# Birthdays

"Birthdays" displays upcoming birthdays from people in your address book.

To open the "Birthdays" preferences, follow these steps:

1. Open Universal Ticker.
2. Choose "Universal Ticker" > "Preferences".
3. In the "Sources" category choose "Birthdays".

# Display

You can choose how many days in advance you would like to be notified of any upcoming birthday and how often you want to see a new birthday reminder in the ticker.

Additionally, you can decide if you want to see the portrait and the age of the person alongside the name and date for each birthday.

# Groups

Select all groups from you address book for which you want birthdays to be reported. In case you don't select any groups, Birthdays will look at all people in your address book.

## Related Topics

Selecting Sources

iTunes

Mail

RSS

Text

Time

Battery

Displaying Growl Notifications

Providing Data using AppleScript

Application Programming Interface