So what happened was, I was at my house on Galiano Island with my shiny new iPhone and without, at the time, either high speed internet or EDGE coverage, and I thought "gee, wouldn't it be nice if...". And I did some hacking, and then I mentioned it to Patrick Collison who was sharing office space with us and he ignored my hacking and did a ton of his own, and even though I now have DSL and EDGE out there it *is* nice: all of Wikipedia, stored and searchable in 2GB of your iPhone's flash drive. Get it here.
It's not perfect yet - there's no images, just text, and the parser is pretty basic and doesn't know about tables and stuff, and clicking on links can be flaky and slow, and if you do happen to have a network around it's probably a better experience to just go to wikipedia.org, but: there's really nothing quite like holding the sum of human knowledge in the palm of your hand. Patrick, I owe you many drams of whiskey whenever you're back in town.
This is awesome - it is exactly the reason I bought an iTouch!
But I've been too chicken to jailbreak. Now that the SDK has been released, that may not be necessary for much longer.
Maybe you could post a link for people who don't know how to get ssh installed on their phones but who really really want this.
Posted by: Steve Wart | March 09, 2008 at 08:30 AM