Archive for December, 2009

Where’s My Bird?

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Screen shot 2009-12-17 at 11.02.08 AMWhen using my LifeList-Birds App, you might think that even with 900+ bird names built-into the database, your bird’s name is missing! Not so fast, Dr. Peterson. While LifeList-Birds does follow the bird naming convention developed by the American Birding Association, it has been indexed according to the more commonly associated name for each bird. For example, if you’re looking for the Northern Cardinal, you would press the “C” index link (not the “N” index link) which would whisk you to the proper Northern Cardinal entry. This unique and powerful indexing feature in LifeList-Birds saves you the potential headache from hopping around looking for, say, Snowy Egret, Cattle Egret, and Reddish Egret (which might require three separate touches)–rather, just press the “E” index link and all of the egrets are conveniently cataloged in front of you.

Now sighting each of these egrets and entering all citation data, that pleasure is left up to you!

LifeList-Birds App Approved

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

IconMy new life list App, LifeList-Birds, is now available in the Apple iTunes App Store. This App is an observer’s checklist (sometimes called a “life list”) featuring over 900 North American bird species. Once a bird has been sighted you can entered all of the relevant who, where, when, what, and note data and store everything inside this unique database App.

LifeList-Birds is not a field identification guide.

ListList-Birds costs $1.99.

You can purchase and download LifeList-Birds directly from this iTunes link. [NOTE: this link will open iTunes on your desktop PC.]

My Android Apps on Hold–Indefinitely

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

While the conversion of my two iPhone Apps, YO! and GetZoned, to Android is nearing completion, the publishing of these two Apps to the Android Market has been put on hold — indefinitely. Recent fluctuations in the Android hardware platform (e.g., G1, G I/O, DROID, Eris, Nexus One) have made it impossible for me to adequately and expertly test my Apps on “real” devices. Someday, hopefully soon, this self-imposed roadblock will be removed and YO! and GetZoned will see the light of pixels on Android devices.

New iPhone App

Monday, December 7th, 2009

IconA new iPhone App has just been submitted to the Apple iTunes App Store. LifeList-Birds is a data collection App for recording your lifelong bird sightings. Containing well over 900 birds, organized alphabetically according to common vernacular names, each entry can be edited for all of the who, where, when, what, and why data that make Life Lists such a rich experience. Invalid entries can also be deleted. Plus your entire LifeList database is automatically backed up on your computer during each iTunes device sync.

More LifeList database Apps are currently under development.