Tivo Hacks. 100 Industrial-strength Tips Tools 2003

Hack 19 Applaud the TiVo Team

Give credit where credit is due .

If you ever really wanted to know the names of all the people who gave their blood, sweat, and tears to TiVo, here is your chance meet themvirtually at least.

If you have a television with Closed Captioning (or have access to the tivovbi to simulate Closed Captioning [Hack #42]), turn it on and surf your way to the Browse By Name or Search by Title menu. Enter SHAGWELL as the name of the show you're looking for and press the button.

Stand up and applaudif you're so inclinedas the names of the developers scroll by (see Figure 1-7).

This is actually a rather common so-called "Easter egg," a silly surprise hidden by a programmer or programming team for chance discovery. You'll find Easter eggs sporting the names of developers in about any computer operating system or software producteven, in the case of the original 1984 Macintosh, molded into the interior plastic shell of the computer.