If you're accessing the Internet through America Online and using an an Intel-based PC, you'll probably want to start using the new "AOL 3.0" software that was finally released last week. The new software has a much-improved Web browser that finally lets you view many web sites the way it was intended to look. (Other web sites will look a lot better, too.)

AOL will be mailing diskettes to all users over the next two months, but you can download the software now from AOL (it's 3.3 megabytes). Use the AOL "Find" function on the search phrase "AOL 3.0".