Easter egg hunt

Posted by Francis Reddy
on Friday, December 21, 2007

Okay, it’s the wrong season, but bear with me.

 

Easter eggs, at least the software kind, are everywhere — from a hidden menu in a DVD to an obscure demo in an application program. In the software game, some rules apply as to what legitimately can be called an Easter egg. They can’t be documented or obvious, they must be reproducible by any user performing the right combination of actions, and they must be entertaining.

 

I've gone down this road because — you guessed it — our Tonight’s Sky applet has three of them. Now, I can’t tell you exactly where they are and what they do because that would be documenting them, and it would spoil the fun.

 

What I can say is that a certain keyboard and/or mouse combination in specific locations on Tonight’s Sky will cause the display to change. Can you find them?

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