Wednesday, 16 March 2011

GBirthday birthday reminder

As it was my birthday yesterday, I chose to highlight a birthday related application today. GBirthday is a panel applet that shows you which of your Evolution contacts have a birthday in next next few days.

There's no excuse for forgetting a birthday with GBirthday

This applet is customizable; you can show birthdays up-to the past 30 days and 90 days in the future. It even changes colour and flashes to alert you, so there's no chance of not seeing.

If you only have a few contacts you might not find this particularly useful, but people who have hundreds will benefit from having this reminder.

1 comment:

  1. Hi!

    Thank you for the bin. I am looking just for something like that. Unfortunately it fails to start trying to allocate some addressbook?
    Here's the error:

    $ gbirthday

    ** (gbirthday:7358): WARNING **: Failed to alloc new addressbook: Cannot open book: db error 0x2 (No such file or directory)

    ** (gbirthday:7358): WARNING **: Failed to alloc new addressbook: Cannot open book: db error 0x2 (No such file or directory)
    ^CTraceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/gbirthday", line 4, in
    main()
    File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gbirthday/__init__.py", line 195, in main
    gtk.main()

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