[Q] Automatically finding date X days in the future... - Android Themes

Hello all, hopefully I am putting this in the right place.
What I'd like to do is use minimalist text to create a widget which would automatically give me the day and date of 30 days in the future from the current date. (So today being 9/26/11, it would read Weds. 10/26/11)
More complicated, I'd also like to create one for 30 WEEKDAYS in the future, but one step at a time.
Is this possible? Would it require Tasker or something similar? Any help or tips in the right direction would be great. I work in the court system, and these widgets would be a huge help through my day.

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Is there any way to change the theme to have more than one appointment on the screen at one time?
Cheers
Lee
When I have multiple appointments on my Today screen, it shows a maximum of two, and if I have more than two coming up (say, tomorrow) but I'm still on today's appointment, it will show the first appointment for tomorrow and then as soon as my current appointment is finished, it'll update to show both of tomorrow's...
... Do you mean you want to display more than two?
christopherwoods said:
When I have multiple appointments on my Today screen, it shows a maximum of two, and if I have more than two coming up (say, tomorrow) but I'm still on today's appointment, it will show the first appointment for tomorrow and then as soon as my current appointment is finished, it'll update to show both of tomorrow's...
... Do you mean you want to display more than two?
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Yes - exactly - I want display more than two - say 3 or 4 - there must be a way to it since plug-ins can display?
Does PPC work the same way as Smartphone? ie - XML for the homescreens?
To achieve this, you'll need a Today plugin which offers this kind of functionality... The first that springs to mind has got to be Pocket Breeze ( http://www.sbsh.net/products/pocketbreeze/ ) - I don't use it myself, but I think I may try it out sometime soon (saw it a while back, noted it, but never got round to trying it out).
Or if you're either a dab hand at programming (or know someone who's fearless enough to undertake some) then you could always try writing your own Today screen plugin...
http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/5461a.asp#100
SPB Diary will also accomplish the same thing. http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=17704&associateid=17
Hmmm....not sure about Pocket Breeze thing - it's a bit much for just one function! And I like a nice clean Today screen - PB just make it look "busy".
Looks like I'll have to read-up on xml - unless anybody else knows a simple solution?
Cheers
Did some more browsing, found some goodies on PocketPCFreewares:
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?cat=13&sortby=rating
tAgenda 1.1
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=565
Calendar+ 2.2.10
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=108
Both look pretty good, I think I'll try them both.

1st day of week

Hello,
I need to set up Saturday as my 1st day of week in Calendar. Anybody knows how to do that, may be registry editing? Can not find anywhere solution for that.
Thanks in advance
I don't think it can be done with the standard calendar (at least, not to my knowledge). Various calendar replacements can do this, though. AgendaOne, for example, lets me specify the first day of the week.

