[MeeGo Harmattan] ContactLaunch : add your contacts to the launcher !

ContactLaunch is an application that allows you to add your contacts to the N9 application grid, for quick access.

It is priced at 1€

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Vkontakte plugin for Conversations and Contacts !

VKontakte plugin for the Account applet is a plugin for configuring VKontakte accounts !

Extended Contacts Search : Plugin to extend search feature of Contacts !

Extended Contacts Search is a plugin that extend the main view's live search algorithm. Additionally to search into contact's display name, it also look for nickname, phone numbers, emails, and IM usernames.

Contact zoom : Plugin for Contacts app to view contact info with bigger font !

Contact zoom is a Plugin adding a menu entry in Contact's view to display the vCard with bigger font, making it much more readable !

K9 Call : Use a T9 inspired method for contact lookup !

K9 Call  is a widget that use a T9 inspired method of contact lookup, if you want to lookup someone who goes by the name "Test Unicode" for example, you would type in 8378 for (Test)

Update : more info over here !

Scout : Search tool for contacts, conversations and calendars !

Another very cool and usefull tools from the developper of Calendar Home Widget !

Scout enables you to search for :

- Text in Contacts for names, nicknames, usernames, addresses or phone numbers.
- Calender entries with summary or description text.
- Text in your conversations.

The search result category is indicated by the different icons on the left side (contacts, calender, sms). I use two different kind of icons for sms and chat conversations and for each two different icons (with and without the blue arrow) to distinguish received and outgoing messages.

Selecting a search result has different actions:

-opens a contact details dialog for contacts
-opens the calendar app for calendar entries (agenda view)
-opens a new window with the full message text for conversations.

You can follow the official thread here ;)

Ringtoned : Custom ringtones for your contacts (Per contact) !

If MyContacts allowed a custom ringtone per group, then finally, ringtoned, i.e. ringtone daemon, allows setting a custom ringtone for specific contacts. Ringtoned tries to integrate nicely with the system:

- You can select the default ringtone in Settings → Profiles as usual
- To set a custom ringtone you go to the Contacts application, select the contact and press the new “Set custom ringtone” button in the menu
- The dialog to set custom ringtones tries to be a perfect copy of the dialog to set the global ringtone
- It works both for normal phone calls and GTalk/SIP/Skype calls, thanks to Telepathy
- The ringtone is played only when the normal one would be played and at the same volume, thanks to some PulseAudio magic

More info over here !

MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group !

A new release of MyContacts now it is available on extras-devel.

There are two major new features on this version and because of that I decided to start a new thread.

1) Desktop applet. This is actually my original goal - the MyContacts application is a sub product of it. After installing the applet on your desktop you can have up to 75 contacts using one of the 4 desktops. Now you can call someone by just double clicking on the thumbnail seating right on your desktop - up to 75 of them. You can also access the other contact information with a simple click.

2) Ring Tone by contacts group. It is probably one of the hottest requests on this web site. I actually didn't do anything too original, just implemented the 9000's script using Qt with some minor tweaks. Probably the main difference is that now you have a user interface to assign contacts to your groups and can pick them from your contacts.

Some important notes:

- The ring tone by contact group is very experimental.
- Only wav files can be used as ring tones (I will write instructions on how to convert mp3 files on the device later on)
- You should not change the "main/default" ring tone using the control panel settings for the active profile while the application is running (application or desktop applet). Nothing too bad will happen but the application will stop processing calls (more about this on the web site)
- When you click on the MyContacts icon it will start the "application". In order to install the applet to your desktop go to the menu. When you try to close the application you will also be offered another opportunity to install it.

Horizontal-Call : Call people in your contact list without HW keyboard, easily and fast !

Horizontal-Call allows you to call people in your contact list without HW keyboard, easily and fast !

Motivation :
- When the phone is mounted in the car, in landscape mode, there is no simple way of searching for a contact, and dialing it.
- Contacts on the hildon-desktop force you to pre-configure it, and are limited to a number of contacts, according to available space.

Description :
- The application loads the contacts into a a list.
- It then displays buttons with letters to reach the 1st char of each contact - This means that if no contacts start with the Letters "G, X and Z" those buttons won't appear, giving more room for the rest of the buttons.
- After 1 press, the buttons are recreated with the 2nd index letter, and so forth.
- The list is constantly filtered on the right, allowing the selection of the contact when found.

Features :
- Written with QtMobility/C++
- Big fonts
- Easy, fast searching.
- Uses Dbus to dial the numbers providing the usual phone interface.

Limitations :
- Due to QtMobility bugs, only English contacts will be displayed at the moment. (Help in this area is appreciated)
- Only "PhoneNumber" contacts will be displayed, this mean, no skype/gtalk contacts at the moment. (Don't know the dbus calls to dial skype calls).
- Loading contacts after the application starts takes about 3 seconds, this is a QtMoblity limitation which I will be able to solve soon by caching the contacts.
- The application is not in devel yet, I am waiting for Upload Request Approval on this.

TODOs :
- Solve the limitations (:
- Move the stylesheet out of the code, to external file, allowing people to edit it.

Bugs to solve :
- libqtm-contacts is not installed automatically.
- None matching numbers to contacts
- Odd numbers instead of phone numbers.

If you want to test it, download it : horizontal-call_0.1_armel.deb

Jenirok : Searches unknown callers' details automatically using Eniro person search or 1881.no !

Jenirok Searches unknown callers' details automatically using Eniro person search or 1881.no.

Screenshots from meego.de

Unknown callers' details are fetched automatically during call using Eniro person search or 1881.no (for Norwegian users). Person search can also be done by using a gui application. Jenirok is currently mainly usable for Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian users.

Contacts-merger : Merge your duplicate contacts !

Contacts-merger finds probable duplicate contacts and allow the user to easily merge them.

After installing Contacts Merger you have to reboot your phone and then you will get a “Find duplicate contacts” button in the menu of the main address book window.

Available at Extras-devel repository.

Birthday : Displays birthdays of your contacts

Birthday is a simple application for displaying birthdays of your contacts.

Available at Extras-devel repository !