Mac Automation: Birthday greetings

Very good advice the problem is manual adding of address and Birthday.
thank you.
Jeylan
http://www.todaymybirthday.com

@Ebika:

I was searching for the same and have found an applescript to insert into the workflow here: http://www.macuser.de/forum/archive/index.php/t-263128.html (you'll need to install growlnotify). It works for me but I am still tweaking it (my plan is to have one sticky notification for each person who has birthday with name and birthday as title and tel number + email as message)

The problem I have with the Address Book/iCal birthday relationship is this: many of my contacts are a couple or a family (ie: Bob & Sue Jones) that only have and share one "home" e-mail address. How do I enter or use both their birthdays?
I have tried adding a field "dates" into the contact template, but these dates don't link up or show up in iCal.

Any suggestions out there?

Cheers,
Chris

Is there perhaps a way to have automator create a new calendar, collect all the birthdays from Adressbook and populte these into the new calendar? You can add an alarm at the same time.
After that, it should be possible to run automator when you add a contact or birthday details, to update the new calendar. You can then remove the Addressbook-calendar.

In doing something like this (if possible at all), it is as close as it gets to using the built-in Addressbook-calendar and have automatic warnings (instead of emails ready to send only when running the automator script....)
Anyone knows whether this is possible?

Cheers,
Michiel

I'm no luddite. I'm all for using technology to connect with people, but junk mail for my birthday? I am cutting you right off if you do that to me. You are not coming to my party!

Unless of course you show up with a bunch of the best red roses, a bottle of the best bordeaux, and an itsy-bitshy gift, hand-wrapped, with a card, in your own handwriting!

http://flourishing20.wordpress.com

Hey Cory,

Thanks for the tips with automater. I have never really used it before, and so am still getting familiar with it. I did have a question I wanted to ask. What would be the best way to have an automated process by which I assign a key that will automatically open system preferences, start-up disk, and then select my Vista partition, and get me to the restart option so that all I have to do is press enter? I tried with Automator record, and it never followed what I did. The arrow doesn't make it past selecting the apple icon. Can you give any suggestions? I basically would like to set up a script, and assign it to an F-key or something. Thanks.

Use Automator to get automatic email reminders of upcoming birthdays

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6601677&#6601677

Thank you for this! Really cool and easy. And I had never even opened Automator before!

I would love to use automator to find upcoming birthdays and pop up a growl notification. Sending an email isn't always my preferred action, so I would just like to be reminded of birthdays in a simple popup message. I know there are some full applications out there that sort of do this, but I'd like a simple automator configuration instead. Anyone know how to do this?

hmmm,... I have an error message saying that it's impossible to obtain «class boxO» "mail message" of mising value (-1728)