Blackberry Barcode for website

[mindchatter]

Hey guys, I just thought this was pretty cool.

If you have a Blackberry and recently upgraded your Blackberry messenger to BBM5 then scan this barcode. It'll take you to my website. I was thinking of maybe having this printed on the back of my business cards or something? Gives me lots of idea's though. :lol:

[Photon Phil]

Hey! These are the jumbled coordinates and time of the 1D MKIV release!

[Mark1]

It worked perfectly from the screen. It pulled up the reference as fast as I could click it! I mean litteraly as fast as I clicked it.

It might be a decient idea to put it on a lot of things. A version of your cards. Bottom of your letter head, reciepts..... lots of places.

[DDCSD]

That's pretty cool. What did you use to create the barcode? Worked great from my wife's phone.

[FlyingPhotog]

I started in the bottom right corner and made it to the center in about 47 seconds! ;)

Clever Idea you've got IMO...

[Todd Lambert]

I "clicked" it with my iPhone and it took me to hairybuttsphotography.com - wtf? Did I do something wrong?

;-)

[int2str]

It's called a QR code. You can generate them here for example:
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

[mindchatter]

yep..thats the link. Pretty wild stuff....just wish it would work with all mobile phones!

[int2str]

Works on Android phones, iPhone and Blackberry. That pretty much covers most of them out there :)

[Jaymz]

Also works on Windows CE phones. http://www.i-nigma.com/Downloadi-nigmaReader.html

[Tumeg]

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=8&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.photosbybradley.com%2F

[kasparov_ksa]

Also works on Windows CE phones. http://www.i-nigma.com/Downloadi-nigmaReader.html


works on my HTC touch pro using i-nigma.... and it was fast like 1 sec..

[Jaymz]

works on my HTC touch pro using i-nigma.... and it was fast like 1 sec..

Exact set up I use, Touch Pro and i-nigma, yep works very fast.

[dbdigitals]

Been using those for years in Japan.
Every restaurant, advertisement etc. has one so you just point your phone and boom...... at that companies website.

Glad to see they are starting to work in America as well.

D.

[Josh_30]

Yeah, they're plastered on all of the entry doors at my local movie theater too.

[PubUltraStar]

Another reason to avoid human contact. Awesome!

[cdifoto]

Badass!

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a304/cdifoto/cdifoto.png

[bdicustoms]

How do you scan this with a Blackberry?

[ClickHappy]

Works right off the screen on my iPhone if there's no other graphics/text nearby. Software is a bit buggy but still a very cool concept. Much faster than typing, and the scanner maintains a history of scanned barcodes, so you don't have to record them yourself. Nice.

[CliffordPhotography]

That barcode was developed years ago. Just another change of times. We'll see it everywhere Im sure in the future.

[cdifoto]

My hand soap has one too. :D

[DDCSD]

How do you scan this with a Blackberry?


You need to upgrade your Blackberry Messenger to the newest version.

[bwolford]

That is awesome!
http://thewolfords.com/POTN/rickrolled.png

[bwolford]

OK the first was a joke, but if you are looking for a reader for your cell phone:

http://www.mobile-barcodes.com/qr-code-software/

[TattooedAffliction]

Works right off the screen on my iPhone if there's no other graphics/text nearby. Software is a bit buggy but still a very cool concept. Much faster than typing, and the scanner maintains a history of scanned barcodes, so you don't have to record them yourself. Nice.

How do you do it with an iPhone?

[ClickHappy]

How do you do it with an iPhone?

There's an iphone app available here: http://www.i-nigma.com/Downloadi-nigmaReader.html
There may be others, that's just the first I saw and tested.

[tomd]

How do you do it with an iPhone?

I was wondering the same thing? Do you take a photo from the iphone and then the iphone will open the link (bar code)?

[DDCSD]

I was wondering the same thing? Do you take a photo from the iphone and then the iphone will open the link (bar code)?


With a BB, the camera sees the barcode and automatically zooms in on it and focuses. No photo is taken, but it uses the phone's camera.

[Jaymz]

With a BB, the camera sees the barcode and automatically zooms in on it and focuses. No photo is taken, but it uses the phone's camera.

Pretty much the same with my Touch Pro (Windows Mobile)

[ClickHappy]

Yeah, you don't need to take a pic, but it uses the camera to 'see' the barcode.

I just did a search for 'barcode' in the appstore and there are many out there, so it may be a good idea to test a few out and see which works best.

[The Moose]

FWIW, Nokia's have a Barcode scanner too. On my E71, it's in the tools section and it brought your website up really fast :D

[UK_Tomcat_Fan]

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=5&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwidowmaker.is-a-geek.com

[tomd]

Also works on Windows CE phones. http://www.i-nigma.com/Downloadi-nigmaReader.html

I was surprised to see it only has 2 stars in the app store rating...

[HoRnYTuRbO]

wow, pretty cool =)

[canonnoob]

You need to upgrade your Blackberry Messenger to the newest version.

and you do this how? I have a storm but It isnt showing anything for upgrades...

[DDCSD]

and you do this how? I have a storm but It isnt showing anything for upgrades...


It was kind of goofy to get to it. You can go to BB's website and they'll email you the DL link that you can open in your phone, but that didn't work for me. I tried it a couple of times and it just didn't work out for me.

I don't have my wife's BB in front of me right now, but I think I went into the "about" or "help" deal and it had an upgrade option in there somewhere that did it semi-automatically after click into it.

If you can't find it, I'll check and see if I can figure it out again when my wife gets home from work tonight. She has the BB Pearl, but I suspect its the same for all of them?

[canonnoob]

i think i found it but it is taking a long time... lol

[jubu]

Whoa thats cool...just did it on my Bold

[HoRnYTuRbO]

i made one for my email too, for the ppl to lazy to type it out =)

[HoRnYTuRbO]

wonder if it will work with my google voice... hmmmm

[DDCSD]

wonder if it will work with my google voice... hmmmm


How do you mean?

[Karl Johnston]

Wow what is this? I'm so rural..I never knew this was available and working lol sci-fi dream eh

[Karl Johnston]

I "clicked" it with my iPhone and it took me to hairybuttsphotography.com - wtf? Did I do something wrong?

;-)
LOL i didn't understand that till I went to his website, glanced at the title and thought I had done something wrong too !

[HoRnYTuRbO]

How do you mean?
like a speed dial to my voice mail

[DDCSD]

like a speed dial to my voice mail


You mean for you or for someone else that reads your barcode?

[HoRnYTuRbO]

You mean for you or for someone else that reads your barcode?
for someone to read the code and it would speed dial to my voice mail.. trying to figure out how to make a link in to a script that dial #'s.....