Easter eggs Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Looking for Easter eggs in iOS and its apps

by Mike Schramm (Apr 25th, 2011)

We're one day late on this one, but rather than brightly colored hidden eggs for Easter, in this case we're of course referring to "easter eggs," little secrets that programmers hide in their applications and code. Macworld has a great roundup of four easter eggs hidden in popular App Store ...

Top Terminal easter eggs

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 4th, 2010)

Yeah, the headline makes it sound like the eggs are on their deathbed. But no, easter eggs (in software jargon) are little presents or surprises that developers have slipped into an application or operating system. One excellent place to find easter eggs in Mac OS X is in the Terminal. Now ...

Konami website now iPhone-accessible

by Erica Sadun (Jan 18th, 2010)

Make this happen by mirroring the standard Konami sequence (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right) using swipes instead of touching command keys. When you get to the BA sequence, a controller will appear on-screen to let you tap the B-button and then the A-button. As for the ...

Google iPhone app is the gift that keeps on giving

by Mel Martin (Jan 2nd, 2009)

Just when you thought you had the Google Mobile App with voice search all figured out, Google goes and reveals an Easter egg hidden in the settings menu. To get there, just keep scrolling down below the 'about' button. If you keep at it, the previously hidden 'Bells and Whistles' button will ...

Flick Bowling Holiday "Easter Egg"

by Steven Sande (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 ...

Terminal Tips: Play Tetris in Terminal

by Cory Bohon (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 ...

Super Tuesday iPod touch Easter Egg

by Erica Sadun (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 ...

Our Favorite Easter Eggs

by Erica Sadun (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 ...

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