QR Codes
QR Codes are a two-dimensional image that can contain data
or even links. In Italy they are not yet widespread but in the East they
are everywhere, for example on restaurant menus, wine lists, catalogs or
even on buildings, magazines or advertising, mainly because they
can be photographed easily and quickly with a mobile phone and then sent
using a special free downloadable app, thus conveying detailed
information about a person, company or product, much like a link to a website
or a feed to your blog. We think it's a simple and powerful way of bringing
into our offline environment a bit of the information about us that is normally
only online.
So we decided to make available for free to all inhabitants of the Vinix
world a custom QR code which by default leads to your personal Vinix page
with all the information about you that you posted there. To holders of
a Pro Plan we offer the possibility to modify the content of QR Code, allowing
them to associate it to a different link (for example, to their corporate
website) or to a short text (for example, a brief presentation). You can
also download your QR code in high resolution and print it on any
support you feel appropriate (a shirt, the back label of a wine,
the front door of a restaurant, your letterhead, your van, your restaurant?s
menu, advertising, etc.).. In other words, create a mashup between the Internet
and the offline world, enriching the experience of those who'll be looking
for information about you.
Here's a list of free software to read the QR Code on various mobile
phone models:
I-Nigma
Reader: http://www.i-nigma.com/Downloadi-nigmaReader.html
(Dopod, HTC, i-mate, LG, Mio, Motorola, Nokia, Orange SPV, Palm, QTek, Samsung,
Sony Ericsson, T-Mobile, Cingular, O2, Sprint, Swisscom, Verizon, Vodafone
and more)
BeeTagg: http://www.beetagg.com/downloadreader/
(Apple, Blackberry, HTC, LG, Mio, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Samsung, Siemens,
SonyEricsson and SPV)
ScanLife: http://www.getscanlife.com/
(Apple, BlackBerry, Nokia and Samsung)
Kaywareader: http://reader.kaywa.com/getit
(Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson)
Upcode: http://www.upcode.com/page/1346211
(Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, Panasonic, Blackberry,
LG, HTC and Vodafone)
SnapMaze: http://www.snapmaze.com/?q=node/7
Tutti cellulari con Java
NeoReader: http://www.neoreader.com/download.html
(Apple, Blackberry, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson)