What BirthdayScannerX does
The problem: you want to get reminded of upcoming birthdays and anniversaries in time to buy presents.
You can add birthdays to contacts in the Address Book - but the Address Book has no reminder function.
iCal has a reminder function - but it does not know the birthdays in the Address Book (*).
Here is where BirthdayScannerX comes in:
it scans your Address Book for any birthdays, anniversaries, name days, ... all dates you have put there. For all the dates it found it creates events in iCal to alert you in time to buy presents.

So all you have to do is:
- Put all your birthdays and anniversaries with your contacts into the Address Book
- Run BirthdayScannerX
- Now you have a calendar in iCal with those Birthdays.
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(*) To be fair, there is a rudimentary solution by Apple - the “Birthdays” calendar in iCal. But it is not sufficient for a number of reasons. You cannot add reminders, it only works for birthdays, not other anniversaries etc... See the FAQ for details.
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