Monday, May 7th, 2007
Take the CIA World Factbook on your Palm
One year, the CIA World Factbook is available. For those not familiar with this publication, on Wikipedia we read:
The World Factbook (literally, "World Data Book") is an annual publication of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the U.S. basic information on various types almanac countries. The Factbook provides a summary of 2 to 3 pages of demographics, location, telecommunications capacity, government, industry, military capability, and so on. of all countries.
The World Factbook is prepared by the CIA for use by U.S. government Like other works published by the U.S. Federal Government is in the public domain.
Without doubt, one of the more complete documents that we find when we need the updated data from any country. The CIA World Factbook appears every year since 1986, and can freely visit this website. It would be ideal to have a copy of this document on our PDA, to inquire at any time, right?. HandRack The company offers a version in iSilo. However it is to pay, and also if we want iSilo functionality is complete. What then? Of course we can afford both programs, but since we have seen in his day the power of free software and free Plucker and Sunrise (based on Plucker) to transform HTML documents into other readable on the PDA, and that the CIA's own website World Factbook give us a link to the text only version, which actually contains all the maps ... effectively.
Page for Spain CIA World Factbook, in Plucker
We can convert to Plucker and Sunrise is a text-only version Plucker version for our PDA. We simply have to choose to go deep links "1" for the program to not download anything but the main page and country page, without falling into infinite loops. The result is to have this complete guide on our PDAs 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 for our Palm all types of documents, books, tables, online newspapers and blogs, etc.. And not just those in HTML, as well as we have seen is 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 Palm Tips
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You can also find the version for eReader (. Pdb) in 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 little problem.
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 - [Errno url error] unknown url type: 'https'.
Error: Fetching the home document failed. Aborting all!
I really like the idea of having all that data at hand, but unfortunately did not work. Apparently not accept https Plucker (?).
Greetings
Hello Mariano.
It appears that the page has changed that direction since I wrote the post. I've changed the links.
On the other hand, try Plucker Sunrise instead. That's what I used and it worked without problems.
The Plucker worked perfect.
Gentlemen, I just realized that the version of Encarta 2008 for Microsoft's mobile is really what is the CIA factbook with data from all countries in English. Is JAVA format (JAR) and may look to download it anywhere.