Filed under: Humor
Best of April Fool's Day online
Well, we admit we were snookered by the iPhone Dev Team's "we're selling out" alert, and so was our sister site -- but on a day when the hoaxes range from the desperately unfunny to the merely goofy to the silly-but-funny to the triumphantly hysterical, who can keep anything straight? Google's various flavors alone account for more than a dozen fake stories. Here's a couple of Mac-flavored gags that you might have missed:- TidBITS has an entire 4/1-themed front page, with some gems like "US Federal Court Declares Email Bankruptcy Illegal."
- The introduction of the "Helvetica Serif" font, which cracks me up.
- Download Squad's warning about LSD in Apple products. I'd call shenanigans on this, but I'm very busy shooing away the multicolored bats.
- Macenstein's "Top 10 ways to DEcrease productivity on your Mac," which describes at least two or three bad practices I actually do already
- The full-monty retro reskinning of MacOSXHints
- ThinkGeek's alternative product lineup, including Wii Sports for iPhone
- Likewise, AppleTell has a collection of Apple-past stories up front today
- Not to leave out the Microsoft Mac BU, this delightful Games for Apple Remote product announcement
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Alex said 3:29PM on 4-01-2008
I'm (not so) surprised that Apple didn't do something themselves, even Microsoft sent a pretty good Xbox 360 email.
P.S. why aren't you guys 'Going Magenta'?
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Biz said 4:55PM on 4-01-2008
Um... that wasn't an april fools joke. Live went down last night around 2am while I was playing COD4.
Connor Cimowsky said 3:29PM on 4-01-2008
How about MacThemes2.net?
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Michael Rose said 3:46PM on 4-01-2008
Reserving judgment on Macthemes2.net until we hear officially one way or the other from the owner of the site.
2shae said 3:43PM on 4-01-2008
Macthemes2.net seems to be down, because of a big scary "Apple Law letter"
I'm hoping it's a joke :P
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2shae said 3:44PM on 4-01-2008
Oh and isohunt.com has that annoying rick roll video in it's frontpage.
Tony said 4:18PM on 4-01-2008
There was the 'Apple announces 3G iphone' one from a canadian blog. Weakest joke ever, given the number of people waiting for just such an announcement.
http://www.iphoneworld.ca/news/2008/04/01/breaking-news-apple-presents-3g-iphone-at-ctia/
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Angel said 4:18PM on 4-01-2008
I super hope MacThemes2.net's front page is a joke!
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macinfreak said 4:23PM on 4-01-2008
check out macosxhints.com today too
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Ian said 5:08PM on 4-01-2008
Do you know why I find April 1st so annoying? Because it's my birthday, so everyone always thinks I'm pranking.
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TedB said 5:16PM on 4-01-2008
Theres no way you are going to expect any of us to believe that.... lol.
Ian said 5:46PM on 4-01-2008
See? For 30+ years I've been putting up with this!!
:-)
Murphy Mac said 4:47PM on 4-01-2008
I tried, but based on the comments I got I'm guessing some people didn't click my link.
http://murphymac.com/last-post/
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Evan said 4:56PM on 4-01-2008
As I've said before, gullible people shouldn't use the internet on April 1st and Major companies shouldn't put out serious press releases on April 1st. Everything is a joke and fair game today. Haha...
I'm still a fan of Google paper from last year!
http://evansnyder.com
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Andi said 6:01PM on 4-01-2008
I made a April Fools news my self in my German MACazin www.macazin.de, to be found here: http://www.macazin.de/allgemein/apple-lasst-farbige-imacs-wieder-auferstehen/010953/
It reports that Apple will revive the colored iMacs by offering its actual iMacs in various colors like a "Black-Edition", a "Chrome-Edition", a "Gold-Edition" and a "Classic Colors Edition"
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hubartt said 6:54PM on 4-01-2008
Check out keyonedemo.com/hubartt for inormation about the macthemes2.net site.
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hubartt said 6:57PM on 4-01-2008
sorry, here is the link http://keyonedemo.com/hubartt/
David G. said 7:02PM on 4-01-2008
Check this link out. http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/show/1541
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Greg said 7:31PM on 4-01-2008
I posted this on my blog:
http://gregstechblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/bill-gates-renounces-windows.html
heh heh
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Kris said 7:42PM on 4-01-2008
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/betamaxhd.html?cpg=70H
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