You may sometimes be in a position where you need to look up information but do not have Internet available at the moment. This can be during your daily commute or in a situation where an Internet connection is not available or working. We have reviewed several options in the past to get the majority [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

The Stop Online Piracy Act in the US is getting ever more publicity with GoDaddy one of the high profile companies to suffer from supporting it as we wrote a couple of days ago.  In our previous article Martin summed up SOPA very effectively. If you are living in the United States, you should have [...]

Categories: Online Services

Most people know that a wiki is an internet-based environment for writers to collaborate and create articles that are easily linked. Media Wiki can be set up quickly with a fast installation. This covers all of the administrative tips and the PHP file insertions. Customize a Desktop design to use with applications and take it [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Many computer users use Wikipedia, or one of its sister Wiki sites as reference when they want to look something up on the Internet. They basically use Wikipedia as an encyclopedia, which is fine, as long as they remember that information on the site may be incorrect due to its “everyone may edit everything” guidelines. [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

The free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is 10 today.  It was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and is now the largest and most popular reference website with over 17 million articles and 400 million readers.  The name came from the Hawaiian word wiki which means “quick” and the word encyclopedia. At the moment [...]

Categories: The Web

There have been an increasing number of internet censorship instances in the last couple of years including China blocking access to news sites during the Beijing Olympics to that terrible opponent of free-speech, Australia.  Now Pakistan is on the case, blocking YouTube for what it calls “growing sacrilegious content” the BBC has written.

Categories: Music and Video

Wikipedia users have access to so called gadgets which are Javascript snippets that extend the functionality of the popular online encyclopedia. They provide a similar functionality as userscripts with the difference that they are not installed on the user’s computer. Wikipedia gadgets can be accessed by clicking on the my preferences link in the top [...]

Categories: The Web

Wikipedia Companion is a Google Chrome extension that can be used to search Wikipedia in a small browser window without leaving the active website. That’s ideal for users who usually look up things on Wikipedia while browsing other websites. The extension places an icon in the Google Chrome address bar which opens the Wikipedia browser [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Did you know that you can create books from Wikipedia articles? Chance is you did not as the feature is currently available in the beta interface which can only be activated by registered users. Every Wikipedia user who creates an account and switches from the standard interface to the beta interface can create books from [...]

Categories: The Web