Yes you heard right, I’m going to be showing you a way to tweet from Google Talk and have your latest tweets show in your Google Talk status.  Using Google Talk might be a really good way to tweet to Twitter if your at work or maybe just have that option available to you. You can also have Google Talk display your latest tweet in the status. How can you do this? TwiTalker & Twitter2gTalk

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Today Google’s new doodle looks like a bar code and your wondering why?

Well today is the 57th anniversary of the day the first patent was made on the bar code.  Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949, and it was granted, No. 2,612,994 on October 7, 1952.  The original patent was for a system that would encode data in circles, so that it could be scanned in any direction.

The barcode you see on the Google’s homepage today is code 128 encoded, which is a standard way of encoding ASCII character strings into a barcode. 

The barcode is a technical innovation that has become an often unnoticed part of everyday modern day life.  The format is a global standard, where a scanner from any manufacturer can interpret almost any conforming barcode from anywhere’s.  The barcode is a great example of why uniform protocols and standards serve a greater good for everybody.

Google’s new spruced up search mechanism will now include a special section on Google Profiles.

You need not worry if you have common names like John, Smith, Michelle, Britney etc., as you can set up and customize your Google Profile by adding details about yourself.

Also, you can link your social profiles on several popular social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, Bebo, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc. Users can also share their contact details with a specific user group that the user sets up.

Google Profiles are also available at a custom URL like – http://www.google.com/profiles/UserName.

Searching information about a particular person through Google’s index would be better experience if the information has been concisely presented in the user’s Google Profile.Before you add your social networking profiles, make sure you’ve put up appropriate security filters to your public profile. This will minimize the possibility of being stalked, identity theft or even spam.

Happy Searching!

http://www.google.com/profiles/Erwin.Nick

As some of you may know that I have really been enjoying cooking and trying new foods that are out there and what geek wouldn’t be complete without a BBQ/Cooking Apron? I have found this really cool “Google Master” Apron that I plan on ordering to have when I am cooking inside or cooking on the grill or various occasions.

Also, I been looking for a decent site that sells BBQ aprons and geek stuff like that.  When I was first looking for BBQ aprons I did find one site that I liked and I forgot to bookmark it and now I cannot find it again! But I did find another site that has the cooking apron that is powered by CafePress: http://www.cafepress.com/teestyles.273936402

You know of a really cool cooking apron? (for geeks only) please let me know!

So Google has updated their favicon again.  Now you may want to updates Firefox’s Google search bar because it has the old Google favicon. Now you have to do this manually so you will have browse to Firefox directory in windows. Now some of you may this is going to take some more time out of your day to do this   but here’s some relief.

You can update the Firefox’s default Google search plugin to show the new Google search icon:

1. Download this updated version of the Google search plugin. (Right click >> Save Link As)
2. Copy it to your searchplugins folder in your Firefox install folder  (typically C:Program FilesMozilla Firefox on Windows), and overwrite the existing google.xml file.
3. Save the file and restart Firefox.

Now you have the current favicon and can rest.

You do not need to do this anymore, since the latest version of Firefox will have this fix.  Thanks.