QR Codes: like barcodes, just better

Quick Response Code
A Quick Response Code

QR Codes, లేక Quick Response Codes, are all the rage nowadays. మీకు తెలుసా, those black-and-white barcode-looking thingies that show up on magazines, posters, and even some t-shirts.

A QR Code is actually fairly similar to a barcode: it’s an image that encodes data వంటి URL లు, phone numbers, words, మరియు మరింత. You can even take a picture and sort of turn it into a QR code (the picture is uploaded to the internet and the QR code encodes the URL of the picture.) Sure you lose some aesthetic value, but hey.

HTML5, CSS3, మరియు JavaScript: వెబ్ భవిష్యత్తు

నేను ముందు, చరిత్రలో క్లుప్త యాత్ర…

ఇది 1999. ఇంటర్నెట్ ఎక్స్ప్లోరర్ 5 హాట్ స్టఫ్ ఉంది, సాంకేతిక రంగ పెరుగుతోంది. మరియు మారియానో ​​Rivera వరల్డ్ సిరీస్ MVP ఉంది. మరియు యువ (పీల్చుకోవడం.)

ఒక వెబ్ డెవలపర్ తన కంప్యూటర్ లో ఉంది, కాఫీ త్రాగుతూ మరియు కొన్ని కోడ్ రాయడం. అతను ఒక బ్రౌజర్ ఆధారిత గేమ్ తయారు కోరుకుంటున్నారు. The only way he can do this is to use Adobe’s Flash platform to make an interactive movie and embed that in his website.

He wants to put a video on his site too. YouTube sounds like the name of a cheesy subway line, nothing more. Our developer has to make a Flash movie for that, కూడా.

డ్రాప్బాక్స్ తో ఫ్లాష్ డ్రైవ్ మర్చిపోతే

I’m sure this happens to a lot of people: you have an important file on your flash drive and you need to hand it in, print it out, or take it somewhere else. Only problem? You lose your flash drive. It’s happened to me far too many times.

So that’s why I decided to eschew flash drives and emailing stuff to myself and use the power of the internet.

I found డ్రాప్బాక్స్, which lets me access my files from anywhere as long as I have an internet connection. I don’t even need a flash drive any more; I can just store everything I need on my Dropbox account.