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Veritasium on QR codes

The video goes through how QR codes work. Quote from the video: “QR codes became so popular they are now ubiquitous” Truly. YouTube – Veritasium – I used to hate QR codes. But they’re actually genius As it’s Veritasium it’s slightly nerdy, and to use QR codes you don’t need to know any of this.… Read More »Veritasium on QR codes

Posted on 1 October 2024 | 8:23 am

BeaconZone writing about CliqTags

BeaconZone, specialists in Bluetooth tracking and sensing solutions, has written a blog post about CliqTags apps that support BLE beacons. It summarizes well the capabilities and differences between CliqTags Nearby and CliqTags Spotter. CliqTags App for Marketing Using Beacons Check out BeaconZone’s broad product range that covers all form factors and use cases. All iBeacon… Read More »BeaconZone writing about CliqTags

Posted on 23 August 2024 | 11:10 am

>50% of website traffic is via mobile devices

This is from a fairly recent report from Statista: Percentage of mobile device website traffic worldwide from 1st quarter 2015 to 4th quarter 2023 Indicating it is important to secure a great experience on such devices, both in terms of content optimized for the format, but also performance. Read more about why this is important:… Read More »>50% of website traffic is via mobile devices

Posted on 20 May 2024 | 8:06 pm

CliqTags Nearby

CliqTags Nearby has been released as a free application for iOS and Android. It supports Eddystone-URL, QR codes and NFC tags and presents information in the same view that’s saved.

Posted on 5 January 2024 | 10:21 am

NFC tags for heavy-duty applications

Tags like these can take almost anything you throw at them, including water, chemicals, pressure, heat, cold, impact etc (of course to a varying degree). From top left: HID Industrial IP68 Flexible (83×25 mm, for cable ties) Confidex Ironside Micro (27×27 mm, anti-metal, optionally adhesive) HID Industrial Tag IP68 (34 mm, anti-metal, optionally adhesive, colors)… Read More »NFC tags for heavy-duty applications

Posted on 14 August 2023 | 3:41 pm

Sharing via AddToAny

Oracle shut down AddThis recently, and we’ve replaced sharing with AddToAny. The amount and types of buttons have been pre-selected to keep it to a minimum and to enable use of large (finger-friendly) buttons on a single row. Other types can be accessed via “+”. AddToAny is claimed to be GDPR and CCPA compliant, which… Read More »Sharing via AddToAny

Posted on 9 August 2023 | 4:18 pm

Location of accesses

The support for location has been improved: A customer can select whether location of the user’s device should be attempted. A user can still opt out, which is required by GDPR and similar. The default setting is to not attempt location for the same reasons. Statistics List shows positions (if detected) and also access type,… Read More »Location of accesses

Posted on 9 August 2023 | 3:46 pm

NFC Tags in all shapes and sizes

Nowadays you can buy NFC Tags in many shapes and sizes that are glued on, sewed on, screwed on, snapped on, and for all kinds of use cases. It’s also possible to order configuration of content as well as custom printing, like logos and QR Codes. In the photo: Top row: The first one is… Read More »NFC Tags in all shapes and sizes

Posted on 17 July 2023 | 5:27 pm

Upgrading the platform

CliqTags now runs on PHP 8.2 and MariaDB 10.6. We’ll check ASAP whether it affects anything. If you see something odd, please let us know. The platform now also has much more free memory, meaning it will have more headroom for volume use.

Posted on 27 February 2023 | 11:27 pm

Lighthouse shines a light on performance

Performance results from today for a typical CliqTags-rendered site. Not too shabby.

Posted on 17 February 2023 | 9:48 am