Mac Secret Trick List

Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 19:55:32 -0800 From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) Subject: The Macintosh Secret Trick List Here is my New and Improved Macintosh Secret Tricks List. Enjoy, and I'll see you at MacWorld in San Francisco! ---------------- .__________. .__________________________________________________. | Contents | | | |================| | The Macintosh Secret Trick List | . | Hardware | | compiled by Brian Kendig (bskendig@netcom.com) | . | System | | ____ | . | Other software | | All-new for 1993! January edition. | OK | | . | Useful tips . | | `----' | . `-------------|\-' `--------------------------------------------------' . |_\ ................................................. (c)1993 bsk \ Welcome to the Macintosh Secret Trick List! A "trick", also known as a "cookie" or an "easter egg", is something amusing or otherwise nonproductive (like a poem, a picture, or a song) hidden in a program. It won't appear unless you do some action you wouldn't normally do, so you can't find it unless 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. Please report corrections to me, no matter how insignificant! New info about tricks will be attributed and very much appreciated. You may (of course!) distribute information about these tricks freely, but please keep my name on this list if you pass it around whole. It's okay to distribute this list in electronic format (on disks or CD-ROMs, over Usenet or BBS's, &c.), but if you'd like to use this material in a book or newsletter, 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, or on a CD-ROM, or so forth. So far, this list has been printed in the BMUG newsletter, translated into Japanese and printed in the Japanese users' group "MuON" newsletter, used in the upcoming book "Maximizing your 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 corrections to stuff I had wrong here, thanks go to Paul Franklin and Seth Pettie. The list has grown to such a size that I can't personally verify every trick here, so if you just can't get something to work, please tell me! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The information below tells what to do to make a trick happen, then gives away what the trick really is. If you don't want the trick spoil…