Cool Google and Mac Easter Eggs

1. Find out how the weather is... in nowhere.

How: Open up Dashboard first. If it’s not in your Dock, press Command-Space bar to open up Spotlight. Then type ‘Dashboard’, and click on the first result to open it. You should get a screen like this.

If you don’t have the little weather application at the top, click the plus, find the weather amongst all the other widgets (add some more if you want!) and then drag the weather widget to a convenient place. Now comes to the weather in Nowhere. Press command and option, and then click on the cloud/thunderstorm/sun on weather widget, all at once. That should lead to this (it may be a different weather):

Nice to know that there are places in the world where snow is still possible.... If you do the key combo+click again on the weather, then the weather changes, but it's still in nowhere.

2. This is for Lord of the Rings or Hobbit fans out there. (GATE RLA students, you know who you are!) Open Terminal, if it’s not in your Dock, do the regular spotlight search for it. In Terminal, copy the following command and paste it in.

cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.lotr

Voila! You should have a complete list of all the important dates in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, not in chronological order, more like anniversary order. Enjoy!

3. Surprise Easter Egg!

This is on Google Maps, so non-Mac users can do it too. So, go to Google Maps. I suggest you zoom out totally. Then go down to Antarctica. At the northernmost point, in other words, here:

The green at the top is the south of South America.

Now, once you're zoomed in, drag the orange peg man out from the top of the zoom thingamajig. 

You should see all the regular little blue rectangles which, if you drag the person onto you can see pictures people took at those locations. It should look like this:

Follow the directions.

Watch the magic!

4. (Google Maps) Walk from the Shire to Mordor! (Lord of the Rings)

Click on 'Get Directions' on Google Maps, in the side bar. In 'A' type 'The Shire'. In 'B' type  'Mordor'. Under ANY condition DO NOT click on any of the options provided. Click out of the options on a totally random place, just not the option. Ok, after that is done, over the text spaces, click on the walking icon instead of the car one. Then click get directions, and read the text below. Enjoy!

5. (Google) A graph. 

Copy and paste the following into Google search and look at what follows. Hint: easter eggs!

1.2+(sqrt(1-(sqrt(x^2+y^2))^2) + 1 - x^2-y^2) * (sin (10000 * (x*3+y/5+7))+1/4) from -1.6 to 1.6

6. (Google) In class game- and you can just say, "Three before you, right?"

Search zerg rush on Google. Tapping an o three times kills it. But you'll never win.

7. Go to the following link:

https://www.google.com/search?q=conway's+game+of+life

For more easter eggs, go to this link for Google and this link. Or, of course, you could just search it.
Have fun!

Halo 5 Multiplayer platformer by Eric S.

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Instructions:
Player 1:arrow keys and space to shoot Player 2:wasd and e to shoot

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Click picture to play Cave Escape

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10 Tips and Tricks you can Use on Google


Nowadays, the internet has become the new way the world gets information. How do we do this? Well, for starters, we search it up on Google. In fact, people search google so much that some dictionaries have listed down “Google” as a verb. However, we have figured out that you can also have fun with google. People all around the world have been exploiting easter eggs that google secretly embedded into the programming of the google search engine itself. We are here to help share the secrets, and let everyone know about the fun you can have with google. Now, let’s see the easter eggs!


EASTER EGG #1:
Did you know that if you search up “askew” or “tilt” on google, the page will be slightly tilted? It is disorienting to use, yet fun to share with others. A neat little trick.


EASTER EGG #2:
You can search up “Do a barrel roll” and your entire google page will turn 360 degrees! I warn you though, you may see a the end of google (A white screen)!

EASTER EGG #3:
You can type in “Goglogo” on google and hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button to see a webpage where you can enter your name where it says “Enter Your Name”. Then, you will have a custom google page with YOUR NAME in place of google! Unfortunately, you can’t search google with it, which is awfully sad, but you can take a picture of it and show it off to your friends!

EASTER EGG #4:
Okay, this is a really special one just because it’s one you can entertain yourself with for a long time! This trick is, you go to http://www.google.com/pacman/ and you can hit the “Insert Coin” button. Then, you can play pacman! Only, it’s not the same obstacles as pacman. The obstacles are GOOGLE!

EASTER EGG #5:
Google will love you once you search this up on google. Simply type in “(sqrt(cos(x))*cos(200x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5” and have see google have a big blue heart. Of course, we probably could never do that yourself with that kind of calculation, but google can!

EASTER EGG #6:

Google is the master beatbox now when you go to this website and hit the speaker button. It actually says “Beatbox” when you hover over it!

EASTER EGG #7:

If you search up “The answer to life, the universe, and everything” on google, it will bring up google calculator and it will say “The answer to life, the universe, and everything = 42”. I wonder why they chose 42...

EASTER EGG #8:

Google Calculator appears to know everything! Search up “The number of horns on a unicorn”, and it will tell you exactly how many horns a unicorn has! Now, the question is, where is the unicorn Google is keeping to get this information...

EASTER EGG #9:

If you search up “recursion”, it will ask you: “Did you mean: Recursion?”.  That’s funny, because the meaning of recursion is actually repeating things in a self-similar way. You can click on the Recursion in “Did you mean: Recursion” forever! Google has created their own infinite loop.

EASTER EGG #10:
And last but not least, you can search up “Once in a blue moon” to get Google to tell you exactly this:

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once in a blue moon = 1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz More about calculator.

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Wow... I wonder what a hertz is, and if we can actually predict when the next blue moon will come!

I very strongly encourage you to try out these tricks, and give us feedback whether you like this. If you do, I will write more cool things you can do with Google!


Question: What is a baker’s dozen? Go search it up on Google!