[From Harold Arnold, Berkeley, California]
Hi! Sammy and all you other Palm Addicts out there.
I don't really know what the procedure is for replying to posts, but I thought that Gerrit G. Bradley might like to know about Barcode/13. He wrote recently:
" I use mobile technology for comparison shopping. I have a Treo650 and when shopping I will talk pictures and take audio notes of a product. I will sometimes surf the web to find competing prices in real time. I'll also enter notes in the memo pad. A big mess to be sorted out later!
What would be supercool is via a camera's phone, or another device, to take a snap from a store tag (like the UPC symbol or another special mark) to collect product information. It would be like active window shopping, where you keep a list of interested stuff as you move along your shopping experience."
Well, this supercool idea has been implemented by
treoware.com. Their FREE program Barcode/13 lets you use the camera of your Treo 600, 650, 680, 700p, Zire 71 or Zire 72 as barcode scanner. One of the great things about the Palm is that most of the programs that you think that you might need have already been written.
