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Twittercode

Twittercode. Made with SWX. You can find out more about SWX at swxformat.org. Follow me on Twitter.

Playing with my new Nokia N95, I saw that it comes with a barcode reader. How cool! And Nokia has a site where you can make your own barcodes. Nice! :) Oh, and look, the API they're using is RESTful. And, by the way, did I mention that I love Twitter? :P

Comments

Friend of mine here just tried this on the N95 but it contains a lot of question marks around the URL, any idea why that might be?
by Richard Leggett on 2007-04-19 11:37:06
hmm - works fine on the N73 etc. That said, the Kaywa reader is *much* quicker than the Nokia one -> http://www.kaywa.com/
by Pete on 2007-04-19 12:18:23
Hi Richard, It might have to do with how the barcode reader handles international characters. I just set the example to my friends list so it should mostly be western characters from here on. And Pete's tip is a good one: the Kaywa reader is in a class of its own. You may also have hit it when I had a version that wasn't escaping the message correctly! :)
by aral on 2007-04-19 12:25:45
Pretty cool stuff. I installed the nokia reader on my N80. Worked great a couple of times on screen, then it didn't work at all. Tried printing out some codes, then it worked again, then not, then worked. On and off! No idea why that happens. I can't find a pattern.. not light conditions or anything like that.
by Martin on 2007-04-19 18:58:41
..and then I installed the Kaywa-reader. Works super fast and every time. The navigation is a bit more cumbersome than the Nokia reader, though.
by Martin on 2007-04-22 22:36:57