iPhone Passion

The title is right: you can install Wikipedia on your iPhone. Most articles on Wikipedia are there, in only 2GB of disk space. Sure, there are no pictures(nor other multimedia items), and the navigation is crappy, but after all… it’s Wikipedia on your iPhone, to read and to love whenever you’re offline.
In the author’s words:

What
An offline Wikipedia reader for the iPhone or iPod Touch. I wanted to write an iPhone app over Christmas, and so hacked this together during the break.
Why
It’s the warm fuzzy feeling of having the sum of all human knowledge in your pocket. It’s the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy realised. EDGE is slow; search is slow; you’re abroad, in a plane, a tunnel, or on top of a mountain. You have an iPod Touch.

Here’s the noob’s step-by-step guide on how to install it on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

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The guys from HermitWorks have posted this Friday an amazingly impressive video of a networked Quake 3 game running on two iPod Touch. I know, there are already a couple of 3d shooters running on the iPhone platform, but this one beats the crap out of them - controlling the movement by tilting your iPhone, this is an amazing new level of interactivity for a Quake 3 shooter.

Words are worth less than the video. Watch and be impressed!

Via Touchpodium

From Techmeme we find an interesting article that shows us the graphs of iPod vs iPhone searches on the American Online market.

As you can see for yourself, , iPhone searches started as early as August 2006 but were close to nothing; same in September, October, November. December started to spread some more rumors, but still an insignifiant number of searches compared to the ones for the iPod. However… January came and with it a HUGE peak in internet searches.

The lean guys from weblogs.hitwise.com also give us the list of the sites receiving all this huge traffic. On the first position, off course, Apple Computer, followed by Apple iPhone Blog - now that’s a lucky site owner. Surprinsingly, MySpace is on the fifth position, tightly behind Engadget - I say surprisingly, since after all Engadget IS the most trustful ressource for everything gadget related.

Hmm… quite interesting, ain’t it? We’ll just see what the future brings, and whether the search in interest for the iPhone is more than just a temporary fashion. I guess we’ll have to wait until August for this…

Mac Forums 2001 - see here the reactions and rants of hard-core Apple users to the new iPod. Quite a change of perspective from now, ain’t it?