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A Christmas Easter Egg in iPhoto?
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?"
i'm thinking somebody had a really good xmas!
Granted I do not have my nice Cambridge Soundworks speakers hooked up at my parents' house right now, but I loaded iPhoto at least twice yesterday and did not hear anything.
- (c) 2018 Hank Zimmerman
I downloaded pictures into iPhoto twice yesterday(Christmas), and I didn't hear anything...
A Minesweeper clone that doesn't suck
Lay off the crack buddy.
Of course, and I highly suspect it, I may be talking out of my ass. -oqti
Look in iPhoto's about box. It says something about copyrighted songs. I can't copy-paste since it's an about box and hides when I click.
It wasn't an update that let iTunes play OGG files. Please mod the parent down so that people who have not read all/any of the comments in the other thread do not get confused.
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?
-MT.
Wow... A truly intellectual and well thought out response from a mental superior.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
Yes, the submissions bin can be a multi-edged sword, and I have the scars to proove it. :(
According to this pdf:f (or view as HTML with Google)
http://www.dvmug.org/ApplePRESS/ApplePRESS1002.pd
"Apple has strictly forbidden engineering staff to create Easter Eggs in software created at Apple's campus"
Can anyone confirm?
Yeah, macs are about as vulnerable as FreeBSD and Linux.
And we've all seen how many virii have been written for them.
At best, the parent is a lame troll. More likely though, just some AC stupid enough to believe that everyone engineers software just as poorly as Microsoft.
Let's see, how many vulnerabilities have been found for OS X in the last two years (hint: I can count them on a hand)? How many of them were due to piss poor planning by Microsoft (hint: It's over 60%)?
Notes From Under *nix: blas.phemo.us
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?
Let's see, how many vulnerabilities have been found for OS X in the last two years (hint: I can count them on a hand)? How many of them were due to piss poor planning by Microsoft (hint: It's over 60%)?
;)
Well, Mac OS X did ship with a version of IE that automatically executed binhex files upon download. This would allow someone to make an application look like a binhex and have IE execute it without the user knowing. But hey, this one is Microsoft's fault.
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.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes quite often. -- Mark Twain
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)
This story is something that would probably better fit as a comment, or at least be verified. This is just some story submission by a dumb bastard who didn't thoroughly research the subject ("cd /Applications/iTunes.app/ && ls" works wonders) before he submitted it, and had it approved by some person (evidently you) who didn't bother to do anything before clicking the "Post it to Slashdot!" button.
This isn't news, factual, OR interesting.
But, have a merry Christmas anyways.
that's nothing. I booted up my Windows machine at exactly 12:01am Christmas day and I was greeted to a soundfile of Bill Gates braking jingle bells.
=]
Wow! Two wild rumors within a couple of days of each other. This page and this one. What rumors will we see next?
It is elsewhere reported, and previously known, that a control click (right mouse button to Windoze freaks) on iPhoto reveals:
:)
iPhoto:Contents:Resources:Music:two files
J.S. Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, for six and twelve string guitars, performed by well know Leo Kottke (likely a copyrighted song in MP3 format), 3MB, (approx 3 minutes) can be found.
Also Mozart's Minuet in G, no artist, album, etc. recorded, also arranged for guitar, 1.5MB (approx 1:30 minutes) is present. In OSX Finder both will look like two iTunes (or other MP3 player) in the Finder.
Simply option-drag to desktop to copy and play in iTunes (or other MP3 player)
Neither of these sounds especially like an "Irish jig," although if the listener is unfamiliar with them and due to being played by acoustic fingerstyle guitar, it's conceivable they might be thought to be an "Irish jig." (long shot)
Neither MP3 has anything remotely sounding like a child's voice. The fact that the person reporting this occurrence did not see iTunes launch is irrelevant. He would have to run 'top' or the Apple Process Viewer, etc. to verify this as it could have been launched in "hidden view" like any other application launched by the Login preference pane, as an example, no difficult task for a programmer.
It does *not* appear, however, that these are the two files being played based on the initial description which, if the observer was in a state of surprise, hung over from a bit of eggnog containing alcoholic spirits et al & etc., may not have noticed.
"Disguishing" an Easter Egg something like the two files noted is not going to be an easy task. File size is going to be a giveaway in some other resource even if an attempt is made to hide it. Further examination of resources in iPhoto, which appears to have triggered this (was iTunes already running in "hidden" mode and the user forgot this fact?) etc. etc.
There are many possibilities here aside from a hoax if one uses a little (or lot) of imagination. Or it could just be a hoax.
So what are those two MP3 files, both featuring classical music arranged for guitar, doing in iPhoto?
Beats me. I'm not a programmer, just a dumb end user who knows that "inexplicable" things, AKA bugs, do happen, are made to happen, and may be triggered by some phase of the moon or the amount of snowfall on Christmas day (or lack thereof) which our reporter experienced at his location.
Happy Holidays!
I can't get the damn thing downloaded yet
For the record, I am technically on vacation. I am posting to Slashdot because it is something I love to do and I will post the topics that interest me, and I have every intent of trying to see if I can figure out what is going on...just as soon as I can get back to my Powerbook which is 250 miles away (and was 250 miles away when I posted this article).
Seriously, if you feel there is a void, why don't you make your best attempts to fill it rather than bitching, whining and moaning about something that you have in your power to fix?
And a Happy New Year to you, too.
is that why notepad uses more ram than doom?
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
So what are those two MP3 files, both featuring classical music arranged for guitar, doing in iPhoto? :)
Open iPhoto =>click on "share" => click on "slideshow" => look through the "music" pulldown.
Just because kuro5hin does it doesn't mean Slashdot needs to.
/. do as K5 does. You asked the forum whether community ranking of stories might help, and Damiam pointed out that it did indeed help at K5.
This is fellacious gibberish. It was not Damiam's suggestion that
Whether or not "the community is a different model" doesn't enter into it. The issue at hand is whether or not different levels of filtering and weighing from larger or smaller pools of people improve the quality of posted stories.
If you're going to argue with somebody, at least take the time to argue the points they actually made.
I am from a small, grease-loving country in the north called Ca-na-da.
I can see it now:
Jobs: "You fuckers put in an easter egg. You know the rules! You're all fucking fired, you fucks!"
Staff: "But Mr. Jobs, it's not an EASTER egg, it's a CHRISTMAS egg! Get it?"
J: "Awww. That's pretty darn cute. I'll mention it at the next expo."
S: "Whew, does that mean we're not fired?"
J: "Hell no, you fucks better clean out your desk by this afternoon, that easter egg or christmas egg or goddamn kwanza egg shit doesn't sell software you know."
S: *weep*
I'm personally believe that Janie Porsche is behind all of this. After all, who wants to be sitting around on Christmas day downloading Windows drivers?
The iPhoto 1.2 release will remove the busy wait and replace it with one in the iCal helper app slowing the whole machine down.
You may think me a tired, old, cynic. I'd have to disagree about the tired bit.