Palm OS Easter Eggs

Just in time for the Easter holiday, we have a small tutorial on Palm OS Easter eggs. An Easter egg is a hidden secret or function embedded in a program deigned to amuse the end users. Impress and amaze your friends and coworkers with two "secret tricks" found in the Palm operating system. The Easter egg and the Taxi have been in the Palm source code for years and now on the IIIc they are in color!

The Easter Egg There is an easter egg that is actually an easter egg! It enables a other Easter eggs and displays a small-decorated egg in the general Prefs screen. Procedure: Open up the preferences general category. In the Bottom right hand corner of the screen (above the calculator) draw a tiny clockwise circle.

The Taxi cab With the taxicab easter egg a small taxi drives across the screen. Why a taxicab? The prototype code name for the original Pilot was the Taxi. To see the taxicab first you must have the Easter egg enabled. Switch to the standard Memo pad. Then hold down the PageDown button while drawing a line from the middle of the graffiti area to the left edge of the case. What's interesting about this egg is that if you leave the easter egg active sometimes the Taxi will drive across the screen at random intervals for no apparent reason.