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Need Wikipedia when you can't get online? Get Wikitaxi
by Jay Hathaway Aug 12th 2008 at 10:00AM
With Wikitaxi, you can snag the entire database of Wikipedia -- or, if you're pressed for bandwidth, the Simple English version is a lot smaller -- and read it offline on your Windows machine. It comes with a separate importer app that you can point at a database, and then you can use the main Wikitaxi app to run searches on it. Those clever people at Lifehacker suggest that you carry it around on a USB drive: then you can prove that buffalo thing to your friends at a moment's notice!
[via Lifehacker]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jash Sayani said 11:34AM on 8-14-2008
Just what I was looking for......
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Jack Johnson said 12:05PM on 8-15-2008
This is a great idea! - they don't have any problems with Wikipedia about doing it?
In a recent interview Jimmy Wales, (co?) founder of Wikipedia, said that "the actual distribution, actually thinking about how to get this to people, that's a bigger trick, right? If you have broadband Internet access, that's it, you're done" but that they needed to work on getting all that information to a broader audience. Maybe distributing offline copies that only get updated once a month (week?) could be an interesting idea.
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Jack Johnson said 12:09PM on 8-15-2008
You can find the interview at: http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=152655&f_src=flffour
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mgthantzin said 11:20AM on 8-16-2008
can't get to import xml.bz2 file... 'importer' not compatible with vista???
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