Entertainment with 'Easter Eggs' in the software

Easter eggs are a common name for a funny secret feature that is never included in the software manual. Mischievous programmers put them in personal reasons and let users discover themselves.

Relaxed and well-hidden are the first criteria that an Easter Egg must ensure. Some of these secret features can serve as a form of software copyright digital signatures, but most of them are programmers' personal mischiefs. Some software companies do not like Eggs in their software and claim to remove them entirely if found. Luckily most big companies accept this.

Adobe ImageReady :

For more fun when working, you can change the image of the toolbar and boot screen of this software.

New boot screen of Adobe ImageReady 7.0.

Start ImageReady as usual, then hold down the Alt key and click (Alt - click) on the "Go to Adobe.com" icon on the toolbar, the traditional image will be funny depending on the version you are using. .

Hold down the Ctrl key - Shift while clicking on the Help menu and select About ImageReady, the image that introduces this image editing software will be different from what is often seen. If you feel that you are not lively enough, you can hold down the Ctrl key and click on the screen to "add" a few more ducks.

Close and restart ImageReady. From now on, the new boot screen of the software is much more adorable than the old "version".

Adobe Photoshop

Introducing Monkey Space of Photoshop CS2.

Hold down the Ctrl key - Shift while clicking the Help menu and select About Photoshop , the introduction of this popular software will be changed differently depending on the version. In Photoshop CS2, the product name transforms into Adobe Monkey Space besides the image of a climbing "astronaut".

Microsoft Word

The silly announcements of Links cats do not get along with the use of Microsoft Word

Choose your Office Assitance image into a Links cat. Then, right-click on the cat, select Preferences and check the option " Tip of the Day every time you open Word ". After restarting Word, the Links cat occasionally has advice that doesn't even work with what you're doing.

Norton Antivirus

Start Norton Antivirus and go to the Help menu, select About Norton Antivirus to display the dialog box introducing this software as usual. Here, hold down both Ctrl and Shift keys and double-click both mouse buttons on the white area just below the horizontal scroll bar on the left of the Close button. The image of the entire antivirus software development team will appear in another window. The name and title of each team member are displayed in the window title bar when the mouse pointer moves over their head. If you keep adding the Ctrl key while hovering, their favorite "quotations" will replace the name.

Development team Norton Antivirus

If you have trouble double-clicking both mouse buttons at the same time, you can hold 3 Ctrl-Shift-Alt keys and double-click on the ad image above the demo window to get the same result.

Corel Draw

This secret of Corel Draw is named Three brilliant spheres. After starting the software normally, go to the Help menu, select About to bring up the dialog box introducing Corel Draw. Here, you double click on any icon to have Corel Zepplin , the first sphere. Each time you right click to fire the fireworks and the left mouse button to change the color of the introduction text.

Simultaneously hold 3 Shift-Ctrl-Alt keys while double-clicking on any icon in the About dialog box, the second sphere will appear. Right click to drop the image of the rock king Elvis Presley, left mouse to control the sphere.

The third ball, judged to be the most beautiful, appears when you hold Alt while clicking on the icons in Corel's introduction. At this moment, the right mouse button to fire the beam of brilliant fireworks. Right mouse to control the flying sphere.

Hung Hai