SendSMS was release on December 13th 2012. It was downloaded over 22 000 times. It is very famous in the Mac AppStore. It is Free and with user – friendly iterface. The only limitation is that the number to who you are texting must be on some of the North American operators.

SendSMS version 2

 On the screenshot below you can see how SendSMS2 actually looks. It is nice, isn’t it? On the left side you can see all telephone numbers you have ever communicate to. On the right side you can see what you have texted to the selected number. Also if  in your account you have a few telephone numbers you can switch it. This option can be find on the bottom of the screen, below the conversation.

SendSMS2 – Main window

The next screenshot shows how to log in your Twilio account by this application. It is very easy. Just type the Owner Account SID, SID and Authorization Token.

SendSMS2 – Preferences window

 Here you can see how to create your own Twilio account. This is very important because you must have an account in order to use Twilio’s service. It is very easy. Type your “Owner Account SID”, “SID” and “Authorization Token”. After this click “Done” and everything is ready.

SendSMS2 – Adding account to Twilio

 The next upgraded option of SendSMS is SMS status. With it you can check when, to who, from which telephone number and whether the SMS was sent or not. You have to click on the icon in order to check this information.

SendSMS2 – SMS Status

On the next picture it is shown how to send messages. First select the number from which you want to send the message. Then select the number to who the SMS is and type the text of the SMS in the box and click “Send”. Now everything is ready. The message is sent and now you have to wait the answer.

SendSMS2 – Sending SMS

Contact with us on our e-mail: office@mobiliodevelopment.com in order to take part in the testing period of SendSMS2. The only condition that you have to do is to have Twilio account.

SendSMS is an app, for Mac devices, that allows you to send SMS to your friends for free. You can send SMS to anybody you want but there are some limitations. The person to who is the text message must have American telephone number and to be on one of these telephone operators: AT&T Wireless, Verizon, Sprint PCS or T – Mobile. Also the maximum messages you can send per day is 75. SendSMS’s interface is quite simple and intuitive. Look for SendSMS now on the Mac AppStore and download it for Free.

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SEOPingler is a SEO tool, for Mac devices, made by Mobilio. With it you can ping your examined site within a few seconds. After you past the URL and click “Ping!” search spiders will visit your site in order to find the updated or the new part of its content. It supports the following crawls: Google, Blogpinglr.de, Yahoo and Syndic8. Also it is great SEO tools for link builders. SEOPingler is a desktop app with user – friendly interface. Look for SEOPingler now on the Mac AppStore and download it for Free.

Retina Walls is an iOS app made by Mobilio. It is full of nice and high – quality pictures. There you can find some picture and set it up as your wallpaper on the iPad. If you want to learn some information about Retina Display Technology click here. One of the main pluses of this app is that you can browse for some picture download it and even to share it for Free. So now look for Retina Walls on the Mac AppStore. It is Free and full of amazing pictures.

If you are a fan of QR codes or a business, searching for barcode generator, then you probably know that Adobe has the intention of integrating a QR generator in their upcoming InDesign CS7 release. This means if you buy Adobe’s new press edition software, you will be able to generate your own QR barcodes. That is great and it’s simple but to use that option, you’ll have to pay a lot, just for a simple QR code encoding and customization. If you own a different press creation/editing software, then buying InDesign for the simple option of QR generation, would be a waste of money, well if you wish to upgrade your InDesign, then it won’t be a waste.  For those who need to use QR codes and don’t want to buy expensive software, then the best solution would be to get a dedicated QR encoder which would able to generate codes for CS(x) to the upcoming CS7. The biggest drawback of InDesign CS7, is that it will ONLY create barcodes for InDesign CS7, not for CS6 nor any previous version. That means: the codes you generate won’t be useful outside Adobe InDesign CS7, making it a problem for some people.

