Party! It's IT Blogwatch, in which we wish the hard drive a happy birthday. Not to mention an app a day keeps a life at bay...

Sharon Fisher screams:

Fifty years ago this week, with "Hound Dog" climbing the music charts, Elvis Presley made his first scandalously hip-gyrating appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. But something much bigger was about to shake up the world. A small lab in a sleepy orchard town was delivering the first of what we now know -- more than 2 billion units later -- as a hard disk drive.