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New in the CrackBerry App Store - Scan an item's barcode to easily move from desktop to device!

By Kevin Michaluk on 22 Jul 2010 02:45 pm
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We always try to keep the CrackBerry App Store updated with the latest and greatest features to make browsing and purchasing apps as simple as possible. The latest feature is a welcome one and helps to make finding exactly what you need quicker and easier. Now when browsing the store from your computer, on all application pages you'll see an individual QR code (barcode) specific to each app. When you find an app you like, simply scan the barcode and you'll have more info right in your mobile browser. You can take advantage of the many free barcode readers available for BlackBerry (they can be used to scanning barcodes everywhere) and check out this cool new feature. Head into the CrackBerry App Store from your PC/Mac to check it out!

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mattpowell19

You can also go into your BBM and go to "scan a group barcode" and then hold it to computer screen to scan the QR barcode and it works just great. A lot of the barcode reader apps are very sensitive but the scanner in BBM works great!!

kent1915

I used it yesterday and it worked slick.

dasDestruktion

Awesome addition MobiHand! Thanks! :p

hammerhead1

Used it and it worked great. Glad to see it, hope the rest of the world catches on.

BBThemes

is an awesome feature, have been running QR on my site for a few months now, i use Q-air to generate the codes, a free adobe app, and yea using the codes is far better than copying and pasting a URL into and email and sending to your device

tttc24

I just tried this out and works great!

Irving94

Crackberry... Always a step ahead of RIM themselves.

schlice

I found this reader very much by accident, and it seems they have both a QR generator on the website (beetagg.com) and a QR reader for a very extensive list of phone models, including the 8900. The OTA download page is http://get.beetagg.com. It uses "snapshot mode" on the BB, which means you actually take ther picture of the code. This is unlike BBM, which scans QR codes in "realtime mode," which uses the camera view without snapping the pic.

The code manager on the site allows you to track the number of clicks on your QR or Datamatrix code (whatever you generate) and it looks like they do this by redirecting all their QR links through their own website. It was a little unnerving the first time I scanned a QR code with BeeTagg and instead of taking me to the CB AppStore, it wanted to send me to r.beetagg.com (which, as it turns out, is their click-tracking redirector). The basic generator and clicktracking manager are free; they also offer a Pro Manager targeted at publishers and companies who want to include QR codes on their products.