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Friday, December 17, 2010

3 Pranks for the iPhone

By Pietro Ferrari


Do you have an irritating colleague who constantly shows around his new iPhone? Does your significant other or sibling usually get and use it? How would you like to get back at them?

If you're able to get your hands on his or her iPhone while that person is gone for a couple of minutes, then you're already past the trickiest step. When it comes to a coworker, hold back until they are gone for that business meeting or to the bathroom, yet for some reason left their phone on the desk. This will likely require careful planning and waiting, but it will be well worth your efforts.

With siblings this should actually be a whole lot easier because you most likely live with all of them; this will give you more time and opportunity.

The very first thing you could do is modify the language controls into a really strange language such as Chinese. Go to Settings -- General -- International and then Language.

A different amusing trick you could try is shuffling the organization of all of their apps. Just press and hold some icon till they are all constantly moving, and then just move them all around; feel free to take them to other screens. If you happen to be upgraded to the newest iOS version, you may organize them in folders that don't make sense. To do this, drag one icon onto another. The device should then permit you to rename the groups or folder when you look inside one of them.

Obviously, there is the well known wallpaper replacing stunt. If you have the most current version of iOS (4.0 and above on iPhone), you can choose a background. All you need it to get a really funny (or unpleasant) image. You will need to locate it in Safari, press and hold the picture, and tap Save Image. Then, proceed to the Wallpaper option inside the Settings menu and choose the photo you just took.

Last of all, a totally wonderful prank is displaying a fake screenshot of their background (with apps and all) and then locking the device. Once the victim unlocks their phone, they will be puzzled as to why their apps aren't working. The downside to this prank is that whenever a user taps, usually some bar will get displayed, so the trick will lose its magic pretty quickly.

You're lucky though: there are some apps that solve this challenge and even provide all kinds of other wonderful gags and tricks.




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