Unexpected
Dec. 9th, 2004 06:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckAOL sucking slightly less than usual this morning! Wow!
For those of you with the sense NOT to use AOL, it has for months now had a screen that comes up automatically when you log on. This screen shows a slideshow of stories, with moving pics. You could choose the general type of story shown, but you could not just say, no, I don't want this. Also, there is no way to x out of the screen. It just minimizes. To the worst possible spot, making running more than one window at a time very awkward.
When the most recent hostage was beheaded, AOL ran that story for days on Husband's screen. It was terrible. I have the entertainment version up, so you can imagine the crap I get to see on a regular basis.
I recently found a work around for the problem. "Close" the screen so it minimized, then drag it over and stick it behind my buddy list. Ha! Perfection!
But this morning, there was a new screen. Much less intrusive. And it minimized down to a sidebar like the sidebar they used to have before. So basically, it went away! And if I want to get rid of the side bar, I can still use my workaround. Though, stupidly, when you x out of it, the side bar now minimizes the same stupid way the screen used to. Blah, blah. So sucks slightly less.
For those of you with the sense NOT to use AOL, it has for months now had a screen that comes up automatically when you log on. This screen shows a slideshow of stories, with moving pics. You could choose the general type of story shown, but you could not just say, no, I don't want this. Also, there is no way to x out of the screen. It just minimizes. To the worst possible spot, making running more than one window at a time very awkward.
When the most recent hostage was beheaded, AOL ran that story for days on Husband's screen. It was terrible. I have the entertainment version up, so you can imagine the crap I get to see on a regular basis.
I recently found a work around for the problem. "Close" the screen so it minimized, then drag it over and stick it behind my buddy list. Ha! Perfection!
But this morning, there was a new screen. Much less intrusive. And it minimized down to a sidebar like the sidebar they used to have before. So basically, it went away! And if I want to get rid of the side bar, I can still use my workaround. Though, stupidly, when you x out of it, the side bar now minimizes the same stupid way the screen used to. Blah, blah. So sucks slightly less.
