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- Pocket Wikipedia (zip)
- Pocket Wikipedia, hand-checked selection from Wikipedia which is about the size of a fifteen volume encyclopedia (24,000 images and 14 million words). The selection was made by Schools Wikipedia. Pocket Wikipedia was created to work on PocketPC systems. After that was ported on Windows and Linux systems. Because the large...
- Tags: Wikipedia, Free Soft, Wiki, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- BzReader (msi)
- BzReader is an offline Wikipedia reader. You may use it to browse the Wikipedia articles from the compressed dumps. The compressed dumps take about 10 times less space then the uncompressed dumps, hence they are the only reasonable way to store the entire archive of Wikipedia offline. You may also...
- Tags: Wikipedia, Dump, Volodymyr Tymchenko, BzReader, Wiki, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-06-25
- Upvise Wikipedia for Windows Mobile (cab)
- Search Wikipedia from your mobile phone. Download the complete article with a formatting optimized for small mobile device screens. You can also save your favorite articles to your phone and read them even when you are offline. More than 2 Million articles are available from this mobile version of Wikipedia,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Wikipedia, Unyverse, Wiki, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-05-05
- University professor says Wikipedia fosters a climate of blind trust
- The associate professor of information systems from Deakin University believes that the popular online encyclopedia promotes an environment of blind trust among users searching for information. Professor Lichtenstein, who is is co-leading a team of researchers to determine how Wikipedia operates, is not impressed with Wikipedia's model...
- Tags: Professor, Wikipedia, Lichtenstein, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- The Big Brother Awards
- In Montreal, Canada, at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in May 2007, Privacy International presented the first International Big Brother Awards. The "winners" of the Big Brother Awards are, in the words of Privacy International: the government and private sector organisations which have done the...
- Tags: Nominee, Privacy International, U.K., ChoicePoint Inc., Wikipedia, Wiki, Government, Web Site Development, Online Communications, Internet, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-03-22
- WikiReader (exe)
- WikiReader makes loading and reading of WikiPedia articles easier. Just press a hotkey in any Windows application and the WikiPedia article will pop up in a small window. In the WikiReader window, articles from WikiPedia are displayed without menus, logos or other cluttered elements. Articles already viewed are cached, thus...
- Tags: Article, Wikipedia, MunSoft, Wiki, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-02-12
- Sanity check: Can Mahalo save us from Google, Digg, and Wikipedia?
- Let's get one thing straight from the start -- before you click send on any hate mail -- I am not going to predict that Mahalo will unseat Google as world's top search engine, or drive Digg out of business, or replace Wikipedia. What I will argue is that Mahalo...
- Tags: Google Inc., Digg, Page, WiMAX, Information, Entry, Wikipedia, Mahalo, Wikipedia Entry, Mahalo Formula, Wiki, Online Communications, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Amazon's SimpleDB makes it easier to work with data
- When you develop Web-based services, it can be difficult to achieve the goal of simplification. Working with the plethora of Web services offered by companies such as Google and Amazon provide plenty of examples, but these examples utilize complicated code to use the valuable services. This is why I was...
- Tags: Combination, Data, Domain, Amazon.com Inc., RDBMS, Service, Wikipedia, SimpleDB, SimpleDB Service, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tony Patton
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Wikipedia Lookup Extension (xpi)
- Lookups up the selected word in the Wikipedia encyclopedia in the language specified in your user preferences. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Wikipedia, Espen Dallokken, Wiki, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-01-22
- Googlepedia (xpi)
- Shows you a relevant Wikipedia article along with your search results. Clicking links in the article will trigger new Google searches, making it a very useful research tool. Features include: Turns internal Wikipedia links into Google search links; Uses Google's I'm Feeling Luckytm feature to find relevant articles; Links images...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Search, Wikipedia, James Hall, Wiki, Cloud Computing, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-01-22
- Lecturer bans Google and Wikipedia from classroom
- Professor Tara Brabazon from the University at Brighton had enough of "copy-and-paste" type essays and announced a ban on the usage of Google and Wikipedia in her classroom. An excerpt from SearchEngineLand: She said using Google and Wikipedia doesn't encourage students to use their...
- Tags: Google Inc., Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- AutoWikiBrowser (zip)
- A semi-automated Wikipedia editor that helps you perform repetitive tasks easier. AutoWikiBrowser is a semi-automated Wikipedia editor, created to make tedious repetitive tasks quicker and easier. It works its way through a list of articles, making changes and accepting manual changes. It is not a bot because all edits are...
- Tags: Editor, Wikipedia, AutoWikiBrowser, Wiki, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-01-11
- Google's effort to tap knowledge -- knol
- Udi Manber, VP of Engineering at Google, announced another foray of the ever-surprising Web giant. The project termed knol, a short-form for knowledge, aggregates knowledge from leading experts on various topics, essentially creating a global-scale encyclopedia. An excerpt from The Google Blog: The key idea behind...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Knowledge, Blogosphere, Wikipedia, Strategy, Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Wikipedia (zip)
- Wikipedia is a widget that will allow you to search and view the Wikipedia articles on your desktop. Currently supported languages are English, Japanese, Norwegian and Swedish. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Opera Software, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2007-12-11
- Ban Wikipedia in schools?
- The online encyclopedia is being banned from schools because teachers find the unverified facts on the site too easy for students to use. Often, information on the online editable encyclopedia is found to be inaccurate and misguiding, leading to several schools promulgating a total ban on using...
- Tags: Encyclopedia, School, Ban, Reaction, Wikipedia, Wiki, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Unyverse Wikipedia (cab)
- Search Wikipedia from your mobile phone. Download the complete article with a formatting optimized for small mobile device screens. You can also save your favorite articles to your phone and read them even when you are offline. The Unyverse client software is designed to ensure fast access and navigation within...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Wikipedia, Unyverse Client Software, Wiki, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Online Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-11-15
- Windows Presentation Foundation: Another piece of the .NET puzzle
- InfoCard == CardSpaceFWIW, InfoCard has become CardSpace in the .NET Framework version 3.0.http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/winfx/Aa663320.aspxConceptionally easy, hard in practiceI say I have a "problem" with the article, per se. It's a nice overview. However, there are plenty of overviews and descriptions of WPF. Another doesn't help all that much for someone like...
- Tags: .NET, Supply chain management (SCM), Microsoft Windows, Wikipedia, «//Ø|ö±ò/»®©, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, XAML, Microsoft Windows CardSpace, ISV, Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2007-10-24
- vTap for Windows Mobile (html)
- Note: The "Download Now" link above will take you to the vTap site, where you can install the file directly to your Windows Mobile device or download the CAB file. vTap is a quick and easy way to search, browse, and view videos from your favorite Web sites on your...
- Tags: HTML, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Wikipedia, vTap, Microsoft Windows, Wiki, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-10-15
- Snap Shots for Firefox (xpi)
- With Snap Shots Add-On for Firefox, you can bring the functionality of Snap Shots to the Web sites you surf every day, enhancing Firefox with the right content at the right place and time. When in you search in Google or Yahoo, mouse over the links and get videos for...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Snap, Wikipedia, Wiki, Web Browsers, Mice, Online Communications, Internet, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2007-10-11
- Japanese bureaucrat gets reprimand for Wikipedia contributions
- Where do we should draw the line between normal usage and abuse?
- Tags: Wiki, paulmah@..., bureaucrat, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
