The Non Fattening Variety!

As the theme for this newsletter is Spring I thought I’d share a few Easter eggs with you.  Apart from being an overpriced ovoid made from cooking chocolate an Easter egg can also be a feature or area hidden inside a piece of software or even a website.  Some of these eggs are getting pretty famous, for example the flight simulator inside the ’97 version of Microsoft Excel, and more are appearing every day.

One company famous for their Easter eggs is Google, as you probably know they offer their search engine in various languages but they also have Klingon, Elmer Fudd, Pig Latin and leetspeak versions.  Google are also famous for their April fool’s Easter eggs:  GPaper, Google Romance and Pigeon Rank.  Google also hide eggs in their software – download Google Earth, run it and then press Crtl+Alt+a to start a flight simulator!

I’ll leave the last two eggs in our Easter basket to the Firefox web browser:  In the Firefox address bar type ‘about:Mozilla’ or ‘about:robots’.

For more on Easter eggs see this Wikipedia article.