Comments on: UpcomingBirthdays 1.0 released

By: uwe

uwe — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:33:44 +0000

Very cooooool! I was looking for such a Widget since the release of Tiger. Thank you very much!

It would turn to super cooooooool with the following enhancements:
- resizable window
- different (free) ranges for ahead/past
- a slightly bigger font
- add the day of week for the next 6 days, or the date for the rest:
‘in 3 days (Thursday) Fred will turn 25′
‘in 12 days (27.08.05) Monica will turn 22′
(date format choosable mm/dd/yy or dd.mm.yy)

If you need help for a german localization just let me know…

By: Gavin Weld White

Gavin Weld White — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:54:33 +0000

I’m having the same issue as Andy reports as part of #1: Yesterday’s birthdays show up as if they were tomorrow.

I haven’t checked the other bugs, but I’m guessing it all has to do with UpdateBirthdays.getUpcomingBirthdays(birthdayRange) – I see no bugs in the javascript after that procedure call, and no other source for data before it.

While I’m here, I may as well put in a plug for allowing different ranges for past and future listings. I don’t need to see birthdays from last week, but I’d like to see them coming up next week.

Otherwise, a wonderful widget! I’ve already gotten an “I can’t believe you remembered my birthday” email from an old friend.

Is there any chance of the source code for the plugin being released?

Thanks,
Gavin

By: James

James — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 06:12:12 +0000

I’m terrible with remembering birthdays, so this comes in real handy. Thanks a bunch.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:09:35 +0000

Very helpful to my social skills. Thanks!

A couple of issues:

1) The time delta does not always reflect correctly. Examples are; a birthday that was yesterday shows up in the widget as tomorrow, a birthday from 5 days ago shows up as 4 days ago.

2) Todays birthdays sometimes show up as tomorrow

3) There is a realtionship between noon local time and the computations presented. If I do a Command-R before noon while seeing the above issues, I get the same results. If I do a Command-R at noon or after, the data corrects and shows the info as expected.

I am running 10.4.2 and my time zone is set to Eastern US

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:48:41 +0000

In the Mac Address Book (in Tiger anyway), go to the Card menu, find the Add Field sub-menu, and then select Birthday to add a birthday field to the current card. Or go to Template in the preferences where you can add the Birthday field to the template for all cards. Type the date in whatever format and Address Book reformats it for you.

p.s. Awesome widget!

By: Ellen Butterfield

Ellen Butterfield — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:30:12 +0000

How do you input birthdays? I wrote something in the “note” part of my address book for someone……but it doesn’t come up in the widget. How is one supposed to make this work:? Anyone?

By: zeke

zeke — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:39:11 +0000

love the widget. I’ve needed this for years now….
I would love it even more if it was sizeable. too small as it is for us with weaker eyes….
thanx again!!
PEACE

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 04:35:53 +0000

Does this check the mac address book, Office book, or am I just not seeing where to input birthdays. Do I need to update the iLife suite to the latest version?

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:10:03 +0000

This is a very nice one to stick into the dashboard.

Uhm, could it be that it fails to updates itself?
I keep logged in for weeks…

By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 11:20:58 +0000

I like this widget very much and would like to suggest the following enhancements:

1. German localisation ( I could do the translation )
2. Make the widget sizeable