Tag: BARCODE

The holiday season is almost upon us, so there's never been a better time to arm your pocket pal with price comparison tools, to prepare yourself for that moment when you must step forth into the cold night air, battle the hordes, and attempt to find presents for your nearest and dearest. In that vein, eBay has just let fly an update for its iPhone app, which now includes barcode scanning courtesy ...

Amazon's iOS app got an update today, which brings barcode scanning to the already impressive Amazon Remembers photo matching service for iPhone 4 and 3GS. Now, no matter which shop you're in, you can quickly and easily find out how much it costs on Amazon, and even buy it, with a quick barcode scan. If you ever shop on Amazon or want to do a bit of price comparison (and who doesn't these days), ...

It seems, within the last few minutes, Facebook has started to roll out QR barcodes on profile pages. I don't mean your drunken and/or emo profile photos have been replaced by an ugly barcode -- I mean you can generate barcodes to be used by your smartphone. You can now generate either a personal barcode or a 'status QR barcode'. Facebook pages (fan pages) also have QR code generation. The ...

It just became a really good idea to take your Google Android device shopping with you. Android now packs a barcode scanning feature that plugs into Google's Mobile Product Search database, so you can compare prices on items you find and see if it might be cheaper to buy online. The scanner currently works best with media like books and dvds, or with electronics, but more products are being added ...

Being a designer requires at least some degree of perfectionism, a fact which often boils to the surface when working with imperfect tools– such as when one needs to create a barcode for a package or book cover design. We know of more than a few designers who have gone so far as to attempt to re-create an authentic looking barcode in Illustrator– something that takes way too much time ...