Let me begin with a quick definition provided by whatis.com:
An Easter egg is an unexpected surprise, perhaps a message, an image, or a sound, hidden in a Web site or in an application program.
You can also check out wikipedia's more lengthy definition here.
Years ago when I used to teach software application programs, I would usually end the class with an easter eggs hunt. Unfortunately, many of the fun easter eggs once found in the Microsoft programs are no longer available in the more recent verisons. As per wikipedia, "Microsoft formally stopped including Easter eggs in its programs as part of its Trustworthy Computing Initiative in 2002."
I have provided a screen capture of two easter eggs as well as a quick blurb about each egg and the steps to locate each below.
The Kitchen Sink - Mozilla Firefox
Type "about kitchensink" in the address bar of any version of Mozilla Firefox and hit enter.
If you have trouble locating "the sink" click here to view it.
You can also view my screen cast here.
The Flight Simulator - Google Earth
If you don't currently have Google Earth installed on your computer, click here for the free download.
Launch Google Earth
Hit Ctrl+Alt+A to activate the simulator
To view a complete list of shortcut keys to utilize while flying click here.
You can also view my screen cast here.
Happy Flying :)
3 comments:
This is great -- who knew this stuff was out there? Well, I guess you did. Aside from the cool kitchen sink, I must know how you zoom in and out of your screencasts!!!! tell me, please.... :-)
Gabrielle ~
I used Camtasia to create my videos, so the zoom-pan feature easily enables you to zoom in and out of certain areas of the screen. :)
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