Happy April Fools’ Day Speech Heads!
In honor of this auspicious occasion, Ben Parr of Mashable social media blog came up with a list of five iPhone prank apps you can download and use against your friends, family, enemies, and co-workers. In my case, my brother Adam B. fits into at least three of those categories.
We thought we’d highlight some of our favorites for you to try out on your own iPhones.
Ultimate X-Ray App: Trick your friends into thinking the iPhone has hidden x-ray capabilities. The app has a photograph of a hand x-ray that scrolls as you move the phone, making it look like it’s actually looking at your hand. Parr suggests you use this to convince your friends they have broken fingers when they don’t or, more sinisterly, to convince those with broken fingers that they’re just fine.
I suggest you use it to convince your friends that their iPhone is, without their knowledge, pounding out intense x-ray radiation. Their phones are putting them at serious risk for cancer. Offer to dispose of the phone for them. Say you know of a recycling plant and you’re going to go drop off your phone anyway; then, resell it!
iFart: Here’s a speech little app that turns your iPhone into a whoopee cushion. The iFart has a bank of several different farts for any occasion. It also lets you set them on a timer for a sneak attack. Parr reports that the app was the most popular download at the App Store for December 2008. Hacci-mama!
Most people, as you can imagine, just use it in a series of crude jokes, but here’s a little tip for you office-bound workers who want a day off. Take your copy of iFart and an extra pair of shoes to work. Tell your boss you think you’ve got some kind of awful case of food poisoning, rush to the bathroom and lock yourself in a stall. Once there, set your phone to periodically emanate fart noises. Be sure to record yourself groaning and include those in the sporadic utterances. Then, set up your shoes like you’re sitting on the pot, crawl from under the stall, and take a long lunch. If anyone comes looking for you, they’ll think you’re in a real bad way.
Anyhow, check out the original post at Mashable, and be sure to tell us about any speechy pranks you pull today.
Sayonara Speechies!
I fooled them all with my disappearing rabbit trick. The whole staff at the hospital was in stitches. A cold wind blew from the east. I thought: So this is how it will be at the end. White light poured in from above. I had a chill. Mercy me, I said to no on in particular. The bats are out tonight. I rubbed the religious totem my aunt had given me. Her hair had been the most spectacular shade of yellow. I recall pulling strands of it from my hairbrush. Those summer days when we walked on the beach with the dogs. Oh those were the days. Where is Martha, I thought. Not here. Never here. Why, Martha? She did not answer. They seldom do.