Gigantic Giveaway - Lexipedia from Revolution Software

Mike Temporale

http://www.revolution.cx/Lexipedia/Lexipedia.htm

The Gigantic Giveaway Event rolls on. This week, we bring you a chance to win a copy of Lexipedia from Revolution Software. I think this application holds the record for the largest requirements for install space, but it's worth every byte. Wink

If you have a thirst for knowledge, then you'll like this application. We have 10 copies of Lexipedia to give out to all of you. To win a copy, all you need to do is visit the Revolution website and find out exactly how much free storage space is required for the Concise version. Then reply to this thread and tell us the magic amount. Smile

You have until 11:59pm (PST) on Monday March 17th to enter. Winners will be randomly selected from the responses and announced on the following Wednesday.

"The largest and most expansive reference work in the history of human knowledge can now be on your Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Windows Mobile Smartphone. Based on the Wikipedia encyclopedia project, Lexipedia contains over 550,000 articles that are quickly and easily searched. This massive tome requires a fair amount of storage but it pays for itself by being the go-to place for just about any reference question you may have. Classics, biographies, the plant and animal kingdom, human history, music, bands, movies, business, military, medical, it just goes on and on and on. Lexipedia includes just the summary sections or beginnings of articles in order to make the product a manageable size but you can optionally download the entire unabridged version too."
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Edgar · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject:

YIKES! But think about how you can be the Office Answer Man - The Geek King!

Data alone (3 choices for space consumption and amount of detail):

307 MB Concise database, articles are 2000 letters or less.
444 MB Midsize database, articles are 4400 letters or less.
712 MB Unabridged database, articles are not cut off.

The download page states:
Requires a storage card with at least 225 MB free space.

Doesn't mesh well Confused

One place says one number, another place a different number. Can I just answer "LOTS"? Smile

Mike Temporale · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject:

You guys always amaze me by finding more right answers than I thought there was! Just to be clear, I am not talking about the unabridged versions. I'll update the original post now. Smile

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crispeto · Smartphone Pupil Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 49

712 - and yes I did actually go to the site and look it up. I'm glad you clarified which version because I almost put the wrong number in.
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Mike Temporale · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject:

kcwester · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject:

Wow. That is a lot of memory. Concise 225 MB. It takes about 7 MB on the device. I hope it goes on a storage card!
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kerrins · Smartphone Neophyte Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 7

Geez, there are size requirements all over this site. I'll go with the generic 7 MB "on the device". But depending on what you are looking at 225MB, 712MB.

dh · Smartphone Pupil Joined: 03 Dec 2003 Posts: 48

100110011 in the concise version. (binary of course)
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pavankp · Smartphone Neophyte Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 3

The site says "file size is 225,484,288 bytes" and "requires a storage card with at least 225 MB free space" so 225 MB it is for the concise version. Interestingly, they only mention support for WM 2002 and 2003 -- no WM5!

tsaylor · Smartphone Pupil Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 21

225 MB free space