From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From a news release :
"One month after its introduction, OrchidWiz...
Manuel Aybar, an orchid judge in Dallas, Texas: "... very well thought and
structured."
Kathy Barrett in Pleasant Hill, California... "... providing data for
comparing awards. If you need to research parentage, breeding lines or
awards this is the program to get."
...
Ed Diamond of Fairwood Orchids in Renton, Washington ... "... does not
replace my Award Quarterly's but supplements them. It makes looking up
things faster...
Reka Hukari ... a hobby grower in Margreid, Italy... : "... pie charts of
the genealogy... many pictures... images of the parents..."
...
OrchidWiz, LLC, is a software company based in Miami Shores, Florida...
Besides OrchidWiz Encyclopedia, it is currently developing OrchidWiz
Journal, an orchid journal with photo-capture and album-creation
capabilities."
source and complete news release :
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/12/prweb318663.htm
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If you see reviews of the software in orchid publications, please let me
know.
Regards,
Viateur
You didn't print my full quote. It started "This thing kicks ass."
A fellow on rgo asked me privately if I could run a few mundane searches for
him, just to see what sort of info this program could supply to a non-judge.
He wanted stuff like number of dendrobium hybrids.
So I diddled around with it. You can do that and more. There's a feature
where you can list species by geographic area. Looking at North American
species you can refine the search to look for fragrant orchids, ones with
Wiz photos only, or a variety of cultural condtions. Looking for North
American fragrant, cold growing species yeilds a list of 38 species.
Starting with Aret. Bulbosa (whatever that is) and ending with Stan.
oculata. If he has a picture or drawing a thumbnail shows. Clicking on the
thumbnail enlarges the piicture to viewing size. The species are listed
along with # of Progeny , Offspring (What the difference is I don't know)
and # AOS awards. Clicking on a column heading sorts that column. Click
once it sorts from lo to high. Click again it re-sorts from high to low.
So Lyc skinneri has 121 offspring, and there are AOS 21 awards. Click on
the Offspring tab brings up an award table and you can see the award data.
And sort those columns.
This must be what driving a Ferrari is like.
I have no affiliation with the company. I have not gotten any money or
product for my comments. I don't even remember Alex's last name (the fellow
who created the CD).
I started commenting on the product on rgo, because it was a more friendly
sort of place to talk about the product than here, and I didn't want to
stake my reputation here. But I decided not to be a coward and actuallly
say something. State my opinion boldly and in a forum where more people may
actually want to get some information. Go to the website. Look at the
features. Decide for yourself. If you had no need for Wildcatt you won't
need this one either. But this is the program to buy if you've been sitting
on the fence.
There was a little trouble with getting it to load on my laptop, which Alex
took care of. It loaded on my desktop like a charm. A person in Italy
using the German version of Windows had trouble getting it to load because
there's a diffent location for 'Program Files' in European versions of
Windows. Alex has fixed that.
K Barrett
N Calif, USA
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