This is one of the most missed features of my Palm and Windows Mobile smart-phones. The ability of having the entire world knowledge in the palm of your hand can prove to be a great boredom killer and a great asset sometimes. Most importantly, OFFLINE. Continue reading Wikipedia on iPhone
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Changing ports of Wiki2touch
If you are using Air Sharing together with Wiki2touch, there would be a clash in port numbers resulting in the inability to startup Airsharing after wiki2touch is installed. In order to resolve this issue, there is a need to change the port numbers of wiki2touch. To do this, navigate to
/var/stash/Applications.*
Inside, there wouldbe a BossPrefs directory. cd into that, and there is a services directory. There should be a Wiki2Touch file. Open the file using vi and there is a plist file directive inside. edit the plist file to include the following.
<string>-p</string> <string>8081</string>
This is to be added under the arguments section. before the -v directive. In order browse the wiki2touch, you would then have to use port 8081 instead of 8080. This would however get Air Sharing to play nice with the wikisrvd.
Javascript Databases for offline storage
This new Javascript DB thing is fantastic. It allows one to open and store information offline, and local to the device that was accessing the website. The retrieval of the information is based on standard SQL. Continue reading Javascript Databases for offline storage
Parsing Excel in PERL
i didn’t know where to put this so i placed it here under the scope of development.
For how to parse EXCEL files in rows and columns, look at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pexcel/