[DogGone]

I like the new setup in Leopard. However I still don't get the Birthday function. I have all my family's BD in the address book and set it up to link with iCal. As a result I see 2 events per BD for some reason. Not a biggie, but its odd.

But what gets me is that there is no alarm for a BD. My folks are across the pond in the UK and I need a reminder 2 weeks before. How the hell do I do that? In the past I've resorted to set up a separate event for everyone, but I really want Apple to set this up for me. I would imagine for the average user, BDs are major events in a calendar.

Any ideas?

[TETENAL]

You would have thought that someone at Apple would like to have birthday reminders as well, but apparently not. Maybe this is something that is not commonly celebrated in America?

One thing you can do is create a smart group in Address Book that shows people whose birthday is within the next month (and have it change colour when something changes). But you have to monitor that group yourself which is kind of annoying.

[soho2014]

what I do is to make a "birthday calendar" in google's "gcal" and set it as a yearly event [recurring annually], and send an email reminder. Then, I subscribe to my own calendar in iCal, and it works well.