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Best April Fools tech joke this year?

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  • R RobCroll

    Seeing as it was on the weekend. I remember I used to pick up a colleague for work everyday. So this Saturday I organized with his wife to pull up in the morning and toot the horn. I couldn't help myself, I went in and watched him freaking out getting ready. Jumped in the car and and asked him if he knew it was April fools day. ;P

    "You get that on the big jobs."

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    Jeremy Hutchinson
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    That is top notch! 5+

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    • T Terrence Dorsey

      What's the best April Fools joke this year? My vote: 8-bit Google Maps[^]

      Director of Content Development, The Code Project

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      dazfuller
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      My vote goes to the "GMail Tap" application from Google. Morse code is definitely the way forward :) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/gmail-tap[^]

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      • T Terrence Dorsey

        What's the best April Fools joke this year? My vote: 8-bit Google Maps[^]

        Director of Content Development, The Code Project

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        jakeshare
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        Agreed, Google Maps' Quest view rocks. Mashable had a funny story about Virgin Volcanic creating a digger to take people to the center of the Earth. Namecheap.com visitors were shown a very old version of their site that claimed to be a redesign. It was painful but kudos to them for an idea that probably didn't take much effort but generated a lot of notice. I couldn't resist joining in the fun on my own site about job search, where I claimed that a new startup's software will make recruiters redundant.

        --- All Together Now http://jobmob.co.il/

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        • D Dan Neely

          Gary's AV detecting something incoming. Mine didn't, and about 5 minutes later a fake smart tool virus annouced its presence. 13 years of perfect security down the drain. ELEPHANTING SUNSHINES!

          Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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          Wendelius
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          I'm really sorry if the link I posted caused trouble! I don't know why for example I'm still not getting any problems with the site and I'm not getting any information about fake tools etc. Could it be that for example the ads are different or something similar... Nevertheless, again my apologies! Mika

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          • W Wendelius

            I'm really sorry if the link I posted caused trouble! I don't know why for example I'm still not getting any problems with the site and I'm not getting any information about fake tools etc. Could it be that for example the ads are different or something similar... Nevertheless, again my apologies! Mika

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            Dan Neely
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            Tainted ads would be my first guess as well; what hit my computer was different than what tried to infect Gary's machine. Since I was browsing via Opera I'm 99% sure I was infected via a flash/java exploit; not javascript. Also, I got a new version of flash this morning at work following the Monday morning boot; my home PC was probably up since patch Tuesday. I've never heard of anything targeting O in the wild; security via obscurity might be philosophically poor but often works in the real world.

            Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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            • W Wendelius

              Didn't receive any alerts, but I removed the link to be on the safe side. Have to wonder, was it April the 1st still at your timezone :)

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              Nelek
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              In Spain is the 28th of December. The day of "saint innocents"

              Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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              • N Nelek

                In Spain is the 28th of December. The day of "saint innocents"

                Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                Yesterday was the 28th of December in Spain? :laugh:

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                • A Ashley van Gerven

                  Took me slightly too long to figure this one out: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/telegram[^] :doh:

                  "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza

                  CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.

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                  KP Lee
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                  I like! But is it a tech joke?

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                  • K KP Lee

                    Yesterday was the 28th of December in Spain? :laugh:

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                    Nelek
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                    No, AFAIK there was no temporal singularity. But it is so, the day of the fool is the 28th.December in Spain. Don't ask me why, it is just like that.

                    Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                    • N Nelek

                      No, AFAIK there was no temporal singularity. But it is so, the day of the fool is the 28th.December in Spain. Don't ask me why, it is just like that.

                      Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                      KP Lee
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                      I KNEW that! (From your post, not prior knowledge) I really did!!! :laugh: I also DON'T know why April 1 is celebrated here. I'm sure there is an extensive background on the web, but I sure wouldn't have looked it up yesterday. (Day before yesterday for you? UTC will be there in about 2.6 hours.)

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                      • J jakeshare

                        Agreed, Google Maps' Quest view rocks. Mashable had a funny story about Virgin Volcanic creating a digger to take people to the center of the Earth. Namecheap.com visitors were shown a very old version of their site that claimed to be a redesign. It was painful but kudos to them for an idea that probably didn't take much effort but generated a lot of notice. I couldn't resist joining in the fun on my own site about job search, where I claimed that a new startup's software will make recruiters redundant.

                        --- All Together Now http://jobmob.co.il/

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                        jakeshare
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                        And here's one from Page.ly: free shipping for a webhosting package

                        --- All Together Now http://jobmob.co.il/

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