Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 04:50:56 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fran Saunders Subject: Re: hand held computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The review I read said that lists could be tailored for location. This would eliminate alot of scrolling. Fran Saunders MOS Web Site Director Silver Spring, MD http://www.MDBirds.org/ webmaster@MDBirds.org Silver Spring, MD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kate or Daryl" To: Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 7:03 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] hand held computers | > Joe, there is a software package that works with the | > palm and offshoots, but I just can't put my finger on | > the name! Will keep looking. | > | There is the Pocket Bird Recorder from http://www.wildlife.co.uk/ (I | haven't tried this one out), I just got through downloading Birder: | http://www.palmgear.com./software/showsoftware.cfm?sid= 38301720 | 010504194746&prodID=13996 (I only looked at this a few minutes), | I also see there is Birding Checklist from the same site: | http://www.palmgear.com./software/showsoftware.cfm?sid= 38301720 | 010504194746&prodID=14318, and I have also tried the database | approach with programs like jfile handbase and checklist. | | Every package I have looked at suffered from the same problem. | With a palm only able to display just under 15 entries per page, it | takes for ever to scroll down to enter a sighting. Doing keyword | searches are equally as slow. These are nice for entering in | species seen, after the fact, i.e. in the car between locations, but fall | short when you want to count the number of each bird seen (where | my memory is much shorter). | Daryl Olson | Ashton, Md. | darylo@erols.com | | ======================================================= ================ | To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com | with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey | ======================================================= ================ | ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================