Just keep in mind that Google's QR Code (Infographic) API has been deprecated.
Been using http://code.google.com/p/pyqrnative/
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
#62QR sounds useful for some minor applications, but for anything serious placed in a public place on a physical medium (like a billboard) its a phishers dream: just put a sticker with your phishing url over the original one and noone will ever realise.
I remember temporarily sticking an A4-sized QR code linking to a mild shock image on my desk at my old job and tweeting a photo of said desk to see who I'd get a reaction from.
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#63I read through the comments, expecting to see a JS version of this, but I didn't find one so I made it: javascript:(function(){ var i = new Image();i.src = 'http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300&chl='+ encodeURIComponent(getSelection());i.onclick=function(){i.parentNode.removeChild(i)};i.setAttribute('style', 'position:fixed;top:50%;left:50%;margin:-150px 0 0 -150px;box-shadow:0 0 20px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)…
Missing a closing apostrophe. javascript:(function(){var a=new Image;a.src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300&chl="+encodeURIComponent(getSelection());a.onclick=function(){a.parentNode.removeChild(a)};a.setAttribute("style","position:fixed;top:50%;left:50%;margin:-150px 0 0 -150px;box-shadow:0 0 20px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)");document.body.appendChild(a)}());
That's pretty awsome, Better than mine: https://gist.github.com/findel/5099737
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#64I 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…
Do you guy know something like a "Phone to Chrome"? I'm desperate to find a way to open simply with my desktop Chrome web pages that I stumble upon with my Android but which are impractical to read with it.
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#65I 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…
Do you guy know something like a "Phone to Chrome"? I'm desperate to find a way to open simply with my desktop Chrome web pages that I stumble upon with my Android but which are impractical to read with it.
You can do this if you use Chrome on your phone, and are signed in with sync enabled. The tabs on your phone are accessible from the 'New Tab' page on you desktop and vice versa. On desktop Chrome, there's a little 'Other Devices' drop down at the bottom; on Chrome for Android, there's a button with a pair of arrows at the bottom right.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you guy know something like a "Phone to Chrome"? I'm desperate to find a way to open simply with my desktop Chrome web pages that I stumble upon with my Android but which are impractical to read with it.
You can do this if you use Chrome on your phone, and are signed in with sync enabled. The tabs on your phone are accessible from the 'New Tab' page on you desktop and vice versa. On desktop Chrome, there's a little 'Other Devices' drop down at the bottom; on Chrome for Android, there's a button with a pair of arrows at the bottom right.
That's great! Thank you.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
That site also looks pretty unfriendly.
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#68My solution here is usually to just send myself a text message from Google Voice. For me, it's faster to open a new tab and paste my text than to find my QR reader and scan.
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#69Fortunately, OS X now has Services This feature originates in NeXTSTEP, and I'm fairly certain it has been in OS X since the beginning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Services_menu
Yeah, that sentence should have been "Fortunately, I just discovered services on OS X".
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#70I 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…
Do you guy know something like a "Phone to Chrome"? I'm desperate to find a way to open simply with my desktop Chrome web pages that I stumble upon with my Android but which are impractical to read with it.
Also check out Push Pop - http://pushpop.herokuapp.com/