Mac Newton Easter Egg List

From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:41:38 PDT Subject: The Macintosh/Newton Easter Egg List .__________. .__________________________________________________. | Contents | | | |================| | The Macintosh/Newton Easter Egg List | . | Hardware | | compiled by Brian Kendig (bskendig@netcom.com) | . | System | | ____ | . | Other software | | Easter 1994 edition. | OK | | . | Useful tips . | | `----' | . `-------------|\-' `--------------------------------------------------' . |_\ ................................................. (c)1994 bsk \ Welcome to the Macintosh/Newton Easter Egg List! An "easter egg" (sometimes known as a "cookie") is something amusing or otherwise nonproductive (like a picture, a song, or the developers' names) hidden in your computer. It won't appear unless you do some action you wouldn't normally do, so you can't find it unless you're lucky or you know what you're looking for. Some really clever About boxes are mentioned in this list too, and I've also included a few interesting, useful, and little-known tips further down that are really handy to know. The list is getting so long, though, that I've been weeding out some of the trivial or very esoteric tricks. Too many applications will bring up "secret" things if you hold down the right keys and click in the right places, so I'm only keeping the more interesting easter eggs around. Please report any corrections to me! And if you find a really good easter egg, then please tell me about it and I'll put your name in here. You may (of course!) distribute information about these tricks freely, but please note the copyright on this collection -- I really don't like when people try to pass it off as their own work. If you'd like to use this material in a book or newsletter or distribute it commercially on electronic media like disks or CD-ROMs, please contact me first for permission, and you'll get it. :-) It would also be nice to let me know if you're including this list in a users' group collection. So far, this list has been printed in the WAMUG (Australia) and BMUG newsletters, translated into Japanese and printed in the Japanese users' group "MuON" newsletter, used in the books "Maximizing your Mac" and "Voodoo Mac", and distributed on Nautilus and Pacific Hitech CD-ROMs. Thanks to the people who have written similar lists, from which I've gotten plenty of ideas: J. D. Sterling Babcock and Mike Kimura, among others. For additional help, I thank Paul Franklin and Seth Pettie. Rene Ros has contributed so much that he deserves special mention, too! The list has grown to such a size that I can't personally verify every trick here, so i…