Full release of Plant Base for Android

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Plant Base for Android in now available on Google Play.

To accompany the main app, a simple and free Data File Support app has also been released.  This provides three file maintenance functions that are not included in the main app.  A first essential for new users who do not run the PC or Mac editions is the database file … … read more

Android Plant Base new version update 1.27

Version 1.27 of the Plant Base for Android app is available for download by registered users.  At the moment this is still part of the Beta test phase, but we are treating this version as the first candidate for general release.

Since the previous release there are only very minor changes and a few small bug fixes.  The previous version … … read more

Android Plant Base edition new Beta version released

There is a new version the Plant Base for Android app – 1.25. This continues the Beta phase. Only very minor changes since the previous version, but has the addition of an entire new section for plant record References.  This mirrors the references function of the desktop editions.  The section was intentionally omitted for the first Beta release.

Any reference … … read more

Android Plant Base edition Beta testing

We are now starting Beta testing of the Plant Base for Android on-board database edition.  The Beta test download is available to registered users of Plant Base for PC and Mac.  All the details, download and installation guide will be published on the main website very soon.

PBA-screenshot_02This has been a background project for a long time but is now … … read more

Plant Base new version (2.1.6)

A new version of Plant Base is released – 2.1.6. This time it includes updated database contents, which is at Release 26.

The program version is basically a minor maintenance release, with no obvious big changes.  The main incentive for the release was to bring the executable build up to the latest available code complier and database engine.  This gave

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Plant Base new version (2.1.5)

Finally found time to complete the release of an updated Plant Base program version.  This is 2.1.5 and it’s a fairly minor maintenance release, but the update should be worthwhile for most existing users.  It is of course now the current downloadable version for all new users.

There is are no changes to the plant data with this release (that … … read more

Plant Base new version (2.1.4)

A new version of Plant Base is available for download – 2.1.4.

This is a program maintenance release with only minor changes and a number of bug fixes.

Along with the new program version there is also an update to the plant database itself, data release 25. It has been some time since the last data release, so we decided … … read more

Plant Base Mac OSX edition released for Beta testing

The Beta Test release for  Plant Base Mac OSX edition is now available for download.

Preliminary testing has gone well.  However, please remember that this is essentially a new program for the Mac operating system and there will be further development, bug fixes and so on.

It appears there are not many choices of real plant databases for Mac,  so … … read more

Coming soon – native Mac OSX edition of Plant Base

Over recent years there have been more requests for this than anything else!   Well, it should be ready for public release quite soon.

The Mac edition of Plant Base is a direct port from the Windows program and coded in the same language – the spectacular PureBasic from Fantaisie Software.   A large part of the program is exactly the same … … read more

Extra Keys ‘Pro’ edition is released

This has been waiting in the wings for quite a while, but finally completed and released!  Extra Keys Pro is an extended edition aimed at web writers, computer programmers and possibly technical writers.  It is based on the latest standard edition and looks much the same. However,  it offers the important additional capability of outputting characters in a number of … … read more