John Betts - Fine Minerals, New York, NY  212-678-1942
Dealers of Fine Minerals and Natural Crystal Clusters since 1989.

For AOL Users Only

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Do you see black bands across the top of jpeg images? Are images blurry or garbled?

This phenomenon is inherent in AOL due to their proprietary graphics compression program that does not know how to translate images created on advance software. As a web designer and AOL user I have been perplexed by this problem that prevented me from seeing my own page as I intended it.

Fortunately there is a very easy fix. Any AOL member can simply turn off the compression in the "Prefernces" section of "My AOL". Afterwards, magically images look sharp and focused with no black bands (though you may need to purge the cache in order to see the difference in images that were recently viewed). AOL says that image download time is slowed, but I can't tell the difference. And it is well worth waiting for the better, sharper picture.

Here is how to fix it (on AOL for PC):

1. Open AOL and log on.
2. Click on "My AOL".
3. Click on "Preferences".
4. Click on "WWW".
5. Click the "Web Graphics" tab at the top right.
6. Uncheck the "Used Compressed Graphics"box.
7. Click "Apply".

It is that easy. Immediately web pictures will look better.

Want more info? Check out: http://webmaster.info.aol.com/compress.html

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