Dates to iCal

Various thingies written and worked on by John Maisey.

Don't forget another anniversary

Dates to iCal 2 is a replacement for Apple's birthday calendar for iCal in Leopard. It has a range of features to allow the user to choose what, and what not, to sync to iCal from Address Book.

As well as automatically syncing birthday dates from Address Book, Dates to iCal 2 can sync anniversary and custom dates. It can set up to five alarms for each date in iCal and can also set different alarms for birthdays and anniversaries. It allows the option of only syncing from one Address Book group. This application also allows for the titles of the events sent to iCal to be modified to the user's preference.

To start Dates to iCal, open the application, make the settings required (settings are divided into 'General', 'Titles' and 'Alarms' tabs), click 'Activate' and then quit it. Users with a large number of dates in Address Book may prefer to quit iCal before activating Dates to iCal, as iCal can become unresponsive due to a lare number of events being added at one time. Dates to iCal will then run in the background as required to keep the 'Anniversary' calendar in iCal in sync with updates in the user's Address Book.

Dates to iCal 2 is shareware, registration is £3 per machine. The application runs in demo mode for three weeks before it needs registering.

Update details

2.0.2 (30 Jun 2008)
Fixed bug where processes could be left behind after application deleted.
Added punctuation corrrection. (tracker 0000004)

2.0.1 (5 Mar 2008)
Fixed demo expiry bug.
Added apostrophe-s modification.
Recommended update from version 2.0.0

2.0.0 (21 Feb 2008)
Initial release.

Dates to iCal 2 is the successor to Dates to iCal 1.0.3, completely re-written in Cocoa. Version 1.0.3 is compatible with Tiger, but not compatible with Leopard. It is still available from here (183Kb).