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contacts with birthdays |
aster Joined: Aug 05, 2003 Posts: 1 PM |
Can anyone tell me where can I take contacts with birthdays. imho default contacts doesn't have this feature. May be 3rd-party program?
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Little Jon Joined: Jun 11, 2003 Posts: 195 PM |
It's amazing how my old Psion Series 5 handled birthdays and other anniversaries beautifully. It could even show the number of years elapsed from a start date. I bought a Sony Clie and that didn't have that. When I bought a P800, I expected it would be the same as my Series 5 seeing as they related. What's going on here? Don't PDA software writers celebrate birthdays anymore? |
steveburk Joined: Aug 01, 2003 Posts: 3 From: vancouver PM |
There is a "add field" feature in the "contacts"
You can do it there but it seems that it doesn't work perfectly with outlook
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Little Jon Joined: Jun 11, 2003 Posts: 195 PM |
But it really needs to be in the Calender so that an alarm can alert you to send a card/buy a pressie.
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Quasar Joined: Apr 13, 2003 Posts: 13 From: Portugal PM |
I'm using Handy Dates. It reads the contact list, and as long as you put the birthdates in the Outlook, before syncronise.
It them loads them to Calendar.
Probably a new firmware will correct this situation.
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daloon Joined: Jun 05, 2003 Posts: 100 From: Home PM, WWW
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Since migrating from nokia i also miss this feature, but instead i make a 'reminder' in the calender that i call 'birthday of [persons name] + year of birth on the date of their birth, then make it repeat every year with an alarm. Simple as that.
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Little Jon Joined: Jun 11, 2003 Posts: 195 PM |
Yeah, that is one solution. It's just more elegant when the number of years elapsed is shown. |
StevenK Joined: Oct 15, 2003 Posts: 2 PM |
I have been a registered user of Handy Day since v 3.0, and recently bought Handy dates to complement it with birthdays. I've found the HDates sw to be shoddy - when installed, half the time, it crashes my P800 when syncing, and often loses birthdays - they're still in my calendar, but no longer show up on handy dates - I've stopped using HDates totally. Anyone else have these problems. |
anish Joined: Jul 19, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: India / England PM |
@Steven
Try using mobidate its similar to handy dates
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craigc Joined: Feb 05, 2003 Posts: 149 PM, WWW
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not sure what's going on with handy dates. as far as i'm aware, the last release was 1.1 but i had a beta of version 2 until the trial ran out - that was months ago.
the developer was aware of the issues and seemed to have added a few features (like import dates from outlook, etc) but i have no idea why the new version was never released.
hopefully the new version will be better. |
dupasquier Joined: May 07, 2002 Posts: 50 From: New York PM |
The last version of Handy Dates is 1.1.
It is working fine except the fact that my birthdays appear twice in Outlook now... I was told by Epocware that they are currently working on new version to fix this particular issue.
Make sure to restart your P800 after installing Handy Dates, THEN synchronize your P800 with Outlook and THEN import contacts with birthdays in Handy Dates.
BTW, I don't think Mobidate synchronizes with Outlook...
[ This Message was edited by: dupasquier on 2003-10-15 20:23 ] |
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