Wikipanion

Wikipanion is the best and fastest Wikipedia browsing application for the iPad. Wikipanion uses a direct connection to the Wikipedia servers, making it extremely fast. Never deal with overloaded third party servers. Never worry about third party server privacy concerns.

This app is smart too!

It understands the page. Wikipanion pulls out meta material from the page, understanding sections and related foreign language pages. Wikipanion goes international as well. Set a primary search language. Switch between different language versions of the page. Quickly retry an existing search in another language. Perform dual search queries in your primary search language and the language of the current page. Wikipanion 1.4′s interface is localized in English, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian and Russian — but of course supports searching and browsing in 75+ languages!

Accessing Wikipedia has never been easier than with Wikipanion, designed for easy, search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. Streamline your browsing with history grouped by visit date, and bookmarking that not only bookmarks individual entries, but individual sections within an entry.

Featuring intelligent features such as:

• Table of contents browser that knows where you are in the page
• Multiple search methods including Smart completion with entry preview, Google searching and a full text Wikipedia search
• Dual language searching and language switching (hiding languages you don’t care about)
• Bookmark, including bookmarking individual sections of pages
• History, grouped by last visit date
• Full in-page searching
• Wiktionary dictionary term looking without leaving the current page
• Table based category browsing
• Interactive font resizing
• Image saving to the Photo library
• Ogg vorbis audio playback for dictionary pronunciations and other audio content available on Wikipedia
• Article coordinate link shows location on map
• Contextual knowledge for sending links to specific sections in a Wikipedia entry
• Easily turn on automatic focusing of the search field on launch

IMDb (Internet Movie Database)

IMDb is the world’s largest collection of movie, TV and celebrity information. IMDb is the leading app on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad to find US show times, watch trailers, browse photo galleries, get US TV listings, find latest DVD releases, explore popular charts and share movie info.

It aims to list every detail about every movie and TV show ever made, including who was in it, who made it, the plot, user ratings, trailers, photos, reviews, quotes, goofs, trivia and much more.

The app gives customers mobile access to the most comprehensive movie and TV database on the web.

Additionally, with the enhanced display of iPad, the app now offers users access to high-resolution video in addition to a variety of other features that have made it a leading app for iPhone and iPod touch.

Users will be able to access much of IMDb using the free app, which is downloadable from Apple’s application store.

With IMDb you can:

Search the world’s largest collection:

• Over 1.5 million movie and TV titles
• Over 3.2 million celebrities, actors, actresses, directors and other crew members

Look up: (US only)

• Movie show times at local theaters near you
• TV listings for your local time zone
• Recaps of TV shows from previous night
• Upcoming movies

Explore popular charts:

• Best Picture – award winners
• Top rated movies of all time (IMDb Top 250)
• Most popular movies of the day on IMDb (MOVIEmeter)
• Most popular celebrities of the day on IMDb (STARmeter)
• Lowest rated movies of all time (IMDb Bottom 100)
• Most popular movies listed by genre (Action, Horror, Romance, Comedy and many more)
• Most popular TV shows
• US Box office results
• Celebrity birthdays

View:

• Movie trailers
• User reviews for movies and TV shows
• Critics reviews for movies and TV shows
• Quotes, trivia and goofs about movies and celebrities
• Your browse and search history on IMDb

Shop:

• DVDs and Blu Ray discs for any movie or TV show from amazon.com stores

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