Widgets from Maurice v. k.

Please Note:

• This widget is specially designed for the archos gen 5 models (605wifi, 705wifi), it will not work in the desktopbrowser.
  
• You will need a Gmail account at google to use this widget.
  
• The contacts need to be inserted by yourself you can't sync the contacts with your Gmail contacts.
  

First a short description what the widget can do:

- Like the old Address Book widget it can store your contacts.
- You are now being able to write mails and store them until there is a wifi connection and send the mails all at once or just a single one.
- One very needed feature is to backup your address book by sending the data to your gmail account as a mail. It can then be restored by uploading a simple textfile some where.
- The contact list is sorted in alphabetic order when the widget starts.
- You can write a simple note and send it to your gmail account.
- On startup when a wifi connection is available your gmail account is checked on new mails and if there are they will be downloaded.
- Multi language support for the UI of the widget supported languages are English, French, Spanish and Dutch

A few remarks:

• Sometimes there is a little lag when pressing a button, this is the downsite of using a widget. But overall I think the speed is pretty good.
  
• When you are writing an e-mail press the screen next to the input field and you will exit the input field this is done so you can write multiple lines when pressing the enter button.
  
• The zoom function will not work on some downloaded e-mails.
  

Ok a quick Tut to make your address book on your PC.
The backup file for restoring your address book looks like this

[{"fname":"anton","lname":"whatever","phone":"","mobile":"","email":"","note":"","subject":"","mail":""},
{"fname":"fake","lname":"","phone":"","mobile":"","email":"fake@2.com","note":"","subject":"","mail":""},
{"fname":"jane doe","lname":"last name","phone":"","mobile":"","email":"","note":"","subject":"","mail":""},
{"fname":"john","lname":"doe","phone":"","mobile":"","email":"","note":"","subject":"","mail":""},
{"fname":"maurice","lname":"van kruchten","phone":"","mobile":"","email":"mauricevankruchten@gmail.com","note":"","subject":"","mail":""},
{"fname":"john","lname":"Whatson","phone":"","mobile":"","email":"","note":"","subject":"","mail":""}]

Copy and paste it in an empty textfile and put in your names phone numbers etc. to add more addresses just copy the full address string

{"fname":"","lname":"","phone":"","mobile":"","email":"","note":"","subject":"","mail":""}

And paste it below the others, but be sure the entire address book is surounded by [ ]. These should only appear once in the address book.
Now upload your txt file somewhere and be sure to know the direct link to it. You have to put the direct link into the my gmail address book config page and press the restore button.

A tutorial for uploading the txt file to google pages can be found here http://my.opera.com/maurice118/blog/step-by-step-tutorial-to-upload-your-address-book-backup


I hope you will enjoy this widget and please feel free to give some feedback or bug reports.
So please don't be shy
You can discuss the widget on the following forum thread Forum.ArchosFans.com

Maurice

Download and copy the attached file into the Widget folder of your archos. Then goto your widgets and it should be listed there as My Gmail Address Book.
When you first start the widget please press the (I) info button and read the info page.

Version 2.0
GmailAddressBook.zip