2D Barcodes & High Fashion

One of these days someone is going to bring barcodes to the masses. Today's NY Times has a piece about QR codes on custom scarfes.Kaywa, the company involved, is in Europe. Phone capabilities are as much a function of the wireless carrier as the physical phone itself. That means yanks have to wait til the Japanese & Europeans figure it all o...

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Dennis Quaid Is Down With Barcodes

Imagine my surprise and delight when I read that Dennis Quaid is a barcode fanboy. He's going to sue Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles unless they implement a barcode system.Hey Dennis, wanna be on my Board of Directo...

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Do barcodes need a Wiki of their own?

To quote those involved: "a site for storing user generated information to be stored against a product, identified by its barcode number."A show of hands please. All in favor say "aye"...

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China & Tibet

Sometimes current events are so stark and immediate that they demand that we all do the right thing. To that end, I sent the following email to both the Chinese embassy and the China's ambassador to the UN:Wang GuangyaAmbassador and Permanent RepresentativeChinese Mission to the United Nations, I would like to lodge a strong complaint about how the People's Republic of China has responded to the...

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New Retail Webinar

Upcoming webinar "How Retailers Can Thrive In a Challenging Economy" will focus on principles that will help reshape the way retailers manage their retail operations and prosper, no matter what the economy is doing.Featured speaker is Kevin McAdam, retail expert from One Step Retail Solutions.Registration is free, but required.Register n...

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Barcodes & Christians? What about 666?

Hey. I thought Christians associated barcodes with Satan. You know, UPC barcodes include the Mark of the Beast. The Devil's in bar codes.Well, here's a church embracing barcod...

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Barcodes in Excel, Word, and Access

Need to make barcodes in Microsoft Office applications? Mail merge with Code 128 barcodes using Excel and Word? Perhaps you're doing UPC barcodes in an Access database.Wouldn't it be nice to have free sample code like macros, plug-in's, etc. to do all the hard work for you? Heck, who wants to write code from scratch for things like check digits? Not me! I'd rather bolt on a pre-built widget, how...

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