Igor Delovski Board

[delovski]

On Slashdot: Barcodepedia - a Social Network Barcode DB

"Barcodepedia is a community-based online barcode database, where
everybody can contribute whichever barcodes they have lying around on
their crowded desks simply by holding it in front of your webcam. The
database is completely free to use, and everyone is invited to participate.
The site should be available in French, Russian, German and Swedish
within a week, so get all your friends and go to your local store with a
laptop for massive fun. Donations of cuecats and other specialized
scanners are welcomed."

[delovski]

Joel: Library Apps for Macintosh

"It quickly connected to Amazon.com, downloaded images, descriptions,
prices, etc., and put charming little pictures of the books on a charming
simulated wood bookshelf."

[Ike]

Smartpox: Bar Codes For The Web

"The technology allows users to encode URL links, phone numbers,
email, and text into 2D barcodes. These codes can then be read using a
cameraphone running the J2ME Smartpox reader. So a Smartpox is
essentially a 2-dimensional barcode, which contains data that can be
decoded using the Smartpox reader in a mobile phone."

[Marko]

CodeGuru: TBarCodeDLL—Board the Barcode Bandwagon

"Reap great benefits from barcode integration. The TBarCode DLL
component is a barcoding solution you can use to print reports or stickers
that will verify inventory when scanned."

[XNote]

Digg: I am not a number!

"Well, the most used bar code, based on the Universal Product Code (UPC)
standard, first appeared in 1974 on a pack of Wrigley's chewing gum in
Ohio. - However, isn't RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) going to replace
bar codes?"

[Ike]

CodeGuru: RFID Programming Made Simple and Cheap

"Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) has been getting a ton of
coverage in the press ever since Wal-mart stated that they were going to
require their suppliers to tag products. Over the past few years, the ability
to use RFID has gotten not only cheaper, but also easier to use. By the end
of this article, you'll see just how easy it has gotten to implement a passive
RFID system that hooks into your applications. I use C# and .NET in my
example, but you could also use Java or several other languages to do
the same thing."

[Ike]

Free barcode software

"Over the past months, however, organic traffic from Google.com dropped
from an average of 1'000 or so visitors / day to exactly zero. ... We didn't
find a way to remedy this situation because, although being a multi billion
dollar company, Google doesn't seem to have a phone number.

Anyway, the resulting revenue from the current sales is far too low to maintain
this site, to continue development of the software and to provide customers
with good, useful, timely, and free support. We have therefore decided to call
it quits and release all our barcode software into the Public Domain."

[delovski]

Slashdot: Microsoft Finds a Home For Barcode

"MicroBarcode writes in about the color barcode technology that Microsoft
developed but shelved two years back because nobody adopted it.

The technology promised a way to link packaging to Web sites — and once
cell phone cameras get good enough, Microsoft hoped lots of people would
use it. It seems the technology has finally found a home: the ISAN Inter-
national Agency has inked a deal with Microsoft."

[delovski]

Bar Code Diagram

"UPC A, UPC E, EAN 13, ISBN, PostNet, Code 39, Code 128, Data Matrix, Maxicode"

[Ike]

JoS: Generating Barcodes in Java

"I'd need those barcodes: Code39, Code93 (this one is especially hard to find),
Code128 (Type: A, B, C), EAN-13, EAN-128)."

[delovski]

JoS: Software to print barcode?

"Are there applications that take a number and take care of translating that
into a barcode?"

[Ike]

Slashdot - "Pull" Barcode Scanning Could Be Android's Killer App

"The release of T-Mobile's G1 Smartphone is shifting focus away from push-
based barcode scanning, where embedded URLs send you to locations of a
vendor's choosing. There is now more interest in pull-scanning, where product
information is retrieved from user-specified sources. It may be that QR-Codes
and other 2D barcodes will have their thunder stolen by 1970s-era linear bar-
codes. On the iPhone, scanning a 1D barcode is slow and unreliable. But the
G1's improved optics and Android's improved access to image scans has made
1D scanning quick and useful, opening the gateway for killer apps that help
people make spending decisions."

[Ike]

Slashdot: Microsoft Tag, Smartphone-Scannable Barcodes

"Microsoft Research has come up with Microsoft Tag: '...just aim your camera
phone at a Tag and instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact
information, maps, social networks, promotions, and more. Nothing to type,
no browsers to launch!' Device support is fairly extensive (iPhone, WinMo,
BlackBerry and more), and tag scanning appears to work quickly and reliably
from different distances and angles. Long Zheng has an overview on his
site.

The Tag is similar to a barcode, but has obvious visual differences — colored
vs. black and white, and triangles vs. squares or lines. The technology looks
interesting, but will it get the adoption necessary to be successful? What app-
lications do you see for such technology?"

[delovski]

iphonedevsdk.com - 1d barcode dicoding for iphone

"Sounds like BarCode Scanner is a good choice, since it is written for Cocoa."

[delovski]

ismashphone.com - Red Laser - The First Accurate iPhone Barcode
Scanner - Hits The App Store

"Red Laser, which has just hit the iTunes App Store, is the ultimate iPhone
barcode scanner, which works just like one of those red-laser scanners at
the checkout (hence the name.)"

[Ike]

news.cnet.com - The bar code is taking a leap forward

"Samplesaint, a mobile marketing company in Chicago, for example, has de-
veloped technology that lets supermarket scanners pick up the image of a
coupon bar code directly from the display on a cellphone."

[delovski]

code.google.com - cocoabarcodes

"2D Barcodes for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch (Mac & iPhone)

Cocoa Barcodes is a set of classes (and a test application) for generating
two-dimensional barcodes. It supports many of the more common one-di-
mensional linear barcodes in use today, allows you to export a barcode as
a TIFF, EPS, or PDF image, to copy the barcode image to the pasteboard,
or to drag it to any other application that accepts standard OS X PDF data
from the pasteboard, including TextEdit."

[delovski]

MF - Apple Experimenting With RFID-Enabled iPhone Prototypes?

"Near Field Communications World reports (via 9 to 5 Mac) that Apple is
rumored to be testing a prototype of its next-generation iPhone equipped
with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip."

[delovski]

reddit.com - Can anyone recommend a good iPhone app for scan-
ning those square barcodes?

"inigma is the best. It scans them far faster and doesn't require pushing
'use this image' buttons. I know because one day I was bored and I instal-
led every single free one and tried them all."

[Ike]

Scanning Barcodes with iOS 7 (Objective-C)

http://www.infragistics.com/community/blogs/torrey-betts/archive/2013/10/10/scanning-barcodes-with-ios-7-objective-c.aspx

[delovski]

github - TheLevelUp/ZXingObjC

"ZXingObjC is a full Objective-C port of ZXing ("Zebra Crossing"), a Java
barcode image processing library. It is designed to be used on both iOS
devices and in Mac applications.

The following barcodes are currently supported for both encoding and decoding:

UPC-A and UPC-E
EAN-8 and EAN-13
Code 39
Code 93 (not implemented yet)
Code 128
ITF
Codabar
RSS-14 (all variants)
QR Code
Data Matrix
Aztec ('beta' quality)
PDF 417 ('alpha' quality)"

[Ike]

git - C language EAN13/UPC-A barcode generator

"Based on: https://github.com/astrokin/EAN13BarcodeGenerator

Implements a simple EAN13/UPC-A barcode generator for use in C applications"