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Calculator.app: More than meets the eye... (Easter egg)
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Easter egg or hidden beta functionality? See here:
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Damn people have alot of time on their hands...
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Posting Junkie
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Originally posted by gorickey:
Damn people have alot of time on their hands...
You mean the Apple employees who programmed it?
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Clinically Insane
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okay...what exactly am i missing here?
It's been ten years...
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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
okay...what exactly am i missing here?
It's been ten years...
The simplest way to enable these options is to do a 'show package contents' on the Calculator app. in Contents/Resources there are 3 folders called ExpressionSheet.calcview, Graphing-2D.calcview and Hexadecimal.calcview (what are all those 'tape button' tiff's for, one looks like the bookmarks button in safari? Anyway) do a Finder copy on these three, navigate back up to Contents/ and open the PlugIns folder and paste the items in there. These new items will now appear under the 'View' Menu item when Calculator is running.
to disable them do a get info on the Calculator app and there is a Plugins section, uncheck the tick boxes for the ones you want to disable.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Wow, cool! I hope they finish the graphic feature soon. I miss the old OS 9 Graphing Calculator.
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Posting Junkie
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Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
You mean the Apple employees who programmed it?
No, the people who sit and fumble through every system/application package to find such goodies...
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Mac Elite
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that really isn't an easter egg. Like the pictures of the developers inside Mail.app
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Posting Junkie
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Originally posted by Nebagakid:
Like the pictures of the developers inside Mail.app
Is it Mail.app or Address Book? Or both?
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Originally posted by gorickey:
No, the people who sit and fumble through every system/application package to find such goodies...
It'd probably take less time to do that then scour the various MacNN forum threads and post in them.  
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Posting Junkie
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Welcome to last year.
How many times has this been posted now?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2004
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I don't see the problem, there every day new people to this forum.
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Mac Elite
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there is also a search function.
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Posting Junkie
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Originally posted by CharlesS:
Welcome to last year.
How many times has this been posted now?
Link? I did a search for "Calculator" and nothing came up about this.
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Check the 17th link down. 
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Originally posted by Turias:
Check the 17th link down.
Even when that thread was posted, it was already old news. The macosxhints.com article pointed to is dated Nov 7.
Oh, and you could have found that thread much more easily if you had searched for "graphing calculator" instead of just "calculator." Or even better yet, "Panther graphic calculator" would have turned it right up.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 2001
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If you dont know the thing exists, how are you supposed to search for it? Thank you for posting this. I didnt know it existed. Man I really yearn for the "good old days" on arpanet when everyones main concern was helping each other rather than finding fault.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Agreed. I look at these forums pretty much every day but clearly missed the myriad other opportunities to find out about this cool little feature! And I don't see the point in declaring it old news after people have already said like: wow, cool! about it, and I agree.
Interesting also that the development of those plugins - looking at the hex-type calculator especially - was obviously discontinued before they decided to change the Panther calculator buttons from pretty aqua to ugly whatever it is they are now!
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Originally posted by CharlesS:
Even when that thread was posted, it was already old news. The macosxhints.com article pointed to is dated Nov 7.
Oh, and you could have found that thread much more easily if you had searched for "graphing calculator" instead of just "calculator." Or even better yet, "Panther graphic calculator" would have turned it right up.
Doh! I thought that was some shareware program or something. 
Anyways, it was news to me.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Cool and news to me too. As you can see by my post count and registered date I'm not new but still managed to miss it the first time so who cares if it's been mentioned before.
Just the other day I was trying to enter hex in calculator and was surprised that the advanced view didn't allow it. Well now I can!
(Last edited by WJMoore; Jan 24, 2004 at 03:12 AM.
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