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Discover the Easter eggs in your everyday apps

techradar.com — When you're part of a large team churning out line after line of code in order to build a spreadsheet, word processor or web browser, there's not that much scope for fun. You're just an anonymous cog in a big software machine and no one is ever going to know who you are. That's why Easter eggs were born...

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  • Hodor, on 12/14/2008, -1/+28there are a lot of light simulators mentioned in this article.
  • h0dges, on 12/14/2008, -0/+21WTFs a light simulator??
  • addysonclark, on 12/15/2008, -0/+20Apparently their keyboards lack "f"
  • Battlecry, on 12/15/2008, -0/+20What a crappy article. It rambles on about easter eggs, and only half-heartedly describes them, sometimes not even telling you how to get to the eggs themselves. Not even any pictures or screenshots. What the hell?
  • suprxtragrav, on 12/15/2008, -1/+16If you use uTorrent, Go to help > about uTorrent, then press the "T" button on your keyboard.

    You're welcome.
  • Murphious, on 12/14/2008, -0/+12I remember the excel flight simulator! It was simple amusement for boring IT classes in high school..
  • NikoKun, on 12/15/2008, -0/+9What ever happened to just checking eeggs.com when you want to find easter eggs?
    I think that pretty much has it all listed. And that site has been around for ages.
  • techn9nebc, on 12/15/2008, -0/+7how did "light simulator" get used 4 times... he must have removed the the word "flight" from his spellcheck
  • mattmacneil, on 12/15/2008, -1/+7a simulation of light, of course.
  • Foliot, on 12/15/2008, -0/+4uck o, its broken.
  • josepablos, on 12/15/2008, -1/+5is a freakin Tetris!! .. totally FTW!
  • waluigi14, on 12/15/2008, -0/+4You mean light simulator.
  • Lemm, on 12/15/2008, -0/+3So what's the google one? the article mentions it, but doesn't explain it...
  • inactive, on 12/15/2008, -0/+3His head appeared as a planet in one scene, and there was a painting of him and his wife somewhere on the ship, I think. There are more references to him in the movie, but I can't remember where. His nose is in at least one scene, apparently!

    He also appeared in the TV series a few times back in the eighties.
  • bryceman111, on 12/15/2008, -1/+4It, indeed, is a freakin Tetris.
  • Lokomis, on 12/15/2008, -0/+2Dunno. Here is one for Google's calculator:
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&am ...
  • magikker, on 12/15/2008, -0/+2A ray tracer
  • Takteek, on 12/15/2008, -0/+2Should have just linked to eeggs and saved a lot of writing.
  • Kitarist, on 12/15/2008, -1/+3wow this really made my day. A nice list of classic and some new easter eggs :D :D
  • wanni, on 12/15/2008, -1/+3Buried for misleading title. Not even one example listed to let you 'discover' easter eggs.
  • albertsquare, on 12/15/2008, -0/+2Hi,

    Sorry about the 'light simulator' typo. This article was copy and pasted from a PDF from one of our sister publications, and there's a strange bug that leaves out the 'f' when there's an 'f' and 'l' together. That doesn't excuse it, but hopefully it explains it. We're looking into it, and have corrected the article.

    Apologies for that.

    Cheers,
    Nick

    Editor in chief
  • Murdats, on 12/15/2008, -0/+2at the end of the movie, as the ship is turning into random things one of those is adams face.
  • Murdats, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1and whats a lat area?

    they seem to have a sticky f key or something
  • Opiebreath, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1The Easter Bunny's going tech on us, eh?
  • Icetype, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1It's not an easter egg, it's a math precision error.
  • daeus, on 12/15/2008, -1/+2Car game in excel 2000 was pretty kool at school.
  • hippykiller, on 12/15/2008, -2/+3Douglas Adams is in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy..? He died in May of 2001, production did not begin until April of 2004...
  • laintime, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Another one from Google's calc:
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&am ...
  • inactive, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1I LIKE EGGS.
  • gelatina1996, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1TETRIS FTW
  • sephiroth965, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1I don't understand this one at all.
  • sephiroth965, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1agreed I want to know how to play tetris in utorrent. They mention that it's there, but don't even explain how to get to it.
  • thesake, on 12/16/2008, -0/+1How is babby formed?
    how is babby formed?
    how girl get pragnent?
  • dontlookleft, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1I thought digg was all about lists and bullet points. wth is this reading paragraphs to get information?! unacceptable.

    hahaha i kid.
  • sephiroth965, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Personally, I type "kool" pretty often just because K is so much closer to O and L on a qwerty keyboard.

    (I purposely avoid it here on digg because I know people will bitch about it.)
  • wanni, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Ligatures.
  • inactive, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1I tried webDOMinator and it made me feel like a piece of *****!
  • twishart, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1I burned a backup CD for a website I designed for a company, and buried something like 10 folders deep was a standalone slot machine I made in college. I doubt anyone's ever seen it - though I imagine if they had to reupload the website, they'd just reload the contents of the CD onto the net. I guess the exe file would reside on their server somewhere.
  • derekmas10, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1Yay! Easter eggs! Just in time for Christmas.
  • inactive, on 12/15/2008, -2/+2Babyspam submits yet more worthless crap.

    Please ***** stop.
  • inactive, on 12/15/2008, -1/+1FLASHLIGHT!
  • stuffradio, on 12/15/2008, -1/+1DON'T BE ALARMED... Those are easter eggs!
  • laintime, on 12/15/2008, -1/+1kool was pretty cool in school too
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  • BryanUT, on 12/15/2008, -0/+0I put an Easter Egg on a system I wrote for the U of Mich hospital back in the 80's. If you logged in near midnight i drew a champange glass with bubbles. All on a PDP-11 with dumb terminals.

    I wonder if anyone noticed.
  • paintist, on 12/15/2008, -3/+3tl;dr
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