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Product Description:
Search for and view wikipedia articles from the dashboard. Complete with pictures, links to other articles, and external links.
Features:
- Compatible with any language wikipedia, just enter the 2 (sometimes 3 or more) letter code on the back. Defaults to English.
- Back and forward buttons with page caching. The cache life time is user-configurable on the back of the widget.
- External links open in your preferred browser.
- Click the 'wikipedia' button to the left of the search field to open the current article or search term in Safari.
- The little '?' button to the left of the search field will pull a random article into the widget (Special:Randompage query).
- Back and forward buttons with page caching.
See http://www.whatsinthehouse.com/widgets/ for a list of known bugs and to-do's.
What's new in this version:
- Wikipedia articles can now be edited from within the widget
- User can now change font size
- Added a pull-down menu to the back with the languages of the largest wikipedias
- Added a comment button on the back for quick feedback
- The links at the top of search results pages now work
- 'Image:' pages work again
- Cache works again
- Searching for an article or clicking a link will no longer use a cached file. This eliminates the case sensitivity problem with certain searches (eg. "duluth, mn").
- Now works when logged into an account (in Safari) with an alternative skin selected.
- Updated the CSS from wikipedia.org
- Shift-spacebar scrolls up, in addition to the spacebar scrolling down
- Delete goes back in history, shift-delete goes forward
- Tab and Cmd-f select the search box
- The widget now shrinks to the size of the back before flipping
- Dutch localization by Gustaaf Groenendaal
- Danish localization by Niels Danielsen
- Japanese localization by Gregory Senyshyn and Hiroko Ogura
- Traditional and Simplified Chinese localizations by Xu Zhaoben
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4
Screenshots:
Download Links:
Download Wikipedia Version 0.9.1 (File Size: 292k)
Download Links:
Download Wikipedia Current Version (File Size: 302k)
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Feedback Summary:
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| Overall Rating: |  (4.8) |
Features: | (4.8) |
Support: | (4.6) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.6) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.6) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Featured Reviews
If you use dashboard... - Version: 0.9.1, 2/25/2007 04:15PM PST
trillionandtwo
You will be surprised and delighted at how often wikipedia is just plain better than Google if you need to know something "right now". This is the widget that got me to start using Dashboard in my day to day workflow.
A Great Reference Tool, Well-Impmented in Widget Form - Version: 0.9.1, 10/27/2006 01:46PM PST
Justin Norman
I'm so glad someone made this widget. Now that I have this in my Dashboard, I very rarely visit Wikipedia in my browser, except when editing entries. (Although you can edit within the widget, it's still a bit uncomfortable for me at such a small size.) Generally, my encyclopedia searches are for fairly quick information regarding questions I find in my usual Web searches, so keeping this in a nice little widget, separate from my regular Web browsing, is great. It's even more useful for my less computer-savvy relatives, who don't know what Wikipedia is. I've installed it on at least three other computers, and they're enjoying it too.
La Guida Galattica Per Gli Autostoppisti nel PC!! - Version: 0.9.1, 10/8/2006 11:18AM PST
G!
Fantastico. In una righetta c'รจ tutto lo scibile della Wikipedia. Una volta immessa la parola da cercare si ingrandisce il widget, volendo fino a pieno schermo, e cancellando la ricerca orna ad occupare lo spazio di una caccola.
Davvero il miglior Widget che abbia scaricato sinora.
G!
Davvero il miglior Widget che abbia scaricato sinora.
G!
