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Monday, November 7, 2005

The World in Your Pocket – Lexipedia 1.1 for Pocket PC

Posted by Don Tolson in "SOFTWARE" @ 09:00 AM


Introduction
Ever wanted to have to have an encyclopedia at your fingertips? Maybe it was to one-up the guys (or gals) around the water cooler at the morning discussion of world events. Or maybe it was to answer that tricky question in Trivial Pursuit® or Jeopardy™. Well, Revolutionary Software Front has now brought the world’s largest free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, to the Pocket PC. Whether it be Early American Cubism or Goth Invasions of the 5th Century, you can now have the combined knowledge and expertise of the Internet community right in your pocket.

Installation
Downloads of Lexipedia are available directly from Revolutionary Software Front’s website. It’s a big download (over 215Mb for Pocket PC), so be prepared to wait a while. Over the cable modem Internet connection I have at home, it took about 12 minutes for the download to complete. The installation routine is the standard Microsoft Activesync routine and includes a warning that the application must be installed to a storage card with at least 225Mb of free space so be careful not to accept the Install to the Default Location? option. It took about the same amount of time for the abridged version to be copied to a run-of-the-mill 512Mb SanDisk CF card. As mentioned above, an unabridged version is available which needs about 650mb. The entire content and search engine must be installed on a single card. They cannot be split.

A demo version of Lexipedia is available which is the same as the abridged version (225mb), but it’s not fully functional. In it, you can’t specify any search criteria. Instead, Lexipedia displays an article at random each time you tap on the Go button, but the internal links within the articles still work fine. If you decide to purchase the full version after installing the demo, Revolutionary Software Front will provide an unlock key which will release the full functionality, so you won’t need to re-download the content again.


Figure 1: Main screen of the demo version of Lexipedia.

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