{"id":4798,"date":"2012-05-17T07:11:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T21:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:33:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T05:33:02","slug":"stepping-into-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2012\/05\/17\/stepping-into-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"stepping into the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have never had a mobile (cell) phone before, until about 2 weeks ago. I have always resisted, feeling that I did not need one. About a month ago though, I decided that the time had come, and that it might now be useful. And so I am now the owner of an Android smartphone.<\/p>\n

I realise that for some, today’s post is going to be gobbledegook to you. And until a few weeks ago, it probably would have been for me too! I apologise if this post boggles your brain or completely bamboozles you.<\/em><\/p>\n

Having a smartphone means that I can now investigate some things that might be useful for me to use with my business. Things like apps and QR codes.<\/p>\n

\"Vetty<\/a>I have looked at QR codes (2 dimensional barcodes that can be read with certain phone apps – there’s one shown on the right), and wondered if they can be useful to me for Vetty Creations. I think the answer is yes, but only in some circumstances.<\/p>\n

If you are not reading this on your phone, and have your smartphone handy, you might want to see if the QR code shown works for you. If you can let me know what happened when you did, that would be great (and whether you have an iphone, ipad, android phone or windows phone or something else…?) You’ll need a QR code reader app to do this. The one I have is Google Goggles. I’m not saying its the best one or recommending it particularly, its just the one I have.<\/p>\n

If you’re reading this blog post on your phone, then I have no idea how you’re going to use that phone to scan a QR code that is on its screen! (You can’t!) If you are reading this on your phone though, then that would be very interesting for me to know too.<\/p>\n

Now, what that QR code is supposed to do is to take you to the Vetty Creations website. Hopefully that is what it did do! However, it is the full website. If I do anything (like really try to implement them, rather than playing around with them like this) I’ll need to have at least some or all of the Vetty Creations website converted into a mobile version, so that it doesn’t eat up all your download capability in one hungry go!<\/p>\n

Would a mobile version of the Vetty Creations website be of interest to you? I’m not entirely sure how necessary it might be. Those of you with smartphones, are you likely to want to order Vetty Creations products on your phone? Or would you just wait until you got to your laptop or desktop computer to do it?<\/p>\n

Lots of new things to think about – things I had never considered before…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have never had a mobile (cell) phone before, until about 2 weeks ago. I have always resisted, feeling that I did not need one. About a month ago though, I decided that the time had come, and that it might now be useful. And so I am now the owner of an Android smartphone.<\/p>\n

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