Wikipedia on the iPhone
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Ever wanted to have an oracle of all human knowledge at your fingertips? Well now you can thanks to a young Irish developer, Patrick Collison. Patrick hacked together an offline Wikipedia reader for the iPhone over Christmas. I haven’t used it as I don’t have an iPhone but I’m going to have a quick look at the mongrel based Ruby version he used for debugging in development. I currently have a Nokia N95 and while I’ve very happy with it as a piece of hardware, I’m jealous of the iPhone users who get the coolest apps first. Lets be honest the iPhone looks a lot sexier too. Rather than just moan though I might take a look at the SDK for Nokia N95’s this weekend and see what would be required to get the nifty Wikipedia reader running on my N95.