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November 2009

WikiReader in Spain and in spanish


Here I have the first units to sell of Openmoko WikiReader and the Wikipedia in spanish,
Wikireader comes with english Wikipedia with more than 3 million articles already bundled in the box, spanish wikipedia has about half million articles
To obtain the spanish wikipedia you have three methods:

Qi-Hardware Ben Nanonote reflashing

This are  photos the steps to  flash a dev version device of the Qi-Hardware Ben NanoNote, final version will have an already installed functional OS and surelly put the device in USB mode will be more smooth

I have followed this tutorials with no deviation so no sense to rewrite all commands again just some comments on the pictures, click on the image to view them on high resolution,.

FOSS devices in the Karmic Castanyada (Lleida Ubunty Install party)

Tuxbrain was invited,  by  la comunidad de Ubuntaires to the Karmik chestnuts party(castanyada Karmika) done in   IES Torre Vicens on 7th November, there we do a speach about FOSS friendly devices  and we enjoy a a lot the meeting with good friends, also was the first tests on "real world" of our devices , especial mention to our  Sharp Netwalker  the presentation was done with and from it :)

Next a photopost of how the meeting was lived by us.

Images on WikiReader, posible?

Due itenacionalization on the device in on the way and is posible to run other apps , another way to improve the software is to be able to include image on it , taking in considreation the difficulty to do it on the limitations of the device 1bit of color (Black/White) and 240x208 pixels resolution, below I have selected a few random image from the Wikipedia using the Random Article special page and I have tried to tranform them to the format understandable to the device (pbm format) in the hypothetical situation it has an already included image viewer than allows to do vertical scroll , so all images has a with of 240 pixels. I think the results are quite promising due the process is the same for all image with same parameters and results are quite good to be the first attempt.

WikiReader:The "hidden" menus

Thanks to Thomas HOCEDEZ and his blogto discover some "hidden" menus, well if anything can be hidden when you can access to the source code :P ,  To access this menu/programs you must push one the keys along with the power button when you power on the device


history button +Power=Calculator

WikiReader:Wikipedia in Spanish (Work in Progress)

The procces is not full ready yet, it fails due issues on articles with different codding(utf8/Latin1) , and I can just proccess the 40% of the Spanish Wikipedia , but here is a sample of the Spanish Wikipediar Wikipedia running on WikiReader