Leopard Easter Egg

Cars cars cars, yes, dear reader, a geek is still writing these articles. Once the car is in our possession, I’ll continue the regular output of geekery and humour.

But wait. Here’s one.

On Apple’s new MacOS 10.5, there’s a feature ripped from iTunes called “cover flow”. You can flip through previews and (enormous) icons of your files. Also in 10.5 are super-mega-wowie-high-res icons of all Apple-provided programs. For example, you can actually read the text on the TextEdit icon. The Address Book icon has a lovely faux-leather texture to it. Very classy. But here’s the best bit. The icons that represent networked Windows machines are beige monitors displaying the Blue Screen Of Death . Hah!

(Windows Vista SP1 will counter by displaying networked Macs as spinning beachballs…)