What's new in Birthdaybook 6.9.4
Nov 16, 2022
- Fixed a bug causing the reminder window to crash sometimes with leap year dates of February 29.
- A couple other small tweaks to the UI.
- Optimized for Mac OS Ventura.
- Fixed a bug preventing users to send emails from within the app.
New in Birthdaybook 6.9.2 (Jan 5, 2021)
- Fixed bug causing lines to be cut off when printing the event list.
- Now the list view text size can be changed in preferences along with the reminder window, including small size text.
- Replaced the missing Minimize button.
New in Birthdaybook 6.9.1 (Jan 5, 2021)
- Fixed a bug causing crashes sometimes when added to User startup items
New in Birthdaybook 6.9.0 (Jan 7, 2020)
- New feature! For those who leave birthdayBook open it will automatically refresh each day at midnight.
- Added Calendar app security setting to Info plist to allow Apple Calendar access.
- Fixed reminders to show other labels in Contacts app under "Other events" instead of birthdays.
- Fixed order of alternate event labels in reminder window.
New in Birthdaybook 6.8.8 (Dec 2, 2018)
- Version 6.8.8 fixes an issue preventing new users from granting birthdayBook access to Contacts app.
New in Birthdaybook 6.8.7 (Nov 18, 2018)
- birthdayBook 6.8.7 is now optimized for Mac OS Mojave. It has been customized for the best appearance with the newSystem Dark mode. Also fixed two bugs affecting quick email send and formatting for printed calendars. Other UI improvements as well.
New in Birthdaybook 6.8.6 (May 6, 2017)
- Version 6.8.6 fixes several bugs after the major release of version 6.8.5
- Fixes a bug that prevented birthdaybook opening on OS 10.9 and earlier.
- Fixes a bug that caused birthdaybook to crash after deleting an event and changing windows.
- Popups will no longer appear when selecting empty rows or non-person events in reminder window.
- New feature! Users can now change the text size for reminder windows in Preferences.
- Several improvements for localizations in non-US languages.
New in Birthdaybook 6.8.5 (Apr 7, 2017)
- New Feature: Reminder windows are now interactive so user can send email, lookup phone/address, directly from there.
- New Feature: Users can also click on famous people birthdays in Reminder window and go directly to Wiki info about them.
- New Feature: The compose email window now allows saving of multiple greetings and email subject headings.
- New Feature: The compose email window greeting text box now allows new lines ( via return key ) which will output multiple attachements of the multicolor text greetings... check it out. You can now send longer messages with colorful and wacky text formatting!
- Fixed a bug with exporting events to Calendar App for certain locales/regions.
- Several other code improvements and updated translations in several languages.
New in Birthdaybook 6.8.4 (Jan 10, 2016)
- Fixed bug causing reminder window issues on OS X Yosemite.
- Fixed bug causing birthday events to show up under "anniversary" in some non-english languages.
- Updated code frameworks for working with Calendar app.
- Improved appearance of Preferences window.
- Fixed mail/phone lookup search and search results for contacts are now sorted properly.
- Improved appearance of list window controls.
New in Birthdaybook 6.8.3 (Dec 18, 2015)
- Fixed a bug preventing the reminder window from showing for some people.
New in Birthdaybook 6.8.2 (Dec 7, 2015)
- Fixed a bug preventing the reminder window from retaining its last position.
- Updated code for OS X 10.11 dealing with custom views in the title bar and console errors.
- Several other compatibility updates for OS X 10.11.
New in Birthdaybook 6.8.1 (Feb 24, 2015)
- Fixed a bug causing imported non-birthday events from Contacts to show in reminders in the birthday section.
- Fixed a bug preventing changes to the famous birthday sets or adding custom famous dates.
New in Birthdaybook 6.8 (Jan 13, 2015)
- Fixed bug causing leap year dates to show up too early in reminders.
- Fixed the calendar printing function so it shows ages for the current calendar year.
- Fixed bug causing the "days until" option to not show negative number of days.
- Added more user choices for how the dates and names appear in reminders.
New in Birthdaybook 6.7 (Nov 14, 2014)
- Users can now edit dates in the main list window again.
- February 29 is now handled correctly when no year is given.
- Fixed bug causing reminders to show when there are no current events to report.
- Fixed deprecated method for obtaining System version.
New in Birthdaybook 6.6 (Jan 6, 2014)
- BirthdayBook 6.6 has several bug fixes and a new feature.
