1、Apple Icon Secrets: Hidden Meanings Hiding in Plain Sight January 18, 2011 2:10 pmBy James Holland UPDATE: New icons! Thanks to our brilliant, sharp-eyed readers weve got some fresh icon Easter eggs to reveal. Scroll down, the NEW ones are marked for your convenience too. Were good like thatIf youre
2、 an iPhone, iPad, iPod or Mac owner youll spend hours each day gawping at Apple icons. But you might never have realised they hold secrets, hidden histories and subtle nods to Apple in-jokes. Do you know the hidden meanings your Apple gadget holds in plain sight? Read on, and well spill them all!iPh
3、one, iPod touch and iPad iconsFire up the iPhone homescreen and youll see a host of standard-issue icons. But theres more than meets the eye. Maps iconThe map on the iPhone Maps icon? Its Apples home address. Number 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino. The address itself is an in-joke amongst programmers, de
4、scribing a never-ending loop of code, and also describes the circular road Apples campus is built upon. You can see that circular road, and Interstate 280 which flies right by it, in all their glory within the Maps icon, along with a pin to indicate Apples front door. iPod Artists iconDive in to the
5、 iPhone or iPod touchs iPod function and cast your eyes toward the bottom of the screen. There youll see an Artists option, illustrated as all good bands are, by a man screaming his lungs out at a microphone. But look closer. Does the silhouette look familiar? It should do to U2 fans, since its lead
6、 singer, and some-time Apple collaborator, Bono. iTunes Starbucks iconIn the US, Apple and Starbucks launched a special edition of the iTunes Store together, accessible only while supping fresh java in one of Starbucks stores. The partnering was smart in several ways, letting Starbucks hawk their ow
7、n collections of music, while Apple capitalised on customers downtime to make sales.However, it also marked the first time Apple deviated from their own Human Interface Guidelines, the creed by which all iOS app developers live and die. Check out the screengrab, and youll see the Starbucks icon in f
8、ull colour glory, whereas all other iTunes interface elements are strictly monotone affairs. iBooks Browse iconFire up your iPhone, iPod or iPad for that matter and dive into iBooks. Take a look inside the iBooks Store and glance down at the Browse icon. Whose glasses are those? They look awfully li
9、ke those of Apple founder, CEO and interface-tweaker-in-chief, Steve Jobs. It seems the Podfather is also a bit of a bookworm.Find My iPhone iconIf youve installed Find My iPhone on your iPhone, iPod or iPad take a look at the map on its icon. It seems to be indicating an iPhone has been located in
10、New York City. Strange, considering Apples spiritual and physical home is in Cupertino, on the other side of the US. So, whats in NYC? Steve Jobs Manhattan apartment perhaps? Theres a good chance. Until recently Jobs owned the only duplex apartment in the iconic San Remo building, until he sold it t
11、o U2s Bono for $15 million.Mac iconsHidden messages within Mac icons are much more common than their iPhone, iPod touch or iPad counterparts. Apples designers frequently shoehorn in neat touches, jokes and cryptic references. See if youve spotted all of these. Stickies icon NEWThe Stickies app isnt
12、particularly obvious, but its icon Easter egg certainly is. The phone number 555-7361 and the name Lou can clearly be seen scribbled on its logo. Those who watch a lot of films or TV might recognise that 555 area code, its reserved for fictional mentions, so dont go dialing it now, will you? Apertur
