15th April 1997

Is your system taking a long time to start up? Well, how many fonts do you have installed? Of all those fonts, which ones do you use on a regular basis? Here's a trick I've discovered: install only the fonts you use on a regular basis and put the others (novelty fonts, fonts less used) in a separate folder. When you want to use one of those non-installed fonts, just open it up (double-click it). Windows will have that font loaded into memory. Every program that I know of will recognize that font (if it is open) just as it recognizes all the fonts in your Fonts folder. You should be able to use it as you did when you had it installed, only it won't be taking up system resources and slowing down start up time.

I had to insert these "hints" here--just because I think a lot of people who make web pages could make their graphics look better. HINT: use GIF compression when the graphic is textual in nature or if you're doing a screen/window shot; NEVER use JPG compression when the graphic is textual in nature--it will come out looking like someone dunked it under water. Do ALL your graphic editing in high color mode (64k colors, 16 bit); NEVER do your graphical editing in 256 color mode or less, unless, of course, you want the graphic to look like junk--you can always make a 64k image a 256c image without much (or any) loss of quality. These hints are intended to make your creations appear nicer, as well as to make surfers' eyes hurt less when they navigate yr part of the web.

And if you browse the web, don't do it in anything less than High Color (16-bit) mode and with a resolution of no less than 800x600. People who browse the web in 256 colors (8-bit) at a resolution of 640x480 are missing half of the Internet experience.