OPTIMIZE YOUR MONITOR ~ You might not be taking advantage of all the visual power your monitor has to offer.

Increase Screen Resolution: Resize your windows to get to the desktop, then right-click on the desktop. Choose Properties, then click on the Settings tab. Move the slider over to a setting higher than 800x600. If you have a 17inch or larger monitor, you can probably go all the way up to 1152x864 (or similar). After the monitor adjusts, make sure the color setting is as high as it can go. Click on OK. If you have other windows open while making this adjustment, you might need to reboot your computer to see the change in color quality. And if you're using two monitors, you likely already know all this stuff!

Increase Refresh Rate: Click on the Advanced button, then on the Monitor tab. Click on Screen Refresh Rate, and increase it to at least 75 and as high as 85 if available. This makes the monitor create the image faster, which means less eyestrain. A very good thing since there's a lot to see on AAAttanasio.com!

Maximize Image Size: Look at the edges of the windows on your screen. Do the edges actually go all the way to the physical edges of your monitor? (This is frequently NOT done by computer sellers/installers/experts.) If the image on your screen does not actually go all the way to the edge (the "bezel") of the monitor, you're losing valuable inches of screen real-estate!

At the bottom of your monitor you will see some control buttons. One of them, usually the one farthest to the left, will activate the monitor controls. Once you have activated the monitor controls, look for the following icons: a rectangular box, with arrows pointing into or out of it. These are what make your image move right/left & up/down - and make the image expand or contract in the four directions.

It may require a bit of experimentation with the buttons, but it won't take long, and you'll have your image expanded as far as it can possibly go.

Next, go to the brightness and contrast icons. Sometimes you can make the image incredibly better by increasing one or both.

LATEST CONTENT ~ AAAttanasio.com is still under development and major changes are made every day. This will probably continue many moons into our common future. Depending on how your web browser is configured, you may not be viewing the latest version of the website.

Clicking on the reload button on your browser will show you the latest version of whatever page you're looking at. But it would get very tedious if you had to do that for every page that might have changed since you last saw it.

Solution: In Netscape, go to Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Cache; and choose the option to check the cache "Every time I view the page". In Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to Tools/Internet Options/Settings. You will see the option to check for newer versions of stored pages every time you visit the page.

SCREEN CLUTTER ~ Look at the various buttons, bars and little doodads on your browser. They might be taking up half your screen! And those are mostly things you rarely use anyway, right? If you're like me, you mostly use the back button, and the address bar. Occasionally the printer icon. That's a lot of static grey material, pushing the webpage you're viewing into a little windowpane.

Solution ~ Get into the habit of using F-11 whenever you're on the Internet. Just try it once and you'll see how much screen real estate it recovers for you. To go back to the way it was, just press F-11 again. Nifty huh?