15th February 2001
Coming from the "I'm Moving Out" Department, Lockergnomie Siegfried Hirsch plays Anthony's Song for his Web browser. GIF animations were nifty back in 1995. When the wrong person gets ahold of the right graphic, rest assured it'll be abused. A moving image can quickly get in your way when you're reading Web content. Stop it! Don't scream at your screen -- just hit the ESC key to freeze all GIF animations (once a page is fully loaded in Internet Explorer). Don't care to see them move at all? In IE's Tools menu, select "Internet Options" and flip to the Advanced tab. Scroll down to the Multimedia section and take the checkmark out of the "Play animations" field. While you're there, you can also kill browser sounds by... duh. Take a guess. If this was rocket science, all of us would have flunked out years ago.