{"id":5228,"date":"2011-06-23T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/digital-world\/link-tip-create-your-own-2d-barcode\/06-2011\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T21:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:14:05","slug":"link-tip-create-your-own-2d-barcode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/communication\/link-tip-create-your-own-2d-barcode\/06-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Link Tip: Create Your Own 2D Barcode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ever wondered where those square pixel graphics come from? QR codes, or 2D barcodes, seem to be everywhere lately \u2013 for example at CeBIT last week and even on billboards. I have just come across the website goqr.me<\/a>, where you can generate these codes yourself.<\/p>\n

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2D Barcode<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

You can use the iPhone app Barcoo<\/a> to read the barcode. If, for example, you store a telephone number in the code and scan it with the app, you can call the number with one additional tap. That could be quite practical on a business card \u2026 This ease of use is probably one reason the codes are spreading so quickly.<\/p>\n\n

Here is the link again: QR Code Generator \u2013 Create QR Codes Online [2D Barcode, T-Shirt, Mug, Business Card, QR Code] \u2013 goQR.me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever wondered where those square pixel graphics come from? QR codes, or 2D barcodes, seem to be everywhere lately \u2013 for example at CeBIT last week and even on billboards. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":null,"_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[274,287],"tags":[388,374,288,308,343,318,348,330,290,443,358],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communication","category-technology","tag-apps","tag-computer","tag-hidden-gem","tag-how-to","tag-internet","tag-link-tip","tag-marketing","tag-mobile-communications","tag-technology","tag-viral","tag-web","post_format-post-format-link","bwp-blog-post","bwp-masonry-item","bwp-col-1","bwp-post-has-title"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/qrcode-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5230,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions\/5230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}