Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's iCal introduced a 'Show Birthdays calendar' option which automatically adds an all-day event for any contacts who have birthdays listed in Addre Book. It's smart, but it i 't very flexible - there is no option for alarms and no way to add extra information like age or details of an impending party. Enter YABI: yet Another Birthday Importer, which aims to bring power and flexibility to the way iCal imports birthday events, as well as a iversaries (scroll down a little on the page). Tim Gaden at Hawk Wings has a nice writeup of key features, but to summarize, YABI can:
- di lay a person's age in the event title
- add events to the calendar of your choice
- set a configurable alarm
- chose exactly which contacts to import events for
- decide how many years to repeat the events
- and more
YABI strikes me as another one of those 'shoulda been in Tiger' a , as it fills so many holes left by iCal's paltry implementation of this feature. Fortunately, it's a Universal Binary and free at least while in beta.
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