QREncoder

We are offering a better substitute for MAC users: QREncoder. This QR encoder is a universal product which allows you to create custom QR codes, it does not require any network connection to operate and it runs directly from your desktop and it can create codes for all CS(x) versions. The user-friendly interface makes it extremely easy to use. There are currently two versions that are available: Free and Pro. Both can make almost any type of data into a QR code with ease, and with the new 1.4 update there are some new options that allow you to create and add the following types of data:

• your meCard;
• iTunes App URL;
• reviewing iTunes App URL;
• section “New” in the Android Market URL;
• instant search in the Android Market URL;
• designating a place in Foursquare URL;
• browsing videos in Youtube from iOS device URL;
• Tweeting on Tweeter URL;

And the best new addition would be the MicroQR code. The code is much smaller, best suited for small spaces and/or small products (similar to the small codes Nokia used on their headphones and batteries). The MicroQR can hold up to 35 numeric symbols (best suited for IDs or small links) and stores information more effectively than the original QR codes, since the date is smaller (perfect for older, slower devices used for scaning).

What format does it export?

QREncoder exports your custom created code in both PNG and SVG file formats, and as mentioned it supports all CS versions, which means you can use this app as a substitute. The Free version can export only Raster images, while the Pro version can export the barcodes in EPS vector files, as well as Raster files. There are no difference in the versions, that means all options that are in the Pro version, are in the Free version as well (except the vector image files). These formats are supported by most image editing software, which means you can change the colors, add small images in to the QR code or curving the square code to your liking. That would make them more appealing to you and others.

WARNING! – Consider profound testing before putting your code into use, because such alterations may make it useless.

If you are interested in the QREncoder app, then visit the page to learn more about it: Here

And here is a sample of an edited and customized QR barcode:

Mobilio’s customly redesigned QR code.

Here you can see how to make QR barcode like this one in 5 minutes. As you can see QR barcode customization is possible, even if an image is inserted in it. But keep in mind the warning we gave, test the barcode before you use it!

The barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of a data related to the object on which the barcode is placed. We can find barcode all around us. They are on the cartoon of juice, the bottle of mineral water and basically everywhere else in our life. Now there is the logical question “But where do they come from? Who is generating them?” Can I generate my own? And here Mobilio is coming. We have made 11 apps for OSX that generate barcodes. In the list below you can find some more information about them.

Barcode apps

1) QREncoder & QREncoderPro – These are universal products that allow you to make 100% working QR codes. QR stands for Quick Responsive and is a 2D barcode that can be scanned 360°. You can read more about QR code here. In fact any type of data can be encoded with QREncoder – e-mail address, http address, phone number, SMS message and many others. You can do all these processes very easy using the user-friendly interface. Select the content type, fill the edit box and there it is – the perfect QR code ready to be scanned. For the moment there are two versions of the QREncoder – a Free version and a Pro version. The difference between them is that the Pro version supports EPS vector image export. So next time you are looking for a QR generator check out for QREncoder and QREncoderPro on the Mac AppStore.

Mobilio’s QR code

2) BarcodeEncoder is multifunctional software that generates almost all kind of barcodes. It is basically combination of UPC code, EAN code, Code39 code, Code128 code, PDF417 code, ITF14 code, DataMatrix code, PharmaCode, PZN code, Aztec code, Gridmatrix code and NVE 18 code. With its intuitive navigation you can generate all these barcodes very easily. If barcodes are great part of your business out product will definitely save your day. The only thing you have to do is to type-in the data that will be encrypted. After this you get the barcode ready to be scanned. So next time you are looking for some multifunctional barcode generator check out for BarcodeEncoder on the Mac AppStore.

BarcodeEncoder

3) Code39Encoder is Code39 barcode creator. It is an alpha – numeric barcode that is widely used in the industry. It allows you to encode all the uppercase (from A to Z), digits (from 0 to 9) and a number of other symbols like “-”, “.”, “$”, “/”, “+”, “%” and space. Here is a list of the main features of the Code39Encoder:

• Intuitive interface;
• Create Code39 barcodes with add-on;
• Save your created barcodes in PNG, EPS and SVG file format, which can be later edited;
• Provides mass barcode generation – producing multiple barcode;

Mobilio’s Code39 code

You can find Code39Encoder on the Mac AppStore.

4) Code128Encoder is Code128 barcode producing software. Code128 is a very high-density barcode symbology.  Code128Encoder is a desktop app with excellent functionality and simple interface. It exports the completed barcode in a few image formats – PNG, EPS and SVG. This enables the user to customize his barcodes, with graphic editor. You can find Code128Encoder on the Mac AppStore.

