikely to be processed because of lack of time on my hands.
+   At the very least, precise reproduction steps are needed!
    Oh, and position of localization manager might be open.
-   Also needed: someone to report building failures on Mac and provide binaries.
+   Also needed: someone to build from source on Mac OS X. 
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+Contact information:
+   Chat: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=SingularityViewer
+              (or freenode #SingularityViewer)
+   e-Mail: siana.gearz@googlemail.com
+   inSL: Siana Gearz - ONLY WHEN VISIBLE ONLINE!!!
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+TO-DO LIST:
+ * Integrate, test, fix, test, test, fix and test OpenJPEG v2,
+   inline interleaved operations.
+ * Bug: if window is resized during teleport, HUDs don't adjust to new window ratio.
+ * Bug: focusing from minimap is defunct.
+ * Bug: foot shadows show even if avatar below ground, and sink into prims.
+ * Fairer sculpty boosting
+ * Complete Display names, better login mask for new Residents
+ * Purge FMOD, force OpenAL on all plattforms, improve OpenAL denorm performance, 
+   implement embedded ShoutCast player, OR just borrow VLC from Impru
+ * One-handed camera control and walking
+ * Stereoscopic rendering, mirror effects, better deferred mode
+ * More early culling
+ * Coalesced Drawables layer - puuuuuh -.-