Do you know about QR scanning?

[Tsakali]

just checking to see:

1. do you know what a QR code is
2. does your phone have a program for it, or did you actively have to download one?
3. do you even care?

As a good example of simple use is, quick linking to web urls without having to type out an actual URL.
Even better, it can be used to link a location to your GPS navigation automatically.

Both situations I want to use it for and would potentially make a user's experience better, provided, when someone sees it, they know what it is.

Would you click on it, if you found it on a map print out or would it just look like rubbish to you?

[GONNAFISTYA]

First...I'd fuck yer dad.
Then I'd cock punch you and call you a fag.

[mrd]

Nice work.

QR codes seem to be more common nowadays. Can't say I've ever used them myself, but my phone does 'em. It'd be better if you could encode a music file into it or something more exciting than a fucking URL. Are we that lazy? The time it takes to line up your shitty phone camera so the program can analyze it... just type the fuckin' URL.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

old

[Tsakali]

Nice work.

QR codes seem to be more common nowadays. Can't say I've ever used them myself, but my phone does 'em. It'd be better if you could encode a music file into it or something more exciting than a fucking URL. Are we that lazy? The time it takes to line up your shitty phone camera so the program can analyze it... just type the fuckin' URL.

that QR image is just a random from google search.

k anyway, url links could be very long, especially if you're trying to communicate a google maps url to a specific address and other data you might want to add which all have to be typed in url form... which pretty much nobody would bother to type in. QR codes are a great way to get around the substantial inconvenience.


You cant encode anything fancy on these things, unless you want QR code to be pretty large, with a very high numbered grid layout.
pretty much that QR code I posted would only hold enough info for about a 20 character long url. A music file containing QR code would look like a billboard I'd imagine.

[bitWISE]

I know about them, and we've talked about them at work, but I've never seen them used for anything useful.

There was a dude on reddit posting QR code links to images in an iphone wallpaper thread, that was nice.

[U4EA]

There's a lot of potential for shenanigans with QR codes, as you have no way to see where it's going to re-direct you to. AFAIK, there have been reported cases of malicious QR codes in the wild. They are pointless and possibly dangerous.

[Foo]

Got one above my desk for when folks stop by and I'm not in the office.

[Captain]

Yeah

[Eraser]

I've never seen them used in a truly useful manner.

[Tsakali]

Got one above my desk for when folks stop by and I'm not in the office.

cool, what does it do?

[MKJ]

I've never seen them used in a truly useful manner.

Indeed. Qr codes have been quite common for a while over here now, but their inclusion is mostly to make some buzzword marketeer happy.

[Tsakali]

Meh, just because marketards got their hands on them doesn't mean they couldn't be used for cool / useful reasons.
I'm pretty sure, I gave two perfectly good examples for their use.
A game like Zombie Run could do some pretty cool stuff with QR codes spread about in the city.

And calling them dangerous is missing the point since most QR scanners show you their link before executing (in link related uses) and any tard that would use them in a malicious way,could do the same with a normal url link.

[Doombrain]

Yeah

gmail.com

[LBt1st]

They're handy on business cards.

-Bean

[Nightshade]

I've never seen them used in a truly useful manner.

I see them used effectively in the techie magazines I read. Some of them have started using QR codes in a "would you like to know more?" context.

[o'dium]

Holy shit if that isn't a perfect example of the exact opposite of what to do on a business card...

[Dark Metal]

That looks more like a "hoping to get a job" card.

[Ryoki]

It screams amateur in several ways.

[Doombrain]

not as much as the treat waiting for those who scan one of the three codes, which is kind of missing the point behind the QR code.

[Nightshade]

Well to be fair, he IS an IDEALIST, after all.

FFS, Maz. o_O

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

This thread went somewhere.

[plained]

i like the cards!

[Captain]

lol, god damn I'm good

[Ryoki]

You designed those cards to troll us all?
Well played sir, well played.