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iHappyDays

Are you having trouble keeping track of your friends’ and family members’ birthday and anniversaries? Especially the one’s that follow the LUNAR CALENDAR? HappyDays for Palm returns to the iPhone/iPod touch world. Know when and whose important days are coming with iHappyDays!!! iHappyDays will help you remember the birthdays and anniversaries of your friends and family members. It retrieves information from the built-in Birthday and Date fields of Contacts and displays it neat and nicely in table view. The table view will help you see how soon your contacts’ next birthday and anniversaries are coming. In addition you can look-up, add, and modify your contact’s information from iHappyDays.

Features

• iHappyDays reads the relevant information from the built-in fields of Contacts
• Supports Lunar calendar
• Besides Birthday field, It supports the custom Date field
• iHappyDays caches information for the faster lookup
• You can sort the entries by name, age, and date (Only iHappyDays Free version)
• You can add or modify your contacts’ information from iHappyDays. The modification will be applied in Contacts directly
• Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch

Downloads

You can download iHappyDays(Pro) from AppStore

Change Log

• Ver 2.0 – (2012-05-03) : Only supported iHappyDays Pro version.
• Clears all reported bugs of previous version
• Applied user feedback
• (Add) Supports iOS 5.1 & Retina Display
• (Add) Anniversary management: add, remove, edit, import, etc
• (Add) Sync with iPhone Contacts
• (Add) Supports Local notification
• (Add) Supports D-Day

• Ver 1.0 – (2010-01-21)
  • (Add) Import anniversary from note field of Contacts
  • (Add) More cleaner view for anniversary
  • (Add) Help and FAQ in program
  • (Add) Setting menu

• Ver 0.91 – (2009-07-14)
  • Compatibility test with iPhone SDK 3.0
  • Change homepage URL to new Blog

• Ver 0.9 – (2009-05-28)
  • (Add) Show badge option – add badge in Springboard icon

• Ver 0.8 – (2009-04-22)
  • (Fix) Sort option reset problem : After looking up a contact record, sort option was reset to ‘Name’

• Ver 0.7 – (2009-04-09)
  • (Fix) a bug in age calculation
  • (Fix) minor bug in sort option

• Ver 0.6 – (2008-10-02)
  • (Fix) timezone problem
  • (Add) Select Option in Setting Preference – You can check on/off Scan field
  • (Add) Display Option in Setting Preference
  • (Add) Korean Localized version
• Ver 0.5 – (2008-09-05)
  • Initial release

FAQ

Why can’t I create or use a custom label for the Date field?

If this is your problem, there is a high possibility that you iPhone is configured to synchronize Contacts with a Microsoft’s Exchange Server account. To check your synchronization configuration with your accounts, go to iPhone Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Check if you have a Microsoft’s Exchange Server account. If you have one, check if it is configured to synchronize contact information. If you disable contact synchronization, you will be able to create and use custom labels again. If you still decide to synchronize your contacts with your Microsoft’s Exchange Server, there is an alternative way to save anniversary dates using the Note field in Contacts. Please refer to the part “Using the Note Field to Save Anniversaries” in the manual for more information.

What does the different colors mean in the table?

The colors appear differently depending on how far the dates in the list are away from the current day. The anniversaries which date back two weeks ago, a week ago, and the ones that are to come in the next 30 days are colored all differently.

What does the Number displayed in the upper right corner of iHappyDays icon on my iPhone home screen stand for?

It stands for the number of anniversaries that iHappyDays can find from Contacts for the current day. Since applications cannot run in the background on iPhone, the number will only be updated when iHappyDays is first used on each day.

Can I be notified about the anniversaries?

Apple SDK does not allow developers to implement notification service without using APNS(Apple Push Notification Service). We are carefully planning on supporting the notification feature using APNS in the near future.

Can the anniversary information be set(or managed) else where besides from Contacts?

Synchronization and the back-up process of your precious information can be difficult if the anniversary information were to be stored and managed separately from Contacts. We determined that the best way to manage such information was by using Contacts and it is how it is done. If you would like to set special dates which does not really associate to any person, such as holidays, You can use the features that iHappyDays provides. Add a contact with the name “anniversary” and use the Note field for that purpose. For example, Add the following in the Note field of your “anniversary” entry in Contacts

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NewYears:1/1
Thanksgiving Day:8/15

* For those people who have experienced data loss during the recovery process or switching to another iPhone(or iPod) might agree that iHappyDays is making good use of Contacts.