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Our life is benefited by the use of contemporary technologies. Most of these technologies are widely used in scientific studies. Many bat researchers, however, still follow traditional methods of collecting and processing data, not taking advantage of the potential of modern inventions. Some of these methods include collecting data first on paper, and then have it digitized long after the end of the fieldwork. Another common practice is the use of several digital devices such as cameras and sound recorders in combination with paper notebooks. These practices often cause long delays before the completion of processing the gathered information. Manual data transfer often leads to typographical errors, and during the period from obtaining the information to digitizing it, valuable notes and observations could be lost or remain undetected. The data collection process will be significantly eased if a researcher could use a single entity for collecting, storing and processing data. Here we..