First of all you should download library here

And then short play with script below
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute">

<mx:Script>
  <![CDATA[
    import mx.controls.Alert;
    import nochump.util.zip.ZipEntry;
    import mx.events.ListEvent;
    import nochump.util.zip.ZipFile;
    [Bindable]private var _zipFile:ZipFile;
    [Bindable]private var _file:File;
  
    private function browseFile():void{
     var _file:File = new File();
   _file.browseForOpen("Open.", getTypes());
   _file.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, fileSelected);
    }
    
  private function getTypes():Array {
      var allTypes:Array = new Array(getImageTypeFilter());
      return allTypes;
    }
        
    private function getImageTypeFilter():FileFilter {
      return new FileFilter("ZIP File", "*.zip");
    }
    
    private function setFileInfo(name:String, size:uint):void {
    zipFileLabel.text = "Archive: " + name + " (" + sizeFormatter.format(size) + " bytes)";
  }
        
    private function fileSelected(event:Event):void {
   _file = event.currentTarget as File;
   var urlStream:URLStream = new URLStream();
   urlStream.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
   urlStream.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, errorHandler);
   urlStream.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, errorHandler);
   urlStream.load(new URLRequest(_file.nativePath));
  }    

  private function completeHandler(event:Event):void {
   var data:URLStream = URLStream(event.target);
   setFileInfo(_file.name, data.bytesAvailable);
   _zipFile = new ZipFile(data);
  }
   
  private function errorHandler(event:ErrorEvent):void {
   Alert.show(event.text);
  }  
  
  private function itemClickEvent(event:ListEvent):void {
   var entry:ZipEntry = event.currentTarget.selectedItem as ZipEntry;
   if(entry) taEntryData.text = String(_zipFile.getInput(entry));
  }
   
  private function labelSize(item:Object, column:DataGridColumn):String {
   return sizeFormatter.format(item[column.dataField]);
  }
   
  private function labelModified(item:Object, column:DataGridColumn):String {
   return dateFormatter.format(new Date(item.time));
  }
   
  private function labelCrc(item:Object, column:DataGridColumn):String {
   return item.crc.toString(16).toUpperCase();
  }
     
  ]]>
</mx:Script>

<mx:NumberFormatter id="sizeFormatter" useThousandsSeparator="true" />
 <mx:DateFormatter id="dateFormatter" formatString="MM/DD/YYYY L:NN A" />
 
  <mx:Panel title="Zip Demo" height="100%" width="100%">
   <mx:Label id="zipFileLabel" />
  <mx:VDividedBox width="100%" height="100%">
   <mx:DataGrid id="dgEntries" width="100%" height="100%" dataProvider="{_zipFile.entries}" itemClick="itemClickEvent(event);">
    <mx:columns>
     <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Name" dataField="name" width="300" />
     <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Size" dataField="size" labelFunction="labelSize"  />
     <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Packed" dataField="compressedSize" labelFunction="labelSize" />
     <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Modified" labelFunction="labelModified" width="150" />
     <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="CRC32" labelFunction="labelCrc" />
    </mx:columns>
   </mx:DataGrid>
   <mx:TextArea id="taEntryData" width="100%" height="100%">
         </mx:TextArea>
  </mx:VDividedBox>
  <mx:ControlBar>
   <mx:Spacer width="100%"/>
      <mx:HBox>
        <mx:Form>
          <mx:FormItem label="Open Zip File:" width="100%" styleName="lblForm" required="true">
         <mx:Button id="btnBrowse" label="Browse" click="{browseFile()}"/>
        </mx:FormItem>
        </mx:Form>
      </mx:HBox>   
  </mx:ControlBar>
 </mx:Panel>


  
</mx:WindowedApplication>

If you resize picture by defining new width or height from normal size, you will get the picture resolution's distorted or broken quality. There's a method how to make the picture keeps soft and smooth.

Create a utility class

package com.jackBite.utils
{
  import mx.controls.Image;
  import flash.display.Bitmap;

  public class CleanImage extends Image
  {
    /*public function CleanImage()
    {
    }*/
    
    override protected function updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth:Number,unscaledHeight:Number):void
    {
      super.updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight);
      if(content is Bitmap)
      {
        var bmp:Bitmap = Bitmap(content);
        if(bmp && bmp.smoothing == false)
          bmp.smoothing = true;
       }
    }

  }
}

  <utils:CleanImage id="feedLogo" height="30" source="{_imageRss}"/>

You maybe want to add image or icon like magnifiying icon in textInput of your flex, Here i have some method how you can do that :

Create AS Component

package nebula.utils
{
  import mx.controls.Image;
  import mx.controls.TextInput;
  
  public class SearchTextInput extends TextInput
  {
    public function SearchTextInput()
    {
    }
    
    override protected function createChildren():void
    {
      super.createChildren();
      var searchImg:Image = new Image();
      searchImg.source = Images.search_icon;
      searchImg.width=12;
      searchImg.height=12;
      searchImg.x = 2;
      searchImg.y = 3;
      setStyle("paddingLeft",searchImg.width+2);
      addChild(searchImg);
    }

  }
}

<utils:SearchTextInput text="enter professional name ..." id="searchPro" click="{searchPro.text = ''}" width="200"/>

<mx:HBox>
  <mx:TextInput id="myTextInput" />
  <mx:Images source="{your_image_url}" paddingLeft="6" />
</mx:HBox>

Zindus is a thunderbird add-on to import your google contact to thunderbird. The problem of zindus is not shown the first_name and last_name, address and organization if you use google data V.3

Let's see how it works:

1. Download Zindus from your ThunderBird.

This March, I had a sexy task to import all employees and departments contacts information which were stored in Google Spreadsheet into Google contact.