Create appointments quickly! - QuickCal Genie

Hey,
The application herein allows you to quickly type in an event/appointment in plain (well, somewhat formatted) english. You can then save it to your calendar. That's pretty much all it does, but it's quick at it (or will be, one day), and if you shortcut-it, it's quicker to do than using the stylus (IMHO).
Examples of use:
Meet friends for breakfast tomorrow at 6:30AM-9:30AM
Buy flowers today at 6:30PM
Go home tomorrow at 18:30
Meeting with bankers tomorrow at 17:00-19:00
Bar-hopping today at 20-23
Celebrate New Year's Eve on 1/1/2009 at 6:45PM-9PM
Have breakup discussion with girlfriend today at 18 for 30 minutes
Disclaimers:
- Only English supported.
- Default time for meeting is 30 minutes
- No recurring meeting supported
- The formatting is <Event> [today/tomorrow/at <date>]
- Dates are locale-specific, so I gather you'll have to find out what's yours.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
PS: I really don't know if something like this already exists, so I've decided to write it myself just for the hell of it as an exercise.
- SiteLister
excellent, thankyou! just what i need!
But i dont think it would take me that long to break it off with the girlfriend, but id best save that one as a template
It would be really great when some recurrent values could be preset.
Good to see that there's some interest. I whipped this up in a couple of hours and wanted to get a feel to whether there's a client-base.
I'm open for any requests, and would appreciate examples of how you would best be comfortable entering them (for instance, as above, recurrance).
Feel free to use sentences, as that's what I'll be trying to parse out
- SiteLister
Combine this functionality with a speach recognition feature and it goes from being a nifty applet to a commercial application.
Great work!!!! just what I needed, I would make it so that when u dont write a date, it should be today...
I don't see how writing it out is any quicker than using other programs. A combination of radio buttons and/or one tap calendars seems to be quicker than writing out a date format. My 2 cents...
I agree that it really doesn't seem to save any time in its present format.
When most people enter a new appointment, they are already looking at their calendar. So, for example:
I'm looking through my calendar and I see I want to add an appointment on July 2, 2008 - I would need to switch to your program and type in July 2 for the appointment - rather than just clicking on the date I was already looking at.
DateBook 5/6 (Palm OS) had a wonderful feature whereas once you were on the date you would simply start typing numbers and that would be the time of the appointment - and it would assume am or pm based on your normal work hours. Further, if you wanted an all-day appointment, you would just start typing the subject matter and it would fill it in - no taps at all. I know this doesn't really resemble what you're working on, but this seems to me to be the absolute easiest way to input appts.
Alternatively, speech recognition combined with your program would be something I would pay for.
Thanks for sharing your program and keep up the good work.
Similar functionality is offered by cozi and google calendar. However, I do have to agree with a few it is a pain to type something on the pda. Much faster to tap.
Also, I own an XDA IIi and it cannot send or receive appointments as text messages. I know that this is possible on the nokia phones. I'd love this feature on the xda as well. Does anyone know of any application that can send and receive appointments as text messages?
Any help will be greatly appreciated

[IDEA] Manual GPS logger

Hi everyone!
Since I have been developing software for more than six years now I installed Eclipse and the SDK yesterday out of curiosity.
Now to motivate myself to really learn developing for the platform I have to have a little pet project ;-)
I thought of something like a manual GPS logger, a program that you start, it gets a GPS fix and asks you for a comment. Then this data is saved and you can later export to KML, CVS and perhaps others.
My idea behind this is to save battery life when compared to loggers which save in intervals of i.ee 5 seconds. Furthermore I think it would be a more easy way to later identify or search for a spot if you have just one point with the comment "Here be dragons" instead of a trace around the Lonely Mountain ;-)
So, as stated above, I just installed the SDK and Eclipse yesterday and did the first Hello World, so do not except to see anything within the next few days. I just wanted to hear some general remarks or if there already is an app like this out there which I just missed.
So any comments are welcome and I will keep you up to date if I start developing this.
Kind Regards,
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droidcollector on android market.
Oh, okay. Well then I will have a look at it. After that I will decide whether I pursue the idea Thanks for your reply!

Widget idea for reading books

Hello,
I am in no way, shape, or form a developer nor do I understand most of the jargon but I have this idea I thought to put out into the world and hopefully one day use it while marvelling at developer sorcery ?
So, I challenge myself to read every day, most of it done on my phone for convenience, but I often get sidetracked fiddling with my phone and other stuff.. Now, I have the whatsapp widget installed and if it weren't for that I wouldn't read my messages as often. This led me to search for a widget that shows pages of whatever book you want but couldn't find any. And that is the void I thought someone could fill. I can't be the only one struggling to accomplish my daily reading quota ?
I managed a primitive way to accomplish that one night and took screenshots of a book I had and saved the pictures in page number order and used the gallery widget to shuffle through the pictures. This was done when I was insomiac one night and bored out of my mind. It was great in the end but obviously impossible to keep up.
For me, it would be great to dedicate one page of my screen to a widget that can show a page of x book. Maybe even have it turn to the next page after a certain interval of time (like live wallpapers).
Please excuse me if my post was longer than needed or if this wasn't even the right place to post... Have a great day everyone!

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