Comments on: Knowledge To Go: Put Your Wiki On Your IPhone

By: Ruben Berenguel

Ruben Berenguel — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:04:47 +0000

Do you think this may work with TiddlyWiki? Well, I’ll have to go and try, too I just found your blog from a tweet by Luciano. You have a wide array of interesting stuff here! I am also a big “personal knowledge geek”, but have not found a way to canalise this hunger.

Ruben

By: Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:33:18 +0000

Eric, great article. I’m going to get Air Sharing now and HTTrack now to use in a very similar way.

And great site, great vision video, great focus (technology, GTD, data visualization, life long curiousity, etc)

Go Steelers!

Kevin
Pittsburgh, PA

By: Sacha Chua

Sacha Chua — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:51:54 +0000

Fascinating! I might use HTTrack to archive other pages.

I wanted to be able to update my personal knowledge store from my iPod as well as from my PC. I’m currently using a large mindmap that I manually synchronize between Freemind and iThoughts. It’ll do for now. =) Looking forward to even better tools in the future!

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By: ericblue76

ericblue76 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:06:18 +0000

Hi Erik,

Great question. I probably should have made it a little more clear in the article.

There is no Apache server, PHP, or MySQL DB running on the iPhone itself. The main idea is to make a read-only copy off your wiki so it can be viewed in offline mode. What HTTTrack does is make that read-only mirror of the wiki. It does a really good job of updating all of your content int the pages and rewrites all URLs to be relative. This way when you view any of the wiki pages off of local disk, links to all other pages will be preserved.

In essence, the mirrored copy looks and behaves just like your main wiki (with a few caveats of pages or extensions that require CGI).

By: ericblue76

ericblue76 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:01:02 +0000

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your comment!

By: Erik Vold

Erik Vold — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:30:28 +0000

Hey,

This sounds like a great idea, but I’m confused about some particulars.

MediaWiki is running your wiki on your iPhone correct? but MediaWiki requires PHP and a MySQL db I believe, so where is the db and what is running the php code?

Erik

By: Dave Howell

Dave Howell — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:10:50 +0000

Cool use of Air Sharing! Thanks for posting that. It’s inspiring to see what people are using our app for.

By the way, we just released a new version, 2.1, which finally uses the iPhone’s in-app purchase feature (which Apple introduced in iPhone OS 3.0) to offer a paid upgrade to the functionality of Air Sharing Pro (which adds printing, advanced PDF features, file operations, and connection to external servers, including FTP, FTPS, SSH/SFTP, MobileMe iDisk, and other WebDAV servers, and lots more).

If you have any suggestions for improvement, please let us know by visiting our support forum at http://www.avatron.com.

Cheers!
Dave