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QR codes on billboards and in marketing are kind of rubbish, but in terms of moving a URL or a phone number from your PC to your phone quickly, they're actually pretty useful.
http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
They're even pretty if you embed them with a bitmap using QArt — http://research.swtch.com/qart
Great hack. Another way to get text quickly to your phone, if you have an iPhone, is to send yourself a message on Messages.
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QR codes on billboards and in marketing are kind of rubbish, but in terms of moving a URL or a phone number from your PC to your phone quickly, they're actually pretty useful.
nope, i run http://miniqr.com for that exact reason, and lets just say, it never took off (and nobody uses is that way)
OP's program removes 1/3rd of the steps, making it much easier for the user.
http://miniqr.com/http://www.example.com/
http://miniqr.com/"hello world"
after looking at the market fo QR codes now for 4 years, i don't think i will get rich with just that side project. QR codes just do not fulfill any use case for users (they fulfill a use case for content publishers and advertisers, but non for users)
p.s.: if you want to (really) see people scanning QR codes, there is a page for that, too http://replycam.com/browse.php
Great hack. Another way to get text quickly to your phone, if you have an iPhone, is to send yourself a message on Messages.
QR Code transfer is probably patent encumbered (like well almost everything).
Nokia has app to do this but in reverse. Look at photo gallery on phone in their app. When you find picture you want to see, open browser on desktop and see QR code. Point camera at screen and the QR code in browser is replaced by image from phone.
http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/11/30/photobeamer-the-ma...
http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
QR codes on billboards and in marketing are kind of rubbish, but in terms of moving a URL or a phone number from your PC to your phone quickly, they're actually pretty useful.
if you like URL "hacking" you can do something like this http://miniqr.com/http://www.example.com/ http://miniqr.com/"hello world" does mostly the same as mentioned above, does this for i think now 4 years (i coded this on a beach in mexico, lets say my memories are fuzzy) after looking at the market fo QR codes now for 4 years, i don't think i will get rich with just that side project. QR codes just do not fulfill a…