Have you noticed these crazy looking black and white box patterns showing up everywhere – on billboards, in direct mail, magazines, etc? They are called QR (Quick Response) codes, and they provide today’s smartphones a way to scan the code and go to a particular place on the web.

In the technical age that we live in, we sometimes forget some basic lessons that we learned as kids. One, in particular, is, "A picture is worth a thousand words." That statement is as true today as it was the day it was first spoken.