Birthdays from Contacts

[sammyman]

One of my favorite things when I used to use pc was birthdays from my contacts in Outlook would show up on the calender. It was a great reminder for me. Is there any way to make peoples birthdays show up from macs contacts as a reminder. Like a pop-up or a widget or anything? I always need to be reminded.

 

[mad jew]

In Tiger, you can have iCal grab all your birthdays from the Address Book and import them as a separate calendar. Alternatively, if you don't have Tiger, try this or this.

 

[sammyman]

You mean from the automater? Or how do you grab them?

 

[mad jew]

It's in the iCal preferences. You've just gotta tick a box from memory.

 

[swiftaw]

its iCal->Preferences->Show Birthdays Calendar

 

[DJY]

Under Panther I grabbed BirthdayCal which imported them all very nicely!

Am still playing with all the changes in Tiger... but do have Birthdays as a separate Calendar. If only now we could publish multiple calendars on .Mac securely (overlapping each other) like we see them in iCal!

When I did check the preference in iCal (Tiger) though it did make a new Birthday calendar ( so I had to manually delete the BirthdayCal (plugin) that I had under Panther.