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Easter eggs are awesome, no doubt! Be it notepad or Adobe Photoshop, the joy of finding one and sharing it with friends is something you have to expereince yourself. Here are 10 such amazing easter egg surprises from common softwares that we use daily. Hope you find them interesting.

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1. The iPod Easter egg !

Select “About” from the main menu, then hold the center button for a couple of seconds. A miniature Breakout game, created by the founders of Apple Inc. when they worked for Atari, appears on the screen.

2. The Mozilla Firefox Easter egg – Message to IE team

Type "about:Mozilla" in the URL bar. You’ll read a message which is a reply to the Internet Explorer 5 team’s joke about Mozilla crashing computers.

3. Open Office Easter egg – Star wars game

Create a new spreadsheet in the OpenOffice.org Calculator.

Type "=game()" into a cell and validate it by pressing Enter. The cell will display, "Say what?" to which your typing finger will reply “=GAME("StarWars")." A new window will open with a little game called Star Wars. Simple as that.

4. Skype Easter egg – Hidden Icons

Enter a chat session and type words like “drunk” and “ninja” with the brackets to view amusing emoticons. Also, try these words.

(finger)

(bandit)

(mooning)

(swear)

(drunk)

(rock)

(poolparty)

(bug)

(ninja)

(smoking)

(fubar)

(tmi)

5. MSN Messenger Easter Egg

When in a conversation, type “/patchou” without the quotes and you’ll get a picture of the creator of the software, with the message: "Thank you for using this software. The best reward I can get for my work is to see you highly satisfied. Sincerely, PaTchou."

6. Adobe Photoshop CS 5 Easter egg

This is a traditional easter egg, because you find this commonly in many Adobe products.

Open Photoshop CS5

Once open, hold down the CTRL key

Select HELP –> ABOUT

Follow the White Rabbit. http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif

7. Winamp Easter Egg

With the defualt skin chosen (Modern) stretch the main window until the Beat Analyzer (it says "beat" under it) appears. Hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift and Click the Center (be very precise here) of the beat analyzer. Now play any song and enjoy the show.

8. Mozilla Firefox Easter Egg 2 – Firefox inside Firefox

Simple one. Open FF, type the following to the address bar.

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

Enjoy the show.

9. Windows Notepad

- Open an empty notepad file.

- Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes) 

- Save it with any file name with as .TXT file. 

- Close it, and re-open it. Presto!

10. Google Picasa Easter egg

This is for the Picasa app.

Open Picasa 2, then press Ctrl + Shift + Y http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif That’s all.

Do you know more of them ? Drop in comments please.

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