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Check what Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and Yelp will look like when redesigned as magazines. Wikipedia sort of looks like National Geographic. Facebook looks like a women’s magazine. I like what the artist did on Twitter and Yelp.
Tags: Design, Facebook, magazine, twitter, wikipedia, Yelp
Navify is an online visual encyclopedia that combines Wikipedia articles with images, videos and comments. This is a great place to start if you are doing a research about something. Instead of heading straight to Wikipedia for the text content, you can use Navify to view related images and videos about the article you want to read about. Comments are also allowed so you can read what people are saying about a publication.
Wikipedia is the choice site of many whenever they want to learn about something. What Navify does is enhance the content found on Wikipedia with related media that is available online. The service is also planning on placing a music player so that users can listen to full related songs and audio content. If you are not satisfied with what you find in Wikipedia, you might want to give Navify a shot for more content.
Instead of searching different sites for more images and videos about a particular topic, you can enjoy all of them in a single page in Navify. This will save you some time and will give you less distraction that other sites provide while viewing media that you are interested in.
Tags: Audio, content, encyclopedia, images, Navify, Photos, videos, wikipedia
WikiTaxi is an application that lets you read, search and browse Wikipedia offline. I covered a quite similar application before but it only lets you download a chunk of Wikipedia for offline reading. With WikiTaxi, you get the whole deal and take it anywhere with you.
What I like about this particular tool is its portability. It’s a single-file application in which you just need to double-click in order to run. You can take it anywhere because no installation is needed in order to use WikiTaxi. It does not require a database engine or HTML browser, nor does it require PHP. All functionality is completely self-contained in a single executable. It can sit nicely in you USB thumbdrive and access it from any computer which uses Win32. No OSX version and Windows 64bit version yet.
WikiTaxi does not modify the operating system, except for a small options *.ini file which it places right next to its own executable.
The application also supports multiple languages and also works well with the dictionary and quotation Wikis. Since Wikipedia always update every few weeks, you’ll have to download the latest Wiki version if you want to stay updated or you can copy it from someone with an updated version. To download the Wikipedia dump, just head over to the WikiTaxi link above and look for the download link. You’ll also find the instructions on how to import the WikiPedia dump to WikiTaxi.
Tags: download wikipedia, portable, wikipedia, wikitaxi
It has been said that Wikipedia is the sum of all world knowledge. But sometimes, when using Wikipedia, it’s easy to get lost with all the in-links of the site. There are links which are sometimes distracting and will lead you away from the original information that you are looking for. With all information available to us in WikiPedia, it often takes a lot of time to browse around and read all the stuff for a particular topic. People on the go who do not have the luxury of time to go back and search again will have a hard time in finding what they are looking for especially when they are on the road and offline.
There is a web service called WikiSlice, a web app made by Webaroo which allows you to download a chunk of WikiPedia for you to browse offline. WikiSlice is a WikiPedia search engine which you can use to search a topic you want to download. Once you found what you are looking for, WikiSlice will let you download all the Wiki content related to that topic including subtopics. A list of related Wiki slices is also available for you to browse and download if you choose to do so.
You can browse the content through a desktop application called Webaroo. WikiSlice will detect if you do not have Webaroo installed in your computer. You can immediately download the software when you decided to download a Wikipedia topic.
Since Webaroo has a mobile version, I’m not sure if it will support the sliced Wikipedia content. It would be great if you can read the Wiki Slice in you mobile phones or iPhone. Remember the guy who downloaded all WikiPedia content in his iPhone? He uses the iPhone’s Safari browser to browse WikiPedia locally in his iPhone. It would be great if we can also do this using Webaroo mobile.
Anyway, this is a great tool if you want to read a WikiPedia topic when you are mobile and offline. You can take the content with you while on the road and do not have internet access. It’s also a great way for excluding a topic from all the other content in Wikipedia for research purposes.
Tags: content, Download, offline reading, webaroo, wikipedia, wikislice
Encyclopedia Britannica has been around for centuries. It has been the leading resource of cataloged information until the internet came along and Wikipedia was born.
They recently released a program called Britannica Webshare which let web publishers (bloggers) access Britannica information for free. The service which normally costs Seventy Dollars ($70) per year can now be accessed and linked to any by website approved by Britannica.
You can sign up for the free access by giving your URL and a description of your site. Britannica will then review the information that you have submitted and will grant or deny you access in their pages. Once approved, you will get exclusive access to the online encyclopedia and you can link to Britannica’s full version articles. Visitors clicking on your Britannica link gets access to the article but is not allowed to browse other Britannica pages. Users can also embed widgets like the one below. You can get the widgets here.
The Britannica information is invisible to the web meaning that they are not indexed by search engines. Only paying customers have exclusive access to the pages. So if you have a website or a blog and want to have free and exclusive access to Britannica information, just sign up and tell them a little something about your site.
Tip: Once you are a member, you can also get custom information from Encyclopedia Britannica in your Google search results. Results from Britannica will appear on your top searches once this is enabled.
Tags: britannica, encyclopaedia britannica, encyclopedia, Google, website, wikipedia
This guy just installed the sum of all world knowledge in his iPod Touch. The video shows us how to install Wikipedia in an iPhone and iPod Touch.
First you need a Jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch to do this hack. Jailbreaking is the term used for hacking your iPhone/iPod Touch so you can install third party applications, add ringtones and change wallpapers. What it does is open up your iPhone or iPod Touch’s file system so it can be accessed from your computer. Then you’ll need SSH installed to copy the files to your iPhone. The copy takes one to two hours to finish so make sure that you have enough free time and battery life(or just keep your device plugged in) before you do this. You can also find other video tutorials from ipodtouchhackster in his YouTube profile. The tutorials currently featured are Jailbreaking, Install Snes Emulator and some Troubleshooting and customization tricks.
Tags: install, iphone, ipod, jailbreak, ssh, touch, wikipedia
