Easy Photo Frame and Picasa
Sep 11th
The gadget Easy Photo Frame is now able to display pictures from Picasa Web. So you can display more than one picture in the gadget 
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If your enter a parameter in the Picasa field of the options of the gadget, alternating with the picture that you uploaded in the gadget, and randomly, a picture from Picasa will be displayed. This picture can come from:
- public images from a user (maybe yourself): in that case, enter the Picasa login.
- or pictures from a precise public album of another user or pictures from on of your private albums: in those cases, please follow this procedure:
- open the album in Picasa Web
- in the right column of the Picasa screen, right-click on the RSS link (see the screenshot) and copy the address of the link
- paste the address in the Picasa field of the options of the gadget
- save the options.
Easy photo frame: new feature
Sep 2nd
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The options of the gadget Easy photo frame gets new choices. You can choose to add an ornament on the frame to enhance your picture. Several ornaments are already available. And if you don’t know which one to choose, let chance choose.
Multiple Google calendars
Aug 25th
Google Calendar allows you to manage several calendars simultaneously, setting a specific name and color to each one..
The Easy Cool Calendar is now able to manage those multiple calendars. In the options of the gadget, select the display level:
- « My main calendar »: your main calendar only, the one that is your only calendar at this time
- « My own calendars »: all the calendars that you created
- « All calendars »: all the calendars that include the ones that you have subscribed to (for example holidays, week numbers or friends’ calendars). Depending on the number of calendars and events, this option may slow the display of the gagdet.
Calendars are retrieved and displayed with the color that you set in Google Calendar.
When you create an event in the gadget, you can choose the calendar to which it is related (your main calendar is selected by default). When you edit an event, the calendar cannot be modified.
Easy Photo Frame
Aug 9th
The Easy Photo Frame gadget lets you now choose a frame around your picture. More frame styles may be available later. Open the options of the gadget 
. The 
command let you “reframe” the picture if needed.
Search a flag
Jul 20th
The gadget Flags of the World gets enhanced with a search function 
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This function lets you search a flag :
- by the country’s name: enter some letters of the country’s name to filter the list
- by the colours of the flag : filter the list of flags that contain or not on or more colours:
- click once on a colour (it becomes opaque) to filter only the flags that contain this colour
- click twice (a cross
is shown) to exclude the flags that contain this colour - click again to ignore the colour (it becomes translucent again)
Colour criteria include: white, black, blue, red, green, yellow, orange, symbol (or pattern), star (or sun), moon crescent.
In the screenshot example, are shown the flags that contain letter “Z“, that have the coulours blue and red and that do not contain colours green or yellow.
Encoding issues: fixed
Jul 8th
The encoding issues seen in the gadgets Easy Cool Calendar and Easy Contacts Manager have finally been fixed by Google. Champagne! :-)
Sorry for the annoyances and thanks for your patience.
Encoding issues
Jul 1st
Since some weeks, un bug from Google stops accentuated characters from being correctly rendered.
After several reminders, the Google team answered:
Comment 20 by api.nicolas, Yesterday (26 hours ago)
Hey efattal,
So the code has been fixed but both products (Calendar and Contacts) have different release cycle for their servers. Contacts have already updated their server to a new version. This fix should be applied to Calendar API servers early next week.
Cheer!
So thanks fro your patience, the issue will be fixed soon.
Google Calendar bug
Jun 3rd
A persistent and random bug from Google’s service can sometimes stop the Easy Cool Calendar gadget from working normally when connected to Google Calendar. In that case, your events are NOT lost and you can retrieve them in Google Calendar.
To fix this issue, you need to delete a Google Calendar cookie that causes the problem. Please follow this procedure:
- Delete the cookie that cause the issue and for that :
- Simplified procedure: you delete all cookies of the browser:
- Type CTRL+SHIFT+DEL on your keyboard.
- In the popup window, verify that the checkbox related to Cookies is checked soit cochée. Other checkbox can be checked or unchecked at your convenience.
- Click the Delete button.
- NB. If you want, you can delete only cookies from *.google.* domain.
- Advanced procedure: you delete only the problematic cookie:
- Open the list of cookies of the browser:
- For Firefox : Tools » Options » Privacy » Display cookies
- For Chrome : Icon Tools » Advanced options » Content parameters » Cookies » Display cookies and othe website data
- Find the following cookies:
- domain: www.google.com
- name: S
- path: /calendar/feeds/default/private/full/*
- Delete them.
- Open the list of cookies of the browser:
- Simplified procedure: you delete all cookies of the browser:
- (Re)open Google Calendar in a new tab.
- Refresh your iGoogle page.
For many users, this procedure fixed the issue.
Flags of the World on the map
May 28th
Discover the Flags of the World navigating on the world’s map, with all Google Maps’ zooming capabilities.
Click sur on the 
icon in the gadget and travel through the flags.
