Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written
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Re: Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written
#22I use Chrome to Phone with my android phone. One click on a button sends the current url to my browser, or I can select any text, right click it and send it to my phone where it is then available on my clipboard to paste wherever. It also keeps a history of all this on my phone so I can recall what I sent last week. That feature alone is why I'll probably never own an iPhone.
Edit: Still a cool extension you've got there! Not taking anything away from it.
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#23I created a bookmarklet that does the same thing for any website you're browsing. Makes it easy to transfer from PC to phone, assuming the phone can read QR codes.
http://keyboardp.tumblr.com/post/38976790879/send-webpage-fr...
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#24I can't recommend http://pushbullet.com enough... it allows you to send anything to your phone and works very well.
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#25Great hack. Another way to get text quickly to your phone, if you have an iPhone, is to send yourself a message on Messages.
Well, that's actually a pretty nice idea
Maybe you can sign up for an SMS broker and send SMSs if you don't have a Mac (it's less expensive than you think)
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#26here's something intended to serve roughly the same purpose for iOS/Mac: http://www.getbeamapp.com/
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#27I've been using a Chrome extension I created for the same purpose. The nice part is that it does it without making an external web request, using javascript and canvas. Also, iPhone users should check out the Scan app[1] for a QR code reader. It's by far the fastest starting, simplest QR scanner I've been able to find; Most of the other apps seem to be cramming in price-checking features and have butt-ugly icons. [1]…
I also created a chrome extension, without web requests :)
https://github.com/fabriceleal/chrome-extension-url-qr-encod...
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#28I use Chrome to Phone with my android phone. One click on a button sends the current url to my browser, or I can select any text, right click it and send it to my phone where it is then available on my clipboard to paste wherever. It also keeps a history of all this on my phone so I can recall what I sent last week. That feature alone is why I'll probably never own an iPhone. Edit: Still a cool extension you've got t…
This is exactly the kind of thing that Apple will likely implement one day as seamless integration is their speciality.
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#29Cool, I like it and would use it daily. I sometimes use dropbox like a pastebin for same thing. 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 phon…
According to Wikipedia, QR code is free of any license.
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#30http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
I find it useful, it just needs to be easier on phones to get to the qr code scanner. I use an iphone, and if it was as easy as just opening up the camera app, pointing at the code which it recognized and put a box around (similar to the focus box perhaps) that I could click on, it would go a long way to getting more people to use them.