Couldn't agree more Dave, I rarely use anything else in the field these days.
Very convenient!
Cheers,
Chris
Sent from my iPhone
On 25/08/2011, at 11:40, Dave Torr <> wrote:
> 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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