by Mark Gibbs

This Week in Gearhead: More BGInfo, More UI Trickery and More Sleep

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Nov 27, 20061 min

This week in Gearhead we field reader feedback on the BGInfo utility we discussed a couple of weeks ago, discuss a neat user interface enhancement that you don’t need but that’s pretty cool all the same, and review a neat tool for ensuring you get your sleep.

by Mark Gibbs

Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them. His complete bio can be found at http://gibbs.com/mgbio

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