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Top 10 List: An April Fool's Day Round Up

by - source: Tom's Hardware US

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.

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.

Halo Movie Trailer (IGN)

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.

Google Wave Notifications

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!

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fugfar 04/01/2010 10:26 PM
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hey! finally a good use for the ipad! that icade thing is genius!

jakew120 04/01/2010 10:42 PM
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World of Warcraft's was okay. The past two years were better in my opinion.

Aionism 04/01/2010 10:50 PM
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I thought YouTube's TEXTp was a real feature and the April Fools joke was the new layout.

Shadow703793 04/01/2010 11:00 PM
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LMAO @ the Halo vid and YouTube text mode.

sliem 04/01/2010 11:09 PM
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Lol @ end of Halo "Finish the Fight!"
YT textp doesn't work :( though it's almost impossible to do that.

rf88he102 04/01/2010 11:15 PM
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A YouTube 3D would have been funny

builderbobftw 04/01/2010 11:15 PM
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megamanx00 04/01/2010 11:17 PM
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I love the horrible Halo one

ivan_chess 04/01/2010 11:18 PM
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I just trolled 6 people with that Halo spoof! Thanks Toms!

Aussiekid 04/01/2010 11:23 PM
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I got three people with the Halo one and they were actually excited.

RAMEON01 04/01/2010 11:31 PM
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Quote :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 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

enzo matrix 04/01/2010 11:44 PM
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Ok that google wave notifications video was hilarious.

Camikazi 04/01/2010 11:51 PM
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Kind of wishing that MoodInq one was real.

Cwize1 04/02/2010 12:18 PM
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It wouldn't surprise me if the iCade became a real product. Then people would have an actual use for an iPad.

astrodudepsu 04/02/2010 12:20 PM
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Armor Games rick roll'd me, but I saw it coming.

JohnnyLucky 04/02/2010 2:01 AM
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The iCade brought back a lot of memories.

Cwize1 04/02/2010 2:42 AM
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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)"

hemelskonijn 04/02/2010 2:47 AM
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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).

Shadow703793 04/02/2010 3:13 AM
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hemelskonijn :
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 :cry: :lol: Try ping ;) I also sent Terminator to the past :)

blarneypete 04/02/2010 3:16 AM
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hemelskonijn :
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.

pjmelect 04/02/2010 3:16 AM
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I think that the iCade dock for the iPad is actually a good idea, where can I buy one.

HappyBB 04/02/2010 8:25 AM
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I think the IGN one is quite good and much more creative than Google Wave!

HappyBB 04/02/2010 8:28 AM
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The translate for animals is way better than the Wave one.

the_krasno 04/02/2010 9:20 AM
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"App-e-ture."

Am I the only one that thought about "Aperture Science"? Too much Portal I guess.

dickcruz 04/02/2010 9:41 AM
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i saw that tatto thing but didn't really care about it :P

Anonymous 04/02/2010 12:41 PM
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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.

mattshwink1 04/02/2010 5:21 PM
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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.

HalJordan 04/02/2010 5:52 PM
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"I need a weapon!" Classic.

wiinippongamer 04/02/2010 6:10 PM
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indian halo... the zelda one was more believeable

Gin Fushicho 04/03/2010 4:59 AM
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AWESOME! xD If they make a Halo movie like that I will so watch it just to spite all the Halo fans.

randomizer 04/03/2010 5:54 AM
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I think W1zzard threatening to leave techPowerUp! was the best so far. At least for us geeks :D


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