Good looking QR codes have a scan rate at least 4 times higher than normal black and white QR codes. But that's not all, branding QR codes with your company color and logo promotes brand awareness and provides additional and easy exposure to the mobile market.

Ch'ing-Wa Sheng

He's the mastermind behind the shop. He wanted that everyone should be able to make unique customized QR codes in a fast and easy way. We gave him our QR code generator, pots of paint, a roller and some brushes and asked him to show us what exactly he had in mind. And this is what he came up with....

We thought his idea was rather cool so we made it mobile friendly and added the ability to dynamically add new languages for him. It currently has five languages, managing translations and adding new languages is a breeze.

Who wants a custom QR code shop

Retirement looms for Ch'ing-Wa Sheng and he is looking for candidates to continue in his spirit. If you are interested in running a custom QR code shop, then check out how it works here and get in touch with us.

Using styled QR Codes to get your Pinterest pins exposed to mobile devices and smartphones.

If you have a Pinterest account, you can coonect mobile devices directly to your pin collection, simply place your Pinterest account details in the generator with possibly a caption with a discription of your pins. To determine your account settings see the image below.

Pinterest Pins QR Code Generator

Another great way to expand your social media presence on mobile devices.

Expand your Xing social network using QR codes

Xing is mobile friendly and QR codes are thus an ideal way to expose your Xing social media profile and gain more contacts and credibilty in your network circles. If you don't know what Xing is, check it out here...http://www.xing.com/

All you need is to know your Xing profile information, enter this in our free online styled Xing generator, and you'll have the perfect tool to use in brochures and other printed matter to allow mobile devices and smartphones get connected to you.

Another great free social media QR code support tool from QR4 to boost your social media presence.

Active on other social media platforms? Then our other services may also interest you!

• Your Facebook profile QR code
• A Facebook Page 'Like" QR code
• Personal LinkedIn QR Code
• Pinterest Pins
• YouTube Video Links
• Sending Twitter Tweets via QR codes
• Styled Twitter 'Follow Me' QR codes
• Expose your twitter profile to mobile devices

Have we missed something? Need a QR code to get your social activitity more mobile? Let us know what you need and we'll make work of it.

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Active Navigation via QR codes

Mobile devices with GPS (Global Positioning System) capabilities and that have one or other navigation application onboard can make use of QR codes to activate as example, a route planner, for realtime navigation activation.

Like the sextant (six piece od a circle measurement) a nautical and astronimical device to determine the longitude using Greenwich time, our modern electronic devices need three components to make it work.

• GPS receiver and processor
• Navigation and mapping application
• QR Code reader capable of understanding geo-encoded data

Creating navigation QR codes

QR4 provides a free QR Code Navigation Generator

There are other geolocation and routing options

For devices that do not have GPS, nor mapping capabilities, but do have a QR code reader the use of an Internet service is the best choice to show where the co-ordinates you have encoded are on the globe. It stands to reason that navigation will need to be done externally by entering your current location in the online service.

The requirements for this type of service are:

• Available Internet connection (via any type of connection, teathered or wireless)
• QR code reader capable of understanding a request to go to a resource on the Internet

Passive geolocation and routing

QR4 provides a free QR code Geographic Generator

So now you can implement active and passive (via an external service) geo-location using QR codes.

Which type of QR geo-coding is best to use when and where?

Let me start off with: If it's printed, painted, projected or anything in the analogue world...use QR codes. If it's digital and portable DON'T!

Both types have their merritts. If you want people to know where you are, play safe and use the passive version, knowing that if that service fails or changes it's way of working, your published and printed QR codes could become totally useless. If you need to guide people to your location the navigation QR code is your best option, but will only work with mobile devices meeting the three criteria for direct navigation ability. The choice is yours. As complete measure you could consider providing both geo-location types to service as wide an audience as possible.

Maps and Navigation QR code examples

Never The Same Color QR codes

An abstract QR code generator, using a random number generator to determine the unique color of each element of the QR code. It also allows you to change the shape of the elements between square and round or use both. It's called the 'Candy QR code generator'.

It creates transparent background PNG bitmap files at a pretty reasonable resolution. Every QR Code that is generated is unique in it's color composition, even if the information inside it remains the same.