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Create Popular QR Codes for Mobile Tagging and vCard Business Cards

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Latest TEC-IT Press Release Austria, TEC-IT Datenverarbeitung GmbH ( tec-it.com ), leading vendor of AUTO-ID and bar code software presents a brand new feature for the popular barcode maker software Barcode Studio. “QR codes are becoming more and more popular. Especially the increasing need in marketing and mobile tagging is causing a rise in demand for 2D barcodes. In light of this development TEC-IT is responding with its new version of Barcode Studio.” (Guenter Kriegl, CEO of TEC-IT ) Mobile Tagging, vCard Business Cards and More QR-Code vCard Creating 2D bar-codes for electronic business cards with vCard and meCard formats is simplified dramatically: The brand new assistant leads you through the data input with a multifunctional dialog box, the user just enters the contact details and the assistant takes care of generating the 2D barcode with the correct data formatting. No special knowledge is needed. What’s more, mobile tagging barcodes for events, Android Mar...

"Tag it Easy" - vCard and MeCard QR-Codes!

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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...

How to use Microvision ROV Barcode Scanners with Android - Update!

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Bluetooth Data Acquisition on Android Currently TEC-IT offers two Android apps for data acquisition with Bluetooth devices: GetBlue provides universal data acquisition and device communication with Bluetooth SPP, TCP and camera scanners. GetBlue communicates with serial Bluetooth devices (Serial Port Profile like SPP/RFCOMM barcode readers), TCP/IP devices and camera scanners. Captured data is displayed, saved (File, Google Docs), forwarded (HTTP, TCP) or injected as virtual keystrokes into Apps (GetBlue virtual keyboard). BluePiano extends all Apps with automated Bluetooth data acquisition. This new input method provides a Bluetooth-enabled soft-keyboard . This virtual keyboard captures data from Bluetooth SPP devices (serial port profile) and forwards the received data to input fields of arbitrary apps. Microvision ROV Bluetooth Scanners Problem: Some users are experiencing the following issue: once a bar code is scanned with the Microvision ROV barcode scanner the bar code ...

One-Click Label Printing - 100% Online

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What is TFORMer Online? TFORMer Online is a completely web-based label printing system. Standard industry labels (e.g. VDA, AIAG, GTL, GS1, Odette, Caterpillar Shipping Labels, ... ) are generated as high quality PDF-files which can be printed immediately . Variable label data (like descriptions, SSCC, EAN codes, article numbers, etc) is either entered manually directly with the browser or provided via Google Docs spreadsheets. Available Label Printing Services TFORMer Online supports three methods for online label printing . Regardless of the method used, you need to validate your email-address. You will receive a confirmation email which contains a passkey. Single Label Printing This variant is the ideal solution for low-volume, ad-hoc label printing . Just enter the label data and generate the corresponding PDF. One-Click Label Printing A single click prints multiple labels with data stored in a Google docs spreadsheet (batch printing). One-click label printing...

Barcode Studio Beta Available: Mac/Windows Barcode Maker Software

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A fresh beta version of Barcode Studio - the popular barcode maker software was extended with basic barcode label printing features! NEW: Label Printing Barcode Studio V11 introduces two main features: Simple barcode label printing Generating barcodes with captions Both features help you to print simple barcode labels for articles, price tags, inventory labels, etc. within a minute. Just enter or import the data required and print thousands of labels with just a single click. The label printing feature works on all operating systems - Barcode Studio is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and UNIX. Video Preview Simplified User Interface In addition the user interface was simplified and provides now 3 main tabs which allows you to: Design a barcode and adjust all required code parameters. In this section you have also the possibility to add captions above and below a barcode. Enter or import data for batch label printing or batch barcode creation A label tab for...

BluePiano: A New Android Bluetooth Input Method

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BluePiano Bluetooth Input Method for Android The input method BluePiano extends Android with Bluetooth data acquisition . This new input method provides a Bluetooth-enabled soft-keyboard . This soft-keyboard captures Bluetooth data and forwards the received data to input fields of arbitrary apps. The data appears as entered by the user (watch the video on YouTube). BluePiano is typically used for barcode scanning with external Bluetooth barcode-scanners or for generic data acquisition tasks (e.g. to capture raw external GPS or medical device data). English, German, French, Russian and Swedish keyboard layouts are available. BluePiano is easy to use and provides you with connectivity feedback in the notification bar. For backup purposes BluePiano is also able to scan barcodes using camera barcode scanners (using the built-in or an external camera scanner app). BluePiano works with all Bluetooth SPP devices (Bluetooth devices supporting the Serial Port Profile, RFCOMM)....

Create vCard Business Cards with QR-Codes

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How to Create vCard Business Cards with Barcode Studio Some users of Barcode Studio are unsure regarding the correct data format for creating barcodes for so-called 2D code business cards. Such an "electronic” business card encodes the contact data in a QR-Code or a Data Matrix symbol. These codes can be scanned with your smartphone. The business card data is recognized automatically, you will never need to key in contact data manually! Most camera-equipped mobile phones are able to decode QR-Codes on such business cards (Data Matrix is not in common use until now). The example outlined in this post contains vCard sample data (.xls and .csv files) and a setting file for Barcode Studio . This settings file (*.BCS) can be used immediately to create premium quality QR-Codes with Barcode Studio. Creating a vCard Data Format A vCard barcode must follow certain rules, the different elements of a business cards (e.g. the phone number) are tagged with prefixes. Some sample prefix...