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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. Re:Look at iPhoto's about box! by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 5, Insightful

    iPhoto includes some recordings of classical music that you can play over a slide show. That's what the About box is talking about.

    I loaded pics into iPhoto yesterday, too, and nothing like this happened.

    Between the fake Sony/Nintendo story from a few days ago, yesterday's fake iTunes/Ogg story, and this story, I'm starting to wonder if we're seeing a new form of trolling. Rather than posting silly comments, the trolls have started submitting silly stories.

    And they're getting good at it.

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  2. Re:Stupid? by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, okay. In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, I can see how you could see this story that way. Touché.

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  3. Re:If this Easter Egg is for real... by c13v3rm0nk3y · · Score: 3, Insightful
    What does this say about the amount of work that Apple's developers are putting into the apps that are supposed to be tempting over the Wintel crowd?

    Er, nothing?

    Seriously, dropping an Easter Egg into an app is usually pretty trivial. I mean, if you code with a certain amount of respect for the Model-View-Controller paradigm, an Easter Egg is just another View. An afternoon's work, and given the complexities of other stuff thqt iPhoto does, probably doesn't measurably impact on the final design at all. It ain't gonna affect the code freeze, QA and release milestones, that's for sure. If the argument is that the inclusion of an Easter Egg implies lower overal product quality, I respectfully disagree. From my experience, the presence or not of an Easter Egg is not any reasonable rulestick of overall quality.

    Anyway, an Easter Egg is just something we do to make coding fun on slow days, and to sneak a pun or inside joke into the product. It's also a way I can get my mom to see that I really did work on that application. Though, really, there isn't any true reason my mom needs to run the app I work on. But there you have it.

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  4. Re:Look at iPhoto's about box! by damiam · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If you think the community could do any better--do you really think that even if they had a system like "Metamoderate", where 10 stories were displayed and the user had to rank them "Troll" or "Good", and if 20 people ranked "good", then the story would be posted, that it would be any better?

    Yes, it would. Go look at kuro5hin sometime.

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