13、e icon NEWIf youve splashed out on Apples imaging and photography application Aperture, youll be able to gawp at its icon, featuring a lens which is “Designed by Apple in California” and reading “50mm 1:1.4” Those Apple designers are nothing if not fastidious in their attention to detail, and by cri
14、key, thats a lovely looking lens theyve created. Interface Builder icon NEWWhat sort of pencils do Apple designers use? Open up the icon for the Apple Interface Builder, a tool used by programmers to create the screens you see on iPhone and iPad apps, and take a squiz. Theres a drawing of a pencil,
15、a set square and a paintbrush. The pencil is helpfully labelled as a “no 2 graphite pencil with eraser”. Heading to the art supplies shop yet? Keynote 2008 icon NEWApples presentation application forms part of iWork, but while that might seem dry and uninspiring check out the icon for it. Theres a l
16、ectern, and a Q4 2008 report but on that report are written the lyrics from the musical Spring Awakening. Who says business cant also have a hint of showbiz glitz? The significance of Spring Awakening isnt known. Console 10.5.6 icon NEWAn error message Apple meant to appear? Thats whats on the icon
17、for Mac OS Xs console. The app is designed to show what the Macs been up to behind the scenes. That includes errors, but that is the Error AY7:36 shown on the icon? So far our research has come to nothing. Do you know?Photo Booth icon NEWWere hearing that the woman pictured in the photos within Phot
18、o Booths icon are the developer of the app. Although we cant confirm that, even after a lot of fruitless Googling. Can you identify her? Either way, finding actual photos inside the Photo Booth icon was a nice surprise. iCal icon NEWIf you put the icon for Apples iCal calendar app into the OS X dock
19、, youll see it shows todays date. However, look it up in the Applications folder and youll see its default setting: July 17. Thats the day Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced it in front of crowds at the Macworld Expo 2002. One chip to rule them all NEWCheck out the icons for Apples firmware update util
20、ities and youll see theres a silicon chip indicated on their icons. Open the icon at full size and you can see the chips model number. So what, you might say? That chip pops up all over the place, from firmware updates to the Mac System Profiler. The significance of the numbers isnt clear. Can you c
21、rack it? The code is: 810-54-2136-1 RM-NCE-1 6319-415-1239. Windows computer iconsAccess a networked Windows PC from a Mac and youll see a tiny beige monitor next to it. Its small, nondescript and seems innocent. But dig out the full-size version of that icon and youll see the monitor is displaying
22、a “blue screen of death” error message, a sly poke at Windows perceived unreliability by Apple designers. Mac Mail iconIts so small, and semi-transparent, its almost invisible. But the Mac Mail icon which sits in the dock of every Mac holds a postmark labeling its origin as Cupertino, California. Of
23、 course, thats the home of Apple. Logical, yes. Obvious? Not at all. Theres even a friendly little “Hello from Cupertino” message baked into the icon. Neat touch, no? Apple Java iconJava isnt owned by Apple, but theres an app included with OS X to run Java code. It was made by Apple designers, so ob
24、viously includes some creative flourish. On first look its a simple coffee cup resting on a napkin. Nothing unusual there, just a play on words around the Java name. But fire up the full size icon, and youll see the napkin has a doodling on it. That doodling is genuine Java code. Now thats attention
