06 January 2008 Categorized under Gadgets

Encyclopodia – Wikipedia for ipod

Encyclopodia is an open source project to bring WikiPedia to the iPod. It can beinstalled as said on iPod generations one to four as well as mini and photo.

Installation :

Download the installer (version 0.9.1 – http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/encyclopodia/encyclopodia-setup-0.9.1.zip ) (please go to the download page for the newest version) from the install page on sourceforge. To install the Encyclopodia they have got right to the point instructions. After the installation following the instructions given at the help page, you need to copy one of the language files (links given at the end) to the DRIVE:\data\encyclopodia\library\ directory where DRIVE: refers to the drive letter of iPod shown on your Computer.

Here are some screen shots from the developer website :

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The screen shots are arranged in the order the user navigates through the menu.

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For now wikipedia for iPod is available in three language formats :

1 . http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/encyclopodia/wikipedia-en-20070206.epodia – English Wikipedia
2 . http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/encyclopodia/wikipedia-de-20070402.epodia – German Wikipedia
3 . http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/encyclopodia/wikipedia-it-20070330.epodiaItalian Wikipedia


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