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Flick Bowling Holiday "Easter Egg"

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Dec 2nd, 2008

While this might not meet the official definition of an "Easter Egg" in an application, I thought it was pretty cool that when I opened Flick Bowling (click opens iTunes) on December 1st, I noticed something different.

First, the background on the splash screen (below) was red instead of the normal blue. The "Flick" logo is in Christmas red and green, and the bowling pins now have red and green stripes.

When you bring up the Free Play mode and start bowling, you'll notice that the usual bunting at the end of the alleys is now supplemented with Christmas lights and a big wreath (see screenshots below).

And a closeup...

I haven't found any more unique items added to this app, but if anyone else finds Christmas or other holiday-related goodies in any other iPhone apps, let us know!

Tags: app store, AppStore, easter eggs, EasterEggs, freeverse, games, iphone, ipod touch, IpodTouch

Filed under: Terminal Tips

Terminal Tips: Play Tetris in Terminal

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Oct 1st, 2008

Terminal boasts some cool, but hidden features that we like to call "Easter eggs." These "eggs" are hidden features that the developers build in (mostly for fun or laughs), that don't have anything to do with the functionality of the program.

One of these "eggs" is the ability to play Tetris in Terminal. Here's how to do it. First, open a new Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities) window and type "emacs," then hit enter. After the screen loads, press "escape," then "x." Type "tetris" (lower-case) and hit enter. There you have it, a fully playable game of Tetris. Use the arrow keys to control the blocks.

Want more tips and tricks like this? Visit TUAW's Mac 101 and Terminal Tips sections.

Tags: Easter eggs, EasterEggs, Terminal, Terminal tips, TerminalTips, tips

Filed under: iPod Family

Super Tuesday iPod touch Easter Egg

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Feb 5th, 2008

You have so got to love Apple. If you own a jailbroken iPod touch and have bought the January Software Upgrade, navigate yourself over to /private/var/mobile/Applications. There, you'll find your nikita_receipt.plist. Open it in your favorite property list editor, copy the payload (from <data> to </data>) and use your favorite online base64 converter to decode.

Perhaps Apple engineers wish they could vote for Lincoln this time around.

Thanks to the amazing DRP Team and pumpkin, and Francis who gave us the heads up on this

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Tags: Apple Love, AppleLove, Easter Eggs, EasterEggs, Hidden Messages, HiddenMessages, tweet-this, ZOMG

Filed under: Odds and ends, Holidays

Our Favorite Easter Eggs

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Apr 8th, 2007

Happy Easter to all our Christian TUAW readers! To help you celebrate, here's a list of some of our favorite OS X Easter eggs for you to discover and enjoy.

A "Python" audio clip. Navigate to the following folder: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/test. Open the audiotest.au audio file you'll find there in QuickTime and play it back.

A hidden picture in Mail. In Finder, open your Applications folder. Select Mail, control-click (right-click) it and select Show Package Contents. Navigate down to Contents, and then Resources, and then open Senders.tiff by dragging it onto your Preview application icon.

Cool dates in history. In terminal, type open -e /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history

More after the jump.

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Tags: Easter, Easter Eggs, EasterEggs

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