OrchidWiz...if it could get any better, I don't know how!

[Rhonda_in_FL]

Had the opportunity to preview the new OrchidWiz 4.0 a month or so ago with a training by the author, Alex Maximiano. Alex is a fellow student judge in the WPB center and a general all-around-good-egg kinda guy. It was amazing, so I've been eagerly awaiting the new disc. My disc arrived yesterday and I have to say it was absolutely as exciting as it gets.

This program is an amazing resource for anyone, and the new features are rockin'!

Off the top of my head, he's added a search function so you can search Orchid Digest or AOS Orchids for articles by keyword...so if you want to know about Vanda coerulea, you put those keywords in and it will generate a list of articles with those words in the title of either publication...nice, very nice.

The screen is (believe it) even more user friendly. You know when you hit the awards button and it oppened into a new screen? When we're looking up plants at judging or I'm doing research, sometimes I'd get confused and close the wrong screen...now it comes up in tabs, so you're looking at a plant, but can tab back and forth to the info you want to see...

He's also added pronunciation kes and culture...not just any culture information, he's added Charles Baker's culture! Orchid Culture - Charles and Margaret Baker Hello!

Now you can pull-up photo galleries of plants in a much more expanded way.

You can also see the Class, Subgenus and Section of what you're looking up.

I can go on and on...suffice to say, Alex has been a busy beaver since the last update.