Juan Enriquez: New Science Video

Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don't look for it on your ballot - or in the stock exchange. It'll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds.

Google recently added search by voice to their Google Mobile App for the BlackBerry. I did a couple test searches and was surprise at its accuracy. You can check out Google mobile applications at google.com/mobile or m.google.com from your mobile phone.

On a side note mobile data plans are a rip off. I pay T-Mobile $70 a month to have unlimited internet and texting on two phones. My FiOS bill is a little less than that.

I ran into an anomaly with the DOS environment variable %ProgramFiles(x86)% when used with an IF statement. I was trying to determine if OS was 64-bit or 32-bit from batch file.

if "%ProgramFiles(x86)%XXX"=="XXX" (
echo 32-bit
set ProgRoot=%ProgramFiles%
) else (
set ProgRoot=%ProgramFiles(x86)%
echo 64-bit
)
echo %ProgRoot%

This will incorrectly output (notice the closing parenthesis is missing):
C:\Program Files (x86

A-w-e-s-o-m-e. I soo want to do this now.

To get the lastest complete offline stand alone installer for Google Chrome use the following link:

http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?standalone=1

I thought I would revisit the virtual machine front to see if VirtualBox had progressed any since my last look (VMware vs. VirtualBox Jan '08).  My test system was an ASUS P6T Deluxe V2, Intel i7 940, 12GB DDR3, Raptor 300GB drives, and Vista x64 SP1.  VMware version 6.5.1 build-126130 and VirtualBox 2.1.4 were both installed on my C: drive and their respective images and virtual files located on D:.

I often need to paste text in an unformatted state. Say pasting something from word to html or a piece of code that I get from the web. Usually this involves me pasting my text into a plain text editor and then recopying the same text from there. Some programs have a feature that allows you to paste unformatted, but it is usually so buried in menus it is just faster for me to use the editor method I just mention. Well not anymore.

Now PureText 2.0 has a permanent home in my system tray. By default PureText associates itself with Windows-V to paste the unformatted version of whatever is in your clipboard. I'm sure this will be a time saver for me.

I reinstalled Vista on the computer I print UPS shipping labels from today. After installing the newest Zebra drivers and UPS plug-in I was getting two copies of each label when shipping a package from the UPS website with Firefox. Internet Explorer 7 did not exhibit the problem. Experimenting with previous versions of the Zebra drivers and UPS plug-ins, I discovered the problem was the newer 8.10 UPS plug-in. So to the 2 other people in the world that use a UPS label printer with a 64-bit OS and Firefox the solution I come up with is to use the older 7.96 version of the UPS plug-in.

Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech

This is really cool. Watch the whole clip when you have time.

Problem: ObjectDock version 1.90 Plus Build 535u weather docklet stops updating weather. After trying to update you receive the message "Feed not available... try again later."

Solution: Replace the file "stardockweather.ocx" with the updated provided in the link

The orignal file is located at:

(x86) "C:\Program Files\Stardock\ObjectDock\StardockWeather.ocx"

(x64) "C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\ObjectDock\StardockWeather.ocx"

Updated file available here: http://sd.stardock.com/ken/stardockweather.ocx