This site seems to work well on a Blackberry (9800) too, although I had to use the touch screen to navigate, rather than the trackpad. It should be very handy.
My Blackberry has a full screen, I don’t know how well it’s going to work on smaller ones, and ones without touch screens.
It doesn’t work on my PC – not at all in IE, and not very well with Firefox.
Peter Shute
>—–Original Message—– >From: birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au [mailto:birding-aus- >bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Sandra & Neil Shelley >Sent: Friday, 27 July 2012 8:58 AM >To: Birding-Aus Aus >Cc: Golo Maurer; Luke Shelley >Subject: [Birding-Aus] Oz Shorebirds iPhone/iPod Touch App (& Android >Devices) for Bird Identification > >Hi folks, > >With all the recent posts regarding iPhone apps, I thought I would let >you >know about my Oz Shorebirds app for bird identification. > >It is based on the Shorebirds Identification Booklet available from >BirdLife Australia, and allows you to browse 48 shorebird species by >name >or size. From the browse list you can view an illustration, >distribution >map, identification tips and a flight photo of each species. > >The app is freely available to everyone interested in our migratory and >resident shorebirds. It is a website, however the content will be >cached >on your device so that it is accessible even when the internet isn’t >available. It was designed and developed by myself using the Sencha >Touch >Framework http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/. > >*For the iPhone* >The iPhone has 3G & Wi-Fi capability, and one of these needs to be >available for the following: > > – Point Safari at www.penboc.org.au/shorebirds/ > – Tap on the “+” or “forward arrow” on the toolbar at the bottom of >the > Safari screen > – Tap on “Add to Home Screen” and change the name to Oz Shorebirds > – Tap on “Save” or “Add” > >You should now have an icon on your home screen (of a Hooded Plover) >that >you can tap on to run the app. > >*For the iPod Touch* >The iPod Touch has Wi-Fi capability, so if you have access to a Wi-Fi >network you can also get access to the app. Start the Settinga app, >turn >on Wi-Fi and connect to the Wi-Fi network: > >Now do the following: > > – Point Safari at www.penboc.org.au/shorebirds/ > – Tap on the “+” or “forward arrow” on the toolbar at the bottom of >the > Safari screen > – Tap on “Add to Home Screen” and change the name to Oz Shorebirds > – Tap on “Save” or “Add” > >You should now have an icon on your home screen (of a Hooded Plover) >that >you can tap on to run the app. > >Start the Settings app again and turn off Wi-Fi. While is Settings >check >that Bluetooth and Location Services are turned off (you generally don’t >need any of these on for an iPod Touch and they only drain the battery). > >*For the iPad* >Follow the instruction for the iPhone. > >However the images are sized for devices with a smaller screen and look >grainy on this. > >*For Android Devices* >The iPhone has 3G & Wi-Fi capability, and one of these needs to be >available for the following: > > – In the browser go to www.penboc.org.au/shorebirds/ > – Bookmark the site in the browser > – Return to the home screen > – Tap & hold in empty space to bring up the menu > – Tap “Shortcut” then “Bookmark” > – Select the relevant bookmark > >You should now have an icon on your home screen (of a Hooded Plover) >that >you can tap on to run the app. > >If you have any problems, drop me a line. > >*Neil Shelley* > > – Illustrations by Jeff Davies copyright WWF Australia > – Distribution maps from the New Atlas of Australian Birds > – Identification tips collated by BirdLife Australia with assistance > from Adrian Boyle, Glenn Ehmke, Chris Hassell, Danny Rogers & Mike >Weston > and information from Shorebirds of Australia (Geering *et al.* 2007) > – Flight photos by Alister Benn, Rohan Clarke, David Disher, Glenn > Ehmke, Peter Ericsson, Alan Fletcher, David Hewitt, Dean Ingwersen, >Deane > Lewis, Danny Rogers, Sonja Ross, Juanli Sun, Johan Stenlund, Carl- >Johan > Svensson, Glen Tepke & Chris Tzaros – all of which are copyright >=============================== > >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, >send the message: >unsubscribe >(in the body of the message, with no Subject line) >to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > >http://birding-aus.org >=============================== ===============================
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