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I'm doing some printed adverts where I need to generate some QR codes for links to micro-sites.
A quick google produces a multitude of software solutions for doing this. Some free, some not. I hate trawling through software gubbins. And don't want to be downloading and installing random crap on't Mac
Does anyone have any experience of any applications for generating QR codes? Any recommendations oh wise ones?
Thanks
Look on the Mac App Store - there's a freebie one that works fine. Can't remember it's name but it's near the top of the free app chart.
Thank you very muchly all.
Interesting article idave. Not really applicable to what I'm using the codes for. Its not 'advertising' as such. I need them for literature for sales teams and distributors. Specifically for their new ipads. They need to access a lot of different micro-sites. So in this case the QR codes are being used.
If you have an iPhone, there are several apps that read and generate QR codes. I've got several, and they work fine.
There's a lot of different ones and they all ostensibly do the same job. One of the first ones I came across was the one on Nokia's website. It's as good as any.
My survey was conducted in San Francisco, the veritable Mecca of the planet for tech, so it only goes downhill from here
Funny that, I work in a techy area so I reckon everyone around me would know what it is and how to decode it, but I also know that elsewhere in the UK plenty of people know what they are and how to decode it, from doddering old women in the local council to museum curators. I can only assume that the survey was either flawed or carried out in the local idiot village.
I think the biggest issue with using it *in advertising* is that unless it's on a magazine page or a product people can hold in their hand, few are going to whip out their mobile and scan a street poster or wave it at the TV. They're very good for use in places like museums where they can link to more info on an item.
I find this use quite innovative:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-07-19-qr-codes-smartphones_n.htm