Winter-Blues Sale — Peterson Birds Now 30% Off
Folks in the North-East got an early taste of winter this week so I thought I'd do my bit to cheer them up. Peterson Birds is on sale! It's now 30% off at $9.99.
I was going to make it a Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival special, but then decided to let the sale run all month, so I had to find another name for it.
If you are going to RGVBF, now is a great time to stock up on Peterson and put it on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. You do know that buying the app once lets you run it on up to five devices, right? Apple thinks of everything.
And talking of Apple-thinking-of-everything, I sent out the first Peterson Guides newsletter last week with an interesting little item at the end that I thought I'd repeat here. It's a great idea for wiling away a few hours on a blustery winter day and making the most of your Peterson app.
Peterson Birds on a Big Screen TV
If you have an iPad, Apple's latest operating system release — iOS 5 — lets you wirelessly mirror the display of your iPad to the big screen of a digital TV. Check it out.
To mirror your iPad to the TV you need an AppleTV — a $99 gadget that attaches your TV to your home network and does all sorts of cool things like let you rent movies and TV shows, watch Netflix, etc..
The iPad communicates with the AppleTV using Airplay, a new wireless technology from Apple. To mirror the display, double-click the iPad home button and swipe the task bar from left to right. The task bar is the row of icons along the botton of the screen. You will see an icon like this
Tap the icon and then tap AppleTV. The iPad will now mirror everything that's on your iPad on the big screen. Fire up Peterson Birds and away you go!
Peterson Birds has a huge amount of detailed birding information, including the full text of Steve Howell's fantastic Peterson Reference Guide to Molt in North American Birds, details from the hawks, hummingbirds, and warblers books, and the East and West Coast nest books. Mirroring the iPad to a TV screen is a great way to view this information. It's also a great way to admire Roger Tory Peterson's illustrations on the big screen.
If you do have a go at connecting your iPad wirelessly to you TV, let me know how it works out. And if you have any trouble, post to the support forum and we'll try and help out.
Enjoy the Peterson Birds app discount. If you have any friends or relatives expecting an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad for Christmas, let them know about the sale. They can buy the app this month at the sale price and it will happilly sit in iTunes waiting for a mobile device to install on.
Happy Novemeber,
Nigel
