A moor's life

22/02/2011

By Hakim

Ok, so this is reaaaally geeky. I mean, really. And yet kinda cool.

By now you must have seen these weird drawings a few times. If you ever wondered what they are, it’s simple: 2D bar codes. If you have a bar code scanner, you can decode the information contained within. The cool thing is that almost any recent phone with a camera (iThings, Android) can be turned into a bar code scanner with a free app. And voilà! Incidentally, this one is my favorite quote.

I you would like to generate your own QR codes, go to http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/. The possibilities …

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benperrydog
March 7th, 2011 at 8:35 pm

Sweet! Apropros: I just saw that bit.ly (the URL shortener) now is doing automatic QR codes with their links — meaning that now you can Rick Roll somebody from the sidewalk. Which is really all that one could ask for.

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