What are these called, and how do I view whatever they are?
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August 3rd, 2013
One the right side of this picture is a little box, with pixels inside. I have seen people take pictures or something of these, and it brings up a website. What are these called, and what app is used to do this?
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I forget the name of them (someone will come along and tell us soon enough), but those are optical scan codes that can be read by smart phones to impart information via the coded pattern. In essence, they are the newest generation of bar codes.
If you know the way that bar code scanners can read the bar codes imprinted on products, then you understand the basics of how this works. However, these “bar codes” interact with the web, which normal (old-fashioned) bar codes do not.
They are called QR codes. “QR” stands for “quick response.” Like @CWOTUS said, you need an optical scanner to read them.
If you have a smartphone you can read them too with the camera. We would need to know iOS, Android, WP8 to tell you what app.
There are hundred of apps that do it. The QR code posted leads to this.
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@filmfann Thanks for educating me. I’d wondered what those were as well, but never thought to ask.
My wife has an Apple iPhone 5. What app should I use/get?
Go to iTunes on the phone and look for a QR Reader, should be free. I use Android so . . . I can’t be more specific.
Bee Tag is a free one I downloaded from iTunes. Not quite sure yet how to use it though.
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