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SS Birthday Reminder
SS Birthday Reminder is a personal organizer software application designed to remember users about their birthday dates. This application is a combination of two Sub Applications: Birthday Manager and Birthday Checker.

Birthday Manager
Birthday Manager is the application where users can add, edit or delete contacts, can generate reports about the birthdays that come up in the current month, can import or export the contacts database, can personalize the application options like how many days before a new birthday will come should it inform the user about this, or how many days before the anniversary day should it display a popup window with some basic information like how many days remains and who is celebrating. Also the application can automatically generate monthly birthday reports which are saved on the user's Desktop.

Birthday Checker
Birthday Checker is the application, which will automatically run at the Windows startup and will check if there are birthdays coming up in the near future. If there is a birthday on that day or several days in advance, it will show you a window with detailed information about that birthday. Also a popup shows up in the bottom-right corner with some information about whose birthday will be the next in user's contacts list.

Cross platforming
SS Birthday Reminder was initially developed for Windows, but lately was developed its homologue in Java which can run on any platform which supports Java like Linux, Mac OS, BSD and other Unix operating systems.

History
SS Birthday Reminder was first released in November 2007. Lately, in September 2008 was released it's 2nd version which included major design and functionality changes. In August 2009 is released it's brother developed in Java: SSL Birthday Reminder, which gained big popularity between Linux users. Finally, in 2010 is released the version 2.10 which received nomination "editor's pick" from Brothersoft.