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Easter Egg Spotted in Email App (webOS 3.0.4)

By: , 11/3/2011 4:47 pm | 18 comments

This isn’t the first Easter Egg we’ve seen in the webOS email app, and hopefully won’t be the last.

The last time an Easter Egg was found in the email app on webOS was back with webOS 2.0.0 on the Pre2.

This time, it’s the same graphic, but instead of the app raining cows, they become airborne when you double tap on the webOS Toaster.

To activate the easter egg, search for “supercowpowers” in the search box and then tap on the cow icon that appears in the toolbar. Note that this does require webOS 3.0.4 to work. You can watch a video of the Easter Egg in action below.

It’s the little things that count, and this certainly is one of those little things. This is the type of thing that makes us love webOS.

Special thanks to Tomomi Imura of webOS Developer Relations for the heads up.

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[Source: Tomomi Imura on Twitter]

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Arthur is an 18-year-old webOS fanboy and developer. Arthur's first experience with webOS was in August 2009 when he got a Palm Pre. Since then he's owned many of the webOS phones produced, released several loved apps into the App Catalog, and even held an internship with HP's webOS GBU. Fresh off of that internship, Arthur is back at webOSroundup as a contributor.
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  • BAdams

    Um, you might want to mute your sound if you work in a cubicle farm like me.

  • CeeJrun
  • http://twitter.com/KingNoso11 O Reynoso

    Haha. Nice. I’m going to miss the webOS team :(

  • Thenaziandroid

    Has everybody overlooked the fact that Zinio magazine app is now in the app catalog….Hello webosroundup! somebody must have been asleep at the whell since this was one of the most important apps that people were waiting on to make them decide on getting a touchpad.

  • Adaisguy

    If only there was a threaded email Easter egg

  • Abe

    If you tap the toaster really fast the cows fly out by the truckload!!

  • http://twitter.com/Rennnat Rennat

    I cant get the cows to work. just get the copy icon. tried double taping and tapping really fast. nothing..

  • Pete

    What search box?

  • William

    It’s in the middle panel just under the “inbox” header and above the list of emails.  Stares you right in the face but is still kinda hard to see.
    – sent from webOSroundup XL

  • MicahR

    What I want to know is how the heck did anyone figure this out? Was a developer waiting patiently for someone to stumble upon it while they were sorting through their subscription to supercowpowers weekly emails? Did his patience grow thin and decide to let the cow out of the bag? 

    what else is hidden? Should we start randomly searching for hidden keywords like weboswillneverdie? 

    • Anonymous

      Well… Super cow powers is a hidden easter egg in Linux. As webOS is based on a Linux-Kernel (and therefore the team coding it is probably deeply familiar with Linux) it is reasonable to take a look at such things ;)

    • Arthur Thornton

      Tomomi Imura (@girlie_mac) had been talking about the Easter egg for a while and I, remembering the supercowpowers egg from 2.0, investigated the source code for the 3.0.4 email app, eventually stumbling upon the cow icon and toaster
      – sent from webOSroundup XL

  • Dep

    i get the screen, but tapping, no matter how many times, renders only the copy bubble. no cows. what’s the trick?

    • http://www.arthurthornton.net/ Arthur Thornton

      Did you try double tapping (as in, fast succession of two taps)

  • Microbins

    Love the Easter Egg – kudos to WebOS team

    Super responsive & fast – Just wish the rest of WebOS was as fast :-)
    Now I just need to find someone with  Pre 3 to share it with
    . Damm  you HP !!

  • Anonymous

    How about a sort function instead of toys.
    – sent from webOSroundup XL

  • SCOTTtheSCOT

    LOL HA YA HA HAHA HA HAHA HAHAAAAAA HEEEE  HEEE HAAAA HO HO HIC SNIFF HEEEEE HEEEE HAAAA  not good to find this stuff at 2.23am when im up in four hours , damn  TP cant put it down thanks to whoever made it GO COWS
    – sent from webOSroundup XL