- The date entry text field now accepts date formats for any language or locale and is indicated correctly by the placeholder text. There is a new feature: the "Snooze" button, which allows users to receive a second reminder at a given time interval after the first reminder. Fixed a bug that caused a crash when the email button was pressed without an event selected in the list. You can now browse iPhoto via the finder dialog for custom reminder icons. Printing a custom inline birthday Calendar is much faster and allows you to save it as an rtf file or print directly. Fixed a bug relating to date formats beginning with the year.
New in Birthdaybook 6.5 (Jul 20, 2013)
- Fixed a bug that prevented the entering of events for new users.
- Fixed some date errors for regions that use a year-first date format.
- Now completely compatible with OS 10.8 Mountain Lion.
New in Birthdaybook 6.4 (Apr 24, 2013)
- Much of the code has been rewritten and birthdayBook now uses an xml archive for storing events and a new data model which enable it to sync efficiently with iCloud in future versions and sync with the iPhone version of birthdayBook, soon to be released.
- Fixed a bug causing errors with certain date formats.
- Fixed the Importing of events from Contacts which would show a null placeholder text if the first or last name of a contact were not present.
New in Birthdaybook 6.3 (Oct 4, 2012)
- Fixed a bug preventing the reminder windows from opening for upcoming dates in October, November, December.
New in Birthdaybook 6.2 (Jun 21, 2012)
- Fixed reference to scheduling type which sometimes caused scheduled reminders to fail.
- Fixed the adjustment of the famous name list when opening the preferences window. Was trying to change immutable NSDictionary key value pair.
- Fixed month and day column headers in certain localized nibs.
New in Birthdaybook 6.1 (Apr 27, 2012)
- Fixed a bug with ages displaying correctly in reminders.
- New feature: Automatic import from Address Book! Stay in sync with your birthdays and other events.
- several other small improvements.
New in Birthdaybook 6.0.9 (Apr 13, 2012)
- Fixed crazy colors function for sending emails.
- Fixed line length for anniversaries in reminders.
- Added more height for minimum line count in reminder windows.
- Several other small improvements.
New in Birthdaybook 6.0.8 (Mar 10, 2012)
- Fixed scheduling which in rare situations failed due the launched disabled key being set.
- Fixed size of reminder windows to show correctly for different line lengths.
- Several other changes and improvements.
New in Birthdaybook 6.0.7 (Feb 20, 2012)
New in Birthdaybook 6.0.6 (Jan 27, 2012)
- Highly recommended for all users of birthdayBook.
New in Birthdaybook 6.0.3 (Nov 7, 2011)
- Application final release, several bugs fixed.
New in Birthdaybook 6.0.1 Beta (May 9, 2011)
- New and much improved version of Birthdaybook. It is written completely in Objective-C and much more future-compatible. It is only for OS 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard, and higher.
- This new beta version will ask you if you want to import your old birthdays and settings. Say yes and you will be up and going! You will need to reset your scheduling options - which will also cancel out the old ones.
New in Birthdaybook 5.4 (May 3, 2010)
- Fixed the "age bug"
- Switch window views on the fly.
- New French Help pages and manual
- New, simpler, list window and reminder window.
- Faster launch of reminder window and optimized memory management
- Fixed bug with iCal export and incorrect dates
- Improved translations in Spanish, French
- Universal binary (works on new Intel Macs)
- Wikipedia lookup (Help menu)
- Print the table (File menu > Print)
- Access Birthdaybook when no birthday reminders are available.
- More stable preferences window
- Several small fixes of code
- Correct age in reminders
New in Birthdaybook 5.3.1 (Sep 4, 2009)
- Has fixes for two more bugs with Snow Leopard.
New in Birthdaybook 5.3 (Sep 2, 2009)
- Now compatible with OS 10.6, Snow Leopard!
New in Birthdaybook 5.2 (Apr 26, 2008)
- The age now appears correctly in the reminder window.
- Email messages now subjects now show either "Birthday" or "Anniversary" in the subject filed.
- There is now a button in the list and reminder windows that switches the view between them and updates the reminder window without having to quit Birthdaybook.
- There is now a complete French translation including Help Pages and a manual, available at the author's website..
- For users with OS10.3X, Panther, the refresh buttons are gone from the list window. This was an outdated feature. They can still edit the entries in the list window but they will only refresh after relaunch. Table editing for Tiger and Leopard are the same.
New in Birthdaybook 5.1 (Feb 25, 2008)
- Fixes a serious bug that caused reminders to show the wrong age for someone having a birthay on the current day.