{"id":82,"date":"2010-12-10T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-12-10T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T21:12:16","slug":"qr-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/2010\/12\/10\/qr-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"QR Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to look at QR Codes after being inspired by a link posted by <a title=\"@ekcragg\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ekcragg\" target=\"_blank\">@ekcragg<\/a> on <a title=\"QRapping\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qrappingpaper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">QR Code wrapping paper<\/a>. QR Codes provide an easy way for users of smart phones to access URLS, text, phone numbers &amp; SMS. You simply scan the barcode with your phone and are directed to some text, a website etc. For a fun introduction to QR codes I&#8217;d recommend Scott&#8217;s blog post <a title=\"Scott's eLearning blog\" href=\"http:\/\/scotthibberson.co.uk\/eLearningLibrary\/?p=916\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Practical Applications for QR Codes in the Library&#8217;<\/a> with a CSI style murder mystery in the library<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5010\/5235817470_870b399d7f_m.jpg\" alt=\"Managed to capture the screen with QR code in Waitrose ad - but no hope of successful decoding from this\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am seeing QR codes popping up all over the place, on take away coffee cups as a way to enter competitions, on posters and on the current Waitrose TV advert, although you have to be quick if you want to scan it!<\/p>\n<p>So if you have a smart phone with a QR code reader why not scan the code below<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/qrcode.90308.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84\" title=\"QR Code\" src=\"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/qrcode.90308.png\" alt=\"QR Code\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/qrcode.90308.png 200w, http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/qrcode.90308-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to look at QR Codes after being inspired by a link posted by @ekcragg on QR Code wrapping paper. QR Codes provide an easy way for users of smart phones to access URLS, text, phone numbers &amp; SMS. You simply scan the barcode with your phone and are directed to some text, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festive24things2010","tag-qr-codes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.librarycraft.com\/festive24things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}