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Filed under: Multimedia, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends

Apple easter egg in Pixar's "Cars"



Brian at FreeMacBlog writes in to point out an Apple easter egg he spotted in Pixar's Cars. During the opening race, one of the cars that is briefly on screen has an Apple logo on the hood, and is fittingly numbered "84." Pretty cool, Brian! Did anyone else spot this car?

Filed under: Hardware, Humor, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends

Your mighty mice!



Yesterday, we linked to an image that showed up on Flickr that seemed to be the red, glowing visage of a mouse as generated by the light on the underside of an Apple Mighty Mouse. Whether or not Apple intended for their mice to put on this little display is really irrelevant, as it's just fun to show people ("Hey, want to see my mouse's mouse?"). A number of you sent in pictures of your own mice generating the little guy (apparently it works with the older Apple Pro Mice, too). Thanks to Zach, Jason, Jonathan and Gary.

We're happy to receive more, so feel free to link to an image of your own mouse's...um...inner mouse.*

*Kids, do not say "mouse" this many times at home. I am a professional.

Filed under: Hardware, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends

Does the Mighty Mouse LED project a mouse?

This one is a bit weird, so bear with us. It seems that Flickr user Dan Bowels noticed that the light on the underside of his Mighty Mouse produces what (kind of) looks like a mouse's head on the surface of his desk. Has he stumbled upon an ultra-rare hardware easter egg, or is this just an optical illusion? You decide. We're a little more than skeptical, but if you can replicate the image of the little red mouse face with your own Mighty Mouse, we'd love to see it.

[Via Infinite Loop]

Filed under: Humor, Software, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends

Straight from the Yak's mouth

Back in February, we posted about the infamous Bruce the Yak Easter Egg in Final Cut Pro. Since then, one of the members of the original FCP development team, Max Whirl, has left a great comment describing just how this particular Easter Egg was born. He writes:

"Why a yak? Well, FCP was a long and arduous development process and we were nearly shut down several times. During one of the more miserable schedule meetings, we were each asked if we could meet the latest schedule...and one of the engineers remarked that 'if we can't make that schedule, we might as well give up and go herd yaks.'"

Check out his full comment for an interesting story. Thanks, Max!

Apple Seeks (Poetic) Justice

Seems Apple has hidden a secret message to OSX86 hackers to find in the 10.4.4 build of Mac OS X for Intel. And this time it's in verse!

Your karma check for today:
There once was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind,
he'd do better to pirate
an OS that ran great
but found his hardware declined.
Please don't steal Mac OS!
Really, that's way uncool.
(C) Apple Computer, Inc.


Sure, it's not the greatest poem, but how funny is this! I've always loved easter eggs in software and this is the best kind. The people who run OSX86 Project site have offered up their own poetic reply to Apple. You can read it at their site.

I humbly offer up my own poetic reply in the style of William Carlos Williams after the jump...

Continue readingApple Seeks (Poetic) Justice

Filed under: Software, Odds and ends

Easter Egg in Final Cut Pro 4?

I don't have a copy of Final Cut Pro, so I can't confirm this. Resexcellence forum user BK (the king?) was poking around the STRL resources in Final Cut Pro.rsrc and found what appears to be the ramblings of an overworked programmer. It reads, in part:

"If we can't ship this puppy by then, we might as well be herding yaks.
I'm glad it's getting weird again. I didn't understand it when it wasn't weird.
The little cartoon man is messing with my head!
Many Yaks were exploited during the creation of this product.
I'm concerned because the cow sounded pretty threatening.
When you have a car that's that uncool, you just gotta drive stupid.
Don't look at me. They're not my flying monkeys.
The disco ball is spinning, but no one's home.
Cows didn't have dynamite and steam shovels.
There exists, but you can't get there from here
."

It goes on (and on, and on) from there. If anyone can confirm this for us, we'd appreciate it.

Update: Reader djones has offered up this confirmation. Thanks!

Tip of the Day

Holding the Command key (aka the Apple key) and pressing Tab will cycle through your open applications. It's easier to Cmd-Tab if you are Copy (Cmd-C) and Pasting (Cmd-V) to and from various applications.


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