The Great Easter Egg Hunt (Part 2)


© Janice Karin
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Apr 4, 2000


Last week I challenged you to go hunting for easter eggs on your Palm. Did you find any? Each of the following system applications has at least one easter egg:

  1. Preferences
  2. MemoPad
  3. Launcher (OS 3.0+)
  4. Welcome (OS 3.1+)
  5. Palm.Net PQA (Palm VII)

Preferences

The Preferences application has two known easter eggs: the easter egg easter egg and the inchworm. Many of the other easter eggs found in system applications require you to launch the easter egg easter egg as the first step in their launching, so you definitely want to learn this one.

To launch the easter egg easter egg do the following:

  1. Go to the General Category in Preferences
  2. Draw a small clockwise circle on the main screen just above the Calculator silkscreen button
  3. An easter egg should pop up in the spot where you drew the circle

Tap on the egg to make it disappear.

To launch the inchworm easter egg do the following:

  1. Go to the General Category in Preferences
  2. Write a # in the grafitti area (.h)
  3. Wait 10-15 seconds
  4. An inchworm will start crawling across the screen

MemoPad

My favorite MemoPad easter egg is known as the buggy easter egg.

To launch the buggy easter egg do the following:

  1. Launch the easter egg easter egg
  2. Open MemoPad
  3. Hold the down key while making a stroke from the center of the grafitti area to the left side of the case
  4. A VW Bug should start driving across your screen

Launcher

There are several launcher easter eggs: development team credits, TRGPro version information (TRGPro only), and the flipping Handspring logo (Visor only).

To see the Palm development team credits do the following:

  1. In the built-in launcher, select the App|Info menu item
  2. Tap on the title bar while holding down the down button
  3. Watch the letters fly by and form the names of the developers

To see the TRGPro version information do the following on a TRGPro:

  1. In the built-in launcher, select the System Info menu item
  2. Write "a"
  3. Watch a screen filled with version information appear

To see the flipping Handspring logo do the following:

  1. Go to the built-in launcher
  2. Tap the Time tab in the upper left while holding down the up key
  3. Watch the logo do flips

Welcome

The Welcome application (present on OS 3.1+) has two known easter eggs: the spinning Palm VII and the Palm VII with text (Palm VII only).

To see the spinning Palm VII do the following:

  1. Launch the Welcome application to see a spinning Palm V
    		 

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