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Old 03-19-2025, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by ltcdfancher View Post
My wife and I close on our new home in The Villages in less than 48-hours. We plan to have some calling cards made to share our details with new-found friends. Being ever-so-slightly geekish, I am considering a QR Code along with the traditional numbers and letters.

I went to one of those Generate Your Free QR Code Here websites. Wham-Bam. In less than five minutes, I had my VCard embedded (I thought) in a QR Code. A few days later and after I had some cards printed, the email came through saying that my free-trial had expired; my QR Code was now inactive.

Some more research revealed that QR Codes can encode simple text. A VCard is just a bunch of text strings in a particular format. I found the correct format. Entered my info into the correct places in the format. Then I copied that information into a different QR Code generator as plain text. Screenshot the result and everything seems to work.

What hurdles might I find as I distribute my contact information this way?
don't spend a lot on those, and forget the QR codes, many aren't that savvy, let alone many will take your card never to be heard from again.
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