August 14, 2007
Offline Wikipedia Reader
I used to love my locally-cached copy of Wikipedia on my Treo 650 (after two years, a new update of the TomeRaider version was created back in February), but now that I've turned in my Treo for an iPhone I'm looking for a replacement reader. I'm not there yet, but this desktop-based offline Wikipedia reader is a good start to the project. As the author puts it:
Isn't the world of Open Source amazing? I was able to build this in two days, most of which were spent searching for the appropriate tools. Simply unbelievable... toying around with these tools and writing less than 200 lines of code, and... presto!
More on my efforts to get a locally-cached copy of Wikipedia readable from my iPhone (perhaps with the iPhone book-reader app that was recently hacked together) once it comes back from repairs...
(Thanks to Fairyshaman for the link!)
Posted by bug to Media Technology at August 14, 2007 11:39 AM | TrackBackSo, um, now that you have an iPhone, why do you need an offline reader? Is it the speed or something else?
Posted by: Rawhide at August 14, 2007 12:55 PMIt's speed, though I should probably say that the reason my iPhone is off being repaired is that the wifi caused it to crash, so I've been suffering in EDGE-network land. It could be that once I have reliable wifi I discover I'm around it often enough that I no longer feel the need for a local cache, but I doubt it. I still find I'm wanting it when away from wifi all too often, and EDGE is just way too slow to fit in that "bring up the answer to a question that just came up in conversation" time window.
Posted by: Bug at August 14, 2007 4:10 PMWith the recent $200 drop in price of the iPhone, I'm very tempted to buy one... I'd be even more inclined to get an iPhone if you get something like this working!
Posted by: Arthur Blake at September 6, 2007 11:22 AMi always find myself needing to use wikipedia when i am flying and i have a offline copy on my ipaq using tomeraider which is great. would love to be able to switch to the iphone.
Posted by: iain at September 9, 2007 3:13 PMI'm getting an iPhone this week - and, like you, the only thing I'll really miss from my Treo 650 is an offline Wikipedia. Will be extremely interested to see if this works!
Posted by: SteveC at November 5, 2007 3:23 AMTry this
http://haukap.net/