Birthdays Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Mac 101: Deduplicating your birthdays in the Facebook era

by Michael Rose (Dec 18th, 2012)

More Mac 101, our ongoing series of tips and tricks for novice Mac users. Adding Facebook integration to the OS X Contacts application was not without controversy; many of us feared an onslaught of @facebook.com email addresses polluting our pristine data. Assuming you can get past that hurdle, ...

Apple planning May event to celebrate its 10-year retail anniversary

by Chris Ward (Apr 21st, 2011)

Get your glad rags out, because it looks like Apple's preparing to celebrate the 10th birthday of its first retail stores at the end of next month. Employees have been told they can't request any vacation time in late May, possibly because Apple's planning some sort of event to mark the ...

Birthdays under control on your iPhone

by Mel Martin (Apr 25th, 2009)

I always have a problem with birthdays. I generally don't make a big deal about my own, and sometimes that leads me to forget my friends' big days. iCal helps me, and I have a few birthdays in there that have pop-ups a few days in advance. It works well, especially if I remember to make it a ...

YABI - Yet Another Birthday Importer updates with new UI, multiple alarms

by David Chartier (Feb 15th, 2007)

YABI, as we've mentioned before, fills the void left by iCal's lackluster Address Book import of birthdays by offering far more flexibility and power. YABI can create a custom calendar for birthdays and anniversaries, display a person's age in the event alarm title, select only specific contacts ...

YABI: iCal birthday and anniversary alarms done right

by David Chartier (Dec 8th, 2006)

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 Address Book. It's smart, but it isn't very flexible - there is no option for alarms and no way to add extra information like age or ...