WTF: Me & My Grandparent GOLD
Michael (Admin) | Sep 16, 2009 Entertainment, WTF?!
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First of all, lemme just say that I’m not laughing at old people here! Parents and grandparents and other wrinkled folk are A-OK in my book and I mean that in all sincerity. In the past 18 months I lost both of my great aunts who nearly hit the century mark (the older one made it 99) and I truly miss them, and I truly truly wish I could have sent them some greeting cards from Me & My Grandparents GOLD because they would have gotten a good laugh out of them!
Some of you will think I’m crazy or just plain mean for poking fun at this app, but Mobile Champs has produced 30 of the gooeyest, gaudiest, most over-the-top expressions of Love any human has ever come up with in the history of written schmaltz. The wording of the default greetings is both flowery and bizarre, and to top it off they’re adorned with rainbows and hearts and fairies to make the experience complete.
Me & My Grandparents isn’t horrible in the functionality department, but it’s not good either. The icons used for navigating are kind of cryptic, text editing is somewhat limited, and photo handling is extremely limited. All of that will be forgotten, though, when you start sending these unintentionally funny greetings around and get an inbox full of LOLs and WTFs in return.
iTunes Link – Me & My Grandparents GOLD
Version 1.0
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.1
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- Like I said... bizarre!!
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- Well there's no reason NOT to care, so I guess I'm onboard...
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- Castles that bear fruit are my favorite kind
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- Hey look, it's the money we could be saving with Geico!
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- The gaudy background actually works well with my Aunt Mary the Terminator
Tags: $.99, funny, greeting cards
Crasher Squirrel
Michael (Admin) | Sep 15, 2009 Photo & Video
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When I spotted Crasher Squirrel my first instinct was to put it under the WTF category because I thought it was just gonna be stupid, but as it turns out it’s stupid and well done and it’s even mildly amusing so I’ll spare it the WTF label. Crasher Squirrel is basically a poor man’s version of Hendrik Kueck’s Juxtaposer, but instead of mashing together two photos you’re just slapping a squirrel onto your pics.
There’s nothing terribly fancy going on here, but United Playcos did a nice job of making the squirrel move and resize with two-finger gestures and you can also erase/unerase squirrel parts as you see fit. This last bit is important because erasing portions of the squirrel does a lot for integrating the furry little guy into photos in ways that are a lot funnier and more creative than if he’s just standing there in the foreground like an idiot.
WTF: Zombie Weatherman
Michael (Admin) | Sep 9, 2009 Weather, WTF?!
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Apple’s default weather app is sooooooo lame! No blood, no zombies, nothing.
Clockrocket Games gets goofy here with their version of the weather, complete with a not-quite-dead guy bleeding next to the forecast. Tap Mr. Zombie to attack him and spray blood all over the screen and then rub him to get him cleaned up.
Adding and swiping through different cities works pretty much just like the default weather. I can’t really say the weather this app serves up is all that accurate since the numbers deviate by 3-5 degrees (F) from Weather.com, but you’re not really getting Zombie Weatherman for the weather, are you?
It’s gross, it’s funny, and thankfully there’s a free version to try out.
iTunes Link – Zombie Weatherman
Version 1.1
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0.1
I'll take this dude over Al Roker any day of the week
WTF: Frog Box
Michael (Admin) | Sep 9, 2009 Entertainment, WTF?!
User rating: (3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Well… you gotta give FAYJU credit for thinking “outside the box” on their strategy for marketing their other less ridiculous app, Fayju Ball.
There are two main things you can do with Frog Box: play a few sample levels from Fayju Ball, or flick a dead frog around either a classroom or a cardboard box. You read that right! Flick a dead frog. I tried the ball game and it’s not bad, but frankly I prefer the frog corpse; it’s a nice way of reconciling the inner demons that still haunt me from when I had to dissect one of those little bastards in high school.
It’s free, it’s stupid, and it’s relatively well done, especially for an app that’s really just a marketing vehicle in disguise.
iTunes Link – Frog Box
Version 1.0.3
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0.1
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- At least there's something to do when you get tired of the frog after 5 seconds
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- Nice... check out the instructions and promos on the blackboard
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- Fayju Ball... ehh it's ok I guess!
WTF: Dude Deluxe
Michael (Admin) | Sep 2, 2009 Entertainment, WTF?!
User rating: (3 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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Dude! Duuuuuude! Duuuude.
That’s basically all this app does… it says DUDE, over and over and over again. It says Dude like you just spilled a beer, it says Dude like you just nailed your best friend’s girlfriend, it says Dude like you just violated several sacred Man Laws all at once. It says Dude in so many ways you’ll almost feel stupid for saying it in real life!
It’s a painfully stupid app, but at least I gotta give credit to The App Company for going the distance and building in all kinds of Dude-related functionality… you can email a Dude MP3 file to a fellow dude, there are Dude Alarm and “Bomb” functions, and you can even use a Dude recording as a ringtone! I did the ringtone and it totally worked so now whenever my dad calls, my iPhone starts yelling Dude! Dude! Dude! Priceless.
