Easter Eggs
March 23rd, 2008 | 
Author: What could be better to blog about on Easter Sunday then virtual Easter Eggs? Not the brightly colored eggs your kids have been finding for the past few days, but the hidden features, programs, and surprises in software, games and popular products. I was hoping to uncover some eggs in some popular virtualization products, but other than an egg in Virtual PC 2004 that no longer exists in the current version, I was unable to find any. If you know of any virtualization related eggs please leave a comment.
Regardless, EggHeaven.com is a great web site for finding Easter Eggs and is the site I am quoting for this post. 2 of the 3 eggs I am listing are easily found online without installing any software, and the third, an egg in Google Earth, is a popular enough program that a lot of readers probably already have it installed.
Windows XP DOS Star Wars Film
1. On Your Desktop, Hit Start Button, Click Run
2. Type TELNET
3. A Seperate Window should open
4. First hit enter, then type the letter o and hit enter again, then type towel.blinkenlights.nl and press enter.
This is a few years old now but still worth a look. Well put together and quite amusing.
Google.com Hidden Easter Game
Go to: www.google.com/Easter/feature_easter.html and you will be able to play an Easter themed game.
Google Earth Hidden Flight Simulator
When in Google Earth, hold down the keys Ctrl-Alt-Del in that order. You may have to do this a couple of times.
For some older Google Earth versions try: Ctrl-Alt-A.
For Google Earth Mac OS try: #-Option-A.
You’ll know when the egg is initiated as a new option in the Tools menu will appear – ‘Enter Flight Simulator’.
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