setting alarms for birthdays in iCal?

[sir42]

I love that iCal now imports birthdays automatically from Address Book, but is there a way to set alarms for these birthdays?

When I used to enter birthdays manually into iCal I would always set a reminder for 7 days in advance so that I wouldn't forget the birthday.

Is there a way to do this now? I'd love to have each birthday automatically setup this way and then the ability to change the reminder on particular birthdays.

thanks!

 

[Eraserhead]

No, unless there is some third party software, hopefully Apple will add this with Leopard.

 

[SilentPanda]

I'm really surprised there isn't (or maybe there is!) a program that sits in the menu bar like gmail notifier and displays how many upcoming birthdays there are in the next 7 days. Click on it and it gives you a drop down of people and their birthdays.

 

[TheAnswer]

It's not built in...but if you use the iCal Events widget you can at least have a semi-reminder (as long as you look at the widget) each time you access the dashboard.

Let's hope Apple adds alarms for the birthday calendar in Leopard.