Happy 137th Birthday, Harry Houdini!

Happy 137th Birthday Harry Houdini

Today (March 24, 2011) is the great magician Harry Houdini's 137th birthday. Even though Harry has passed away some years ago, we still remember all the amazing entertainment he brought into our lives over the years from movies, clips and books about his amazing tricks he performed. He was one of the worlds most amazing escape artists. It would be interesting to see if he had been born now what kind of amazing tricks he would be coming up with today.

Happy 10th Birthday Mac OS X

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Today (March 24, 2011) marks the tenth birthday of Mac OS X. It made its first debut on March 24, 2001 as the memorable Mac OS X 10.0. Mac OS X was a major change for the famous Mac OS. It integrated NeXT company technology (OPENSTEP OS) and FreeBSD UNIX. In the beginning it did have some issues as quoted below, but what company's great products doesn't have some little bumps along the road to greatness.

"Mac OS X shows tremendous promise, which is a nice way of saying that the 10.0 release is not quite ready for prime time. This is most certainly an early adopter's OS release. Interface responsiveness and effective stability are the two biggest fundamental problems, but missing features and compatibility issues rank just as high if you actually intend to use OS X as a full Mac OS 9 replacement: the 10.0 release cannot view DVD movies; printer drivers are still scarce; CD burning is not yet supported, even by Apple's own iTunes CD authoring application; and a lot of hardware (like my G3/400's serial port adapter to which my printer is attached) seem destined to be orphaned forever."

Mac OS X Public Versions:
10.0 - Codename: Cheetah, released March 24, 2001
10.1 - Codename: Puma, released September 25, 2001
10.2 - Codename: Jaguar, released August 24, 2002
10.3 - Codename: Panther, released October 24, 2003
10.4 - Codename: Tiger, released April 29, 2005
10.5 - Codename: Leopard, released October 26, 2007
10.6 - Codename: Snow Leopard, released August 28, 2009
10.7 - Codename: Lion, expected released Summer 2011

The next install of Mac OS X is known as Lion (10.7) and is expected to come roaring through sometime this summer with the theme of "Back to the Mac", an effort to come full circle with some of the great features we know and love in the iOS platforms.

So Happy 10th Birthday Mac OS X, you've come a long way and it shows. We all love you and wish you a bright and happy future..

Happy 56th Birthday Steve Jobs

On Thursday February 24th, Steve Jobs the co-founder and Chief Executive of Apple will turn 56. I think the whole Apple world will be celebrating with him and his family. I am happy to see Steve turn 56 and I am proud to say "God Bless you and your family Steve". You have given us so many amazing new wonderful things throughout the years and I wish you the best and most amazing year of your life. I believe you are a strong and amazing man that will over come any obstacles in your way.

I can say that my life has never been the same since I tried my first mac many many years ago and I feel blessed that I have been able to use Apple products in my life. Thank you Steve for all you have done and given us.

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Steve, Happy Birthday to you

Happy 183rd Birthday Jules Verne

If you have a chance folks you should stop by google.com and check out today fun interactive graphic. When you arrive on the site you will notice some portal openings showing a lively sea ahead with all sorts of goodies for us to see. Ahh but there is more. If you look to the right you will notice a lever. Give it a try and see where your travels take you.

Today graphic celebrates the great Jules Vernes 183rd Birthday. Now some people might be like ok so who is Jules Verne and is running to be as old as Methuselah? Well to answer the first question Jules Verne was a great french science fiction author. He was born on February 8, 1828 and died on March 24, 1905 at the age of 77 in Amiens, France.

Some of his best know works were "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864), "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" (1870) and lets not forget "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1873). What is so great about Jules was his amazing vision he had about traveling to places where man had not even begun to really explore. His imagination helped us to envision some of the most incredible sights on our journey through his story.

Jules was refereed to by H.G Wells and Hugo Gernsback as the "Father of Science Fiction".

If you haven't had a chance to read or even see some of his books made into movies, please do so. You will not be disappointed. I recommend first reading the books then going to see the movies because many times the authors words help to paint a more detailed and incredible journey then film can ever create in our minds eye..

Happy Birthday Big Guy....

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla July 10, 1856

Nikola Tesla July 10, 1856 to January 7, 1943
Today is Nikola Tesla's Birthday. He was a great Serbian-American Inventor that gave us as a society so much. But he is the least known inventor. His accomplishments include but are not limited to inventing the radio (not Marconi), to Robotics to Alternating Current to Wireless to Advanced Pulse Weaponry and a slew of other amazing inventions we have all around us but have no idea who really invented it.

Nikola was a man ahead of his time and a fellow countryman of mine. To do him justice i would recommend googling his name and also check out the various You Tube videos on him to see all the amazing things this man gave us.