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Mobile Tagging

May 28, 2007

qrcode

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Japan has always the latest place for technology as you know… One thing that has really taken of is QR codes which is a new form of bacodes which can store alot more information compared to stardard barcodes (250 characters).

They use it on Adverts and information posters as a way of bookmarking/recording the information on to your phone so you can view it later.

So for example in the picture is a popular arcade game in japan. When you get a high score instead of writing down a long password for you to register it on the games website you have take a picture of the QR code. The QR code will with have all the information on it.

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In this example a massive TV screen at a japanese train stations displays a TV advert. After the TV advert it will show you the QR code which if you take a picture of on a japanese phone it will translate this to a webaddress.

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Another spin off of QR code is Beetaggs (the ebay tagg is a beetagg) these are more attractive as you can display a logo or picture in the middle. So i guess this is soon to a batter of the formats.

Anyway i made youtube showing you how cool this is…

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Anyway if you wanna try out QR codes you can download a reader on to your phone for free at http://reader.kaywa.com/

or www.beetagg.comĀ  (try downloading them, then tagging the ones you see on this blog)

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Start up delayer

May 19, 2007

This is a handy program i came across the other week.

Isn’t it annoying sometimes esp on older computers when you start up your machine and it takes ages to load up? chances are you prob have loads of things all loading at once… this program can acutally delay some of the items on start up meaning that your computer loads fully faster…

Give it a go… on my laptop where i’ve tested this out, i’ve delayed my mobile phone sync software from loading right away its saved me about 60sec in loading time.

Tech Talk: it’s MSconfig with an egg timer.

The good thing about it… It’s Freeware!

http://www.r2.com.au/software.php?page=2&show=startdelay

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My 3 fav ways in getting around computer and network security

May 19, 2007