[obol] Re: birding apps
- From: Bob Archer <rabican1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: OBOL <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:38:38 -0700
I am downloading all of those. Great stuff.
The iPad is another good one. I keep phone in my hip pocket for safety when I
slip on gravel coming down mountain trails.
Bob Archer
> On Jul 25, 2014, at 10:28 AM, "Tom Crabtree" <tc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: obol-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:obol-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of 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
>
> --
> Joel Geier
> Still happily birding in the paleodigital age Camp Adair area north of
> Corvallis
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