Best Online April Fool’s Pranks 2011

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I never thought April Fool's Day was all that fun until websites started coming up with pranks just for the day. Here are the ones I've found so far today! 1. Comic Sans for Everyone - "Google Chrome announced a new extension designed to "improve user experience". Rigorous testing revealed that one font consistently outperformed all others when it comes to user satisfaction, level of engagement, understanding web content, productivity, click-through rates and conversion rates: Comic Sans." Even though I knew it was a prank, I assumed that the Install button wouldn't actually do anything. I was wrong. After clicking the button to install the extension and refreshing the page, my computer's default font permanently changed to Comic Sans. Check out this screenshot of my About page- ha! 2. Google Motion for Gmail - "Gmail Motion uses your computer's built-in webcam and Google's patented spatial tracking technology to detect your movements and translate them into meaningful … [Read more...]

Happy April Fool’s Day!

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No pranks from me today, I'm not that good at fooling people. Instead, I'm going to keep my eyes out for online pranks and post them here as I find them. 1. On YouTube, clicking on one of the front page videos takes you to an announcement about their new Text-Only" Mode, or "TEXTP".  The description says TEXTp is the result of months of intense transcoding efforts by our engineers, who toiled for weeks to ensure that a large chunk of videos on the platform could be reduced to their most basic elements. By replacing the images in the video with a series of letters and numbers, the videos are far less taxing on our system -- and have the added benefit of promoting literacy! HAHAHAHAHA!!! You've got to see this video they call "Lego Matrix: Trinity, Help" - there's nothing pranky about it, it's just awesome- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDe4v318f64&feature=featured&textp=fool 2. Google is well-known for their April Fool's Day pranks, and they've got  good … [Read more...]