CIA World Factbook 2004 for Palm

[cyclinghermes]

Hey everyone,

As a journalist and an info junky I love the CIA World Factbook. I was looking for the 2004 version for free for my TT3 but could only find this one.

CIA World Factbook 2004 for Palm 0s (http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=software.showsoftware&SID=FA82EF5E-CF18-ADC9-1D749C205843459E&PartnerREF=&prodID=72507)

It's only $9.95 but still it used to be free. I checked Memoware and they only have 2003. Do any of you know about a 2004 version for free for the PALM OS

[Jim Cooke]

It always seems that the current year Factbook costs money but earlier fact books are free. I'm using the 2003 edition and I doubt there's a huge amount of difference between the two. Still, if your a journalist, it's probably worth the $10 for the most up-to-date version.

[dwinget]

If there is an HTML version on a web site, you can try capturing it with JPluckX or iSiloX. You could then read it in either iSilo or Plucker and would eliminate the $10 charge.

[dwinget]

I just found a link you can capture the 2004 CIA World Fact Book from.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/countrylisting.html

This site is very easy to convert with Sunshine, which is the updated version of JPluckX. It took me less than 10 minutes with a broadband connection. The link depth should be set at 1. Enjoy!

:D

[dwinget]

I have submitted my Plucker version to Memoware. It should appear on the site in one or two days.

[cyclinghermes]

Hey everyone,

I sucked it up and bought the 10 buck Towncompass vesion it's really neat!

-CH

[PalmTealLover]

Tried Sunshine 2 days ago and it is impressive, especially for things like this (in fact, I have no use for it OTHER than this sort of thing).

For those of you who are RAM hawks like me, 6MB for TownCompass and the Handbook seemed excessive . . . since you're probably only interested in certain topics, you might try what I did . . .

Copy the text on the subjects of interest from dwinget's excellent source and paste to Notepad. Save as text file. Convert with TealDoc Maker and edit for Palm "viewability." HotSync. You can then further EDIT for your own use, and changes are kept using TEXT SYNC (freeware) from SourceForge.Net. TextSync and TealDoc work well together as you can now edit docs in TealDoc. After editing and syncing with the text on the PC, simply move the TealDoc document to a folder on your card - size is dramatically smaller (2k/file for those of interest, and nothing in RAM). Not as pretty and no pictures (although TealDoc will import HTML images/tags with a little effort -- I don't bother) but heck of a lot smaller. You're talking around 20-50k on the card for "most subjects of interest" cumulative. Just a thought. You can then manage as much or as little as you want without the "overhead" for something I personally wouldn't be looking at daily. A journalist probably WOULD view often, so there's certainly a good argument in that case for going "whole hog."

Thanks for this thread!!

[dwinget]

I just received an email from Memoware stating the file has been posted. Here is the link:

http://www.memoware.com/?screen=doc_detail&doc_id=16071&p=category^!Law~!