How do you figure that - similar price (looking at Android) to USA and Sth
Africa apps, a lot cheaper than the book and some CDs
On 25 August 2011 11:15, John Leonard <> wrote:
> It's seriously overpriced.
>
> John Leonard
>
> On 25 August 2011 10:37, Chris Charles <> wrote:
> > 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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