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Take Wikipedia with you wherever you go: Wikipedia Offline Browsing


Wikipedia provides all of it’s entire content as database dump files (.xml.bz2 format) which can be later read offline using special software in PCs, Mobiles. These data dumps are frequently updated and available in Wikipedia website. There are applications and standalone devices available for read these dump files offline. It’s most useful when you want to read wikipedia offline and there is no internet available.

1. WikiTaxi:

WikiTaxi is an offline wiki reading software, small, portable and free. WikiTaxi is multilingual, so you can use it for different language Wikipedias. It also works well with the Wiktionary and WikiQuote. You can save multiple Wikis to disk and use all of them with WikiTaxi. WikiTaxi coded in Delphi and no installation required. Just download and run the EXE (wikitaxi.exe) file. So you can use a USB drive for WikiTaxi and carry with you wherever you go. Fore more details and download, see WikiTaxi website at www.wikitaxi.org.

2. Kiwix:

Kiwix is another free wikipedia offline reading software, also available for MAC and Linux operating systems. Created using the Mozilla framework and integrating a full-text search engine. More details at www.kiwix.org.

3. Zipedia:

Zipedia is a Mozilla Add-on for Firefox enabling offline browsing. Unlike other wiki offline readers which required to download dump files, Zipedia does not need any external database as this is done by the browser itself. The add-on works with Firefox v2.0-3.0+. To access the offline resource you need to just type in – wikipedia://wiki/

4. For iOS Devices:

For iOS devices like iPhone, iPad and iPod, search on Apple App Store. Most preferred app is Wiki Offline. Also few other apps are available in App Store for Wikipedia Offline browsing.

5. PediaPress:

PediaPress allows to create PDF books from selected Wikipedia articles and save as PDF for offline reading. You can also order printed version of created PDF books from PediaPress with a fee and the printed books will delivered to your home. See more at www.pediapress.com.

6. WikiReader – Standalone Wiki Reading Device:

WikiReader is a 3.5” monochrome device with a capacitive touch screen and contains over 3 million Wikipedia articles. The device can be updated by connecting to computer or via SD memory card to get updated wiki content. Also this device has months of battery backup and no need to worry about battery. WikiReader device costs around $100.

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Facebook Messenger for Android

Facebook released Facebook Messenger for sending and receiving messages between Facebook friends. This facebook app supports group messaging, location update (which your friends can see your location map, you can turn off this feature), messages directly delivered to your friends mobiles instantly. App available for Android and iPhone devices, soon available for blackberry, but no word about Nokia Devices for this official app.

Get the app from https://www.facebook.com/mobile/messenger

Pros

Free
Ability to send SMS texts in addition to instant messages
Multiple settings for push notifications

Cons

No list of friends online
Profile pictures of friends missing when using SMS
Some messages received in duplicate.

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The Go Programming Language


“The Go”, is the all new programming language from Google. The search engine giant created a new programming language for modern, object oriented programming.

Google said The Go is for “Fast, Safe, Concurrent, Fun” and open source. It’s mainly targeted for C++ developers. The Go borrows some best features from Pascal, C, C++ and other languages.

The Go’s syntax is heavily derived from C, so If you are a C fan then you should be a fan of Go too. And for Windows programmers there is a bad news, Google have no plan to release Go for Windows in any near future.

And few important differences between C,C++ and The GO is

1) No Pointers.
2) No Types.
3) No Overloading.
4) No Implicit type conversions.
5) No Header Files.
6) Variables should be initiated while declaration.
7) Native support for Threading.
8 ) Arrays & Strings are native types.
9) Inbuilt garbage collection.
10) Support multiple assignments, such as a,b=b,c; (will be a=b; and b=c;).
11) Functions can return multiple values.

Google Go is still in development stage. To know more about Google Go, goto www.golang.org, this website runs on godoc documentation server, which is programmed in Go.

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Mastory – A Good Mobile Blogging Tool for Maemo 5

Mastory:

MaStory allows you to blog from your Maemo device. Right now it supports WordPress, Blogger, Livejournal and Drupal. You can write posts in offline mode and edit posts already published. It interacts with photo services like Flickr and Picasa. And more features for blogging from your hands.

It runs in different hardware like Nokia N900, Nokia N810, Nokia N800, and Nokia 770.
Most important features are:

* Support for WordPress, Blogger, Livejournal
* Manage your already published posts.
* Manage comments.
* Supports draft and scheduled posts.
* Save articles in offline mode
* HTML text formatting
* Add images to the posts from local image, remote image (Internet), Flickr and Picasa.
* Edit images before posting: resize, crop, rotate, etc.
* Upload images to Flickr, Picasa Web Albums and Pixelpipe.

I have tested in N900 and working fine…

More details and download at http://maemo-wordpy.garage.maemo.org/


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Nokia N97 Mini Firmware Update – Too slow after update


Recently Nokia updated the latest firmware for Nokia N97 Mini smartphone. The S60 5th edition phone is really a smartphone in all ways. The latest firmware version is 30.0.004.

The new firmware update have some enhancements and new features and few features are updated. Some notable features are:

* Updated Phone Dialer. Includes search function built-in in the dialer.
* Improved E-mail gives you easy access to e-mail accounts
* New, faster version of the web browser, including web search integrated into the web address field and support for web addresses containing non-Latin characters
* Here and Now gives you, at a glance, timely information on weather, events, movies and restaurants nearby
* New version of Ovi Store
* Emoticons can be used in text and multimedia messages
* Ovi Contacts removed
* General performance and usability improvements.

But the phone is too slow after the update. Call Answer and Call End takes 2 to 4 seconds. We have to wait few seconds to attend the call after selecting the Answer button, same problem for ending calls. And the response when connecting the USB cable is also very slow, it takes nearly 5 seconds.

I tried 3 times by re-installing, the result is same. So think about the slow response before update the firmware or wait for the next update.

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