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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
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.
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.
I write in my journal
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?
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.
:-) so that the readers can give some feedback except thru trolling !
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
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
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.
=]
They are there as accompaniment for slide shows. If you set up a slide show, you get an option to play music with it, and those two are on the default menu.
Theses are default songs Apple provides to accompany your slideshows.
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.
iPhoto can't play Ogg files either. Please mod the parent down so that people who don't know the difference between pictures and sounds do not get confused. And because I said so.
Win dain a lotica, en vai tu ri silota
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.
Yes, it would. Go look at kuro5hin sometime.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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*