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DESCRIPTION
BirthdayScanner X is a powerful tool to synchronize birthdays and other anniversaries between your Address Book and iCal (or other calendar programs).

iCal will remind you of all upcoming birthdays in time.

With BirthdayScanner X, you can:

  • create events in iCal for all anniversaries (not only birthdays) in your Address Book
  • save the anniversaries as a standard calendar file. Import them to any calendar program - Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Sunbird, Google calendar etc.
  • bring the anniversaries to your iPhone - without a special iPhone application: just by syncing normally with your Mac.
  • add reminders to the anniversary events
  • customize the event text (now optimized to look good on the iPhone too)

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    WHAT'S NEW
    Version 2.3.2: This is a maintenance release adding a fix for Snow Leopard and some minor new features.

    Fixes:

    • Fixed the "Snow Leopard double entries" bug: importing birthdays on Snow Leopard would generate double entries in iCal if the event title contained the number of years ($years) for this anniversary
    New Features:
    • BirthdayScanner distinguishes now between birthdays, wedding days, name days and memorial days (days of death) by examining keywords in the event text.
    • shows a cross for memorial days, a star for birthdays etc.
    • A new placeholder, "$date", to show the original date of the event in the event title
    REQUIREMENTS
    Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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    Developer:Thomas Stuefe
    Downloads:2,618
      - Version d/l:525
    Business:Applications
    License:Free
    Date:13 Sep 2009
    Platform:PPC/Intel
    RATING
    *****
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      BirthdayScanner X User Reviews (3 posts)Write A Review
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      Jun 3 2009

      ANONYMOUS  Hi,

      I was surprised that MacUpdate had updated the product page, because I had not submitted the information about the new version yet. I guess they got it somehow from CNet. I will update the product page.

      To answer your question:

      The BirthdayScanner X does:

      - add up to 3 customized Alarms to the Birthday Event

      - also creates iCal Events for other Dates, like Anniversaries

      - the resulting Calendar is a normal calendar, not write protected, so you can modify it to your hearts content

      - the Events show the Age of the person

      - Finally, you can also just export an ICS file, that way you can import your Address Book birthdays into any other calendar apps, even if not on Mac.

      Cheers, Thomas  
      (Version 2.2)

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      Jun 1 2009

      ENDORPHINITY  What is the point of this utility if Leopard's iCal itself includes 'Show Birthdays calendar' option in preferences? Would be useful, if the author have stressed this app's peculiarity and what makes it different.  
      (Version 2.2)

      praisebury
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      Jun 1 2009

      DONEBYLEE  The most obvious from looking at the screen capture would be the ability to set alerts for birthdays, something that Leopard does not let you do.  
      (Version 2.2)

      praisebury
      +5

      Jun 9 2009
      *****

      IMHO  Found this software recently and am lucky with this. This is just what I wanted for a lot of time. Offers functions that iCal should have offered itself. Thank you very much, developer, for this stuff. It works completely fine for me. Mac OS X 10.5.7, iMac PowerPC.  
      (Version 2.2.2)

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