In the STR# Resource, ID -2003, String 4, of the AppleShare extension it says "Oh, most heinous!"
 
AppleShare's File Sharing "Holy Hand Grenade"
The development name for AppleShare was Holy Hand Grenade. Thus we have the FileSharing Extension's creator 'hhgg'. This is also from Monty Python. By the way, the Apple Share PDS's "Killer Rabbit" was killed by the Holy Hand Grenade. It is possible that it could also stand for "Hitchhikers Guide to the Glaxy", a popular book by Douglas Adams.
There is also a small ic 4 size picture that shows when Apple File Sharing is off. This is a small picture of the holy hand grenade.
Dave Warker (dwarker@acy.digex.net) describes his views reagrding this.
"The AppleShare File Sharing creater 'hhgg' almost certainly came from
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The full name for the Holy Hand Grenade is the "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch" (not sure about the spelling.) Also, the common abbreviation for Hitchhiker's Guide is HHGtG, drop the 't' to make it 4 letters and you have the File Sharing creator." *Who knows the real answer?*
 
Balloon Help
There are many balloon help icon eggs where if you drag balloon help over the icon you will see an interesting dialog. Two examples are QuickTime and MacsBug, but there are more. Most of them are in this document.
 
7.5 Clippings Extension: Drag and Drop Game System 7.5
If you type in “secret about box” in Stickies, or any program that has drag and drop capabilities, and drag it to the desktop you will find yourself playing a secret breakout game with credits. Eachtime you play the names will switch. (system 7.5 only not 7.5.1, Clippings extension required)
Ô£ø7.5.1 Drag and Drop Game: Copy Trick
Okay, I said there was no way to get that about box from 7.5 into 7.5.1. Well, I finally found a way. Actually somebody else did. It is a bit confusing but if you follow these directions closely you should be able to play that lovely Breakout game right from a desk accessory. Here's how:
First, copy a small DA such as the Calculator and rename it "Secret About Box." Next, use ResEdit to open both the System File and the Secret About Box desk accessory. Now copy the contents of the timd resource ID 12 in the System File into the DRVR resource ID 12 of the desk accessory. To do this, double click the timd resource icon in the System Files and select resource ID 12. Then choose Open Using Hex Editor from the Resource menu. Next choose select all from the Edit menu followed by Copy. Now double-click the driver resource ID 12, and choose Open Using Hex Editor from the Resource menu. Choose select all, followed by paste. Save your changes in the DA and Quit ResEdit. You now have your own Secret About Box desk accessory. By William S. Peters in the November '95 issue of Macworld. Page 146.
Ô£ø7.5.2 Clippings Extension: Apple Headquarters System 7.5.2 "Marconi"
On a Power Mac 9500 and 7500, or any computer that has System 7.5.2, if you type "secret about box" no capitals in a text application, most likely Stickies, that supports the Clippings Extension, and drag the text to the desktop, you get a picture of the Apple headquarters and a flag in the foreground, with the logo "iguana iguana powersurgius".
By moving the mouse around you control the direction the flag is waving. In fact, you can make it break off, fluttering toward the ground and off the screen. The best way to get the flag to come off is to "whip" it back and forth (by moving the mouse up and down, at the right of the screen) and at just the right level of violence it breaks off. Really cool, but sometimes it takes a while to reproduce. Once the flag is off, you can control the direction of drift with the mouse. The text which scrolls by says "Watch out for low-flying iguanas". You do not need Quickdraw 3D. Thanks to Ronald Bruck (bruck@mtha.usc.edu) for this egg.
Changing Iquanas:
After a while the the picture on the flag will change to something else, other then the Iguana.
There's More!:
Ô£øIf you drag the text "secret about box" into desktop while holding these keys, you get different results (click the key after you start dragging the text):
•If you hold p, you will see a picture of the design team, with an iguana in their laps, on the flag.
•If you hold q, you will see a pink flag and blank background with a message that quicktime must be installed to see images.
(do not need QuickTime to see message)
• If you hold down w, you get a dialog in the upper left hand corner displaying the coordinates of the mouse.
•If you hold down t, you get a dialog showing the frames per second,
which changes while the flag is waving.
From David Creech (d-creech@uiuc.edu)
And then there are the combinations:
•If you hold down w and t while dragging secret about box to the desktop, you will see the normal iguana picture with a display in the upper left corner showing the cursor position and the frames per second of the flag movie.
•If you hold p,w,and t you see the same thing except with the picture of the
programmers on the flag.
•Holding q,w, and t gives the same thing except with the purple quicktime flag.
Ô£øQuickDraw 3D
Turn on Balloon Help and place the cursor on the QuickDraw 3D extension. At the bottom of the help ballon you should see the message
"Flatland no more. Come and follow us into the Third Demension".
John M. Sully (jms20@po.CWRU.Edu)
 
QuickDraw GX "El Kabong" (Parts were Sarano and Skia)
Dragging the icon of the QuickDraw GX extension over to the desktop printer will print a list of credits of the development team for the extension. I recommend looking at the preview instead of printing it to save time, paper, and ink.
Select a GX desktop printer, hold down Shift-Option-Command and choose "Open" from the File menu. It gives you a very cool, simple demo of GX's geometry capabilities. Charles Wiltgen (cwiltgen@mcs.com)
 
QuickTime "Project Warhol"
The development name for QuickTime was Project Warhol thus an early version, known as the `warhol' init, had the icon of a Campbell's soup can. It was not in QuckTime 1.0 so it is probably a prerelease.
Also, in MoviePlayer go to "About QuickTime..." and watch the credits scroll by. There is some interesting stuff slipped in.
Finally, balloon help the icon to see "Time N. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future."
