Fun with QR Codes!
08.25.2010
QR codes are those black & white, pixelated, machine-readable codes you might have seen on posters around the city. The idea is that you can scan the QR code and it gives you a bit of text or a URL.
At first I thought them gimmicky, but then I realized they were helpful. They’re handy for web addresses because, if you have a smartphone, because it is much easier to take a photo than it is to type a long URL. It doesn’t make much sense to have QR codes on the web.
Anyhow, I made my own QR code with this site. Then I downloaded the QR Reader app for the iphone to read it. There are a handful of QR code reading apps. Everything worked. I now “get” QR codes.
I predict there will be a lot more QR codes printed on poster and such in the future.