iPhone: Nuance, makers of the Dragon Dictation app that surprised us with its accuracy, have released another free-for-now voice-to-text app, this one offering to search the web, Wikipedia, Twitter, iTunes, or other locations based on what you say.
Wikipedia has its share of detractors who question the reliability and accuracy of the site's entries.
iPhone/iPod touch only: We've already seen plenty of apps that bring Wikipedia to your iPhone, but today Wikipedia launches their own official iPhone app called Wikipedia Mobile.
Lifehacker reader John is a finance student who found something very helpful in Wikipedia's new beta design. Any article can be downloaded or printed as a PDF, and multiple articles can be combined into a PDF book.
Luminotes, a personal wiki in the vein of PBWiki or TiddlyWiki but with a focus on helping beginners get started, has made its portable wiki package and desktop clients free and open source for all.
After being in what the company calls "alpha-beta-development-maybe-kind-live mode," user-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia's mobile site has officially launched, complete with support for iPhone, Kindle, Android, and Palm Pre devices, redirecting these devices to the new mobile page by default.
Wikipedia's a great resource for learning more about complex or esoteric subjects, but sometimes the dense, insider language can be a bit off-putting. Free mashup tool Again, But Slower compares original Wikipedia entries with their simplified re-writes.
The recently released Internet Explorer 8 packs in a good number of power user features for serious searching, including suggestions from the search bar, instant "answers," and right-click "accelerators."