Monday, May 7, 2007
Move the CIA World Factbook on your Palm
Another year, the CIA World Factbook is available. For those not familiar with this publication, we read in the Wikipedia:
The World Factbook (literally, "World Data Book") is an annual publication of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from the U.S. with basic information about various types almanac countries of the world. The Factbook provides a summary of 2 to 3 pages of demographics, location, capacity telecommunications, government, industry, military capability, and so on. of all countries in the world.
The World Factbook is prepared by the CIA for use by staff of the U.S. government Like other works published by the U.S. federal state is in the public domain.
Undoubtedly, one of the most comprehensive that we find when we need the updated data of any country. The CIA World Factbook appears every year since 1986 and can be visited freely on this website. It would be ideal to have a copy of the document in our PDA, for a consultation at any time, right?. HandRack The company offers a version Isil. However it is to pay, and Isil also if its functionality is complete. What do you do then? Of course we can pay for both programs, but since we have seen in its day the power of free software and free Plucker and Sunrise (based on Plucker) to transform into other HTML documents are readable on the PDA, and that the CIA's own web World Factbook give us a link to the text-only version, which actually contains all the maps ... effectively.
Page for Spain's CIA World Factbook, Plucker
We can convert to Plucker or Sunrise this version plain text into a version Plucker for our PDA. We simply need to choose a depth to traverse the links from "1" for the program do not download anything more than the home page and the page of the country, without falling into infinite loops. The result is to have this complete guide in our PDA and using only free software and free. When next year comes out the new review, we'll just repeat the process.
Plucker and Sunrise are excellent tools to carry on our Palm all kinds of documents, books, tables, newspapers and blogs online, and so on. And not just those in HTML, because as we have seen is also very easy to export to HTML documents that are in plain text format, MS Word or PDF formats, including CHM.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Tricks
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You can also find the version for eReader (. Pdb) on the following link: http://ciaworldfactbook.tripod.com/
Thank you very much
Your welcome,
which are the coordinates of the Bay of Bengal.
greetings.
I have a problemilla.
When I try to download the page to the PC, I get the following error:
Processing https: / / www.cia.gov / cia / publications / fac .... .. Trylisting.html.
Retrieval failed: 404 - [url errno error] unknown type url: 'https'.
Error: Fetching the home document failed. Aborting all!
I like the idea of having all this information at your fingertips, but unfortunately I am not worked. Plucker apparently does not accept https (?).
Greetings
Hi Mariano.
It seems that the page has changed to this address since I wrote the post. I have already changed the links.
On the other hand, try Sunrise instead of Plucker. It's what I used and it worked smoothly.
The Plucker worked perfect.
Gentlemen, I just give an account that the version of Encarta 2008 for mobile microsoft is really what is the CIA factbook with the data from all countries in English. Is in JAVA (JAR) and can get it to download anywhere.