Dates to iCal: Syncing birthdays, anniversaries

datestoical100pxDates to iCal is an app that syncs birthdays and anniversaries in your Address Book to iCal, adding them as alarmed events to a separate calendar.

You can also add other customized Address Book date items to iCal and even add birthdays for people for whom you don’t have a separate Address Book card.

The interface windows demonstrates most of the app’s options:

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You can set the kind of alarm that iCal will provide (email works best for me) and choose the advanced notice you need.

After importing the events are fully-editable so that you can customize them or add notes.

Dates to iCal is donationware and is available from the developer’s web site .ical, address book, birthdays, syncing, synchronization, dates

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4 Responses to “Dates to iCal: Syncing birthdays, anniversaries”

  1. Vincent Noel says:

    How is this different than selecting “Show birthdays calendar” in iCal preferences ?
    With this preference, all the birthdays entered in Address Book show up automatically in iCal. What am I missing here ?

  2. John Maisey says:

    Hi Vincent,

    The main difference is that with iCal’s built-in birthday calendar you cannot add alarms… or sync anniversaries & custom dates… or list someone’s birthday without having to making a card in Address Book.

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