Break iPhone screens, make your friends believe they are crazy or turn your colleague’s computer screen upside down. Here are a few things that can help you win or lose a few hearts this April Fools’ Day
Be it a simple joke or a deadly revelations, April Fools’ Day is known to make people jump in their seats and is considered an annual celebration of fools. Practical jokes are the gift of choice, as the gift giver delights in the embarrassment and bewilderment of the recipient. However, coming up with the perfect prank can be quite a task.Here are a few things that can help you figure the right trick for the right person.
Prank it app
What’s better than a mobile application to help you enjoy this playful day. Apps are great for general mischief, even without a specific occasion to celebrate it. Thus, here is a list of some of the best apps for the April fool. Please note that some of these apps have the potential to annoy, distress, and cost jobs and friendships. There may also be severe health and mental consequences if you choose the wrong victim. Great caution and greater common sense must be exercised when exploring these apps.
Top 20 pranks from Howcast: This app is not just a guide to the perfect prank but gives clear step-by-step video instructions on how to pull off some of the funniest pranks. For example, it come up with tricks where you can autocorrect the word “the” on a friend’s computer with the words “I will kill you” to make it look like the computer is possessed. However, they do list some office pranks that would probably get you fired if you actually did them.
April fool pranks: This app comes in need if you are looking for a sober alternative. The ideas here are more likely to be the kind of pranks one would normally see on April Fools’ Day. They are not as severe, don’t require a heavy amount of preparation and will not risk the same negative social consequences if performed successfully.
Hidden camera pranks: The best way to know how a prank worked out is to watch it. That’s where this app comes in. It hosts a large video collection of hidden camera pranks. They may provide inspiration for your own tricks. Even if you have no intention of pulling any pranks yourself, this app gives you the vicarious delight of watching unsuspecting people get duped. It’s an entertaining diversion.
Prank: Drive your friends nuts with this app. It allows your device to emit a high frequency sound that you can toggle on and off. There are also customisable time intervals, as well as a web surfing mode, which helps conceal your identity. Drive people crazy as they frantically search for the source of the sound. You can also purchase additional sounds.
A scary prank too: Scaring people is not exactly a funny thing but for some it is. There are a number of apps which are designed to startle and scare. The typical idea is that a person stares at a screen under the pretense of game or optical illusion, as a calm soundtrack plays in the background. Then, without warning, a gruesome image and loud disturbing noise emerges to frighten the user. While these apps are potentially scarring to children, can cause hearing problems and are dangerous to those with heart conditions, they are widely used.
Bee swatter prank game: This app suggests the terrifying idea of destroying someone’s iDevice. When you arrive at the Queen Bee, you’re instructed to hit her fast and hit her hard. The game suddenly goes haywire and it’s made to look like you shattered the screen. This may not fool everyone, but this kind of deception is much better than the startle and scare route, partly because it’s more likely to ensure the safety of your device.
Tech tricks
Apart from taking help from the apps, these are some pranks that you can safely use to fool your colleagues at work.Turn screens upside down: It is simple, evil and effective. Type Ctrl-Alt-Down on any Windows machine and the screen will flip upside-down. Restore things to normal with Ctrl-Alt-Up — but that can be hard to discover when one can’t use Google properly.
The blue screen of death screensaver: The blue screen of death looks a little different these days, but not everyone has updated to Windows 8. Thus, for those who understand that the blue screen depicts that your system has crashed, this is effective. The BSOD screensaver loads a fake Windows error screen to trick the viewer into thinking their computer has just experienced a major crash. There are several variants out there, so hunt around for one that appeals.
Use text expansion to replace common words: Text expansion, it’s a term for a tool that lets you type a short sequence (such as “ph#”) that will automatically expand to a different and often larger block of text (such as “(02) 99999 99999). Text expansion apps work with entries called snippets, which include the word you type and the text it expands to. As a prank, you can enter common words as shortcut. For example, if your friend’s name was Harold you could enter a shortcut that expands Harold to the word ‘idiot’.It’s a very simple trick to play and you can be as creative and detailed as you want. You can also be as appropriate or vulgar as your relationship with the victim dictates, making it a safe prank for almost everyone.