Improving Address Book’s Birthdays

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Address Book includes a field for each contactis birthday that can also tie into iCal. But with a little help from Address Book Dates, you can make the birthday field even more useful.

Address Book Dates is a plug-in for Address Book that enhances the birthday field by adding age, zodiac and Chinese zodiac signs, and can take you to associated birthday dates in iCal. It also improves the anniversary field and any other custom date field you create by adding a Time since listing that shows how many years ago the event occurred.


Address Book lets you track birthdays, but not much else.

After installing the plug-in, just click and hold on any date field in Address Book to see a pop-up menu showing the extra birthday or event information.


Address Book Dates lets you see age, zodiac sign, and jump to dates in iCal.

Address Book Dates is free, and available for download at the Artsiness Web site.

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Jeff Gamet

Jeff Gamet

Jeff is the Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and co-host of the Apple Context Machine podcast. He is the author of "The Designer's Guide to Mac OS X" from Peachpit Press, and writes for several design-related publications. Jeff has presented at events such as Macworld Expo, the RSA Conference, and the Mac Computer Expo. In all his spare time, he also co-hosts the We Have Communicators podcast, and makes guest appearances on several other podcasts, too. Jeff dreams in HD.

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