Birthdays for Pocket PC Released!

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://pda.jasnapaka.com/birthdays/' target='_blank'>http://pda.jasnapaka.com/birthdays/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Features of Birthdays include: incredibly small, shows the birthday of people in your contacts, shows how old the contact will be, and allows you to set how many days to look ahead. Birthdays was written from scratch in C++ using eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20050416-Birthdays.gif" /><br /><br />Developed by the same person behind <a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39292">Pocket RSS Reader</a>, Birthdays is a very compact today plugin which displays the birthdays of your contacts, as well as some extended birthday information. It's free, so if you're not that impressed by the birthday functionality of the default Calendar plugin, this may be worth a look.

[ctmagnus]

I use PocketBreeze for this functionality:

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/media/users/3482/BirthdaysSS.gif

[k_kirk]

Does it disappear when there are no birthdays to show? HOpe it does not permanently take up Today screen space.

[zetsurin]

Does it disappear when there are no birthdays to show? HOpe it does not permanently take up Today screen space.

I'd seriously doubt that, as I don't think that's how Today plug-ins are designed to work. To supress them it requires manual user intervention (blame Microsoft, not the developer).

Many thanks to the developer for this. However, I could only get the unstable .CAB file to install on my machine, rather than the stable build (My PPC complained that it wasn't a valid file) but that's no problem for me since the unstable build works beautifully for me.

Good to see other people are still programming in real languages as well :D

[Gerard]

Nope, it doesn't disappear, but not too big either. When no birthdays are within the user-defined range of days it decreases to about 20 pixels in height and says just 'No birthdays'. Resizes per needed space.

[Kowalski]

Good to see other people are still programming in real languages as well agree with you!
nowadays very few people code programs using c++
we should encourage this kind of developers who code in c++

[Albegor]

agree with you!
nowadays very few people code programs using c++
we should encourage this kind of developers who code in c++

:way to go:
Downloading both apps now... Birthdays seems to be nice.

[DaleReeck]

I don't know enough people to need a dedicated app to keep track of their birthdays :D

[Jon Westfall]

I don't know enough people to need a dedicated app to keep track of their birthdays :D

Well, I suppose you could go through the UPDATE forum and copy down all the PPCT team members birthdays :D

[UnLoGiC]

I like this plugin, but I'm having a problem that sometimes it doesnt shop up and when i try acces it's options nothing happens :|

[UnLoGiC]

I seem to have this problem with other today plugins oo, must be something else causing it. Anybody got a clue what it could be?

I got an X50v without too much software on!

[SteveP]

Anyone know of an app that shows Anniversaries as well as Birthdays on the Today screen

Thanks

Steve

[Darius Wey]

Anyone know of an app that shows Anniversaries as well as Birthdays on the Today screen

Exclusively, I can't think of any, but other PIM plugins such as PocketBreeze, Spb Diary, and Calendar+ can all show it, alongside your standard appointments/events.

[SteveP]

Hi Darius

Actually, I cane acrosss this last night after trawling the internet

http://www.vasilenok.com/products/vbirthdaygold.html

It's BRILLIANT!

Cheers

Steve

[Sanjoo]

Hi!

I have just downloaded and installed Birthdays 1.1.1.

But: No birthdays are shown!

Does anyone know how I got to define a bithday in the calendar so that the tool shows it on the startup screen?

Thank you very much.

Michael