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Re: EnjoyBirds news

Subject: Re: EnjoyBirds news
From: J Young <>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:09:09 -0400
Greetings Marty,
  I was wondering whether you got my payment for your software? I haven't
heard anything from you and am starting to get concerned.
  Please let me know so I can get any problems straightened out.
Best regards,
John Young    (J)

Marty Michener wrote:

> Dear Friends:
>
> MIST Software Associates, Inc., is pleased to announce the imminent relea=
se of:
>
> EnjoyBirds - a digital field guide to all AOU species - - the birds of
> Hawaii, Panama and Trinidad northward
> to include all territory (USA, Mexico, all the Caribbean, etc.) to includ=
e
> Alaska and Canada.
>
> The software will run in the DOS emulation of any Windows 95 or 98 comput=
er
> from the desktop, and it
> Features:
>
> - ALL current AOU Checklist species, including appendices, plus all speci=
es
> in Trinidad and Tobago - a total of 2166 full species, through the 43rd A=
OU
> supplement.
>
> - ALL have diagnostic color illustrations and field mark captions
>
> - ALL birds are named in English, Spanish, French and German
>
> - ALL seasonal ranges are mapped wherever they fall within the nominal ar=
ea:
> 7 to 70 degrees north latitude; 50 to 170 degrees west longitude,
> (excluding South America itself).
>
> - 1 - 4 sounds are presented with labelled color spectra for over 820 of
> the common species.
>
> - verbal announcements for all species to help you to pronounce the Engli=
sh
> and Scientific names.
>
> - seasonally prioritized habitat types are listed for ALL species
>
> - eight UserBooks (site selection filters, A - H) can each be set to only
> show the birds found
> * at one exact location (map-clickable, this is Geo-Choice, Patent Pendin=
g)
> * at one exact altitude (clickable on an elevation profile)
> * during any one season or for the full year
> - once set, any UserBook can have locations added to it, by 1 to 10 simpl=
e
> map clicks
>
> - each of the eight UserBooks will store your field notes with each speci=
es.
>
> - you can generate reports for printing or email purposes, with or withou=
t
> your field notes.
>
> - every map display will provide the label (name) of any spot on which yo=
u
> click (e.g. St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles)
>
> - using Geo-Find, over 200 place names can be looked up alphabetically an=
d
> shown in red on the main map.
>
> - the whole program runs equally well in English or Spanish.
>
> - the birds can be found by appearance or sound by:
> ** running through a Gallery slide-show of thumbnail pictures, or
> ** using an (on the fly) Catalog or table of contents of orders and
> families,  or
> ** using the {Look Like} or {Sound like} button, or
> ** using the click-drag pop-up scroll-bar family index, or
> ** page up or down through the main list, and double-click any species to
> see/hear it.
>
> - this software comprises the first example of CABTIPS (Computer-Aided Bi=
rd
> Trip Information Planning Software)
>
> - Software is designed to be most useful on small field computers (low
> resolution, very diagnostic illustrations, silence-compressed full-fideli=
ty
> sound files)
>
> - using a Geo-Choice UserBook you can connect a cassette recorder to your
> computer headphone jack and record your own custom announced audio tape f=
or
> your planned trip location. With the Gallery button, you can choose to ha=
ve
> the announcements come either before or after each bird species sounds.
>
> - a custom Quiz allow the user to set a UserBook for any location and the=
n
> test their skill of bird ID by appearance and or sounds.
>
> - this product scrupulously gives credit to all the many scientists,
> birders, books, recordists (you know who you are!), reviewers and guides
> who have contributed their details and efforts to make this project bette=
r;
> to all we hereby extend our gratitude.
>
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>
> Now, you can have a reference that simply allows beginners to ID seasonal
> birds at their home feeder, as from a local custom bird book, or takes yo=
u
> into the cloud forests of Chiapas, Mexico or Monteverde, Costa Rica with
> hundreds of birds with new names, looks and sounds, all from the same
> low-cost PC software. Run it from Cd-ROM or load it into your notebook ha=
rd
> drive for portable use.
>
> Many of our (copyrighted) species color illustrations have been already
> donated to the non-profit Biodiversity Institute, and can be pre-viewed a=
t:
>
> http://www.bdi.org/
>
> MIST plans to begin shipping discs this fall. They can be pre-ordered for
> the retail price of $ 59 at the below address. Please, no email orders.
>
> Wildside Birding / Adventure Camera has plans to include a copy of
> EnjoyBirds for each participant of its future birding trips, and will
> demonstrate the software at its booth at the birding show at Cape May, Ne=
w
> Jersey next month.
>
> Happy Birding!
>
> Marty Michener
> MIST Software Associates
> PO Box 269, Hollis, NH 03049
> 
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