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We have noted that Facebook has started to test using QR Codes on their applications.

QR Codes are Quick response Codes ... Quick , because it is easily read. Response , because you can store plenty of information on it. Code, simply becaause it is a Code and needs to be decoded to be used.
A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. It was invented by the Japanese company Denso Wave in 1994.

QR Codes became first common in Japan, and has slowly spread over the rest of the world. Most new mobile phones will have a QR Code application. With this application you can scan a CR Code with the camera on your phone and the application will then generate an Url for a web address.

Below you will find the QR Code for my Blog here on Opera

The properties of this Code is:
Target url: http://my.opera.com/Eivindd/blog/
Content:
Type of code: QR-Code

Try to scan it with your Camera and you will get redirected to my Blog.
(Excited to see how many mobile Hits I will receive ;-)






Although initially used for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing, QR Codes are now used in a much broader context, including both commercial tracking applications and convenience-oriented applications aimed at mobile phone users (known as mobile tagging).

You might have noticed that QR Codes may appear in magazines, on signs, buses, business cards, or just about any object that users might need information about. Users with a camera phone equipped with the correct reader software can scan the image of the QR Code causing the phone's browser to launch and redirect to the programmed URL.
This act of linking from physical world objects is known as a hardlink or physical world hyperlinks. Google's mobile Android operating system supports the use of QR codes by natively including the barcode scanner (ZXing) on some models and the browser supports URI redirection, which allows QR Codes to send data to existing applications on the device. Nokia's symbian operating system is also provided with a barcode scanner, which is able to read QR Codes.

Users can also generate and print their own QR Code for others to scan and use by visiting one of several free QR Code generating sites. Such as : Beetag , Kaywa and many others.

So how will this be used ?
Well by including QR Codes on things that you want people to remember, you give other people an easy way of remembering it.
Try to go on a Party with a T-Sirt with your QR Code.. you might find someone visiting your profile next day

So what does the QR Code say?


Try to scan it and
You will see what the girl wants.








Or Place it on the back of your business card to make sure people can access your website


Or it can be in magazines and newspapers and you will find more detailed information about the subject by following the link of the QR Code.



Well Qr Codes have been around for many years, but with the use of more mobile phones with a QR reader, it will get even more commonly used.

You will surely see it around your place, look around for it.

Hope you will enjoy them... have fun

There are some interesting moves on the Tech scene these days.

Nokia says the new version of Ovi Maps that includes free walk and drive navigation has been downloaded over 1.4 million times since its introduction on 21 January 2010. Wow.. That is a lot. Guess we do not need the google maps on our Nokias anymore. But another interesting move is that the Downloads clearly makes a step towards making Ovi.com known as a Marketplace for applications. This is not new. Ovi, a further development from the MOSH (Mobilize and Share)platformhas been around for some years. I have used it to sync my Calendars and Contacts. The applications have also been around at Ovi.com for a while, but only recently I find it practical to use. Clearly this will be Nokia's answer to Apples move on the apps store.

A further result is probably that the makers of Navigation Devices will have a hard time going forward. So guess this will mean a good bye to Tom Tom, Becker & Co.



So what is Apple doing, they head away with a big iPod called iPad with plenty of new features. They allready have their applications site with plenty of apps you can use on your iPhone and ..iPad.

But did you know that the company may actually be hard at work on a second device already? Now, this might not be right because it originated from a good source, it was a second-hand source. Frrom what the roumors says, Apple is pretty far along on work on second tablet device. A bigger one. And this one may be much more like a Mac than an iPhone. And this is the interesting peace where they will meet the Chrome OS Platform and Google.

Chrome OS was created to be used with more traditional computing form factors, like netbooks and laptops. But there’s a new concept video that has surfaced on a Chromium Project page that very much shows how the two could and should compete head-on in the touch tablet space.



Again, this is just a concept video at this point, but it clearly shows what the people building Chrome OS are thinking about for future products. Oh, and in case you’re worried that since Chromium OS is an open source project, this is just some random person making these videos that Google is unlikely to use for Chrome OS, they were made by Glen Murphy, a Googler working on Chrome (with a sense of humor).

In addition Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. So Androids is also getting closer to iPhone functionalities.

I guess 2010 will be an exciting year.
I think Nokia will fight back on what they have lost in Market share since the iPhone came around. Ovi.com will help them and I do think they have the capabilities to make decent Hardware.
Apple is moving forward with what we had expected... so might look very Fancy, but I have the feeling that the iPad is not really new news.
Google is certainly heading forward to gain their peace of the Market. Will be exciting to see what Microsoft is coming up with

A year has gone bye... started with financial crisis..ended with new attacks. Iranian people is still fighting for peace. In Vietnam the communists have tightened the freedom of speech. A year is comming where we have many opportunities to do things better.

A decade has gone by..starting with the common use of mobile phones ending with mobile phones almost everywhere and people being always online. The decades started with El-Kaida and ended with the same terrorists.

Think the world has grown together. Us is no longer related to a country but we feel internationally connected. Think this is the spirit that will bring us forward in the next decade. Yes, we are not alone but we are all together on this small planet (the blue planet) which is like a small sandkorn in the universe.

The new year will surely bring us many interesting things, opportunities to prosper, fall in love, be able to do something we could not do before. Think the thought of freedom and democracy will spread around the globe the next decade. But there will also be difficulties on the way..

So let us join forces together to fight for openness, tolerance, democracy and human rights.

I wish you a great start in the new year.

So .. I will be out for a while,
no connection to Internet
No TV
Yes you are right I am going on Vacation...

Just wrapping up what I will think about during my Vacation.

My Number One theme will still be The Iranian people.
Knowing a very few people inside this country and my sons best friend is an Iranian, living in Germany. I find it shamefull that the world community has accepted the way the Iranian goverments have treated their people since the revolution in 1979.
Knowing that a man and a woman are not allowed to go out together, less they are related or have due permissions. And still then the Basijis might still question them going out together. The Basijis seems to be uncontrollable from a legal perspectiv regardless which legislation you base it upon.

Now the people in Iran has shown their courage and gone to the streets. They have joined forces saying NO, we don't want this anymore. I hope that their work will give humanity the fruits that the Iranian people deserves.

I have included a Video, which is worth to spend some minutes on. Hope you will all support the Iranian people as good as you can.



My Number two theme will be Burma
In Burma the people is strugling under the preassure of the dictatorship.
The trial agains Aung San Suu Kyi is getting towards their final stages, and I have the impression that the world has forgotten them.
Let us all have the Burmese people in our minds this summer, considdering what it would have been like if you had been born in that country.

Kirgisistan or Kyrgyzstan, there seems to be so many different ways to write this country Name
Another potential fraudulent election. Will the people of Kyrgyzstan reject it as the Iranians have done. I hope, and we should show international support as the web communities have done with Iran.

Then I will read a book borrowed from a friend..."Freaconomics" and
then I will think of nothing and anything and teach my kids how to sail..
then I will think of the friends from far away from whom I have not heard much lately, I miss you
then that is vacation

I wish you some interesting days.. and keep the world going allthough I will stop for some days

Official Iranian statistics reveals some interesting numbers which have been published by Chatamhouse .

These are official numbers and it is definitely worth reading. Thank you guys


Download Paper here



Working from the province by province breakdowns of the 2009 and 2005 results, released by the Iranian Ministry of Interior, and from the 2006 census as published by the official Statistical Centre of Iran, this paper offers some observations about the official data and the debates surrounding the 2009 Iranian Presidential Election.