While at work I stumbled upon a website that I wanted to visit at a later date at home. The computer is a communal use one and is fairly locked down to the users. What to do? I thought about taking a picture of the web address when it hit me, why not copy the web address and create a QR code that I could scan with my phone and then bookmark or save the website to a note. There were plenty of free text to QR code generators available online. I copied the web address, pasted it into the QR code generator, and my phone went right to the site. Just a couple of quick steps saved me a lot of retyping the site from a picture.
I hope this helps a few people out when trying to save a webpage from a computer that is not your own.
Nice solution! I figure you didn’t email the link to yourself because you didn’t trust if there was or wasn’t a keylogger loaded on the machine. I probably would have went straight to snapping a picture of the URL but that then would have required typing out the URL from the image whereas your copy/paste into the QR code generator site gets you error free URL copies.
Nice, I will give it a try.
I typically use the “share” function and txt the site to my phone or email.
I have the same txt tool in Chrome on my desktop.
@donkjr That is a great idea too. The computer I was using would not allow me to use my private email and our company email is highly scrutinized. This allowed me to take a web page on a computer that I did not have any personal access to and transfer the information to my phone.
Unfortunately that function has been removed from the browser by IT. In healthcare, they are really worried about being compromised. I am surprised I can get to a few of my favorite sites unfettered.
Not all “healthcare” are that concerned. I remember when a dangerous exploit for Internet Explorer was out and even the NSA was telling businesses to use another browser until Microsoft fixed it(which took months). I was at my health provider and noticed they were using Internet Explorer to login and I asked if they also had an Internet connection and she said yes. I told her of the exploit and NSA warning and got “our IT department is very good and blah blah blah”. A week or two later and they were taken down by a virus exploit, American Express and CNN were two public attacks.
Granted, some businesses now take security serious and have a department specifically for that but it blew me away how bad and ignorant the healthcare provider was.
