[obol] Re: birding apps
- From: "Tom Crabtree" <tc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx>, "'Oregon Birders OnLine'" <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:28:23 -0800
Those are good ones, to be sure, Joel. My favorite app, is an oldie, and they
sure don't make 'em like they used to. It was iRack (sometimes with a "Q") but
it is so unstable with these new OS's that you can't use it reliably any more.
Tom Crabtree, Bend
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Joel Geier
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00 AM
To: Oregon Birders OnLine
Subject: [obol] Re: birding apps
Not sure if I've mentioned these before, but these are the three mobile phone
applications that I've found most useful:
1) iShade : When dealing with bright sun, hold the phone over your eyebrows for
a better look at the bird.
You can also try this to shade your binoculars. Unfortunately some of the newer
phones (though thankfully not iPads yet) have gotten so small that they no
longer work for standard-sized bins. A hopeful development is that some
manufacturers have begun marketing "large-print" phones for members of the Baby
Boom generation.
2) iBall : Cover one eyeball with your phone, while you watch the bird with the
other eyeball. This gives you a 2-D view of the bird astonishingly similar to
what you'll find on most birding websites.
3-D views just bring in unnecessary complications, such as a sense of scale
which will only make it more difficult to turn that next Pectoral Sandpiper
into a stint.
3) iPayAttention : This is the simplest app to use. After you download the app,
just put the phone in your pocket, and your rate of birdfinding will increase
by up to a factor of three. The developer's advert claims that this app also
leads to seven times more keen observations of bird behavior, though how they
quantify "keenness" is anyone's guess.
Happy birding,
Joel
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Joel Geier
Still happily birding in the paleodigital age Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
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