Squeezing a Wikipedia Snapshot Onto an 8GB iPhone

Posted by timothy on Friday July 3, 2009 @02:41AM from the but-you'll-miss-the-latest-edit-wars dept.

blackbearnh writes with this excerpt from O'Reilly Radar "Think about Wikipedia, what some consider the most complete general survey of human knowledge we have at the moment. Now imagine squeezing it down to fit comfortably on an 8GB iPhone. Sound daunting? Well, that's just what Patrick Collison's Encyclopedia iPhone application does. App Store purchasers of Collison's open source application can browse and search the full text of Wikipedia when stuck in a plane, or trapped in the middle of nowhere (or, as defined by AT&T coverage...)"

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Re:iPhone wannabe by larry+bagina · 2009-07-03 03:43 · Score: 0, Troll

you can install it over wifi or from iTunes over USB, retard.

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Re:Nice! by Eunuchswear · 2009-07-03 08:41 · Score: 1, Troll

I'd be grabbing it right now if I didn't only have ~350MB of free space left on my iPhone...
So stick a bigger SD card in it already.

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