6 software easter eggs just in time for easter!

Wednesday 4th April 2007 03:42 PM

TAGS: easter, egg
It's that easter'ish time of the year again, so in the spirit of things, I've picked out a few very cool hidden software "easter eggs" in some commonly used applications.

uTorrent:

Select the "Help" menu and "About". Press the letter T for Tetris!

Open Office:

Open the "Calc" application, and start a new spreadsheet.
Type =game() in any cell and hit enter. Open Office should reply with "Say What?".
In the same cell, overwrite this with =GAME("StarWars") and hit enter, the star wars game should start!

Firefox 2:

Type about:mozilla into the address bar and hit enter. You'll be presented with the "the book of mozilla".

PHP:

On almost any PHP enabled page, add this variable to the end (results can vary depending on the PHP version!):
?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42
e.g. http://php.net/?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42

Solitaire:

Force a win in solitaire with no effort at all! Open the windows Solitaire game and press Alt-Shift and the number 2.

MSN Messenger:

There's a hidden xbox emoticon, in a conversation window, type (xx) and enjoy!


If anyone else has any really interesting easter eggs, I'll add them to the list.

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