iCal and Address Book have a cool integration feature that make it so your contacts’ birthday’s can appear in iCal. To do this, launch iCal and open up the preferences and select the “General” pane. Check the box that says “Show Birthdays calendar,” and then go back to iCal. There should now be a calendar called “Birthdays.” (In Leopard it appears under Subscriptions.) Now, when that calendar is activated, people’s birthdays are set as all-day events repeating annually, and the events even link back to their contact in Address Book.
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jmk
- if you don't know the birth year, is there a workaround to leave that out?
- is there a way to add anniversaries to ical automagically? February 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Omer Zach
The Unofficial Apple Weblog posted about an application called YABI that allows you to do thing like show anniversaries in iCal, check it out here: http://www.tuaw.com/2006/12/08/yabi-ical-birthday-and-anniversary-alarms-done-right/
Hope that helped! February 14th, 2008 at 11:01 pm