Creating QR Codes in Word and Watching TV with VLC – Matty McTech

Here are a couple of cool hacks that showed up in my feeds from Matty McTech (@SetupSpawn).

Did you know that Microsoft Word can create a QR bar code for any data you enter?

Did you know that the awesome VLC Media Player from VideoLAN can play streamed TV channels?

TLDR: Quick Summaries

To get Microsoft to create a QR Code:

• Press Ctrl-F9 to create an empty field.
• In between the braces type the command below, where the URL between the quotes is the data for the QR code to link to:

displaybarcode "https://www.winthropdc.com/home.htm" qr \3

• Press Shift-F9 to toggle between displaying the field and the field definition.

To stream TV channels using VLC:

• Download and install VLC Media Player if you don’t have it installed already.
• From the menus, select Media >> Select Network Stream.
• Enter the following network URL and click Play:

https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/index.m3u

• Once a channel is playing, you can click the Toggle Playlist button on the toolbar across the bottom or select View >> Playlist from the menus to see the available channels and double click to change channels.

I found a number of the Australian free to air channels and the Totalmusic TV channels for listening to music videos… 😀

I also found the instructions for this VLC hack in this PC World article.

• This hidden VLC feature lets you stream thousands of free TV channels

Below are the videos, if you want to watch them.

Did you know Word could do this? (direct link)

I could not find the VLC video on YouTube, but here it is on Facebook

Did you know this trick? #computer #technology #television (Direct Facebook Link)

Check out his other tips and tricks on his channel and pages on Facebook, TikTok and Instagram.

Enjoy

David

This article was originally posted on https://www.winthropdc.com/blog.