I had hoped to get beta 2 of FeedDemon 2.0 out this week, but unfortunately we've had to delay it for a few days. To make up for this, I'll spill the beans about the Easter egg that's in the first FeedDemon 2.0 beta:
- Click in the web search box above the browser, to the right of the address bar (example)
- Type
FeedDemon Easter Egg - Press
<Enter> - Play :)
Right under our noses!
Well hidden. Didn't think to look in the search box doh.
Nice game!
Posted by: Brena | Thursday, February 09, 2006 at 09:48 PM
aww I've had screenshots of this ready to post for 2 weeks since you suggested it... damn my laziness :S
Posted by: Andrew Herron | Thursday, February 09, 2006 at 10:56 PM
How ironic is it that if you would have ditched the easer egg you'd probably have enough time to get beta2 out the door ;)
Posted by: Kevin Burton | Friday, February 10, 2006 at 04:16 AM
Kevin, I actually wrote the Easter egg several months ago :)
Posted by: Nick Bradbury | Friday, February 10, 2006 at 08:16 AM
This so reminds me of the 80's game "Popcorn" that I used to play on my dad's old cartridge based computer. Gotta love the classics.
Posted by: Randy Peterman | Friday, February 10, 2006 at 10:07 AM
Hilarious! I quite enjoyed this.
Posted by: Matt Brett | Friday, February 10, 2006 at 10:10 AM
Randy, you're right - it is similar to Popcorn! I used to play that game on my TRS-80 when I was a kid.
http://nitros9.stg.net/popcorn.html
Posted by: Nick Bradbury | Friday, February 10, 2006 at 10:19 AM
When can we expect to see our scores sync with NewsGator Online?
Posted by: Jack Brewster | Friday, February 10, 2006 at 11:26 AM
Jack, I believe that's a question for the support team :)
Posted by: Nick Bradbury | Friday, February 10, 2006 at 12:15 PM
Wow...
Posted by: Tim Wicket | Friday, February 10, 2006 at 01:25 PM
Heh. I love easter eggs in software :) Fun little game too. I feel bad that I just missed catching Scoble though heh.
Posted by: Morgan | Saturday, February 11, 2006 at 05:41 AM
Any chance Feed Demon will ever be on the Mac? I like my Windows based Feed Demon better than NetNewsWire on my Mac.
Posted by: JH | Saturday, February 11, 2006 at 10:24 AM
Sorry, JH - there are no plans for FeedDemon on the Mac. I wouldn't have wanted to compete with NetNewsWire even before we were both owned by the same company :)
Posted by: Nick Bradbury | Monday, February 13, 2006 at 09:29 PM
Heh. Easter eggs seem to be a lost art these days ;) Nice.
Looking forward to FD2.0 - especially to see if it 'retains hierarchy' when importing OPML files (trees with all its branches intact)
This would be great, as we see better OPML tools where people can manage their feeds and organise them into neat folders/branches etc.
Nick, if you drop me a line to the email given here, I'd like you to see (play with) a new 'system' I'm building over here ;)
Cheers,
Kosso
Posted by: kosso | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 at 12:34 PM
ahah!!! I just tried the 2.0 Beta! It works!! Folders!!! Branches!! Hurray!!
Nice one Nick. But I'm also interested to know if FeedDemon will support linking to a 'live' OPML list - ie: So FD users can subscribe to a 'reading/listening/viewing list' which might change and update.
You know.. like an Attention list?
Cheers,
Kosso
Posted by: kosso | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 at 12:39 PM
Glad to hear you like v2.0, Kosso :) FeedDemon will support reading lists in the future, but I'm afraid this won't make it into v2.0.
Posted by: Nick Bradbury | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 at 03:59 PM