Works a treat Tony.
Thankyou
Chris Charles
On 24/08/2011, at 10:04 PM, Tone wrote:
Hi Andrew
I've been using the Morcombe eGuide on my iPod Touch since it
became available and can't praise it highly enough.
When searching I always use the Quick Search option at the top of
the Index screen (Tax. or Alph.) It's an excellent search engine
and responds in real time to letters entered. With practice you
can quickly guess a letter combination within the target bird's
name that would not occur in many other birds' names and enter that
into the search window. I've found that incorporating the space
(#) between two of the words of a bird's name will get a quick
result. For example typing in a#p brings up Wonga Pigeon and one
other , d#o will get you the oystercatchers and a couple of
others. For the Fantails you mention, y#fan gets just those two.
Tony Gibson
On 13/08/2011, at 14:56 , Andrew Bell wrote:
I recently purchased it for iphone and I love it. As someone who
has not
been good at picking calls it is great, although the search
function needs
improving, it can be surprisingly difficult at times to get to the
bird you
want through the alphabetic search. The listing part is also
very basic,
it can't email a day list, the clunkiness of the search makes it a
bit
impractical (although the tick list is quite good) and it doesn't
use the
phones GPS at all for location which is a bit of an obvious flaw -
so for
the moment I still need a separate app to do this. Still, money
well spent,
the illustrations are good and I don't feel the need to lug a
field guide
around as often. I do like the compare function - being able to
see a Grey
Fantail and Mangrove Grey Fantail side by side is great
Best though -having the calls of 650 Australian birds always in your
pocket is pretty cool (and can break the boredom of tedious meetings
occasionally)!.
Cheers
Andrew bell
Katherine NT
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of
Murray Lord
Sent: Saturday, 13 August 2011 11:54 AM
To:
Subject: [Birding-Aus] Morecombe field guide app for android phones
For anyone who is interested, the Michael Morecombe field guide
app is now
available for Android phones at
https://market.android.com/details?
id=com.coolideas.eproducts.ausbirds&featu
re=search_result
I understand versions for Blackberry and Windows phones will be
coming at
some point.
Cheers
Murray
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