{"id":248,"date":"2007-08-23T18:48:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T17:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/qr-datamatrix-codes\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T15:42:46","slug":"qr-datamatrix-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/qr-datamatrix-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"QR DataMatrix codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I got a sexy new phone; the E65. I made the choice to get it over the N95, because everyone I know with an N95 complains that it&#8217;s a brick and the battery is crap. I&#8217;m very very happy with my E65, but one of the guys in the office was showing off his N95 and he had an app mine didn&#8217;t; the &#8220;barcode reader&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After much investigation from us both, we discovered that is doesn&#8217;t read barcodes, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_Matrix\" title=\"Wikipedia\">datamatrix <\/a>and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/QR_Code\" title=\"Wikipedia\">QR codes<\/a>. In retaliation, I downloaded a reader for my E65 called<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.i-nigma.com\/\" title=\"i-nigma\"> i-nigma<\/a>, which works a shit load faster and more reliably than the N95 one! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>So obviously after all that, I had to go and make my own QR code \ud83d\ude09<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/blogqr.jpg\" title=\"Blog QR Code\" class=\"imagelink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/blogqr.jpg\" alt=\"Blog QR Code\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nokia have a code creator on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mobilecodes.nokia.com\" title=\"mobilecodes.nokia.com\">their site<\/a>, but it makes the datamatrix type, which aren&#8217;t as pretty \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>After all this investigation, I&#8217;m left wondering if anyone will actually bother using these things! Pretty much every mobile phone now has a camera in it, so everyone could be using these things, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen one of these things on the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I got a sexy new phone; the E65. I made the choice to get it over the N95, because everyone I know with an N95 complains that it&#8217;s a brick and the battery is crap. I&#8217;m very very happy with my E65, but one of the guys in the office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}