It's seriously overpriced.
John Leonard
On 25 August 2011 10:37, Chris Charles <> wrote:
> Works a treat Tony.
> Thankyou
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> Chris Charles
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> On 24/08/2011, at 10:04 PM, Tone wrote:
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>> 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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