Today's dial-up AOL users get my services free. FREE!, I TELL YOU!!! Usually I charge for this kind of sh..stuff in the form of food, lavish gifts, or alcohol. But today is your lucky day and I render these services, for you, out of the kindness of my heart. And well, once I saw the atrocities AOL was performing on my websites, MY WEBSITES!, I decided it was all out war.
Before I launch in to my AOL diatribe, huge hugs and kisses to Welly for upholding the Sopheava tradition and talking about how fabulous I am at the end of last week. He loves guest-posting so and I'm happy to have him around. Mostly because of the immense flattery eminating from his every keystroke. Still, he's a laugh and totally welcome to guest post anytime he likes. Thanks Welly!
Now, back to my AOL users. If you are a dial-up AOL user (phone lines, people), please take 2 minutes out of your busy day to perform the following good deed doing so that my gorgeous websites may be presented to you in all the gloriousness the designer, aka me, intended. What spawned this post? Blurry. Pictures. I was visiting my parents and using their dial-up AOL to view my websites. My BLURRY websites, as it turned out. If you heard a huge great scream on Thursday this would be why. It turns out that if you're a dial-up American Online user, AOL by default causes most of the images appearing on your screen to blur. And by blur I mean something along the lines of looking through the nearly-empty bottom of a beer glass whilst lying on the floor of your favorite local pub. Um, yeah. The fix is easy my friends, please play along at home or I curse you with dial-up AOL FOREVERRRRR.
First, click on "Settings" or "My settings".
Second, click on "Internet (web) options".
Third, click on the "Content" tab and make sure that the "Never compress images" button is selected.
Suck it, AOL. *I WIN*!!!!!!!!
There has also been about a bazillion a few complaints from my father regarding the whole "cache" issue with AOL. For some reason AOL refuses to reload pages, even when you click on the refresh button. Don't ask *me* why, it's their shitty program and they obviously couldn't afford even one usability specialist. So, if you my trustworthy AOL readers are finding that web pages are not being updated as they normally should, just hold down the CTRL button on your keyboard whilst clicking on the refresh button on your browser at the same time. Forced. Refresh. Beyotch.
I WIN AGAIN!!!!!!!!
Thank you and have a nice day.
Comments
I hate AOL....and you rock, you so love to help the inept AOL brand.
thank god I switched to a cable connection or Margaret would have never gone to Big Bowl with me again!
ah, I use Safari to browse your delightful Sophieness, so fear not!
And thankyou - I do indeed love guest posting, so any time xx