Deciphering QR codes

Lately I have been seeing lots these small black and white like barcodes on many sites and in different places, so today I chosen to decipher these codes.

If you do a lot of your browsing on a mobile device I can guess you have already seen the thousands and thousands of the small squared boxes on many of the mobile sites. And most recently seen them on T-shirts, posters and also banners in many places including hangout joints!

These small boxes known as Quick response (Qr) codes are taking over the mobile world, almost all technology bloggers have them on their sites and even the established websites like Wikipedia, BBC, Google are all using them for their mobile sites.

The technique behind these Qr codes is that one has a Qr reader installed on their mobile device which then decodes the information in the Qr code, which could be a url, plain text or any other alpha numeric information stored in the code!

                                                           

So if you have a device running android any version or the Iphone OS go straight to the respective App markets and download a Qr reader / scanner, there are lots of them install one on your device and your good to go. Try this....

There is this site (http://tinyurl.com/5dd59g) where you can have your Qr code created, visit and make your own Qr code then go ahead and share it with others!

Well so next time you see a Qr code don't freak just pull out your phone and scan or read the Qr code and enjoy the benefit of accessing information in a supper fast way. 

Peace

Friday 29th, April 2011 while the rest of the world (At least 2 billion viewers) were watching the British royal wedding back home, Kampala was in a state of lock down, life seemed to have stopped for a while and the streets were littered with debris, burnt tires and were akin to those on the  war front.

Peace for us all

But If you had been following the events on the news over the last couple of weeks over the #walktowork protests, the arrest of Dr. KB, the governments' response to all that was happening then this would not be surprising at all.

Given the brutal action movie like arrest of #Besigye and his aides for the oba what time.

Ugandans of all walks of life took to the streets to protest this, remember in physics, we learnt that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, the police forgot this and went ahead and brutally used tear gas, sprayed pepper, fired at fellow Ugandans in the name of dispersing the rioters!

The police was joined by the army and military police and the clashes were horrible, however what was most noticeable was how these police chaps were really trained to spank fellow Ugandans!!

Because the Ugandan media had no balls to broadcast what was going on in their country but instead opted for the Royal wedding, twitter today became my companion from the different tweets I was able to know what was happening around me! And since today I couldn't do much or influence any of the happenings which I wish I could, all I can do is rant here and hope that people can know that the only constant is life is change!

Good night...