05-17-2005, 03:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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550,000 Article Lexipedia Released
"The largest and most expansive reference work in the history of human knowledge can now be on your Pocket PC. Based on the Wikipedia encyclopedia project, Lexipedia contains over 550,000 articles that are quickly and easily searched. This massive tome requires a fair amount of storage but it pays for itself by being the go-to place for just about any reference question you may have. Classics, biographies, the plant and animal kingdom, human history, music, bands, movies, business, military, medical, it just goes on and on and on. Lexipedia includes just the summary sections or beginnings of articles in order to make the product a manageable size. A textually unabridged version will also be available shortly as part of the same product - it will just be an optional download at no further cost."
If you're like me, and you enjoy having gobs of information at your fingertips, this is the kind of product that's simply awesome to have installed on your Pocket PC. You'll need to install it to a fairly hefty storage card (but hey, =50:105"]they're cheap now), but this is a lot of excellent information. The price is right at $13.99, so if you're a trivia buff, or just like having the last word in a discussion about facts, this is your kind of application. ;-) They've also updated Lextionary and Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, so feel free to take a look.
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05-17-2005, 03:14 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 70
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Its 222Mb.
My latest Wikipedia dump is around 511Mb.
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05-17-2005, 03:34 PM
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Executive Editor, Android Thoughts
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Must..appear...to...know... EVERYTHING!
This looks like a great piece of "Impresso-ware" for your pocket, as well as a great educational time waster (Heck, last night I spent a few hours on Wikipedia just looking up random things and learning lots of great trivia). I'm deffinetly going to give it a try.
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05-17-2005, 03:42 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 70
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If you have a copy of Tomeraider and a spare 511Mb, this might be a better option.
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05-17-2005, 03:52 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 215
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I've got it. It's very good but there is a minor niggle. If an article is longer than a single screen, there is no way to scroll down. There are no scroll bars or forward button, only a back button. Unless i'm missing something obvious - which is possible 'cos I've got the Flu. :cry:
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05-17-2005, 04:04 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 718
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Originally Posted by Ward
If you have a copy of Tomeraider and a spare 511Mb, this might be a better option. |
I used his scripts to build a Wikipedia with pictures from the SQL source downloads. Final size was 2GB and took two days to compile 
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05-17-2005, 07:35 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 174
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Originally Posted by SHC
I've got it. It's very good but there is a minor niggle. If an article is longer than a single screen, there is no way to scroll down. There are no scroll bars or forward button, only a back button. Unless i'm missing something obvious - which is possible 'cos I've got the Flu. :cry:
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Which Pocket PC do you have? I haven't heard of this before and will be happy to look into it (I'm the developer).
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05-17-2005, 07:58 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 4
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Originally Posted by Ward
If you have a copy of Tomeraider and a spare 511Mb, this might be a better option. |
Or, if you have a copy of Tomeraider and a spare 2.4 gig, you can produce the version with pictures. Lots of fun to browse.
Michael
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05-18-2005, 12:43 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 5
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Publication of Wikipedia with images for TomeRaider is around the corner
The English Wikipedia for TomeRaider with images will be available in a day or two in three versions for Pocket PC (Palm versions will follow later):
size < 1Gb 90,000+ images up to 210 pixels, strong jpg compression
size < 2Gb 145,000+ images up to 240 pixels, better image quality
size 2.6 Gb 150,000 images up to 295 pixels, even better image quality and many maps stored at original size (heuristically determined)
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05-18-2005, 07:57 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 77
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To the developer of Lexipedia: Great product! I will be purchasing it after I type this post. A query however, when will the full "unabridged" version be available? Will it contain images (I don't really want them.. too much space taken up.) and how big will it be?
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