The most common question I get about the UpcomingBirthdays widget is, “How do I add birthdays to the widget?”
UpcomingBirthdays exclusively pulls all of its birthdays from the Address Book built-in to OS X. If you’ve never entered a birthday into your Address Book, it’s a very simple thing to do.
First, launch Address Book and select the person whose birthday you’re going to enter. Next from the menu bar, select Card->Add Field->Birthday. Here’s a quick screen shot of that menu (click the image for a larger version).
Now type the birthdate into the Address Book. Be sure to include the year they were born so you’ll always know the person’s age. When you’re done, the birthday will always appear in the person’s AddressBook entry, like this example:
An added benefit of putting your birthdays into Address Book is that then you can automatically have them appear as a separate calendar within iCal. To do this, make sure you have the iCal version 2.0 or higher. Then, open up iCal’s Preferences, and select the box that says “Show Birthdays calendar”
Now all the birthdays in your Address Book will automatically appear in iCal.
In other news, I should have a new release of UpcomingBirthdays in the next few days with loads of new features and bug fixes. Check back soon for more details on that.
UPDATE – May 2007 – I’ve released an update to UpcomingBirthdays. Use the sidebar on the right to make sure you have the latest version.
UPDATE – Dec 2007 – There are reports of bugs with this widget and Leopard. Details here.
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Oliver |
As stated by many others before me, the widget does not work with Snow Leopard. I really liked the widget and made a lot of lobbying for it (I work in the Apple head-quarter in Ireland – so there are loads of potential users but all have the latest MAC OS version).
It is a pity that the developer does not care about the update. The widget is unique, at least to my knowledge.
OH
Greg M. |
Great prgm. Doesn’t work on Snow Leopard… unless there is an update i don’t know about.
Thx!!
Yvon L. |
How to get it to work
Bill Harrington |
Still can’t make it work on Snow leopard. Is there an upgrade?
Patricia |
I just upgraded to Snow Leopard and I can’t get it to work…
I LOVE this widget!
Any chance for an upgrade to Snow Leopard anytime soon?
Many Thanks!
Karen |
I love your birthday widget but for years it worked with growl, about 6 months ago it stopped working with growl. I haven’t upgraded or changed a thing,
any ideas? Thanks K
Alan |
LOve the App that works no more : (