A dummy people will think to pay data entry for entering them through google contact form. Whoa.. if i were a data entry, i would have had broken fingers after entering all data. Any way, I found a shortcut to import all data in only seconds or minutes, that is; make a robot to enter all data when we have a lunch.

Now, let's prepare the tools :

1. Installed Ruby on Rails Application
2. gem install gdata
3. gem install google-spreadsheet-ruby
4. open any text editor

Create Basic Rake Frame

namespace :db do

 desc "GS2C: Google spreadsheet to Google contact"
 task :gs2c  => :environment do
   require 'gdata'
   require 'google_spreadsheet'

   #Here will be some sexy scripts

 end

end

namespace :db do

  desc "GS2C: Google spreadsheet to Google contact"
  task :gs2c  => :environment do
    require 'fastercsv'
    require 'gdata'
    require 'google_spreadsheet'

    #sample spreadsheet URL
    #https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/kiranatama.com/ccc?key=0AlQZq7IIjE6UdF92SkhRazlYaVFUWFNYZGxxLWpoT0E&hl=en

    #settings
    @spreadsheet_key = "0AlQZq7IIjE6UdF92SkhRazlYaVFUWFNYZGxxLWpoT0E"
    login_config = YAML.load_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/google_login.yml")[RAILS_ENV]
    login_config["google"].each { |key, value| instance_variable_set("@#{key}", value) }

    def create_spreadsheet_connector
      @google_spreadsheet = GoogleSpreadsheet.login(@email_contact, @password_contact)
      create_contact_connector
    end

    def create_contact_connector
      @google_contact = GData::Client::Contacts.new({
                           :authsub_scope => 'http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/',
                           :source => 'google-DocListManager-v1.1',
                           :version => '3.0'})
      @google_contact.clientlogin(@email_contact, @password_contact)
      create_contact_entry
    end

    def create_contact_entry
      @contact_entry = <<-EOF
                           <atom:entry xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'
                             xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005'>
                           <atom:category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind' 
                         term='http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact' />
                      EOF
      start_load_csv
    end

    def start_load_csv
      @spreadsheet = @google_spreadsheet.spreadsheet_by_key(@spreadsheet_key)
      #Sample Row Header / First Row
      #First Name | Last Name | Email | Work Phone | Home Phone | Address | City | State | Country | ZIP
      #You have to skip first row and blank row
      i = 0
      @spreadsheet.worksheets do |row|
        if i < 1 
          i++
          return
        end
        @google_contact.post( 'http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/' + 'contacts/default/base?v=3', create_google_contact(row,i))
        i++
      end
    end

    def create_address(address,city,state,country,zip)
      address = <<-EOF
                        <gd:postalAddress rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home' primary='true'>
                          #{address}
                          #{city}
                          #{state}, #{zip}
                          #{country}
                        </gd:postalAddress>
                    EOF
      return address
    end

    def create_google_contact(row,i)
      first_name = row[i, 1].blank? ? "---" : row[i, 1]
      last_name  = row[i, 1].blank? ? "---" : row[i, 2]
      email      = row[i, 3].blank? ? "---" : row[i, 3]
      work_phone = row[i, 4].blank? ? "---" : row[i, 4]
      home_phone = row[i, 5].blank? ? "---" : row[i, 5]
      address    = row[i, 6].blank? ? "---" : row[i, 6]
      city       = row[i, 7].blank? ? "---" : row[i, 7]
      state      = row[i, 8].blank? ? "---" : row[i, 8]
      country    = row[i, 9].blank? ? "---" : row[i, 9]
      zip        = row[i, 10].blank? ? "---" : row[i, 10]
      full_name  = first_name + last_name

      data  = <<-EOF
                #{@contact_entry}
                    <title>#{full_name}</title>
                    <atom:content type='text'>#{contact.note}</atom:content>
                    <gd:name>
                      <gd:fullName>#{full_name}</gd:fullName>
                      <gd:givenName>#{first_name}</gd:givenName>
                      <gd:familyName>#{last_name}</gd:familyName>
                    </gd:name>
                    
                    <gd:email primary='true' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home' address='#{email}'/>
                    <gd:phoneNumber rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home'>#{home_phone}</gd:phoneNumber>
                    <gd:phoneNumber rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work'>#{work_phone}</gd:phoneNumber>
                     
                    #{create_address(address,city,state,country,zip)}

                </atom:entry>
               EOF
      return data
    end

   create_spreadsheet_connector

  end

end