Mobilio’s Code128 code

5) EANEncoder is barcode generator that creates 100% compliant EAN barcodes. They can be of perfect use in your package designs, illustrations, magazines, adverts, etc. Here is a list of some of the features of the EANEncoder:

• Easy navigation through the program and user-friendly-interface;
• Create EAN-13 Barcodes with 13 digits and 5 Digits addon;
• Outputs the generated codes in PNG, EPS and SVG image formats;
• Handles bulk barcode generation;
• Enter or paste your data;

EANEncoder

You can find EANEncoder on the Mac AppStore.

6) UPCEncoder – Universal Product Code Encoder. UPCEncoder is UPC barcode generator that creates perfectly functioning UPC barcodes for use in package designs, illustrations, magazines, adverts, etc. The simple and user-friendly interface turns the making of UPC barcodes into a piece of cake. After generating the necessary code you can save it in a desired image or vector format. Here is a list of some of the main features or the UPC barcode generator:

• Easy to user-friendly interface;
• Generate standard compliant barcodes;
• Create UPC-A Barcodes with 12 digits and UPC-5 5 Digits addon;
• Save (export) your created barcodes in PNG, EPS and SVG file formats;
• Allows bulk barcode generation – Generate multiple barcodes at once;
• Enter or paste your data;

UPCEncoder

You can find UPCEncoder on the Mac AppStore.

7) PDF417Encoder, as it name suggests, generates PDF417 codes. PDF stands for Portable Data File and 417 stands for the following: each character is encoded with 4 bars and spaces and their total width is always 17 units. PDF417 is a two – dimensional, linear barcode which is used for product identification or tracking during transport. It is our PDF417 barcode generator that creates perfectly functioning PDF417 barcodes for use in packages. PDF417 is accepted by the US Postal Service as an equivalent of the post stamp. The formats in which you can save your final creations are PNG, EPS and SVG images. You can find PDF417Encoder on the Mac AppStore.

Mobilio’s PDF417 code

8) ITF14Encoder stand for International Two of Five and the “14” shows the total of numeric digits that can be encoded. It is known as Shipping Container Symbol and is used for the designation of boxes, pallet, etc. that contain product with UPC/EAN barcode. ITF14Encoder is ITF14 barcode generator that creates functioning ITF14 barcodes. The interface is maximally simplified and is user-friendly. You can find ITF14Encoder on the Mac AppStore.

ITF14 code

9) DataMatrixEncoder is the next barcode generator made by Mobilio. With it you can produce 100% compliant DataMatrix barcodes. Usually they are used in package design, illustration, magazines, adverts, etc. Data Matrix is a 2D code that can store numeric digits, text and binary data. So next time you need of Data Matrix barcode generator you can look for DataMatrixEncoder on the Mac AppStore.

Mobilio’s DataMatrix code

10) PharmaCodeEncoder is a barcode generator that produces PharmaCode barcodes. It is also known as Pharmaceutical Binary Code. This type of barcodes is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmacode is 1D barcode that uses only one type of spaces and two types of bars – narrow and wide in its encoding techniques. With the PharmaCodeEncoder’s user – friendly interface you can make your own PharmaCode barcodes quickly and save them as PNG, SVG and EPS. So next time you need this type of barcode generator check out for PharmaCodeEncoder on the Mac Appstore.

Pharma code

Nowadays Search Engine Optimization is crucial for online businesses and web development. We from Mobilio believe that good SEO practices are the key to making your pages popular and widely visited. That is why we have made a few SEO apps that will help you examine your site, make it visible to the crawlers and full of relevant content. All of these tools in our SEO goodybag are really useful, easy to use and have been developed for OSX, iOS and Android. In the list below we are presenting them in details.

1) SEOPingler – this is the last SEO Tool made by Mobilio. With it you can ping the site you want within a few seconds. The only thing you have to do is to write title or keywords then paste the URL and click “Ping!”. You can find how exactly to do this process on the picture below. When you finish the particular crawlers (search engine bots) will go to the site and “look” at its content. This app is really useful for link building. SEOPingler is a desktop software that support the following crawls:

• Google;
• Blogpingr.de;
• Yahoo;
• Syndic8 and many others;

SEOPingler for OSX

So next time, you want to ping some site faster check out for SEOPingler on the Mac AppStore. Pay attention on the fact that it is Free! Also you can find some more information about SEOPingler here.

