A few years ago a barcode scanner application popped up for the Treo 650. It was a fairly basic program that allowed you to use the camera of the Treo 650 to photograph barcodes and would copy the code to a clipboard. But that was where it ended, and I always wished it could do more like help me scan and organize all my CDs, or something like that.
Now there's a similar app for Windows Mobile called Barcorama and it takes a slightly different approach. With Barcorama you take a photo of a barcode and the app will open your web browser (Opera, PIE, Skyfire- you choose) and do a price comparison on any website of your choice (Google is the default.
Here I've snapped the barcode of my PC World magazine:
And then Barcorama routes the capture code into the site of my choice (I use PriceGrabber. Look here for instructions on how to use it):
This is such a great program for the holidays- you can use it for comparison shopping or you can whip it out at the company Xmas party and see who went over the limit on the gift exchange!
Now there's a similar app for Windows Mobile called Barcorama and it takes a slightly different approach. With Barcorama you take a photo of a barcode and the app will open your web browser (Opera, PIE, Skyfire- you choose) and do a price comparison on any website of your choice (Google is the default.
Here I've snapped the barcode of my PC World magazine:
And then Barcorama routes the capture code into the site of my choice (I use PriceGrabber. Look here for instructions on how to use it):
This is such a great program for the holidays- you can use it for comparison shopping or you can whip it out at the company Xmas party and see who went over the limit on the gift exchange!
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