Salespeople at the Apple store can bombard you with technical jargon and gadget buzzwords. That's why they call them geniuses, right? Well, that know-it-all sales dude may have not been an Apple associate at all.
Comedian Tyler Fischer, in collaboration with Prank Riot, took to four Apple stores in the New York City area and posed as an Apple employee. For the prank, Fischer makes ridiculous and fake claims about the products, scans customer's retinas for a credit check and even suggests that people just go buy an Android instead.
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It may be hard to believe the unknowing customers went along with it, however, Fischer says, "Not a single customer questioned if I wasn't an employee. They all went with everything I said."
Even Apple didn't question him — not one employee in any of the four stores he visited called him out for being an impostor.
Despite poking fun at Apple's branding tactics, Ferris does admit to owning an iPhone, iPad and a MackBook Pro.

TextEdit, a word processor that comes with all modern Macs, has a little secret. The icon for the app is a very tiny notebook with scrawled words on it. But here's the surprise -- those words are actually a beautiful letter quoting Apple's 'Think Different' campaign:
Dear Kate,

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes — the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify, or vilify them. About the only thing that you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things.

Take care,

John Appleseed
When you hold down the shift button and minimize a web page or document, the "genie" effect occurs. The page will disappear in slow motion, as well as when you try to bring it back up.
There's also a variation of this feature called "suck," which essentially looks like "genie" but minimizes the open page by pulling it in by its bottom right corner. To use it, open Terminal and type "defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect -string suck." Restart your computer and the effect should start working.
When looking at the Weather app on the dashboard, you can see different images, like a shining sun, or a rainy sky, if you press option + command.
For those upgraded to Lion, you can have a vinyl record as your login icon. There's nothing too wild about that, but upon closer inspection, the record has the words "magic," "revolution," "boom" and "unbelievable" etched in as song titles. Those are Steve Jobs' most frequently used words during Apple keynotes.
The "Sosumi" sound is an homage to the lawsuit filed against Apple by the record label Apple Corps (notable for repping a little act called The Beatles) many years ago. It’s a sample of a xylophone, created in 1991 by Jim Reeves, and is still available as an alert sound.
Incomplete downloads in OS X Mountain Lion have a modified date of Jan. 24, 1984 at 9 a.m. -- the date Steve Jobs demonstrated the very first Macintosh computer.
Buried within the 1987 Mac SE's ROM chip are four photos of Mac’s dev team. Watch the video to learn how to find the pictures, or skip to 3:26 to see all four photos in their uber ‘80s glory.
The dev teams of the Macintosh IIci, IIfx and Quadra 840AV also pulled this trick.
Here’s a fun one for vintage gamers: You can play Tetris, Snake or Pong on your Mac. Open Applications > Utilities > Terminal, type in "emacs," press enter, press the escape button and and type "x" (without the quotation marks). From there, type in tetris, snake or pong (all lowercase letters) and press enter. Enjoy!
If you feel like talking to someone, Mac has your back. Open Terminal once again, type in "emacs" and press enter. Then, press the escape button, type "x," and type "doctor." You'll be greeted with the message, "I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems." From there, you can have a full-on conversation with the program (but beware, it's extremely limited -- kind of like a caveman version of Siri).
Terminal is just full of great tricks. To open up a calendar that has fun facts for every day of the year, open Terminal and type "cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history."
To get the recipe for Mrs. Fields' Cookies, type in "open /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc/COOKIES."
Mac snobs will revel in this subtle dig toward Windows that occurs when the computer is connected to a shared network with PCs. Open your Shared Network in Finder and you'll notice that the PC icons are represented with a CRT monitor displaying the "blue screen of death," an error that shows up whenever PCs crash.
Simply type the word "tilt" into Google and press enter, and the whole page will slip sideways. (This can be performed on non-Macs as well.)
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