Comments on: Leopard Easter Eggs: Icons

By: paleo

paleo — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:00:09 +0000

Just one more thing to add about the Calculator number. If you drop the decimal and convert it to unix time (Macs are BSD-based) you get the date of March 19, 2009 at 00:17 GMT. I’ve been searching for a correlation on that date and the only thing that my conspiracy thinking mind could find was an article that mentioned Steve Ballmer said “the tide has really turned against Apple.”

(http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/03/Microsofts_Ballmer_Tide_has_turned_against_Apple_in_computer_market_41492832.html)

Also, since the calculator app has shown those numbers since Leopard, maybe that was an original, internal release date for Snow Leopard (which came out about 6 months after the March 19th date) that the UI developers put in.

Just more food for thought…

By: Marrero Jenaya

Marrero Jenaya — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:56:55 +0000

If luvs a disease den im very ill.but i dont want medicine i wont take no pill.i will suffer dis illness cos it makes me see exactly how much u mean 2 me!

By: Adi

Adi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:27:06 +0000

lol did anyone try placing 12374218.75 in a map????
well it’s pretty close to Cupertino, CA
I think that am the first person to figure it out. Wow another success for my diary
put it in here http://studio.messlinger.com/map/

By: Mac OS X Snow Leopard | theskinnynewsdaily

Mac OS X Snow Leopard | theskinnynewsdaily — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:56:42 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:55:04 +0000

I think the calculator icon number refers to the date the first apple computers (the apple 1) went into production. I came to this conclusion as follows:

12374218.75

The .75 refers to the year 1975, the year Jobs and Wozniak formed Apple.

The 12374218 is the number of seconds into the year 1975 (143 days = May 23rd).

So I did a bit of research, Apple was formed on april fools day. Jobs and Wozniak sold their van and a calculator in may to pay for the production of the first series of computers. My bet is that May 23rd was the beginning of production.

Of course, all of this is my best guess, and could be completely wrong.

Chris

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:48:41 +0000

also on the itunes icon it says 2/08/06

By: nonymus

nonymus — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:35:14 +0000

the disk utility says internal disk on the black rectangle at the back, a bunch of the developer tools have writing on their icons. does anyone know what they say?

By: Timebomb16

Timebomb16 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:09:54 +0000

sorry about all the posts >.<

but i think i figured out the “Q4″ it’s just when apple announces their quarterly earnings (look at the old pages icon).

By: Timebomb16

Timebomb16 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:04:37 +0000

and something i js noticed is if you zoom in on the iTunes 7 icon it says iTunes Apple 2006

By: Timebomb16

Timebomb16 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:56:21 +0000

i think that the number may have been the number of songs sold to the date in iTunes (when the app was made or something)

By: palace

palace — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:43:50 +0000

notice how the girl on photobooth looks happiest with her glasses off.

By: 12374218.75

12374218.75 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:52:49 +0000

Pretty sure the green sticky note says Welcome to (Stickies?) for Mac OS X

By: Nonymus

Nonymus — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:10:01 +0000

The Stickies reflection says “Wirk”!!! Conspiracy Theory!
@everyone: Bow down before Apple

By: chris

chris — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:45:12 +0000

Ical has a hidden stereogram. If you look at ical like you would a normal sterogram then the calendar becomes 3-D. pretty kewl check it out.

By: Melinda

Melinda — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:56:54 +0000

@Bentley & @Frank: But this number has been around before Leopard.

@macha88: I know, but Lou still could be some crazy reference.

@someguy: Cool, hadn’t looked at the iTunes icon yet.

@Shat: I’m still trying to discover the meaning of that number on the calculator out. So far, nothing though.

By: Shat Brickner

Shat Brickner — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:17:03 +0000

I just noticed the number on the calculator, and a google search brought me here, I wonder what that number means. I probably should be working, but MACS ARE SO INTERESTING. Whats that? I forgot to send my timesheet in? Who cares this computer looks so CUTE.

By: someguy

someguy — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:01:00 +0000

The little transparent part of the CD on the iTunes icon says “ITUNES 7 APPLE 2006″.

By: macha88

macha88 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:25:34 +0000

555 numbers are usually fictional.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:44:16 +0000

Ok, no 6 no 9 the rest of the Numberblock will show an L like Leopard ;o)

By: Bentley

Bentley — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:30:39 +0000

The calculator icon is missing the numbers 6 and 9