WIKIPEDIA ON YOUR CELL PHONE

Posted on March 22nd, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach

The free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, can now be downloaded into your cell phone, if you have a Blackberry or your phone uses the Windows Mobile system. It uses four gigabytes of the cell phone’s memory, but once it’s there you can look things up without any further calls. Wikipedia has 12 million articles, and that’s just in English. You can get it for $10 from wikipock.com.

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FREE BOOK

Posted on February 8th, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach

In an odd turn of the digital wheel, the book “Wikipedia, the Missing Manual,” is on Wikipedia.

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IT SAYS RIGHT HERE IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA

Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach

We got a new book about Wikipedia recently, and it prompts us to devote some space to this remarkable Web creation.

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