Stick Wiki is cool
This is one of the coolest little projects I’ve come across in a while. Lots of people have a flash stick, or an iPod with disk space and recently there has been a lot of buzz about ‘portable apps’ (little programs that are compiled to run completely off a flash drive without needing to be installed on the host computer), but since I use many different operating systems including Windows, Linux, and Mac these portable apps have limited appeal for me. They will generally only work on one OS (unless theyre Java based?). StickWiki is not really an application in that sense, but a single HTML file (initially ~50K) that can be opened in any javascript-enabled browser to provide a full-up wiki!
This allows me to plug in the flash stick in any computer to access a formatted, hyper-linked editable ‘website’ of information that I have created. While I can also do this (in WYSIWYG style) with Google Docs if the machine is on the internet, I don’t always want to log in to my personal account on someone else’s machine. Sometimes I just need quick access to personal info like phone numbers or snippets of text that I use in my job. Notes on serial numbers, or which graphic card is installed as I work on a machine can get copied and pasted right into the wiki for reference later.
But Stickwiki is got more cajones than that, it’s actually powering a bunch of small, personal websites as well!
