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Starting with our April 5th edition, you can expect to see “QR codes” published with some of the articles in The Journal.
Short for “quick response”, the QR code was invented in 1994 in Japan for the automotive industry to track inventory.
In the years since, QR codes have been used in a multitude of new ways — from inventory to advertising to internet pranks.
These blocky, boxy, square-looking graphics can contain a variety of useful information including phone numbers, web addresses, email addresses, and even plain old short “hidden” messages.
Though QR code-reading apps have been around for several years for mobile phones, it’s only relatively recently that changes to software have made the most popular phone brands QR-friendly.
Apple, for example, has implemented a native QR code reader into the camera application on its phones, starting with the last major update.
To read a code, all a user has to do is open the camera on their phone and point.
A notification then pops up inviting the user to take an action based on the information in the code.
For a website, it may ask to open a web browser.
For a phone number, it may ask to save or dial that number.
Articles in The Journal often include web addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.
If you work at NSA Bethesda and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, you may recognize that with some of the lengthy email and web addresses, it can be a challenge to transcribe that information – however useful it may be.
QR codes will allow us to provide at least one “shortcut” by giving you a way to capture these useful pieces information with your phone. We hope to save you the hassle of employing the old hunt-and-peck method – and possibly your reading glasses – to get that dreadfully long piece of data from our newspaper to your device.
Hopefully, you’ll agree.
As always, thank you for reading The Journal.
| Date Taken: | 03.22.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 03.22.2018 11:48 |
| Story ID: | 270228 |
| Location: | BETHESDA, MARYLAND, US |
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