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A Christmas Easter Egg in iPhoto?

Posted by Cliff on from the stumbling-upon-extra-functionality dept.

GodotJr writes "Early Christmas morning I downloaded some digital pictures into iPhoto on OS X 10.2.3. My trusty iBook began playing what sounded like a repeating Irish jig. I thought I had accidentally started iTunes, but no, only iPhoto was running. The 'jig' continued until I quit the application at which point a childs voice said something I didn't quite catch (!) and then a choir belted out 'Hallelujah!', once, and was silent. A restart of iPhoto did not get me an encore performance. Has anyone else experienced this?"

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  1. Easter Eggs forbidden? by alpha264 · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to this pdf:
    http://www.dvmug.org/ApplePRESS/ApplePRESS1002.pdf (or view as HTML with Google)

    "Apple has strictly forbidden engineering staff to create Easter Eggs in software created at Apple's campus"

    Can anyone confirm?

    1. Re:Easter Eggs forbidden? by neverkevin · · Score: 2, Informative

      Well, the first revisions of the Apple Ipod had a "break-out" game Easter Egg in them. It has since been added as a feature. Now I know Apple did not write all the software for the Ipod, PIXO and others worked on it too. I don't know if an Apple staffer added the game, but that is a recent example of a Apple product that had an Easter Egg.

  2. Re:Look at iPhoto's about box! by selderrr · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, honestly (and this is no troll) I hope you're right : because if you are, /. editors will perhaps finally be forced to READ the stories that are submitted, which is perhaps the best thing to happen here.

    Lately I have the impression that the editors don't even read the submission itself, only the title ! I understand that there must perhaps be a zillion submissions every day, but comeon...

    Taco : as much as an innovative moderation system was needed for comments as the userbase grew exponentionally, you also need to have a brilliant concept to moderate the editors (except you and Hemos offcourse :-) so that the readers can give some feedback except thru trolling !

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    When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
  3. Stupid? by Cliff · · Score: 3, Informative
    s/stupid/fun christmas story/

    This is the the kind of mindset I'm in, right now. I'm sorry it doesn't jive with yours, but I don't think it all that impossible that Apple would code an easter egg in iPhoto for Christmas, and figured it would be interesting to see if anyone else ran in to this kind of behavior.

    Heck, this is a sectional story, so I figured it was appropriate. How else are you going to know what is going on around the computing world without polling your peers?

  4. Re:Hmmm... by GodotJr · · Score: 2, Informative

    No troll here. The whole thing happened as stated. At first I thought I was still half asleep so I called my fiancee in to hear it. She did (thus, at least hopefully shooting down the crack, egg-nog, involuntary hallucination theories) As I said in my original post, I couldn't get it to repeat... but didn't go as far as resetting the clock. Time was about 7:00am Christmas Day morning.

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    History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes quite often. -- Mark Twain
  5. Look in the bundle, people by arekusu · · Score: 4, Informative

    iPhoto includes two .mp3s in it's bundle:

    iPhoto/Contents/Resources/Music/Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring.mp3 (3 MB)
    iPhoto/Contents/Resources/Music/Minuet in G.mp3 (1.7 MB)

  6. Re:Let's Assume by sapporoitchy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Theses are default songs Apple provides to accompany your slideshows.