Normal Usage

Normal Usage

Right-click on the Known Birthdays group and Add your own friends's birthdays, or right-click on an existing birthday and Edit it.

When entering or editing a birthday, you can enter your friends's name and his or her day, month and year of birth.

You will be alerted of your friends's birthday a number of days in advance. This number can be set in the plugin's Preferences.

Depending on the corresponding Preferences setting, you will be reminded daily; either until the actual birthday or until you confirm the birthday. Confirmation being required, depends on the plugin's Preferences.

A birthday will be shown at the top of the Birthdays section until the actual birthday or until confirmed, whichever occurs later.

When a (daily) alert is required, this will occur at midnight or the first time after midnight that the plugin is started by Trillian. An alert normally is done through a Trillian tray alert. However, when Warn annoyingly is selected in the plugin's Preferences, a foreground dialog box with accompanying sound will be used to alert you.

To confirm or remove a birthday, right-click on it and choose the appropriate option.

The following options may be not as useful anymore as when they were introduced way-back-when:

• You can easily import ICQ contacts through the Preferences of the plugin. Note that this process can take a bit since for every contact a slow connection to the ICQ web site has to be made.
• You can easily import vCard files (vcf) through the Preferences of the plugin. vCard files can be exported from for instance Windows Address Book.
• You can easily import birthdays from the default Windows Address Book (WAB) through the Preferences of the plugin.

ICQ, vCard and WAB imported birthdays are indicated as such by a right-hand icon. This indication can be switched off through the Preferences.