Developer: Robert Chin
Genre: Reference
Version: 1.5a
Price: Free
Original Release: Aug 14, 2008
Updated: Jan 2, 2009
What Changed: New Version
Popularity: 100
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APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
Accessing Wikipedia has never been faster and easier than with Wikipanion, designed for easy, search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. Streamline your browsing with history grouped by visit date, and bookmarking that not only bookmarks individual entries, but individual sections within an entry. Featuring intelligent features such as:
- Table of contents browser that knows where you are in the page
- Multiple search methods including Smart completion with entry preview, Google searching and a full text Wikipedia search
- Dual language searching and language switching (hiding languages you don't care about)
- Bookmark, including bookmarking individual sections of pages
- History, grouped by last visit date
- Full in-page searching
- Wiktionary dictionary term looking without leaving the current page
- Table based category browsing
- Interactive font resizing
- Image saving to the Photo library
- Ogg vorbis audio playback for dictionary pronunciations and other audio content available on Wikipedia
- Contextual knowledge for sending links to specific sections in a Wikipedia entry
- Easily turn on automatic focusing of the search field on launch
Tip: To scroll to the top of a Wikipedia entry, hit the title bar at the top of the iPhone's screen (this works in Safari too).
Second tip: Click into the search bar to cancel a page load request.
See the Wikipanion web site for more details about all of the available features.
WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION:
- Bookmarks, allowing individual sections in a page to be bookmarked
- History grouped by date
- In page text search
- Wiktionary term lookup (including playback of pronunciations)
- Orientation lock, persistent across launches
- Open page in Safari
- Last search results shown when clicking in the search bar
- Ogg vorbis audio file playback
1.5a fixes an issue with page caching, and fixes a page rendering regression.
LANGUAGES:
English, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish
REQUIREMENTS:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.0 Software Update