One issue that has plagued the Address Book & iCal combination, is that you are offered the option to automatically add birthday reminders to your calendar….\u00c2\u00a0 That’s fantastic, and will help me prevent the possibility of missing a friends\/relatives birthday.<\/p>\n
But then, how did I forget Aunt Flo’s birthday, last week?\u00c2\u00a0 Click.\u00c2\u00a0 Why doesn’t the birthday reminder, have an alarm?\u00c2\u00a0 What?\u00c2\u00a0 You mean, I have to go through the entire 12 months of the year, and manually add alarms for each event?\u00c2\u00a0 What if I add another contact?\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll have to go add that to?<\/p>\n
It’s a great idea, but the execution has been off, and Apple doesn’t seem to want to add this critical feature…<\/p>\n
Never fear, the following applescript, can fix that….<\/p>\n
tell application \"iCal\"\r\n tell calendar \"Birthdays\"\r\n set all_events to every event\r\n repeat with this_event in all_events\r\n tell this_event\r\n delete every sound alarm\r\n make new sound alarm at end with properties {trigger interval:-(10*days), sound name:\"Basso\"}\r\n end tell\r\n end repeat\r\n end tell\r\nend tell<\/pre>\nThe script will have to be run anytime you add more birthday entries, but it’ll allow you to set as many reminders you want per entry…<\/p>\n
All credit for this needs to go to Andrew.Bussman from the MacRumors Forums…<\/p>\n
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