Birthday Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

iPhone icon cupcakes look touchable, tasty

by Mike Schramm (Dec 29th, 2011)

We haven't posted a really good iPhone cake in quite a while now, so here we go: Reader Tim sends in this set of cupcakes that his girlfriend made him for his 21st birthday, and boy do they look good. There are a few things that, as Apple obsessive, we would call out in there, including the ...

TUAW TV Live at 5 PM ET: Starting a Fire for @verso's birthday

by Steven Sande (Nov 16th, 2011)

We're going to have some fun this afternoon on TUAW TV Live. My very special guest will be TUAW Talkcast regular and proprietress of the House of Crackpot Theories™, Kelly Guimont (that's her on the left in the photo above, in case you were confused). Today just so happens to be Kelly's ...

Happy First Birthday, iPhone 4!

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 24th, 2011)

One year ago today, where were you? Were you standing in line waiting to snag the newly announced iPhone 4, or were watching from afar, marveling at the long lines? Unless you had your head in the sand, you were likely doing one or the other. In the 12 months since its launch, the iPhone 4 ...

Apple planning May event to celebrate its 10-year retail anniversary

by Chris Ward (Apr 21st, 2011)

Get your glad rags out, because it looks like Apple's preparing to celebrate the 10th birthday of its first retail stores at the end of next month. Employees have been told they can't request any vacation time in late May, possibly because Apple's planning some sort of event to mark the ...

Talkcast tonight; 7 PM PT/10 PM ET: Happy Birthday iPad Edition!

by Kelly Guimont (Apr 3rd, 2011)

Hippo, birdie, two ewes, Hippo, birdie, two ewes, Hippo, BIRDie, two ew-wes, Hippo, birdie, two ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwes! Here we go again! It's the first birthday of our own iPad, the little tablet that could. It's seems like that little guy has just been around forever, but really it's only ...

Happy Birthday, iPad! Come out to celebrate

by Michael Rose (Apr 3rd, 2011)

It got mocked for its name, and for the "magical and revolutionary" marketing machine behind it. Critics called it "just a big iPod touch" and wondered what it might be good for. Customers, meanwhile... well, after a year of the original iPad and just three weeks of the iPad 2, the gadget that ...

Happy 35th birthday to Apple, Inc.

by Dana Franklin (Apr 1st, 2011)

It's no joke: Apple, Inc. turns 35 today. On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne (who 12 days later sold his share of the startup for a meager US$2,300) founded Apple Computer. As a newborn, Apple intended to sell low-cost, hand-manufactured microcomputer components to ...

Happy 10th birthday, Mac OS X!

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 24th, 2011)

It's hard to believe that 10 years ago today, Mac OS X made its official debut after several months of a paid public beta. Mac OS X v.10.0 "Cheetah" was released on March 24, 2001 for US$129. It was slow, clunky and made many users want to throw their Macs out the window, into the closest body of ...

Happy Birthday, Steve Jobs

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 24th, 2011)

While there has been a lot of Apple news today, we can't forget that one of the founders of the company, Steve Jobs, has a birthday. Yep, Steve turns 56 today, and health concerns aside, we hope he has a great one. Over the years he's had a profound influence on our daily lives. From ...

Happy 10th Birthday, iTunes!

by Michael Rose (Jan 9th, 2011)

You've come a long way, baby. Back on your birthday on January 9, 2001 at Macworld Expo, you were just a music player and manager -- the Apple-ized offspring of SoundJam MP, given a fresh face. Soon enough, though, you would become the conduit for iPod synchronization, the platform for music and ...

New birthday icon for Calendar in iOS 4.2

by Michael Gray (Nov 23rd, 2010)

The release of iOS 4.2 has brought us a nice little surprise in the form of the new icon shown in this post. If you're tracking birthdays in your Contacts application, those birthdays will appear in your iCal calendar with a little gift package icon. It's a nice little touch to the friendly ...

Edible iPhone birthday cake

by David Quilty (Nov 22nd, 2010)

And you thought that store-bought $10 cake you got for your birthday was cool. Sure to be the envy of Apple fanboys everywhere, Chris Samuels -- an independent iPhone and iPad developer -- received this detailed iPhone cake for his birthday from his wife Cath. Everything on (and inside) the cake is ...

Happy 10th birthday to Mac OS X Hints

by Mike Schramm (Nov 5th, 2010)

Because we veteran Mac sites have to stick together, we're sending congratulations out to the good folks over at Mac OS X Hints, who yesterday turned the ripe old age (in blogging years, anyway) of ten years old. The site, created by Rob Griffiths and now run by Macworld, continues to be a terrific ...

Welcome to the terrible twos: Happy 2nd Birthday, App Store!

by Michael Rose (Jul 10th, 2010)

You could argue that the App Store ages in Internet time (it's like dog years, only slightly faster), so in terms of its mental age it might be closer to a gawky adolescent than a human two-year-old. Nevertheless, as we mark the 2nd anniversary of the launch of the App Store back in July of 2008, in ...

Happy 34th birthday, Apple!

by Steven Sande (Apr 1st, 2010)

It's hard to believe, but Apple has been around for 34 years today. On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer, Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The company had an amazing childhood (Apple II, Mac), an awkward adolescence where it nearly killed itself with a broad, unfocused product line ...