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Perth Now
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Zach Braff quit job after landing Scrubs role
Zach Braff quit his job as soon as he was cast in Scrubs. The 50-year-old actor shot to fame playing Dr. John 'J.D.' Dorian in the medical sitcom - which ran from 2001 to 2010 - and although he was initially only hired for the pilot episode, he was happy to quit his steady work as a waiter because after living "frugally" for so long, he knew he could survive on just that one paycheque. Speaking at the ATX TV Festival, People magazine reports he said: 'I got Scrubs after six auditions. I was driving home and I put the Motorola StarTAC on the passenger seat, my phone rang and it was Bill [Lawrence, creator] and he said 'you got it' and I was so thrilled and my life was going to change. 'Even if it was just the pilot, my life was changed forever because I was living so frugally." Zach called him mom, dad, and the manager of the restaurant to tell them he had secured the job - but he was told he still needed to work that evening. He said: 'The manager said 'I am so happy for you, but you have to work tonight.' And I got hammered, and I was the worst waiter ever. I quit the job, and my Mom said, 'Why did you quit? What if it's just the pilot?' "I had been living so frugally and said, 'Do you know how long I could live off of the money of this pilot?' Like I had it dialled to live off like $12,000 a year, so from the pilot I was like, 'I'm rich!' " Zach recently confirmed he will be returning to the role in a Scrubs reboot, with creator Bill Lawrence previously explaining old faces will be joined by new cast members. He told Deadline: "We've been talking about a lot, and I think the only real reason to do it is a combo. "A: people wanting to see what the world of medicine was like for the people they love, which is part of any successful reboot. But B: I think that show always worked because you get to see young people dropped into the world of medicine, knowing young people that go there are super idealistic and are doing it because it's a calling. "There's no cliché 'rich doctors playing golf' — that's not what it is anymore. So I think that, no matter what it is, it would be a giant mistake not to do as a combo of those two things."
Time of India
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
This is the first ever picture clicked on a cell-phone!
Taking a photo today is second nature—you pull out your phone, tap the screen, and capture the moment in an instant. It's casual, seamless, and deeply woven into the fabric of everyday life. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now We don't think twice before sending a selfie, sharing a sunset, or preserving memories with a single click. But what we now take for granted is the result of years of innovation, experimentation, and a dash of tech magic. B efore smartphones and cloud storage, before Instagram and camera rolls, there was one moment—one photograph—that started it all. And it happened on June 11, 1997, in a hospital room in California. How did the first ever picture come to be? On June 11, 1997, engineer and tech entrepreneur Philippe Kahn sat in the maternity ward of Sutter Maternity Center in Santa Cruz, California. His wife was in labor, and as he waited for their daughter to arrive, Kahn decided he didn't just want to take a photo—he wanted to share it instantly. But there were no smartphones then. No Instagram. No instant sharing. So Kahn improvised. Using a Motorola StarTAC flip phone, a Casio QV digital camera that shot low-res 320x240 pixel images, and a Toshiba 430CDT laptop, he built a system from scratch right there in the hospital. The setup was wired so that when he took a photo, it would automatically upload the image to his web server, then send out email alerts to friends and family with a link to view it online. This wasn't just a photo—it was the first time an image was captured and sent directly from a mobile phone. Kahn had already been working on a concept called 'Picture Mail', a vision for sending photos instantly via a server-based system. As he told IEEE Spectrum, he wanted to be the 'Polaroid of the 21st century,' bringing to life a digital version of the instant camera. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Still, he hadn't developed consumer-ready hardware to make the system easy to use. But time—and necessity—sparked invention. 'I had always wanted to have this all working in time to share my daughter's birth photo,' Kahn said. 'But I wasn't sure I was going to make it.' Luckily for Kahn (and not so luckily for his wife), she was in labor for 18 hours—long enough for him to put his Frankenstein rig together. He had most of the tech on hand, and what he didn't have, an assistant quickly grabbed from a local Radio Shack. As Kahn put it, 'It's always the case that if it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.' A single photo that sparked a revolution That day, the first photo ever sent from a mobile phone was shared with the world—and though it was a humble 320x240-pixel image of a newborn, it marked the beginning of a technological revolution. We've come a long way since then. Today, more than 1.8 trillion photos are taken each year, mostly from phones that are thinner than a paperback but smarter than computers from the '90s. And it all began with a father, a hospital room, and a dream to share a moment instantly. We've never looked back since.