2) SEOggestor – Search Engine Suggestions. This is a Free, native application that is perfect for people who want to do some SEO and it is available for iOS, OSX and Android. SEOggestor is app with user – friendly interface. If you don’t know some keyword for your SEO content writing, you should try this SEO tool. The steps you have to follow in order to use it are these: write the word you want in the edit box and then click “Go”. The program will “suggest” you with many results. It will display the results in 6 tabs for:

• Google;
• Yahoo;
• Bing;
• Amazon;
• Yandex;
• Youtube;

SEOggestor for OSX

So next time you are wandering about some keyword check out for SEOggestor on the Mac AppStore or on the Google Play. Also you can read more about SEOggestor here.

3) SEOAuditor is the other SEO tools made by us. It is free and available for iOS, OSX and Android. With it you can find out what are the current Google PR of the site you are examining, its Alexa Ranking, SEOMoz DA (Domain Authority) and PA (Page Authority). Also you can find the Facebook likes, Retweets and Google+ shares. The SEOAuditor’s interface is quite simple and intuitive. In order to use it you have to paste the URL of the site you want to “audit” and click “Go”. And you will see all results I mentioned above. You can find SEOAuditor on the Mac AppStore or on the Google Play. In order to read some more information about SEOAuditor click here.

SEOAuditor for OSX

4) DoFollowURL Safari Plug-In is a SEO browser plug-in made by Mobilio. It is really helpful when you are wandering whether one link is follow or nofollow. With this Safari plug-in you can very easily differentiate them. The nofollow link are crossed and this is the signal what is the type of the link you are looking at. The only thing you have to do is to download the plug-in and install it. It is compatible with Safari for OSX and Windows. You can find the DoFollowURL Safari Plug-In on the Mac AppStore.

DoFollowURL Safari Plug-In for OSX

PZN standard is basically a “cut” version of Code39 - it uses the same encoding algorithm but can carry only digits – 0123456789. Typically on every  barcode, like on the one below, created with our multi-standard barcode generator, there is a “PZN” prefix which is not part of the information that is carried. Then follows a minus sign and 6 or 7 digits in a row which respectively stand for the name of the drug/medicine, its dosage form, its strength and its pack size. There is also a check-digit which is calculated in Modulo 11. If you wonder what does the last one – well it is just pure Math. Just take the numbers of the Pharma-Zentral-Nummer and multiply the first by 2, the second by 3, the third by 4 and so on till the sixth by 7. Then add up all the results, divide the sum  by 11 and take the remainder (that’s where Modulo 11 comes from). What’s tricky here is that if the check digit happens to be 10 then the PZN  barcode is treated as invalid and is not released.

These are the original PZN7 and the latest PZN8

Something more interesting about the PZN topology is that there are two variants – the original PZN – PZN7 and the new one -  PZN8. The main difference is the encoding capability – while a PZN7 code consists of either 6 or 7 digits the PZN8 consists of 7 or 8 digits which gives wider ranger or pharma-identification numbers that can be generated. From 01.01.2013 (only 3 months ago) Informationsstelle für Arzneispezialitäten which stands for Observatory for Proprietary Medicinal Products stopped issuing PZN7 barcodes and switched to PZN8. However in order the transfer to be smoother PZN7 has been unified with PZN8 by adding a 0 in the beginning. It won’t be before 01.01.2020 before PZN7 to be officially abandoned from the German pharmaceutical industry.

Pharma-Zentral-Nummer (PZN) barcode is not very famous worldwide as it is used only in Germany. The global pharmaceutical barcode standard is the PharmaCode. However if you intend to do anything connected with the German Pharmacy or are in the barcode business and have clients from Germany then PZN is a standard that is definitely worth knowing.

Most of you are probably familiar with the way URL shortening online tools like goo.gl, bit.ly and ow.ly work – give them a 50-characters long URL and they will return you a 10-character one. Surely it won’t be very readable after all the compression but who cares since it won’t be actually visible for the users. Moreover such short sequence of symbols perfectly matches the Golden QR rule -

“The less data you encode, the less detailed or code will be and therefore more devices will be able to read it”.

OK but what happens if after some time you want to use the same code but for different target page. Here is where you will face up a big problem – all the upper-mentioned shorteners don’t allow you to change anything in a link, once made smaller.

