Having a good business card can help you maintain contacts, promote yourself and your business, and make friends. By creating a personal business card that involves the recipient actively translating your card will make him more likely to remember you and share your card.
Remembering the decoder rings and my fascination with secret messages I thought I could make an interesting business card that could not only tell a story, but give useful information on how to contact me. I did this first using just a block out grid stencil, and secondly with a QR code acting as the grid.
Here's a video demo:
Remembering the decoder rings and my fascination with secret messages I thought I could make an interesting business card that could not only tell a story, but give useful information on how to contact me. I did this first using just a block out grid stencil, and secondly with a QR code acting as the grid.
Here's a video demo:
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This is the fun part. You can be creative here and write a fun story or any sort of document. A bit of spam perhaps, or something that describes your work. That is one of the more interesting things you can do with a decoder business card. Rather than worry about cramming all your contact info along with something that describes what you do. You can add both!
Make sure to include all the characters you want decoded. I started with a "B" because I wanted the first part of my name to show up on the upper left.
Make sure to include all the characters you want decoded. I started with a "B" because I wanted the first part of my name to show up on the upper left.
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That is L I N U X ,,,,,The FREE WORLD OS !!!!!!!!
But if you want to spend your money on Microsoft products over the FREE things you may vary well do so !
It always has to end on Free Free Free Opensource and then something about Microsoft.
I actually use Linux, but my main machine always will have Windows as OS until Linux freaks find a way to really run everything on Linux (wich you still cant) or give me an Linux alternative to some Applications (there are still a lot of applications where the alternatives just can't hold up)
So in the End your Answer doesnt help me at all because you didnt even tell me the name of that application/package.
Oh and just for information, i actually got 3 Linux boxes and 3 Windows boxes.
So i aint a Linuxhater ;)
the app itself is a little touchy since it uses webcam and most webcams dont have a focus. but i've gotten it to read with my eeepc
I'm not even a 'Nix hater, it's just that if you're going to trash an OS, please educate yourself and do it for the right reason, such as buggy, incomplete, and expensive operating systems, applications that are never even marginally tested before being released to the general public, etc.
I'm still looking forward to the day when Linux will actually run many of the applications that most people find to be a necessity, much less have a DirectX port, or even a decent version of OpenGL that's thoroughly developed... Yep... Still looking forward to that day...
Microsoft bashers just love to complain about alot of things.
Usually also because Windows would be "unstable" or "crash all the time", because they just dont know how to handle it.
And then they start with OpenSource and GPL. Then forget that there are a lot of free applications (even a lot under GPL) for Windows too.
Even Microsoft offers actually a lot of stuff as free versions.
And DirectX and OpenGL is another reason not to switch my main desktop to Linux.
Love to see somebody using 3D Studio on it.
It doesnt matter what we say, we are always wrong and have to proof like everything.
We use Windows so we are always wrong...
I just say, Linux & Windows are both good and strong operating systems.
We for shure need both of them.
But Linux aint doing it for anybody, and if you want to use certain applications then it doesnt matter how good you know your Linux.
And there also aint a good linux alternative for every application.
Maybee some day it will be like that, but today it aint.
If somebody is happy using linux, thats great.
If somebody is happy using windows, thats great too.
A friend of mine is running a pretty huge hosting company, and guess what, alot of security fixes.
But anyway your just that kind of person that can't bring up any real arguments.
All that i see from you is a polemic bashing on Microsoft without bringing anything to the discussion except that YOU hate Microsoft.
When you find some real arguments your welcome, otherwise i'm not gonna look further into your trolling. You already have been proved wrong.
When you then look at your own userpicture you see that there is no point in arguing with you anymore,.
Have a nice life.
The only problem in this case is that Microsoft can't afford to take the chances that Linux can, and as such may not come up with so many innovative ideas as Linux might. Also, Linux only has so many great features because of the fact that it's user-built. The entire community helps turn Linux into the great OS it is today. It still has serious flaws though.
As does Windows.
I use both Windows XP, Windows 7, and Linux, and I always will. Linux is great, but it can't do (or can't do as well/as easily) as Windows. Another flaw about Linux is that because there are so many different, custom distributions, not all programs that can run on one distro will run on another. If something runs on my Windows XP, it'll run on my friends Windows XP. It'll run on anyones XP.
But at the moment i try to get things in life sort out and don't see i could be any usefull as a freelancer right now.
and for the count of free Linux APPs there is well over 1500 just in depository of ubuntu. and for your looking for the newest distros and Linux news check out www.distrowatch.com so if microsoft is giviving VB.Net out for free and legel cool tell us how and where to get put a link up . another words back what your saying. it is so esey to post false clames online. I seen many of them
First, open your web browser (in Windows, that's usually Internet Explorer, Firefox (free) Opera (free) Chrome (free) or numerous other FREE browsers. Not sure what it would be in Linux, though I understand that as despicable as Windows is, in Linux there's a hard push to try and emulate it (called Wine) so you could check there as well.
Next, enter the following address in the "address bar." This is generally located at the top of the browser:
www.google.com
Once there, you will see a "search" text box. As I mentioned, VB.NET Express is the free version of VB.NET that I've used for years. To search for it, type in:
VB.NET Express
I understand how this can be confusing. Then press the "Search" button.
The first link on the page will be to the download page for the free version of VB.NET express.
To simplify, here is the link: Free VB.NET
programing code DOSE NOT GO BY THE IEEE STANDARDS and FACT Microsoft has had so much bad history of security bugs,,,Crashes world wide tons of Medea promoting how unreliable Vista and windows has been.
FACT Linux has been the BACK BONE of the INTERNET as well as MANY LARGE COOPERATIONS. FACT it take Linux firewall boxies to protect windows networks from intruders FACT CISCO devices are run on Linux OS Now use google and see for your self the FACTS
http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/default.aspx
Strange i got Visual Studio 2005 for free from Microsoft.
They actually got occasionally such promotions going.
And there are other IDEs that are always free.
I dont got any problem with the way Microsoft handles things, and in the end Windows and Linux are both really good operation systems.
Just for my Desktops, linux just doesnt do it for me.
Maybee you found everything you ever needed, i didn't.
But im pretty shure thats because i use different software for different purposes then you. :)
May 2010 be a better year for you and all of us
free & easy to use
I want something i can run locally :(
But im also not always able to get online and still need to prepare stuff :)
That being said, if you need something to generate code on the fly, depending on the amount of data you're needing to embed, you could always just use the standard UPC bar codes quite easily. That standard is free, and I even made my own TrueType 3 of 9 standard font for it. There is, naturally, a limitation to the number of characters you can handle using it, though.
Additionally, the QR coding is rather complex (there are internal format variations, CRC checks, etc.). I'm curious as to why with all the complexity and difficulty someone hasn't come up with a similar, open, free, and easy format?
However this would be a cool home made security pass key using a LED box and light censer code reader. HUMMM!!!!! I think I see a new project someone will be posting in the next year.
Turning your business card into a puzzle shows that you're more invested in your own cuteness than you are in making a clear and substantial business contact. This will not "l make him more likely to remember you and share your card...." It will more likely make him look once with a detached "what the...?" look on his face, just before tossing it in the wastebasket.
this may be fun for you and your friends, but completely misses the function of an effective communicative device.
Cute but useless.