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Mac Easter Eggs Control Panel By: David K. Every & Daniel Fanton (C) Copyright 1999 DKE - All Rights Reserved. Labels (7.1) Labels is a piece of the system that allowed you to color (tint) icons and group them (label them). You can give each label your own text. You can change the default labels (which are "Essential", "Hot", "In Progress"...) by using the Labels Control Panel in System 7. Well, it is more interesting when we change them to nothing. In the Labels Control Panel, delete all of the names of the Labels. Upon restarting your computer, you will find the letters "alanjef" under the Labels menu. What would you guess the programmers names might be? Alan & Jef perhaps?  This egg was fixed for System 8. Bug? show the Launcher at system start-up by setting it in General Controls (leave the regular labels in the Labels menu) restart your Mac once everything on your screen is re-loaded, go up to the Labels menu. There, you will see the text explained above, "alanjef". Clicking on the Finder will set it to what it should properly be. Any other program that will discourage your computer from going directly to the Finder will have the same effect. This may just be a bug (or anomoly) where the Labels menu is setup by the Finder very late in the boot process, and was easy to get messed up (and return to the default letters instead) -- and when there is no text, the software fills in "alanjef". During this process there is also an "m" in the File window. For more information on that, go to "Mood Swings". Created: 07/26/99 Updated: 11/09/02 Top of page Top of Section Home