C Library for Encoding QR Code Symbol

Kentaro Fukuchi has released a new version of libqrencode, the C library for encoding data in a QR Code symbol. Testing release 2008.4.17

The QR Code with a Voice

The advanced QR Consortium in Japan have launched their VoiceQR website. VoiceQR is a way of encrypting a small amount of voice or music into a QR Code. Sound is in AMR format, a compressed audio format developed by Ericsson and used by many mobile phones for voice recordings such as MMS messages. Currently limited […]

Barcode Pickup

Wickd are selling a range of T-shirts with a ShotCode logo on the back. The proprietary two dimensional barcode is unique for every product and is linked to the user. You can link your code to any url such as your own mobile site, your MySpace or Facebook homepage etc. If you use your Wickd […]

Facebook Add to Friends QR Code

A new facebook application has just been launched called Add to Friends Shirt which creates a shirt that lets people get in touch with your facebook persona via a QR Code. In the application the facebook user clicks on ‘Make a shirt for me’. The QR code for the url of the user’s mobile facebook […]

QR Code Embeded in…

IT DeSign’s Design QR agency provides QR Code production and consulting services from the International Fashion Center building in Tokyo, Japan. Their latest idea is to embed a QR Code in… well, another QR Code. They have called it double QR and you can read the relevant page on their website with Google’s translation from […]

QR Code for the iPhone

Sergey Odinokov, IT Department Director of the Rubicon Group emailed to say that iMatrix has developed the first 2d barcode recognition software for the iPhone. (Also see later post iPhone, QR Code, Datamatrix and now ShotCode)
There are also a couple of interesting application on their Website. One where you can generate QR codes for Google […]

QR Code Firefox Extension

Snapmaze have created a Firefox extension that allows you to generate a QR code for the URL of the page being viewed. It’s a nice idea but slightly spoilt by the over-size window that opens to display the QR code and the Google ads shown below the code. You can download the extension here - […]

Google Barcode Reader

Google has announced a multi-format 1d/2d barcode reader.
ZXing (pronounced “zebra crossing”) is an open-source, multi-format 1d/2d barcode reader library implemented in Java. The objective is to support decoding of QR Codes, Data Matrix and the UPC family of 1d barcodes. It will provide clients for the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), Java2 Standard […]

Jaxo releases new version of QR code reader

Jaxo have made a new version of their QR code reader which they claim is far more efficient than the previous versions. The latest revision corrects more optical deformations such as parallax effects and you can download a Windows version here BarCapture.

They also have an updated online barcode editor and a Windows version can […]

QR Decoder

Jaxo Systems based in Montpellier, France is a developer of software for cell phones and PDA’s.
They have recently developed a barcode package which handles both linear and 2D barcodes including PDF417, Datamatrix, QR and Aztec. There is a demo on their website and you can generate any of these codes by simply selecting the […]