Did you ever wanted to access Wikipedia while you are on the go? WikiTaxi comes to your rescue, its a portable application that delivers the Wikipedia of your choice to wherever you go. WikiTaxi enables you to read, search and browse Wikipedia offline. You do not need to be online, all pages are stored in a WikiTaxi database.
 

WikiTaxi comes with a compression to make sure that the database stays reasonably small. WikiTaxi is multilingual, which means that you can use it for Wikipedia’s from different languages. It also works well with the dictionary and quotation Wikis.  

WikiTaxi does not requires any installation, just extract the WikiTaxi archive (requires 7-Zip) to any folder. WikiTaxi is portable too, its a single-file application which you just need to double-click to run. It does not require a database engine or HTML browser, nor does it require PHP. All functionality is completely self-contained in a single executable.  

WikiTaxi is easy to main as well; to uninstall, simply delete the executable file. To remove an outdated database, just erase the file.  

Before you can actually use WikiTaxi, you must download your Wikipedia from the internet and import it into a WikiTaxi database. This is necessary for offline browsing.  

To start downloading the Wikipedia backup, follow one of the links below, pick your Wiki and browse to latest directory and look out for the file name ending with  

“latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2”

Wikipedia Backup:  

  Simple English (simplewiki), excellent for first WikiTaxi import and Testing. 

 English (enwiki), more than 3.5GB download size. 

 Dumps for all Wikis, in different languages and sizes. 

 Download this file to your hard disk. It contains all articles, templates, image description and primary meta-pages of a Wiki.  

Now you have import the xml dump into a WikiTaxi database, to do this run WikiTaxi_Importer.exe present in the folder in which you have extracted the WikiTaxi archive. It will extract the Wiki articles from the XML dump files to a WikiTaxi database.  

In the WikiTaxi importer, enter or browse for the XML dump file you just have downloaded(file name ending with “latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2”) and the database file you want it to create. Then click on “Import Now” button and wait until the import is finished.  

Now you just have to link WikiTaxi with the database file which was created with WikiTaxi importer. 

Run the WikiTaxi.exe, it will open with the welcome page, Click on the file or folder to select the database and you are all set to read, search and browse Wikipedia offline. 

Njoy!!

SilveOS.com has come up with a Silverlight operating system sometimes called a Web OS or a Webtop or a cloud computer. It is a website that simulates an operating system inside a web browser. SilveOS.com replicates the desktop environment of modern OS.

It can give a familiar work interface that looks the same whether you are working at your home computer or remotely from public computer. You can launch application right away without installation.

SilveOS.com is web based and requires Silverlight 3 to operate. Application runs in Silverlight’s security sandbox. By default code is restricted from accessing your file system or doing anything that could hurt your machine.

Besides desktop, taskbar, start menu and sidebar, currently it includes such applications:

* File Explorer
* Internet Explorer
* Video Player
* Rich text editor
* RSS reader
* Virtual PC
* Notepad
* Paint
* Twitter client
* Flickr viewer
* Youtube viewer
* Virtual Earth
* Chat
* Calculator
* Games like Chess, Solitaire, Spider etc.

The system also supports installing program functionality. But this program should be developed in Silverlight and be available in Internet or local file system.

SilverOS.com advantages:

If you ever land up in a situation where you need to access your FTP server to edit/upload files and do not have a FTP client installed on your computer or different situation like even if you have FTP client installed but you are behind firewall.
There is nothing to worry about, as you can log on to your server using web-based FTP client. Web-based means that you will use web browser to access it instead of installed FTP client.

If you happen to be a website administrator, you know how important it is for you to access your files on the account given by your provider to make changes to the website content.

Most popular web-based FTP client are listed here which come handy in these situations -

 net2ftp – With net2ftp, once you are logged into the FTP server, you can navigate the directory structure and files just like any other FTP client. You can as usual download and upload files, copy, move and delete files and folders. You also have the ability to zip and unzip files.

Surftp – Once you have logged in, you can browse from directory to directory and see all the subdirectories and files. There are 3 different ways to upload files: the standard upload form, the upload-and-unzip functionality, and the Java Applet. You can download multiple files in a zip achieve as well.

01FTP – Has similar feature as provided Surftp

WebFTP – Once logged in you will have all the features of a normal FTP program. You can create, upload or edit files and set permissions via CHMOD and other techie wizardry.They do not log your passwords and the whole system is safe and secure.

Jambai FTP – Has similar feature as of net2ftp. No login information is saved / stored on its server.