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What is, The Tortoise
Diary ? |
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The 'Tortoise
Diary'
was developed to aid successful tortoise husbandry, Record keeping
really does play an important if not crucial role towards maintaining healthy
animals (in some cases it saves lives, its that important).
Small changes can easily go
unnoticed even to the experienced eye, the most dedicated individuals
used to rely upon scribbles and jottings of some figure or other (been there)
allowing for things to get over looked....
We can't stress how
important preventative measures are, after all the emails we
receive from tortoise keepers at there wits end with an already ill
tortoise... Not to say we can simply prevent any ill health to your
tortoises, but even when you're working in a reactive manner a small
change needs to be spotted as quickly as possible.
Many years ago we decided
to put our PC to good use and build an application which not only could
help in this laborious task or record keeping but would go way beyond what paper could ever achieve.
The 'Tortoise Diary' was born a tracking system which at a touch of a
button could report the last years weight loss of 'terry' the
tortoise in hibernation, a filing system for good house keeping one that
could keep all the records neatly organised in together but then could
fetch one instantly, a plotter which you could visually show the growth
rate over a given time span to help diagnose health issues, weight
gain or loss rate, and help to determine females which could be retaining
eggs.
Numbers are great
for computers and calculators but when there's pages of figures for each
tortoise nothing
beats a plotted graph to see a clearer
picture of his / her's development, If there had been no historical data recorded much of the knowledge we have now would
most certainly be lacking.
Since it all started
the 'Tortoise Diary' has come on leaps and bounds, its proven
very popular being one of a kind and with your help we continue to build on
it with new ideas. Its now time to leave the paper on the trees the PC is here to
stay
Welcome to the 'Tortoise Diary' ! ! !
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Online video help
tutorials.
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Getting
Started: Adding a Tortoise |
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| 2. |
Adding
a record to a Tortoise |
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Creating
Tortoise ID document |
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Backing
up files |
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Restoring
files from a backup |
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How long does it take
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It
only takes a few minutes once a month, but the more frequent the better, Your tortoise must be worth
that
You too could be doing your bit to help a world survey of
tortoise's in captivity.
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Download and Install
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Download
Right-Click on the software box on the left,
Select 'Save Target As' and choose a location for the download
file.
Alternatively
you can download it here http:\\www.pettortoise.co.uk/diary/tdiary.zip
Self extracting version here - http:\\www.pettortoise.co.uk/diary/tdiary.exe
Install
When the download is
complete unzip and run the 'setup.exe' this will guide you through the
install procedure, once installed the program will help you get started.
If you experience any download problems please report them to the email
address under 'Contact Us'
If you
have an existing version installed, then please uninstall it before
updating to the latest. Previous records will be safe, newer
versions have the ability to read records from older formats.
To prevent installing any unauthorised software only download the
'Tortoise Diary' from this site on the link above - you can check
the validity of the package with the included 'files.sfv' and your favourite
free file checker such as QuickSFV
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Feedback - What people are
saying ...
"Tortoise
Diary is a must - brilliant idea - Thank you ..."
"stacks of
homemade notes can now all be found all in one place"
"I didn't
realise how useful it would be to me, but now there's no going
back"
"... thanks
for a great little piece of software!"
"We are
impressed with the quality of your product and encourage you to keep
this high standards in the future." - The Softpedia Team
"we find it
invaluable in keeping up to date record of our beloved
tortoises."
"we recently
had a problem where we had to have our hard drive wiped and lost the
tortoise diary, All dates and weights were backed up to a floppy
disc, BUT..... the help we received was brilliant!..... A Huge THANK
YOU."
"Great little
program. Makes record keeping so easy."
If you would
like to leave comments / feedback please email them in.
*NEW
Tortoise
Diary v1.8
Release
Date: 21st September 2007
Now available to download, including new "ID
document" for
security of your cherished
tortoise(s).
Online
video tutorials added please see above on this page. |
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Download
Tortoise
Diary v1.8
- Inc. Security Doc
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[zip] |
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System Requirements |
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- Microsoft® Windows®
95, 98, NT, Me, XP, 2000, Vista.
- Microsoft® Internet
Explorer 4 or later.
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How much
does it cost ? |
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Trial
it free for 30 days with unlimited tortoises, all we ask is a small donation of
$29 or €19
or £15, which
enables
us to continue to help you - this goes towards improvements, fixes,
maintenance, development tools and hosting costs of the 'Tortoise
Dairy' and www.pettortoise.co.uk.
Previous versions are no longer supported so please update to
the Latest Version 1.8;
* £15GBP / 19Euros
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News: Issues, Bugs, Updates
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May 9, 2008
Latest Version 1.8;
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As of
v1.8 - Build and Print 'Security Identity Document' to help protect
your tortoise(s).
Unlimited Tortoises !
Further work on ever changing - 'Scientific
Names' |
Work in Progress:
Online video tutorial help is now available please check above on this
page for more information.
We're already updating the graph module, a few new additions including
photo
identity have now been added in the latest version and can be downloaded
from the links above.
Updates:
In order to let the 'Tortoise Diary' check for updates you may need to
allow it on your firewall software.
Current license holders will receive updates and newer versions free.
Note: If you're upgrading, Please back up your data files and remove
your previous version before commencing.
Issues / Bugs:
100% Vista compatible - Fixed for UAC enabled users.
Before reporting any issues or bugs
please check you have the latest version installed by performing the update as
above.
Feel free to contact us with comments and ideas.
Contact Us
diary@pettortoise.co.uk
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