{"id":11061,"date":"2010-03-24T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-best-software-easter-eggs-of-all-time\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:15:00","slug":"the-best-software-easter-eggs-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-best-software-easter-eggs-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The best software easter eggs of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As software bloggers, the only easter eggs the OnSoftware team give out every year are the ones hidden within computer programs. As designated easter bunny for this year I decided I&#8217;d dig up some of the hidden treats from the <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-1-photoshop\/\">Great Software Easter Egg Hunt<\/a> of 2008. That was the year I got over eggs-ited about the cool features, games and jokes buried within popular software. Here&#8217;s a quick resume of my favorites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-1-photoshop\/\">Uncover a Space Monkey in Adobe Photoshop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-2-windows\/\">Instant victory in Windows Solitaire and Minesweeper<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-3-winamp\/\">Unlock dancing llamas in Winamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-4-word\/\">Play pinball in Word<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-7-acrobat\/\">Make Adobe Acrobat bark like a dog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-5-ms-works\/\">Watch the MS Works developers fly around your screen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-6-winrar\/\">Make waves in WinRAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-8-open-office\/\">Play a Star Wars shooter inside Open Office<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/03\/spacemonkey.gif\" alt=\"Easter eggs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re hungry for more, go check out some of the cool <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/03\/13\/google-easter-eggs\/\">Google easter eggs<\/a> in Mashable&#8217;s post, which includes a great one about how to unlock teddy bears and ninjas in Picasa. More goodies can be discovered if you go and read TechCrunch&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2009\/04\/12\/some-of-our-favorite-easter-eggs\/\">software easter egg round-up<\/a> from last year. If that doesn&#8217;t satisfy your craving then pay a visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eeggs.com\/tree\/153.html\">Easter Egg Archive<\/a>, where you&#8217;ll find hundreds of secrets from a wide range of applications. Happy hunting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As software bloggers, the only easter eggs the OnSoftware team give out every year are the ones hidden within computer programs. As designated easter bunny for this year I decided I&#8217;d dig up some of the hidden treats from the Great Software Easter Egg Hunt of 2008. That was the year I got over eggs-ited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-best-software-easter-eggs-of-all-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The best software easter eggs of all time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-11061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335039,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061\/revisions\/335039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11061"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=11061"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=11061"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=11061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}