Tag: KNOWLEDGE

Everyone knows what a mushroom looks like. But what do you call those fin-looking parts under the cap? You know, those thin, membrane-like things? That's the type of question you can't really use a regular dictionary for. You might get lucky with Wikipedia, but in this particular case, you won't. The Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary helps you answer questions like these. It's a large visual ...

DokuWiki is one of those "I can't believe we've never covered it!" tools. It's not new; it's not cutting-edge. It's solid, and tested, and it's been around for years, and it is one of the best Wiki systems on the planet, in my opinion. DokuWiki is great for content sites where you have one editor and the rest of the world just reads the wiki; it's also great for collaborative wikis, and there was ...

Wikipedia Companion is a small, slick Chrome add-on that provides quick access to Wikipedia via the toolbar. You click the button and immediately get a mini browser, which you can use to quickly look up facts (or "facts," as is often the case with Wikipedia) without leaving the current page. The mini browser has its own "back" and "forward" buttons, and it uses the cache so that going back is ...

Back in 2008 Google secured a landmark settlement with authors and publishers in the U.S. Both The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers agreed to the deal, opening up a truly vast number of books and periodicals and other written materials. The settlement received a lot of flak from authors, and Google paid $125 million to resolve a lot of claims made by troubled writers. ...