Thankfully there’s a free version of Dude so you don’t have to shell out any cash go Dude-crazy, but if you want the ringtone and some of the other fancy features you’ll need to go Deluxe.
iTunes Link – Dude Deluxe
Version 1.0
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0.1
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- Duuuuude!
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- Dude Alarm will release the Dude when the timer runs out
WTF: Poo Log
Michael (Admin) | Aug 27, 2009 Healthcare & Fitness, WTF?!
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There are lots of ways to pass the time when you’re squeezing one off in the bathroom… read a magazine, call your mom, pluck your treasure trail… but none of these activities will teach you a damn thing about your poo!
The hilariously named Poo Log is part fecal tracker, part bathroom timer, and part trivia game, and it’s all pulled together in a surprisingly fun app that you can use to create, well, a different kind of poo log than you’re used to producing while you’re on the can. With this app you can time how long it takes to do your business and how often you’re doing it, and to keep you busy there’s a poo-related trivia game, that is, assuming your ass isn’t unleashing the kind of chaos that requires you to hold on for dear life. When the smoke clears you get to rate your crap in several different categories and even make notes about how majestic it looks down there in the toilet bowl.
WTF: Ask Uncle Boris
Michael (Admin) | Aug 12, 2009 Entertainment, WTF?!
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The things crazy old men will do for a dollar these days...
If John Tabernik were my best friend and he came to me and said, “hey I’m gonna make an iPhone app that’s like a Magic 8 Ball except instead of the 8 Ball it’s gonna be pics of an old Russian guy spouting nonsense,” I would have slapped him across the face and called him an idiot!
Apparently John doesn’t have friends like me so he went ahead and created Ask Uncle Boris, the 8 Ball that isn’t an 8 Ball but you desperately wish it were.
Ask the poor old man trapped inside this app a question and he’ll reply with one of 30 yes/no/maybe answers, and not only do you get to read his nuggets of wisdom but you have to HEAR them, too!
File Ask Uncle Boris under So Dumb It’s Funny and move on with your iPhone life. Oyyy!
(Sorry guys, no free codes on this one! Try to hide your disappointment :razz:)
iTunes Link – Ask Uncle Boris
Version who cares
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0
Lingopal in German and Japanese
Michael (Admin) | Aug 5, 2009 Travel
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Lingopal kostenlos! 無料！
Unlike the full version, these apps include translations from any of 40+ languages only to Japanese or German. Here’s the review of the full version.
iTunes Link – Lingopal Japanese
iTunes Link – Lingopal German
More Lingopal Codes!
Michael (Admin) | Aug 5, 2009 Travel
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The Favorites list is muy bueno
Hey travelers, the folks at Lingopal love you sooooooo much that they’ve provided some more promo codes!
In case you missed it, here’s the review. If you’re planning to travel in a place where they don’t speak your language… even if that language happens to be Afrikaans or Estonian or Icelandic or Tagalog… this iPhone phrasebook has you covered!
I’ll be posting some codes for the German and Japanese versions of Lingopal in a few minutes, so if you’d prefer a version that has ONLY those languages instead just hang on~
iTunes Link – Lingopal – Fun Multilingual Phrasebook
18,000 Cool Jokes
Michael (Admin) | Jul 31, 2009 Lifestyle
User rating: (5 votes, average: 3.80 out of 5)
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As an old man was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife’s voice urgently warning him, “Herman, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on Route 280. Please be careful!”
“It’s not just one car,” said Herman, “it’s hundreds of them!”
18,000 Cool Jokes is full of jokes like this one… corny, slightly amusing jokes. Some of them vaguely qualify as “mature”, but the vast majority are are pretty mild.
Lingopal – Fun Multilingual Phrasebook
Michael (Admin) | Jul 28, 2009 Travel
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Traveling this summer? Here are some useful phrases from Lingopal that might come in handy:
What’s your name?
(Dutch) Wat is uw naam?
I can’t find my luggage.
(Italian) Non riesco trovare il mio bagaglio.
The girls from my country aren’t as hot as you!
(Korean) 제 나라 여자들은 당신처럼 섹시 하지 않아요
You read that right… Lingopal supplies you with 13 categories of “normal” conversational phrases that cover things like dining, getting directions, business talk, and emergencies… and it also comes with 9 categories of flirting plus some mild insults just in case you strike out.
The Idiot Test 3
Michael (Admin) | Jul 9, 2009 Entertainment
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Finally, a test I can pass! Well yeah, after about 20 tries. You might recall an app called “The Moron Test” that was perched atop the App Store’s Paid Apps list not too long ago, and THIS app has nothing to do with that one. Apparently there was some copyright infringing going on because the original “Idiot Test” was a flash game created by Ryan Curtis a few years ago and the Moron Test people were kind of stealing his concept… anyway, The Idiot Test 3 by Nexx Studio is legit and was created with Ryan’s involvement, just in case you’re wondering what went on there. Yay for being legit! Yayyyyy.
So wtf’s the big deal with testing whether or not you’re an idiot? Well, when you consider how many idiots there are in the world (myself included) it’s a pretty ingenius idea. The questions start off dead-simple and lull you into a state of smug confidence, and before you know it you’re hearing a very Nelson Muntz-like HA-HA as you get a question wrong and fail the test.
