{"id":633,"date":"2008-04-22T21:50:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T02:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/04\/22\/all-human-knowledge-in-your-pocket\/"},"modified":"2008-07-13T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T21:57:00","slug":"all-human-knowledge-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/04\/22\/all-human-knowledge-in-your-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"All human knowledge&#8230; in your pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted very much about my iPod Touch.\u00a0 I can assure you it has become one of my most used pieces of technology.\u00a0 Today I added something to it that is mind boggling.<\/p>\n<p>I installed <a href=\"http:\/\/collison.ie\/wikipedia-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia on my iPod Touch<\/a>.\u00a0 By this, I don&#8217;t mean that I enabled my iPod Touch to go over the Internet and access <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia<\/a>.\u00a0 Instead, I have the whole searchable database installed on my iPod Touch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/iwiki.jpg\" alt=\"iwiki.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a two step process.\u00a0 First the application is installed and then a dump of the official wikipedia site is transferred to the iPod Touch.\u00a0 Since the data dump involves a file that is two gigabytes, it took about 90 minutes to complete the second step.<\/p>\n<p>I basically used 1\/8 of my Touch&#8217;s memory to install this application.\u00a0 That&#8217;s OK.\u00a0 I had only managed to fill half of the 16 GB in the last six months.\u00a0 I still have plenty of free space.<\/p>\n<p>The data set is from October of 2007.\u00a0 I&#8217;m certain an updated dump will happen periodically.\u00a0 It does take considerable massaging to get the database into the proper format for the iPhone\/Touch.\u00a0 Also, all the pictures are removed.\u00a0 Otherwise the data set would be too large for the device.\u00a0 The dump I have is in English.\u00a0 There are German and Portuguese dumps available.<\/p>\n<p>To search the database begin by typing a few letters of the name or term.\u00a0 As letters are typed, possible matches are listed.\u00a0 As soon as the target term is listed, clicking it directs the browser to the listing in the database.\u00a0 From here on out, it works just like the online version without the option to edit entries.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can look up everything from the atomic\u00a0weight of aluminum to the history of ZZ Top&#8230; and\u00a0all that is\u00a0in between, stored on a device the size of a cell phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted very much about my iPod Touch.\u00a0 I can assure you it has become one of my most used pieces of technology.\u00a0 Today I added something to it that is mind boggling. I installed wikipedia on my iPod &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/04\/22\/all-human-knowledge-in-your-pocket\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336,340,33,11,2],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-ipod-touch","tag-resources","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}