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Top 10 List: An April Fool's Day Round Up

by - source: Tom's Hardware US

Today being April fool's day there's a lot of crazy news doing the rounds. Some sites opted for pranks instead of news though, so here's the best of the April fool's jokes we've seen today. Not surprisingly, Google had a few really good ones.

Google Translate for Animals.

Google Translate for Animals

YouTube text mode.

YouTube had a neat little trick that showed videos in ASCII art. Just add &textp=fool to the end of a YouTube URL and you'll see YouTube videos in a whole new light. Alternatively, you can select any of the videos that appear under Spotlight: Introducing TEXTp header on the YouTube homepage.

App-e-ture.

Pocket-Lint reported that Canon, Olympus, and Nikon announced a partnership (CON) that would see the three companies create an app store for digital cameras called App-e-ture. The store allows users to force their camera into taking images like a pro and is sure to help gain ground on phone cameras that many believe are damaging compact camera sales.

ThinkGeek's iCade dock for the iPad.

Google changed its name to Topeka.

IGN posted a trailer for the Halo movie series.

One word: Bollywood.

Halo Movie Trailer (IGN)

ThinkGeek's programmable tattoo system.

E-Ink tattos that you can change or erase at whim? Yes please!

Google Wave notifications.

They'll send a real person to tell you about new messages.

Google Wave Notifications

Reddit Admins for All

Reddit reportedly made everyone an admin for the day.

PopCap announced a new version of Celebrity Bejeweled.

Did you come across any good April fool's jokes? Post them in the comments below!

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roots 01/04/2010 23:19
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AMD's lottery core CPU was also a good one.

Lewis57 01/04/2010 23:52
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That youtube one was awesome.

das_stig 01/04/2010 23:55
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Best one so far, TH is reputable and unbiased I.T news site, who believe the world stops at North America's borders. ;)

ukcal 02/04/2010 01:33
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Haha, I actually love that iCade thing! I bet if they were released Apple would sell more iPads. Like, two more...

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