This Automator Action creates a birthday calendar in iCal from the contacts in Address Book. Unlike the built-in birthday calendar in iCal, this action allows you to set an alarm for each birthday. You can also combine this action with other actions to publish your ICS file to a web or file server.

If you want to customize your event or reminder text you can use the following placeholders:

• %lastname%
• %firstname%
• %yearofbirth%
• %age%
• %birthday%

Changelog 1.7.1

• fixed Snow Leopard issue ( issue 20 )

1.7

• fixed 12 AM issue ( issue 5 )
• fixed problems with some time zones
• alerts for birthdays on the day iCalBirthdays is run
• removed titles and middle names

1.6

• made the export optional
• added event type for choosing all day events or event at alert time
• made alert sound optional
• added more formats for alert text
• made alert text customizable
• added alternative text for reminder
• added a cake icon for the action

1.5

• added customizable calendar entry format
• removed / replaced age with year of birth

1.4

• Localization for German added
• Age added

1.3

• changed the export of calendar for leopard
• additional alert is actually added to the birthday event (instead of creating another event)
• choice of which alert to enable

1.2

• solved errors in Tiger

1.1

• Leopard ready
• optional additional alert before the birthday