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On August 21, 2009, seller Hand Carved Code, LLC released the application: Occasions (Birthdays, Anniversaries, Push Notifications and more!). It is on sale for only $0.99 in the Lifestyle category on App Store. For the time being, the current version for Occasions (Birthdays, Anniversaries, Push Notifications and more!) is 1.1.1 for the iPhone operating system 3.0. We all know is not really easy to remember all the anniversaries, birthdays or name days. This is way organizers were created. But let's face it, sometimes the iPhone's calendar is just not enough. Thanks to all the 3^rd party applications available on the App Store, you can find an actual occasion's reminder.

Occasions (Birthdays, Anniversaries, Push Notifications and more!) is one of the most user friendly organizer, who will help you keep up to date with all your family, friends, acquaintances, and colleagues birthdays, anniversaries and other. Occasions is the perfect reminder you need. The application has a great user interface and a sleek appearance. It does not matter what event is approaching as long as you have Occasions application on your iPod touch and iPhone with OS 3.0. Having such a great user interface, you will be able to add a new contact in no time. Also you can complete a profile with photos.

Occasions (Birthdays, Anniversaries, Push Notifications and more!) is fully customizable, therefore you can have your organizer just like you want it. This application is not just a birthday reminder. It reminds you of anything you want. You can even use it as an event reminder for upcoming parties or whatever. Any event you want to be reminded of can be associated with an alert. There is no use in purchasing and using a reminder event application if you do not have audible or visual reminders outside the application.

The Occasions (Birthdays, Anniversaries, Push Notifications and more!) is one of the first organizer applications to have both audible and visual reminders outside the actual software. The application is great in terms of functionality and ease of use. Beside the nice backgrounds, the push notification is a great feature. You can contact the birthday person from within the application. For the current version of this application you can only adjust the push settings for all events. Maybe in future upgrades the push settings will be adjustable for individual events. Even when you are not inside the application, you can still count updates and alerts for occasions occurring in the present day or in the near future. Because this is a complex application you can specify the time of day you want to receive both audible and visual alerts.

Other excellent features beside the push notifications: the automated function that will allow you to retrieve birthdays, anniversaries, and other dates from the created database on your iPod touch or iPhone with 3.0 operating system; the convenient function, which allows you to call, email and text message right from the application for new or existing contacts with a birthday, anniversary coming up; the application is fast because it is capable to handle large lists of contacts with a fast load time.

Also, the Occasions (Birthdays, Anniversaries, Push Notifications and more!) is user friendly with the search feature allowing you to use many filters on your search; fully customizable with every contact on your list (add, edit, delete and many other more); the occasions organizer is informative, because it displays the number of upcoming occasions with one month in advance and not last, the application is attractive with the 8 unique themes (gray, blue, earth, wind, black, fire, water, and fuchsia)  from which you can choose.

The original version (1.1) brought features like the push notification, note fields, include / exclude year for custom entries, show / hide photos, theme preview in theme setting menu. While the current version (1.1.1) brings new features like: new options for upcoming time frame, including "Today", new look for upcoming / alert button and new location for occasionally, new "black" theme. The v1.1.1 fixes bugs and crashes. Another great thing is that the sellers, Hand Carved Code, LLC have a great support page. You can email them with your questions related to the Occasions application. Overall, the Occasions (Birthdays, Anniversaries, Push Notifications and more!) application is a great way for you to spend $0.99. It does everything it is suppose to any does not crash.

This is a great organizer with excellent features, great interface with a fast response to your taps over the touch screen of your iPod touch or iPhone (running with iPhone OS 3.0). The Occasions application is a must have, for all of you out there with a certain number of events to keep in mind. And do not worry, because the organizer application will not let any event go beside you without letting you know, either with audible or visual alerts (or both - highly recommended). For all of you Occasions fans, the Occasions 2.0 is on its way. It will be a big upgrade, bringing in a lot of new features and refinements. You can even submit any feature requests you have to the support team at Hand Carved Code.