birthday
Entertainment
9:30AM Nick Broughall | A couple of weeks ago, ABC’s iView VOD service celebrated its first birthday – they grow up so fast! David Knox at TV Tonight is reporting that to celebrate, the national broadcaster’s online video portal has begun a 3 month trial with Pipe Networks to allow smaller ISPs to offer unmetered access to the service. More »
ABC iView Turns One, Celebrates By Trialling Unmetered Access With Smaller ISPs
9:30AM Nick Broughall | A couple of weeks ago, ABC’s iView VOD service celebrated its first birthday – they grow up so fast! David Knox at TV Tonight is reporting that to celebrate, the national broadcaster’s online video portal has begun a 3 month trial with Pipe Networks to allow smaller ISPs to offer unmetered access to the service. More » 
Computers
Happy 25th Birthday, Mac. Now Isn’t It About Time You Settled Down?
8:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Apple’s Mac line celebrates its 25th birthday today: the original Macintosh was released back on January 24th, 1984. It’s been a bumpy road, but it made it. And we’re glad. More »
Deals
9:30AM Nick Broughall | What are you doing at midday today? I’ll tell you what you’re doing! You’re sitting by your computer, browser open with one tab set to Giz AU (like it always should be) and another browser pointed at Catch Of The Day. Because tomorrow is their birthday, and they’re going special crazy. $200 for a Wii (half price), $99 for a PS2, $99 for a TomTom Satnav, $99 for a 4GB iPod Nano… that’s your Christmas shopping done right there. And that’s just shopping for yourself. What you get your friends and relatives won’t matter after the bargains you score here today.
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It’s Catch Of The Day’s Birthday Extravaganza, AKA Dealzmodo Galore!
9:30AM Nick Broughall | What are you doing at midday today? I’ll tell you what you’re doing! You’re sitting by your computer, browser open with one tab set to Giz AU (like it always should be) and another browser pointed at Catch Of The Day. Because tomorrow is their birthday, and they’re going special crazy. $200 for a Wii (half price), $99 for a PS2, $99 for a TomTom Satnav, $99 for a 4GB iPod Nano… that’s your Christmas shopping done right there. And that’s just shopping for yourself. What you get your friends and relatives won’t matter after the bargains you score here today.
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Music
Happy 7th Birthday iPod!
7:10AM Sean Fallon | Congratulations iPod on turning 7 today! Starting to feel kind of old aren’t you? Ahh, you have had a good life so far. Lots of friends and TONS of kids. Seriously, keep it in your pants you dirty old bastard. I don’t know how you do it at your age. More »
Random Stuff
Millennium Falcon Cake Can’t Hyperspace, But is Best Birthday Cake Ever
9:41PM Kit Eaton | This Millennium Falcon was never going to do the Kessel Run… but it might just qualify as the most awesome birthday cake ever made. I mean, look at the detail! Made by Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, one lucky guy received it this weekend… and can you guess his generous brother’s profession? Yup, you were close: it’s as a sysadmin. I just hope he appreciated it, since I know an armload of people who’d weep with joy if this arrived on their birthday. Particularly if it were cunningly combined with LED birthday candles for special lighting effects. There’s another pic below, if you haven’t seen enough. More »
Design
A Pocket Birthday is the Saddest Party Ever
6:40AM Sean Fallon | Hey, it’s your birthday! To celebrate this momentous occasion I got the pocket birthday kit complete with four candles, matches and a base. Why are you crying? What do you mean you don’t have any friends? I’m here with the pocket birthday dude! This is supposed to be a happy time. Available for about US$6 (which is ridiculous). [Design3000 via 7Gadgets] More »
Announcements
My Birthday Wishes For 2008
5:58AM Brian Lam | I’m still travelling, and today on the beach in Ipanema, I got into a bit of an argument with the tide, which swept me out a bit. I waved to friends for a bit of help and they just waved back, I think. (Had already lost both contacts at this point, so couldn’t see.) I made it back to shore by swimming parallel to the beach to weaker currents and planting my tippy toes in the sand when the tide pulled back out, and making it back in slowly. The Sea is mighty, even on a leisurely beach day! I’m not supposed to be posting, but I figured I’d pop in to do my usual birthday wishes. More »
Online
Happy 30th Birthday LAN! Thank God For Meatball Sandwiches
8:50AM Sean Fallon | Oh LAN, it seems like it was only yesterday that your first commercial installation (ARCnet) was born at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. We must give thanks to Harry Pyle and that meatball sandwich he was eating for providing the inspiration behind ARCnet all those years ago. Enjoy it while you can old friend, because the times are changing, and you may not live to see your 40th. More »
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Apple ][’s 30th Birthday
5:51AM Seamus Byrne | The Apple ][ was the first MacApple [Update: Thx for the Fact Check, Fanboys] I’d ever used. I spent Summers in Hong Kong with the grandparents, and one years, I got computer “lessons” on it. When I say lessons, I mean playing Ghostbusters. That game came out in 1984, which is seven years after the Apple ][ launched, and actually even a few years after the Apple III (1980, turd). Pretty amazing little machine, with its 1MHz Processor and 4K or RAM. (Although I think mine was a more powerful Apple ][e.) [Wiki, RetroThing and TUAW. Image of the Apple I adopted for use from The Joy of Tech] More »
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