Create QR Code On the Fly -

Ever seen those cool 2d Bar Codes (also called QR codes) and wondered how you could easily and quickly create these to point mobile phone users to a URL quickly?

Well, Google Charts API comes to the rescue. By appending the URL into call to the API, you can change at text URL like http://exhibita.com/blog into the following image:

All you need to do is anyplace that takes a URL to an image (an IMG tag in HTML, an Insert Image dialog from most editing tools, in your browser’s address bar, etc) just enter the following code:

   1: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=135x135&chl=http://exhibita.com/blog/

And that is our quick tip of the day!

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Michael Gibbs

I'm a technologist at heart, assisting companies best utilize the Internet to market themselves and sell their products and services online. This includes organizations as large as Google and as small as one or two individuals.
At Over The Top and Exhibit A Communications, I've programmed solutions for Google as well as at least one other company that was later acquired by Google.

I've been CTO of an Internet SaaS company and spent my time pretty evenly between guiding the future technical strategy of the company, architecting software solutions for my dev teams, designing and running a data center to service our clients world-wide as well as being a technical evangalist/sales engineer to our media clients large and small.

I've also been Chief Photographer of the Daily Sun/Post newspaper back when it was a 5-day a week daily newspaper.

I also spent a great many years as a beach lifeguardfor the City of San Clemente as well as Jr. Lifeguard instructor and then as it's program coordinator.
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