On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:36 PM, stan <[email protected]> wrote: > > The idea behind the CueCat is just coming into the mainstream now, > with smartphones having bar code reader software in them. >
To be clear, the phones don't have a reader software in them. What you are probably thinking of are apps that use the phone's camera to take a picture, determine the bar code, then use that information in some way. Then there's what are called QR (short for "quick response" codes). Those are the boxes of squares that use the same theory. However, they require a specific app to make sense of what to do with the data revealed within it. Whenever I hear of people touting QR codes as being the "wave of the future", I *always* use the CueCat reference as its equivalent: a solution desperately in search of a problem. Someone showed me a business card with a QR code on it. My response: "So, instead of taking this information that's in plain English and adding it into my contact database, I'm supposed to pull out my phone, open up an app that knows what to do with the data in the QR, take a picture, then try to get the data out of the app and into my database. This is easier how?" And that's why I do what I do. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
