Barcoding ▪️ QR ▪️ Identification ▪️ Labeling ▪️ ScannerApps ▪️ Mobile Data Acquisition

Data List with Shortened URLs Version 12 of TEC-IT's barcode maker software will be released shortly. This post introduces the built-in URL shortener capabilities of the Barcode Studio update. The new URL shortening feature provides 3 main benefits: Dramatically Reduced QR-Code Size URL shortening means squeezing a long URL into a shorter one. This is important when creating mobile tagging QR-Codes for vCards, meCards, SPARQcodes, etc. With URL shortening you reduce the amount of data to be encoded. Smaller, better readable, easier-to-share QR-Codes are the result. Free QR-Code Traceability URL shortening providers like Google ( https://goo.gl ) and Bitly ( https://bit.ly ) offer simple and free tracking features. More on this below. Data Import Assistant Batch URL Shortening The data import assistant of Barcode Studio is able to shorten thousands of URLs with a single click. Shortened URLs You are not familiar with shortened URLs? Let me give you a...

vCard Data Import Check out this post to learn more about the new features of Barcode Studio V11.6. With Barcode Studio you quickly create high-quality bar code images for pre-press requirements and desktop publishing applications. More than 100 different linear and 2D codes are supported by this software! The new release focuses on bar-code creation for mobile tagging with vCard and meCard QR codes and provides enhanced label printing features . Features and Enhancements in Detail QR-Code vCard Assistant Mobile Tagging 2D codes for mobile tagging are now using the lowest possible error correction level. This minimizes the size of the generated barcodes. Intelligent Data Import It is possible to import predefined data formats for vCard, vCalendar, meCard, etc. in a structured way. This is especially helpful for mass-creation of business card bar-codes. Copy Counter for Label Printing The user can specify how many identical copies of a single label should be printed....

A new version of the barcode creator software Barcode Studio is on the way! What’s New? Barcode Studio V11.5 introduces a new data input assistant . This special feature simplifies the creation of 2D codes for mobile tagging and electronic business cards (so-called vCard and meCard barcodes) dramatically. With Barcode Studio V11.5 you are able to create more than 100 different linear, postal, GS1 and 2D barcode symbologies. The barcodes can be printed on simple labels or exported as bitmap or vector image files. Batch barcode creation with external data is supported. 2D Codes for Mobile Tagging vCard Data Input Assistant vCard and meCard QR-codes are used to encode contact details of a business card (like name, address, email, phone-number ...) in a 2D barcode symbol. When scanning such a barcode with a smartphone (camera and suitable scanner software is required of course), the data is automatically entered into the address book of the phone. No manual typing or copy/paste i...

The popular  free online barcode generator  of TEC-IT got another upgrade! The list of supported bar codes was recently extended with the following symbologies: ISBN (barcodes for books, International Standard Book Number ) ISSN (barcodes for periodicals, International Standard Serial Number ) ISMN (barcode type for media like CD and DVD, International Standard Music Number ) I n total TEC-IT's online bar code service creates 60 different barcode symbologies . To name just a few of them: Code 128, Code 2 of 5 Interleaved, Code 39, Code 93, EAN, UPC, EAN/UCC 128, GS1 DataBar, Pharmacode, USPS PostNet, Royal Mail 4 State,  Aztec, CodablockF, DataMatrix, MaxiCode, MicroPDF417, PDF417, QRCode, MicroQR, etc. Barcodes are generated as raster image with adjustable resolution. Just select the required symbology, enter the bar code data and generate your code! T his service is completely free, no registration is required -  all you need is your browser! Besides thi...

Interested in adding a  "Create QR-Code Badge"  to your web-site? If yes - please read on! TEC-IT has enhanced it's bookmarking and sharing add-on for web-sites. Besides the "traditional" sharing services for  Facebook ,  Twitter ,  Digg ,  StumpleUpon ,  SlashDot  etc. this web-control now generates and displays a  QR-Code encoding the URL of interest . Such an URL QR-Code can be read with camera-equipped smartphones. The bar code decoder application on the phone forwards the user to this URL immediately - without keying in the URL manually. The bar code looks cool and can be shared via email, via MMS, by embedding it into arbitrary artwork - or simply by printing it. Get in touch with us if you are interested in this QR-Code Badge. It will be  available for free  if you provide a backlink to www.tec-it.com .

In Japan more or less every square-millimeter of space is covered with QR-Codes. Japanese companies are using the 2D codes for marketing purposes as well as for really useful applications (e.g. public transport schedules with ticketing possibilities). In Austria this technology is arriving very tentatively. The printed version of an Austrian newspaper ( www.derstandard.at ) is publishing ads of an European car manufacturer (I think it is Renault or Peugeot). These ads contain a 2D code . When scanned with a mobile you will be forwarded to some stylish web-page. Maybe I am able to upload a picture in the near future. Another example of "trying" out this technology is Austrian Airlines (now part of Lufthansa). They are giving away stickers (see picture) with some slogan and a QR-code . When decoding them you will be forwarded to the booking page. I assume that this specific marketing campaign is just a test-run. The slogans are not bad, but they do not provide enough informati...

Because we receive numerous requests for available mobile bar-code reader applications we list some free barcode decoders . Please note: The list is not complete and it is not a recommendation. If you think a reader application should be mentioned in this list please let us know! We would be glad to maintain the overview regularly. Barcode readers we have tried ourself: Beetagg Reader: http://www.beetagg.com/ Kaywa Reader: http://reader.kaywa.com/ QuickMark: http://www.quickmark.com.tw/ i-nigma Reader: http://www.i-nigma.com/i-nigmahp.html Neo Reader: http://www.neoreader.com/ Barcode Scanner "ZXING" for Google Android: See Android Market Other readers (incomplete) UPCode: http://www.upc.fi/en/upcode/instructions/download/ Reader: http://mobile-tagging.blogspot.com/2008/07/readerdownload.html Also check out this overview: http://www.qrme.co.uk/qr-code-resources/qr-code-readers.html Hope this helps!

The site www.mobyware.ru tags its download pages with QR-Codes created by the web-based barcode generator of TEC-IT. This QR-code tags makes downloading and sharing of software really easy: Just decode the barcode with reader software for your mobile phone (e.g. barcode Scanner for Google G1) and navigate to the URL which is encoded in the symbol. Never type URLS again ;-)

We are especially proud of the product TBarCode . Due to it's advanced features this bar code generator SDK is in use in countless applications and systems worldwide. One of the highlights of TBarCode is the complete bar-code support. TBarCode generates and prints virtually all linear, 2D and GS1 bar codes in common use. The upcoming version 9 of TBarCode adds (beside various extensions, bug-fixes and improvements) again some new bar code symbologies. But I'll point out a new 2D barcode symbology added to V9 which is named Micro QR-Code . The support of Micro QRCode was implemented because of customer requests. The "mother" symbology is named QRCode and is supported by TBarCode since years. QRCode is currently used in industrial applications (mainly in Asia, Japan) and for mobile tagging. Micro QRCode is a variant of QRCode and focuses on encoding a small amount of characters in a very restricted space . Below you can see a comparison between Micro QRCode and QRCode...