Easter Eggs

While it may seem a little early for colorful eggs and wabbits, this is a computer site so lets have an early egg hunt. One of the other blogs I read got me thinking about Easter eggs (can't remember which one) so I am going to give you a few. First off though, for those who don't know an Easter egg in computing is a hidden feature of a program that a programmer snuck into the code for amusement. I first got into finding "eggs" with all the ones hidden in the NewtonOS (an apple pda), but nowadays they are everywhere, especially in dvds and computer software. One of the more famous of these eggs, in the windows operating system, is the famous volcano names screen saver. You can try this out by selecting the 3d text screen saver in windows and making the text "volcano" (this is done from the screen saver settings button, next to the screen saver drop down box). I don't know if this works in XP or not, but it does work in most if not all the windows 9x operating systems. There are a few other windows ones, but I will let you find them for your self. Excel 97 had a full flightsim built in, but it is very complex to get to and I can't remember how (Google!). I personally found one on the Extended Fellowship of the Ring DVD (i think it was disc 1, but it has been awhile), look for skipped tracks.

If you don't feel like hunting for your self then try these sites:

http://www.eeggs.com/
http://www.dvdeastereggs.com/
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6758 Actually, Google had some games in google talk for awhile (adventure and wumpus) but last I knew they have been removed.
http://www.eggheaven2000.com/
about:mozilla Depends on your browser. Older versions of Mozilla/Netscape/IE each say something different. I think the newer versions of IE just give you a red screen, but it still works in all the Mozilla based browsers.

Happy Hunting

Edit: Try this link for XP easter eggs