COOL new Mac OS X Easter egg/Secret/Developer goody

Hey all,
Just wanted to let you know of a new music secret I found in iPhoto. Here is how:
1) Navigate to the Applications folder on your hard drive
2) Control-click on the iPhoto icon to open the action menu
3) Click on "Show Package Contents"
4) In the new Finder window that appears, go into the "Contents" folder
5) In the "Contents" folder, got into the "Resources" folder
6) On your keyboard, type in "mu" fast to highlight the "Music" folder in the "Resources" folder
7) Go into the Music folder
8) Surprise!! In there, you will find 2 MP3 songs, Minuet in G, and Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
9) Highlight these two songs
10) Drag them to the Desktop while holding the Option key on the keyboard to copy them (Don't move them, copy them. Don't forget that you are working in iPhoto's roots)
11) Move the songs you just copied onto the desktop into your iTunes libary and enjoy!
Sure, they aren't the best songs you'd expect but it's nice to find things in Mac OS X and they're FREE. This was tested on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and iPhoto version 2.0. I don't know if it will work on other versions os OS X or iPhoto, but you can try. If you do discover that it works on other versions of X, email me at [email protected] (I wnat to feature it on my site, "Happymac Macintosh Support Services, http://happymac.50webs.com)
iMac CRT Summer 2001, 384MB RAM, 40GB Hard Drive, Mac OS 9.2.2 (Classic) Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Sorry, didn't know. I don't use iPhoto much... But still, it's cool that you can listen to the songs when you're out of iPhoto (not that the songs are good...they stink, just that the guitar solos are good)

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