Easter Eggs!
There is a term among the software geek community called “Easter eggs”. Basically what they are are little secret hidden treasures/surprises inside a piece of software or a program that you can only see if you know the right code to type into the right place. These “easter eggs” are located somewhere inside a lot of the software you have on your computer right NOW and you don’t even know it. They’re created by the software developers themselves, just for fun.
In honor of the Easter holiday, I want to let you know about a Google Earth easter egg I just found out about. The Google Earth easter egg is called “Flight Simulator”, and it allows you to choose an airport, plane type and fly inside Google Earth
Here’s what you do:
1. Launch Google Earth version 4.2 and click Ctrl + Alt + A (or Cmd + Opt + A if you’re on a Mac).
2. BAM! For more specifics on how to navigate once you find this easter egg, click here for Lifehacker’s navigation instructions.
Additional info on navigation hotkeys and instructions can be found on Google Earth’s flight simulator keyboard page.
And big props to Lifehacker for always having the skinny on EVERYTHING cool and web-related.
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