Online QR redirection might not be very clear to everybody but the next example will definitely do it. Let’s imagine the following situation – you are a retailer who has just opened his new store and has announced big discounts and promotions. What you have to do in order easily to engage all the people who use smartphones or tablets is to follow these 3 steps:

1. find a free QR code generator and encode the shortened version of the address of your webpage (which has to be mobile-friendly);
2. do some visual customizations and alterations to your QR code, brand it and make it relevant to your business;
3. “spread” your codes over the town, carefully choosing the positioning, making them easy to scan and attractive for the passers-by.

Eventually everything goes better than expected and your QR campaign turns out to be pretty popular. So next week you decide to advertise new promotion in the same way. So you want to put the same visually-looking codes in the same locations but with different target pages. If there were 50 QRs dispersed all over the city you (or some of your employees)  would have to go and “renew” each one of them. Think about how inefficient and slow it would be to perform this cycle of QR generation and distribution on a weekly or monthly basis. Now you probably start to understand and appreciate the true power of the QR Redirection.

One of the main reasons for this article were the few enquiries we got from some of our clients about how to redirect QR codes. Surprisingly enough none of the online tools mentioned in the 2nd paragraph offered this feature but we eventually managed to find an URL shortening service supporting QR redirection and it is called Budurl.com. Alongside with the statistical data for your link, the option to customize its short version and to choose among a variety of sub domains you can also redirect the target link embedded in your QR code.

Budurl is a URL shortening service that provides QR code redirection

In conclusion nowadays “smart” devices have become inseparable part of our daily lives and therefore technologies like the Quick Responsive code will only going to flourish as an advertising tool (if used correctly of course). Features such as QR redirection are only making this fact more and more likely to become true.

But ISBN is not actually the first book barcode – it is more like a globally modified descendant of the SBN – Standard Book Number. SBN itself was based on the code developed in 1965 by Gordon Foster, Statistics professor at Dublin and was used in the UK till 1974. However it was in 1970 when ISO – International Standard Organisation took the 9-digit book barcode and by adding a 0 at the beginning turned SBN into ISBN – a 10-digit book barcode standard. The authority for controlling the registration of ISBNs was appointed to the International ISBN Agency.

ISBN-13 and ISBN-10

Ok, but if you take a book that is not printed privately and was published after 2007 on its back you will see that above the barcode there is a label – ISBN-10: <a code with 10 digits> but the numbers in the barcode itself are more than 10 – they are 13. This is because since 1st January 2007 ISBN started supporting 13-digit format where the first 3 digits are an EAN prefix – 978,979 – for a fictitious country called “Bookland”. Thanks to “Bookland” the range of identification numbers expands greatly and at the same time no book is explicitly connected with a particular country. It should be noted that ISBN codes are not mandatory by law but are more than advisory as most of the bookstores nowadays handle only books that are marked with ISBN barcodes. It is like the EAN-13 and UPC barcodes in the retail – if you don’t use them you simply can’t sell your product (or at least it would be very difficult).

After being registered at the International ISBN Agency every publisher receives a block of ISBN codes which he/she can assign on his own. Below you can see an example of a partitioned ISBN barcode, generated with our multifunctional barcode generator, which is explained in details:

• the first 3 digits are the EAN prefix and are either 978 or 979 – the Unique Country Code for “Bookland”;
• the next 2 digits designate the language group to which the book belongs; the most popular are:  0 or 1 - English; 2 - French; 3 - German; 4 - Japan; 5 - Russian;
• after that is the registrant/publisher 4-digit element which is granted by the International ISBN Agency;
• 3-digit number which is like an identifier for the book itself for its title and author;
• the last digit is the check digit; very cricial detail is that the ISBN-10 barcode and the ISBN-13 barcodes have different check digits as they use different encoding algorithms – SBN and EAN-13;

An explained ISBN barcode generated with BarcodeEncoder.

Important: this is just an example of an ISBN barcode. Usually the structure of an ISBNs varies and depends on facts like in what language is the book written, how big is the publisher, how many books has he/she published. Respectively a famous publisher with many books might get a block of ISBN codes where the registrant element is smaller and therefore the range of books to be published is wider.

As ISBN-13 is an EAN-13 variation it also supports add-ons as seen on the picture. They are EAN-2 and EAN-5 add-ons and are very convenient for designating editions of a particular book or just use them for tracking published items in a stationery or a library. After all EAN-13 is a barcode standard used in the retail and commerce.

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