25、 to detail. Apple Font Book iconApples computers have long been a favourite of writers, designers and editors of every persuasion. The Font Book app is, therefore, an often used part of OS X. Its icon, however, holds a neat in-joke. The letters used to make it are A, F and K. In internet-speak, AFK
26、stands for Away From Keyboard. Apple Dictionary iconTheres some more Apple wordplay at work on the cover of the dictionary featured in the Apple Dictionary icon. The words “Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet Etiam” are clearly seen when the icon is viewed at full size. Thats Latin for “Hello world! Etcetera
27、” well, its all up for debate. Have a look at the comments section below and join the debate! Apple Textedit iconThe Apple Textedit icon is itself a work of literary genius. Open it in full and youll see a speech written across the surface of its virtual notepad. Its an extract of the monologue from
28、 Apples Crazy Ones advert, and is signed by John Appleseed, a name Apple often uses as a placeholder for names in its address books. Old iTunes iconsApple replaced the iTunes icon with a solid blue bauble in its latest incarnation, but previous iterations featured a musical note resting on a shining
29、 silver CD. Open up the full size icon file and youd see that image of a CD was precise down to the finest detail: laser etched on its inside edge were the words “iTunes 7” and “Apple 2006”.苹果的程序图标中隐藏的秘密 如果你是苹果用户，那么 Mac 和 iPhone 中的图标可谓早已司空见惯，但是你知道这些图标中隐藏的秘密么？这些看过之后就被忽略的东西，却在细节之中体现了科技产品中蕴含的人性和趣味。Elec
30、tricpig最近一篇文章，列举了苹果的程序中一些内含深意的图标 。我们一起来看一看这些图标背后的故事：iPhone、iPod Touch、iPad 图标Maps红色的大头针标注的是苹果在加州 Cupertino 的总部：Number 1 Infinite Loop。这个地址是苹果编程员的一个内部笑话，含义是永无休止的循环代码。iPod Artists打开 iPod 的音乐，菜单中 Artists 的标签是某位艺术家的侧身像，谁呢？Bono，U2 的主唱。iBook Browser打开 iBooks Store，看 Browse 图标，是不是一副眼镜？仔细看看，像乔布斯戴的那副，还是哈利波特戴
31、的那副呢？Mac 图标TextEdit如果你用过 iPhone ，在设置邮件的时候，会发现输入姓名的地方显示的范例名字是 John Appleseed。这个名字历史很久，是苹果图标中最早的彩蛋之一。Mac OS 中的 Text Edit 图标便是署名 John Appleseed 的一篇文稿。文稿内容是苹果 1997 到 2002 年间著名的“Think Different” 广告大战中演讲词的一部分。苹果经常用 AppleSeed 作为通讯录的占位符。Dictionary/Thesaurus此程序的图标是本厚厚的字典。封面下部有一行小字：Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet
32、Etiam 。这是一段毫无意义的拉丁文，设计师和编辑们将此作为测试排版的占位文字已经多年。Disk Utility将图标扩展为 512512 像素之后，会发现上面写着一句话 “小心轻放硬盘，以免损坏电路板，确保正确接地”。Mail邮件的图标是一个邮票，而邮戳的文字是 “Hello from Cupertino,CA”。Cupertino，CA 正是苹果的总部所在地。iCaliCal 的图标显示的日期是 7 月 17 日。这是因为苹果发布 iCal 是在 2002 年 7 月 17 日的 MacWorld Expo 大会。计算器12374218. 75 这个数字，多年以来人们一直在猜测它的含义，
33、目前仍没有准确的解释。iTunes 9据说这个图标上有隐藏句子，是白色文字，写在浅灰色光盘之上，内容是 “Apple 2006 iTunes 7。Aperture镜头上文字是 “Designed by Apple in California” 和 “50mm 1:1.4”，不是 L 头啊，1:1.2L 才够给力啊。Keynote 2008一个台灯，演讲台上放着一份 Q4 2008 报告。报告上的文字是音乐剧 Spring Awaking 中的歌词。Console 10.5.6“WARNING: AY 7:36”。 谁知道是什么意思么？Font Book图标中的三个字母是 A,F,K。在网络缩略
34、词中，意思是 Away From Keyboard（远离键盘）。Stickies便签的图标上除了有鸡蛋和牛奶之外，还记录着 Lou 的电话号码 555-7361。在美剧和电影中，555 是经常出现的一个区号，一个专门为虚拟世界保留的区号。当然，也有可能这号码是来自安徽马鞍山的娄知县的，这事得问燕小六。Interface BuilderiPhone 和 iPad 简洁美观的界面我们都很熟悉了，但是你知道苹果的设计师们使用的是什么样的铅笔和工具来绘制这些界面吗？Interface Builder 的图标上就告诉了我们答案：画板上及上面画的带橡皮的 2 号铅笔、画笔、直尺。Photo Booth图标
35、中的美女据说就是 Photo Booth 的开发人员，不过 Electricpig 的编辑经过一番搜索之后，也无法确认是真是假。也许可以到 Quora 上去提个问题，说不定美女会亲自来解答这个问题的。Firmware Update Utility这个图标中是一个芯片，上面还写着型号。这个芯片不光出现在固件升级图标中，还出现在 Mac System Profiler 中。芯片的型号是 810-54-2136-1 RM-NCE-1 6319-415-1239，有人知道是什么意思吗？Windows Computer使用 Mac 电脑访问网络上的 Windows 电脑是就会出现这个小 CRT 显示器的图标。这个图我们传统的 Windows 用户太熟悉了，看来苹果公司的设计师们也很了解 Windows 电脑的精髓：蓝屏。我说你们也太坏啦Apple Java这是苹果公司在系统中内置的运行 Java 代码的程序。这图标所表现的大概就是一名程序员的生活状态，喝杯咖啡还要在纸巾上写上两句 Java 的代码。这得多大的瘾啊
