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.

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

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

Changelog

2.0.1

• bugfix of switched alarm options in german version

2.0

• completely rewritten in Cocoa
• possible to filter for people and groups as prepended Automator Action ( issue 16 )
• calendars for current and next year ( issue 8 )
• email reminder ( issue 9 )
• events since birth
• error in custom formats fixed ( issue 21 ,  issue 22 ,  issue 28 ,  issue 29 )
• removed the calendar export option

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