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Title: Cia World Fact Book For Pda
Post by: speculatrix on April 21, 2005, 09:58:20 am
http://mobile.windowsbeta.net/pdafactbook/ (http://mobile.windowsbeta.net/pdafactbook/)
Title: Cia World Fact Book For Pda
Post by: dz on April 21, 2005, 05:24:09 pm
I can't tell whether or not this is spam..
Title: Cia World Fact Book For Pda
Post by: speculatrix on April 21, 2005, 06:33:59 pm
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I can't tell whether or not this is spam..
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quite a few people want a copy of the CIA world fact book, and some places sell it in a form suitable for a PDA; there are quite a few people with Zs who read ebooks and I figured they might be interested in a free download, rather than having to use plucker to make their own version.

Paul
Title: Cia World Fact Book For Pda
Post by: Greg2 on April 21, 2005, 07:55:16 pm
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quite a few people want a copy of the CIA world fact book, and some places sell it in a form suitable for a PDA; there are quite a few people with Zs who read ebooks and I figured they might be interested in a free download
I wanted a copy for myself... some of the maps and data are hard to find. The maps look good even on the 5xxx models.

Thanks

Greg
Title: Cia World Fact Book For Pda
Post by: nilch on April 21, 2005, 08:13:44 pm
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quite a few people want a copy of the CIA world fact book, and some places sell it in a form suitable for a PDA; there are quite a few people with Zs who read ebooks and I figured they might be interested in a free download
I wanted a copy for myself... some of the maps and data are hard to find. The maps look good even on the 5xxx models.

Thanks

Greg
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Well, I had even written a small program of some basic facts culled from this in a Python/PyQt based program (my first program to learn Python on Zaurus) called WorldZ.
I even managed to sell a few copies, so I can imagine many people do want /need such country based data.

Maybe we can move this to the Off Topic forum after all
Title: Cia World Fact Book For Pda
Post by: ashikase on April 21, 2005, 10:25:26 pm
An EPWING version of the 2004 World Factbook, suitable for use with Zten/ZtenV, is available from:
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA037273/#pddh (http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA037273/#pddh)

Here is a direct link to the download page:
http://www.vector.co.jp/download/file/data...g/fh346907.html (http://www.vector.co.jp/download/file/data/writing/fh346907.html)

Note that the archive is in LZH format; you can use the program LHA to decompress it. There is a version of lha available for the Zaurus at:
http://www2.gol.com/users/ikezawa/zaurus/l...0030921_arm.ipk (http://www2.gol.com/users/ikezawa/zaurus/lha_1.14i-ac20030921_arm.ipk)

- ashikase
- anpachi, gifu, japan
Title: Cia World Fact Book For Pda
Post by: dz on April 22, 2005, 09:00:14 am
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quite a few people want a copy of the CIA world fact book, and some places sell it in a form suitable for a PDA; there are quite a few people with Zs who read ebooks and I figured they might be interested in a free download, rather than having to use plucker to make their own version.

Paul
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Ahh ok, my bad.  Posts with just an url on here tend to be companies trying to spam 9 times out of 10, so I just keep an eye out
Title: Cia World Fact Book For Pda
Post by: speculatrix on April 22, 2005, 10:10:23 am
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Ahh ok, my bad.  Posts with just an url on here tend to be companies trying to spam 9 times out of 10, so I just keep an eye out
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ok, you're forgiven    

I think the site's owners tend to smack-down spamming... this is one of the best forums I've used in terms of signal to noise ratio. I spend far too much time here.  
Title: Cia World Fact Book For Pda
Post by: ScottYelich on April 22, 2005, 01:21:06 pm
ya, I don't think this is spam...
and, I thank you for the factbook.

Scott
Title: Cia World Fact Book For Pda
Post by: dz on April 22, 2005, 06:53:00 pm
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this is one of the best forums I've used in terms of signal to noise ratio. I spend far too much time here. 
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Ahh you can never spend too much time here.  Something new everyday
Title: Cia World Fact Book For Pda
Post by: sriley on April 29, 2005, 03:48:21 pm
Very nice!