Top 10 List: An April Fool's Day Round Up
Today being April fool's day there's a lot of crazy news doing the rounds. Some sites opted for pranks instead of news though, so here's the best of the April fool's jokes we've seen today. Not surprisingly, Google had a few really good ones.
Google Translate for Animals.
YouTube text mode.
YouTube had a neat little trick that showed videos in ASCII art. Just add &textp=fool to the end of a YouTube URL and you'll see YouTube videos in a whole new light. Alternatively, you can select any of the videos that appear under Spotlight: Introducing TEXTp header on the YouTube homepage.
App-e-ture.
Pocket-Lint reported that Canon, Olympus, and Nikon announced a partnership (CON) that would see the three companies create an app store for digital cameras called App-e-ture. The store allows users to force their camera into taking images like a pro and is sure to help gain ground on phone cameras that many believe are damaging compact camera sales.
ThinkGeek's iCade dock for the iPad.
Google changed its name to Topeka.
IGN posted a trailer for the Halo movie series.
One word: Bollywood.
ThinkGeek's programmable tattoo system.
E-Ink tattos that you can change or erase at whim? Yes please!
Google Wave notifications.
They'll send a real person to tell you about new messages.
Reddit Admins for All
Reddit reportedly made everyone an admin for the day.
PopCap announced a new version of Celebrity Bejeweled.
Did you come across any good April fool's jokes? Post them in the comments below!
- Nvidia Shows Off Ion 2 GPU Superiority in IE9
- Microsoft Says Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy
- Early iPad Reviews Give Apple Two Thumbs Up
- An Exclusive Peek Inside Tom's Hardware's Offices
- Sony's PS3 Drops Linux; Why You Should Care
- Asus Matrix 5870 Can OC Itself for 19% FPS Boost
- Behind-the-Scenes With ATI Eyefinity 6 in Our Labs
- Report: XFX Not Making GeForce GTX 480, 470s
- Toshiba Crams 1TB Into Your Pocket
- Isohunt Ordered to Take Down Illegal Torrents
- To Make Windows 7 Safer: Remove Admin Rights
- New Belkin 802.11n Router Features Torrent App
- FIFA 10 PC Case Mod Merges Grilling, Gaming
- Good Deals for Good Friday: SSD Sale Roundup
- Intel Core i5 CPU Mauled by Dog
- Toshiba UX600 Series Earns Win 7 Certification
- Sega: Big Money in PC Gaming
- 'Father of the PC', Early Mentor of Bill Gates, Dies
hey! finally a good use for the ipad! that icade thing is genius!
World of Warcraft's was okay. The past two years were better in my opinion.
I thought YouTube's TEXTp was a real feature and the April Fools joke was the new layout.
LMAO @ the Halo vid and YouTube text mode.
Lol @ end of Halo "Finish the Fight!"
though it's almost impossible to do that.
YT textp doesn't work
A YouTube 3D would have been funny
Nobody can beat what I did to my english teacher.
He's is/was getting fired to do budget cuts.
I told him I founf that 100K$ was missing formt he teacher's budhget, and there was a huge mkstake.
He told me to Email it to him, I did, and He presented it to the entire school board.
It was a rickroll.
He got fired.
I love the horrible Halo one
I just trolled 6 people with that Halo spoof! Thanks Toms!
I got three people with the Halo one and they were actually excited.
He's is/was getting fired to do budget cuts.
I told him I founf that 100K$ was missing formt he teacher's budhget, and there was a huge mkstake.
He told me to Email it to him, I did, and He presented it to the entire school board.
It was a rickroll.
He got fired.
I can't imagine why your ENGLISH teacher got fired, can't be for not being able to teach students to spell. Ow wait, was that the April Fools joke? lol
Ok that google wave notifications video was hilarious.
Kind of wishing that MoodInq one was real.
It wouldn't surprise me if the iCade became a real product. Then people would have an actual use for an iPad.
Armor Games rick roll'd me, but I saw it coming.
The iCade brought back a lot of memories.
In a google search you can get something like:
"Results 1 - 10 of about 11,700,000 for gdb. (0.48 times the velocity of an unladen swallow)"
To bad the youtube text mode doesnt work here
i would have loved that.
Also i loved this really cool cli popping up under the webcomic today.
http://xkcd.com/
Specially if you type 'i read the source code' without quotes as a command.
Seriously i love that script and i might even gpl steal it for my website (that is if it even is gpl let hope it is).
To bad the youtube text mode doesnt work here i would have loved that.Also i loved this really cool cli popping up under the webcomic today.http://xkcd.com/Specially if you type 'i read the source code' without quotes as a command.Seriously i love that script and i might even gpl steal it for my website (that is if it even is gpl let hope it is).
Nice. A Linux like shell.
I tried su, it didn't give it to me
To bad the youtube text mode doesnt work here i would have loved that.Also i loved this really cool cli popping up under the webcomic today.http://xkcd.com/Specially if you type 'i read the source code' without quotes as a command.Seriously i love that script and i might even gpl steal it for my website (that is if it even is gpl let hope it is).
I typed in "man cat" and laughed.
I think that the iCade dock for the iPad is actually a good idea, where can I buy one.
I think the IGN one is quite good and much more creative than Google Wave!
The translate for animals is way better than the Wave one.
"App-e-ture."
Am I the only one that thought about "Aperture Science"? Too much Portal I guess.
i saw that tatto thing but didn't really care about it
A little late, but how about this one for a rather special vehicle from a site that specializes in aircraft sales?
http://www.globalair.com/aircraft_ [...] adid=57928
Be amused.
Blizzard had two good ones. One was for a "matchmaking" service for gamers so you could find a "partner" to game with. The other were two new games, including one loosely based on a Starcraft adventure that was all text/spoken input in full 8 color glory.
"I need a weapon!" Classic.
indian halo... the zelda one was more believeable
AWESOME! xD If they make a Halo movie like that I will so watch it just to spite all the Halo fans.
I think W1zzard threatening to leave techPowerUp! was the best so far. At least for us geeks