Tech Time: Peterson Field Guide App

There's a Peterson Field Guide to Backyard Birds app from Wildtonesthat's compatible with the iPhone, the iPod Touch, and the iPad. There are over 180 birds - far more types than we get in our yard - so chances are excellent you'll be able to identify the feathered creatures passing their time in your "habitat."

It includes arrows to the key field marks.

There's an illustrated index by family.

I think this is the way I'm finally going to get through that Peterson Field Guide sitting on my bookshelf. I'll keep you posted. Let's hear from you, too, about the birds you find with your copy of this splendid app.

iPhone

I have to admit it. The iPhone is starting to look good to me. This is not necessarily a BAD thing, I tell myself. It COULD be that there is some actual merit to the iPhone.

On the other hand, it's the apps that are catching my attention - not the features of the phone itself - unless you consider an app a feature.... So then am I just interested in the phone because of what is essentially a bunch of gimmicks? There's nothing wrong with that, I suppose, except I'd like to believe I'm harder to win over.

Who am I kidding? It's the apps. Especially the one that turns the iPhone into a compass.

Fortunately, I have a contract on my current phone so there's nothing I can do. At the moment ...