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Barcode Patent Celebrates 57th Anniversary and is Featured as Google Encoded by Code 128, Today, October 7, 2009 : Generate Your Own Barcode Free
The barcode patent rules Google today.
As you can read at Google-Logos.com
if you search via Google on this particular day,
instead of the name Google on the Google search engine pages,
you will see their Google doodle,
which today is a barcode for the word Google, as below,
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com gives us more details in his Washington Post article New Google Logo Celebrates The Barcode. Arrington surmises that the Google barcode was created with Google's open source ZXing ("Zebra Crossing"), a "multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library implemented in Java".
Via product-reviews.net we found a free barcode generator at BarCodesInc.com, where we generated a barcode for LawPundit (TM) as follows, encoded by Code 128, Subset B, which supports numbers and upper-case and lower-case letters. We set the generator at X-Resolution 2 and Text Font 5:
Great fun.
Now all we have to do is to figure out a viable use for that same LawPundit barcode.
Permalink : Andis Kaulins : 10/07/2009 06:38:00 PM
Barcode Patent Celebrates 57th Anniversary and is Featured as Google Encoded by Code 128, Today, October 7, 2009 : Generate Your Own Barcode Free
The barcode patent rules Google today.
As you can read at Google-Logos.com
if you search via Google on this particular day,
instead of the name Google on the Google search engine pages,
you will see their Google doodle,
which today is a barcode for the word Google, as below,
"The new doodle from Google marks the 57th anniversary of the day the first patent was made on the bar code. "That barcode reads "Google" encoded by Code 128, which is used for alphanumeric or numeric-only codes like ASCII and also by the packaging and shipping industries. The barcode used for products in stores is UPC, the Universal Product Code.
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com gives us more details in his Washington Post article New Google Logo Celebrates The Barcode. Arrington surmises that the Google barcode was created with Google's open source ZXing ("Zebra Crossing"), a "multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library implemented in Java".
Great fun.
Now all we have to do is to figure out a viable use for that same LawPundit barcode.
Permalink : Andis Kaulins : 10/07/2009 06:38:00 PM
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