looking for computer program to help me remember dates. birthdays work dates old program like Ample Notice?

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I'm not familiar with Ample Notice, but I've been pretty satisfied with one called Kirby Alarm and Task Scheduler. You can get information here:
http://www.kirbyfooty.com/html/kirby_alarm.html

It will pop up a note, run a program, sound an alarm, or send an e-mail at intervals you specify. It's pretty flexible, and does almost everything I need a reminder program to do. There is a free version (which I use) and a pro version. Over six hundred users at download.com (see below) have rated it highly, giving it an amazing *average* rating of 5 stars out of 5. The editor's rating is good, too. Tucows.com is a tad less enthusiastic, giving it 3 of 5 "cows."

There are quite a few other reminder/clock/calendar programs out there. For example, last I looked there were 76 to choose from here:
http://www.freewarefiles.com/category_8_83.html