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Wikipedia Widget - 0.9.3

Widget for browsing Wikipedia articles.

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Release Date:	2009-07-12
License:	Freeware
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Product Description:

A Dashboard widget for browsing Wikipedia. Search for articles and view from the Dashboard, complete with pictures and links. Now scroll-wheel and keyboard scrolling compatible. Wikipedia pulls up entire wikipedia articles, complete with pictures, for viewing from the Dashboard. Wikipedia is compatible with any language wikipedia, just enter the 2 letter code on the back. Defaults to English. Click the wikipedia.org button to the right of the search field to open the current article or search term in Safari. The little ? button to the right of the search field will pull a random article into the widget (Special: Randompage query).

What's new in this version:

Wikipedia account login support (courtesy of Nick Lane-Smith). Press ctrl-o to view the login page.
Fixed caching in OS 10.5.6 and later (no more qzq nonsense or broken links)
Quickly search different language wikipedias without changing the language setting. Just add the language code to the front of your search term. For example, search for "fr: Kosovo" to view the article on Kosovo in French, or "sv: Stockholm" for the Swedish language article on Stockholm.
Added more languages to the menu on the back

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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