Bridge to Nova

If you don't know what is "Bush hid the facts", let me give you a brief explanation. This instructions work on all windows except Vista.

• 1. Open your Notepad
• 2. Type "bush hid the facts" without quote
• 3. Save the file with any name
• 4. Open the file again

What you see isn't what you typed. This is an easter egg. Or maybe even Microsoft's programmers hate Bush. That's what we knew.

But the truth is that all 4-3-3-5 strings work. So if you type "this app can break". The same results. It appears to be bug from Microsoft which has been fixed in Vista. Here is someone from JCXP.net forum explanation:

Whenever we open a text file in notepad, it determines whether the text is ASCII or Unicode.. But actually there is no way in the world to exactly determine whether the text is ASCII or Unicode.. There is a function called IsTextUnicode in windows API.. The function does some tests on the text based on statistical data.. This is what MSDN says about the function..
"The function uses various statistical and deterministic methods to make its determination.. These tests are not foolproof. The statistical tests assume certain amounts of variation between low and high bytes in a string, and some ASCII strings can slip through. For example, if lpBuffer points to the ASCII string 0x41, 0x0A, 0x0D, 0x1D (A\n\r^Z), the string passes the IS_TEXT_UNICODE_STATISTICS test, though failure would be preferable."

Okay enough is enough. I hope now you get the idea of what's really going on.

Reference : Digg

Last month, I have told you guys about Google Earth closeup photos. But there are many things Google Earth can do. You can even use as a flight simulator. Yeah! that's hidden feature (or easter egg, you named it) in latest version of Google Earth.

First start the program, then you can press Ctrl+Alt+A and then you'll see the flight simulator screen. You can choose two planes. For a place, you can choose Google's given airports or you can start anywhere on planet.



You can press Ctrl+H for the list of commands or you can check here.

Enjoy your flight!

BtoN's Tips: If you can't start flight simulator by using Ctrl+Alt+A, you can try Tools-->> Option -->> General tab --->> Check Send usage statistics to Google. If still doesn't work, you can add new registry dword value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Earth Plus\FlightSim
New DWORD value and then IsEnabled. Set the value to 1.

Congrats go to Marco for this great discovery.

We all love this Windows built-in games, don't we? But sometimes, it is fun to know all tricks you can use in this game.

To Reveal Mines
With your cursor inside the minesweeper window type "XYZZY" then press Shift-Enter and Enter. A white dot should appear in the upper-left corner of the screen. If it turns black, your cursor is resting on a mine.
Note : A white dot is so smalll. This trick works best if your Windows background is black

To freeze timer
Start a new game and then hit the Windows key and the D key at the same time to minimize the game. (How quickly you press Windows+D will be your high score) Then, maximize the game again and the clock will be permanently frozen.

Source : CCG

Well, it's time to revisit that old Microsoft word easter egg. I don't know what is the purpose of this, but this easter egg works on all version of Microsoft Word.


Try Open a New Word Document and then type below:

=rand (200, 99)

See what happened? Have fun!

I don't know if this is easter egg or not. You can't create folder name "con" in any Windows version. This is what I got when I try to create folder name "con".



You may get some errors whenever you try to create foler name "con". You don't have to take my words. Try and figure it out yourself!

Microsoft never want you to lose their famous Windows built-in Solitaire game, do you know that?

It is a easter egg from Microsoft.

Whenever you are playing Solitaire game, you can press Alt+Shift+2 to win the game instantly.



Never lose a Solitaire games again!

Do you know that you can't create any subdomain at blogspot.com start with gmail- ? All of these would redirect to Gmail.com

Try these!

http://gmail-mytest.blogspot.com
http://gmail-seeit.blogspot.com

Anything you like gmail-xxxx.blogspot.com would also go to Gmail.com.

Seem like Google don't want any blogger to know more of Gmail than themselves.

After you have search and destroyed the spybot, you may get bored. To give you relive from your boredom, Spybot Search and Destroy team have included a game for you.



As shown in the above picture, click on the small binocular on the left side of program, you will open the game.

Not really sure about how that game works, but I click through numbers after numbers, then finally I saw something like DaVinci code picture.



That's all I got! I can't finish the game as I don't have much time now. How's about you? Can you finish it?