Create a QR Code Badge for Your BBM Channel
BlackBerry put up a simple yet very useful tool this week in the BBM Channel Manager website utility. You can now easily create a badge for your BBM Channel to make it easier for people to join. It simply creates a pretty QR code for your channel as a badge. You can then just embed…
Free PassWallet Brings Support for Passbook Mobile Tickets to BlackBerry Smartphones
In case you have missed some of Apple’s latest “ground breaking features” let me introduce you to Passbook. Apple’s new iOS 6 added an application called Passbook that centralizes and manages your mobile tickets, loyalty cards, and coupons. Essentially it just stores a few pieces of information along with a QRCode or barcode in a…
Free QRem App Lets You Scan AND Create QR Codes on Your BlackBerry
While there are quite a few QR Code scanners out there for BlackBerry QRem is the first one I have seen that lets you generate and create QR codes from your device. They built their app to let you create your own QR codes for Contacts, Calendar Events, Tasks, URLs, Memos, PIN numbers, GPS…
Free QR Code Scanner for the BlackBerry PlayBook
The PlayBook has not had a proper QR code scanner until now. Chris let me know about a new app called QR Scanner by Tobias Rothe that just hit App World which works very well. Hopefully RIM includes QR code scanning in the PlayBook APIs in the future but until then check out QR…
Easy BlackBerry Browser Bookmarklets – Create QR Codes or Search BerryReview & More!
For those of you who don’t know what a bookmarklet is here is a brief description. A bookmarklet is a small bit of JavaScript code stored in the URL of a bookmark in your browser that is designed to add functionality by clicking on it. I was thinking about this concept when I was at…
AT&T Updates Their Coverage Reporting Tool and QR Code Scanner
I am not sure what the story is with AT&T’s BlackBerry development team but it has been a bit humorous recently. John let me know that AT&T has a free QR and Data Matrix barcode scanning app in App World that works well for some but for most people seems to be an epic fail….
ScanLife Offers IE, Firefox, and Chrome QR Code Generator Plugin
ScanLife is one of, if not the most, popular mobile QR code scanning apps on all platforms. There are quite a few ways to generate QR codes for any URL from your browser (my favorite being Mobile Barcoder) but ScanLife decided to make it easier with a new plugin for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome….
Free ScanLife Barcode Scanning App Updated for BlackBerry 6
If you have been scanning QR-codes and other barcodes with your BlackBerry you have probably heard of or even installed ScanLife. Nikolaus let us know that the developer just updated the free ScanLife app to 3.1.9 from 3.0.2 or 3.1.4 depending on your previous device. The new version is now compatible with BlackBerry OS 6…