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