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Some of you may have noticed a strange badge appearing on the lower part of the pages at the new MyCen Maps beta. The thingy is a QR (Quick Response) Code. So what can you do with it?
Scanning a QR Code
Just like barcodes, the QR codes contain info that can be extracted with a scanner. With an iPhone, Android or Symbian smartphone, you can install a scanning application and the phone’s camera will function as a bar code reader.
For my Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S, I use the free app ‘Barcode Scanner’, downloaded from the Market. Just point the camera at the code on your PC screen (screenshot 1) and it will convert it to a link almost instantly (screenshot 2). You can then either e-mail, bookmark or open it right away in your mobile browser (provided data, 3g or gprs connection is available).
Why would you want to get a particular MyCen Map page into your mobile phone? When you are on the road and heading for that unfamiliar area. All the integrated info such as map, pictures, nearby hotels, police stations, landmarks, GPS coordinates and other links will come in handy.
Of course, there are other ways to get an address into your phone but this is a quick and dirty method. Incidentally, the codes can be printed and scanned off a t-shirt too, if the wearer is not too voluptuous 🙂
I started blogging in 1998, during the days of the now defunct Geocities. It was the days of 14Kbps! Yeah. The speed of which my current Streamyx 4Mbps ‘broadband’ emulates ever so often.
The word Blog wasn’t even invented then. I moved my Dua Sen blog from within MyCen portal to its own domain and server at tvsmith.net.my in 2006.
Dua Sen Blog
I was saddled with a legacy problem. My entire blog was html-handcoded on a notepad, originally. It worked fine but updating was a chore as I had to manually update the rss, related links, ftp and do a bunch of other stuff each time.
Here I am, twelve years on and succumbing to CMS and template blogging. I am also moving the photography blog over here. House warming soon and you are all invited. Boloka is Hokkien for Blog, by the way.