Windows Phone Thoughts: Tomes Of Knowledge In Your Pocket

What Kind Of Files Are Out There?
The application is pretty straightforward and easy to use, but what kind of files are out there? What kind of data can be viewed?
A quick jump over to MemoWare reveals over 3300 TomeRaider files and nearly 50 TomeRaider 3 specific files that can be freely downloaded. Some choice items I found were:

• CIA World Factbook (TR3);
• Internet Movie Database (your choice of various years to present);
  
• The Encyclopedia of Modern Music;
  
• SQL Primer;
  
• US Constitution and Ammendments.

Also, remember that if you have the desktop version of TomeRaider, you can create your own documents easily using no greater skill than basic HTML coding.

Conclusions
What this program does it does incredibly well. I can’t tell you the number of times a question has been asked about when a movie came out, and I’ve been able to pull out my PDA and answer that question. Or the number of times there’s been a conversation at a party about the size, location or geography of a country and the CIA World Factbook has been able to answer it.

In all, the only serious limitation I’d like to see removed from the software is the ability to copy data from a file. I suppose they omitted that feature to protect copyrights, but I’d still prefer if some copy functionality were included.

Jordan Rosenwald is an information protection analyst in the Philadelphia area.