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- Finding Easter Eggs in old software
- One of most popular secular event in the celebration of the Easter holiday is the hunting of hidden Easter Eggs. Hidden by the Easter Bunny, or the Easter Beagle depending on your beliefs, Easter Eggs can be actual painted boiled eggs, or the little colored empty plastic ones that are...
- Tags: Software, Easter Egg, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Easter Eggs - Animated Screensaver (exe)
- Take a part in Easter holiday with this animated screensaver. Would you like your computer to have an animated and beautiful wallpaper? Easter, the Sunday of the Resurrection, or Resurrection Day, is the most important religious feast for the Christians. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, which his followers believe...
- Tags: Screensaver, Symbol, Easter Egg
- Software downloads 2007-11-28
- More software rivalry Easter Eggs revealed
- Battles between software companies have sometimes been fought with Easter Eggs. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: easter eggs, screenshots, spreadsheets, graphics, Software, TechRepublic Inc., Easter Egg, Tools & Techniques, Management, Greg Shultz
- Image galleries 2007-11-01
- Navigator vs. Internet Explorer (Software rivalry Easter Eggs revealed)
- Reminds me of the Word2 Quarter, Draw and Hang bugClose all Office programs.Open a blank Word document.Type 1/4 followed by spaceIt will automatically change to the ¼ character.Hold down ctrl and press YWhat should happen is ¼ is repeated - but no, Word exits immediately!I've never seen any program in...
- Tags: Web browsers, spydercanopus@..., Software rivalry, Netscape Navigator, Easter egg, rivalry, WWW, Microsoft Internet Explorer, software
- Discussion threads 2007-10-26
- Software rivalry Easter Eggs revealed
- Battles between software companies have sometimes been fought with Easter Eggs. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: Software, TechRepublic Inc., Easter Egg, Greg Shultz, screenshots, Easter Eggs, web browsers, word processors
- Image galleries 2007-10-22
- Pics: Geek Peeks of the Week
- Build a Pac-Man arcade machine costume for Halloween Geeks love classic arcade games (Pac-Man). Geeks love dressing up in elaborate costumes Klingons. Thus, it was only a matter of time before some one came up with a costume that is an arcade game. Behold, the homebrew Pac-Man...
- Tags: iRobot Roomba, Geek, Easter Egg, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Tic-Tac-Toe Game (Take a look at OpenOffice game Easter Eggs)
- Full of malarkyJust like a programmer...can perfectly express themselves in other languages except English. What "exactly" do you type in the cells to get the Easter Egg games to run? I tried cut and paste from the explanation and it doesn't work...>:(IT worksThey work, but it would be...
- Tags: Games, rkiictmailbox-techrepublic@..., Easter egg, game, OpenOffice
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- Take a look at OpenOffice game Easter Eggs
- You can find a couple of hidden Easter Eggs in OpenOffice.org 2. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Easter Egg, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Greg Shultz, Screenshots, Easter Eggs, Game
- Image galleries 2007-10-15
- Looking back at Microsoft Money Easter Eggs
- The Microsoft Money developers really created some elaborate Easter Eggs. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Money, Microsoft Corp., Easter Egg, Greg Shultz, screenshots, Easter Eggs, Microsoft, Money, Windows
- Image galleries 2007-10-03
- Looking back at other Microsoft Easter Eggs
- Microsoft developers from various development projects hid Easter Eggs in their applications. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Corp., Easter Egg, Greg Shultz, Easter Eggs, Microsoft, MSDOS, Windows screenshots
- Image galleries 2007-09-29
- Microsoft Plus! 98 (Looking back at Microsoft Windows 98 Easter Eggs)
- As it goes...We are still running Win98 first edition at home! I've never been bothered to upgrade, other than stick an extra 128M of RAM in boosting the 32M which came with it.I've never known about these - I'll try them tonight!Annoying thing is, we bought the machine about a...
- Tags: techrepublic@..., Microsoft Windows, Easter egg, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Looking back at Windows Screen Saver Easter Eggs
- Windows developers hid a lot of Easter Eggs in Screen Savers. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Easter Egg, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Greg Shultz, screenshots, Easter Eggs, Microsoft, screen savers, windows, microsoft, software, office, off-topic, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., Font, Microsoft Word 2000, Dialog Box, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites
- Image galleries 2007-09-20
- How many teapots do you see? (Looking back at Windows Screen Saver Easter Eggs)
- TeapotsI see 17.RE: How many teapots do you see? Looking back at Windows Screen Saver Easter Eggs12Teapots? TEAPOTS? We don't need no steenkin' TEAPOTS!Where are my flying toasters?RE: How many teapots do you see? Looking back at Windows Screen Saver Easter EggsGreat! We wasted ten minutes and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, boomchuck1, Teapots, teapot, Windows Screen Saver Easter Eggs, Windows Screen Saver, Windows Screen, Easter egg, Looking Back
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Looking back at Microsoft Windows 98 Easter Eggs
- In the early days, developers buried Easter Eggs in Windows. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 98, TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Easter Egg, Greg Shultz, Windows 98, Microsoft, Easter Eggs. screenshots
- Image galleries 2007-09-14
- Looking back at Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Easter Eggs
- In the early days, developers buried Easter Eggs in Windows. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Easter Egg, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Greg Shultz, screenshots, Easter Eggs, Windows, 3.1, 95, Microsoft
- Image galleries 2007-09-10
- By Greg Shultz (Looking back at Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Easter Eggs)
- Although entertaining....... this is yesterday's, no, last century's news.And your point is?Those of us who are older than about 20 have tech memories that stretch back, if you can believe it, more than ten years. Sometimes even more than that. So as an example of an IT guy in...
- Tags: sperry@..., Microsoft Corp., Q-Basic, Windows 95 Easter Eggs, Bananas, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Easter egg, Microsoft Windows 95
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- Outlook 2000 (Looking back at Microsoft Outlook Easter Eggs)
- Have you published Windows 98 Easter Eggs?I would like to know if you have published Windows 98 Easter Eggs so far?
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., usbpforever@..., Easter egg, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook 2000
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Looking back at Microsoft Outlook Easter Eggs
- Microsoft’s developers hid some interesting Easter Eggs in Outlook 97 and 2000 by Greg Shultz
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp., Easter Egg, Greg Shultz, easter eggs, screenshots, outlook
- Image galleries 2007-08-30
- Access 95 - Easter Egg 1 (Looking back at Microsoft Access Easter Eggs)
- Original Access Easter eggIn the first version of Access there was an Easter Egg that was a visual pun and directly targeted quite literally at the competition. I don't remember how you got to it but when you did there was an animated visual of two guys shooting at...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Databases, Scripting languages, Microsoft Corp., michael.laborde@..., Easter egg, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Access 95
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- Looking back at Microsoft Word Easter Eggs
- Microsoft’s developers hid multiple Easter Eggs in Word 95/97/2000. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., geekend, screenshots, Easter Eggs, Microsoft, Word, windows, microsoft, software, office, off-topic, Font, Microsoft Word 2000, Dialog Box, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, TechRepublic Inc., Easter Egg, Greg Shultz
- Image galleries 2007-08-23