Gary --
if someone would save Avisys I'd buy him/her well more than one sandwich!!
I've been using Avisys since the 1980s - I take notes in the field, records
at home. would love an Avisys clone for Mac software.
Chris Kessler
On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 10:04 AM Gary Bletsch <
garybletsch at yahoo.com> wrote:
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Dear Tweeters,
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Now that the increasingly deteriorating Yahoo Mail has apparently
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vaporized my message to Tweeters, I will try again.
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A friend told me about a listing software called Scythebill. I just tried
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it out. It is intriguing. One cool feature is a world map that shows you
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where you "need" to go birding to see the most lifers. In my case, Brazil,
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here I come! Croatia, not so much! Scythebill also gives you a report with
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all of your best "big days" in a table, with the longest day-list on top.
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You can also generate your personal "big month" and "big year" comparison
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tables. There are lots of other goodies under the "special reports" tab of
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Scythebill.
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If the late Jerry Blinn had made his wonderful product AviSys truly Y2K
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compliant, I would not be writing this--but AviSys will treat the year 2030
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as if it were 1930. My parents lived through that Depression--I don't want
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to! That's why I am starting to explore something to replace AviSys in the
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next nine years or so. If it were not for that one glitch, I would just
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keep using AviSys forever. It is so fast, simple, and friendly! Maybe some
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white knight will go under the hood, so to speak, and fix that on AviSys? I
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would buy that guy a cheeseburger!
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Scythebill looks good on-screen, but I think AviSys looks cleaner and
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simpler. Again, I also suspect that AviSys is still the fastest way to
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enter birding data. That's because AviSys is set up to support typists. I
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believe that typing with all of one's ten digits on a QWERTY keyboard, with
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one's eyes on the page and one's digits set up on the "home row"--is faster
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than texting with two thumbs, or scrolling and mouse-clicking. I will
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concede that typing does appear to be a vanishing art--having tried for 29
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years to get my students to type correctly, and not hunt and peck!
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Scythebill does appear to support typing as well, but I am not sure if it
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allows one to get the data in as fast as with AviSys. Does anybody have an
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experienced opinion on that?
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I just noticed another product out there, called Swift. It appears to
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offer some very nice support for photography, even photo-editing
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capability. Does anyone have experience with Swift, for comparison?
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Yours truly,
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Gary Bletsch
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