
If you have Facebook synchronisation set up on OS X you may have birthday entries for more people than you care to know about. It is up to you whether you want them showing or not. If you deselect this it will prevent birthdays showing up in Calendar. There you’ll likely see a calendar subscription called Birthdays. At the end of the list you’ll likely see a section called Subscriptions. If that’s not showing, go to the View menu and select Show Calendar List.

In Calendar you can view your calendars on the left panel. One downside is that birthday data is pulled through from Facebook, and if you have a lot of Facebook “friends”-many of whom are basically strangers-seeing birthday notifications can be a real nuisance. Newer versions of OS X also have Facebook integration, which for some people is useful. It sits on the right side of the screen and is accessed via an assigned touchpad swipe and/or clicking the little icon at the far right of your Mac menu bar. For example, we’ll look at how to turn off birthday notifications which come through from the OS X Facebook integration.Ĭurrent versions of Mac OS X have the new Notifications center.

In this Best Mac Tip I’ll be showing you how to fine-tune aspects of the Notification Center in Mac OS X.
