Mensas At Meat Couch

Continuing our theme of “Brilliant Ideas” from yesterday’s article, we would like to share another mensa moment. We will not take credit for this one, as this idea is purely the genius efforts of the folks at Meat Couch Productions (yes, the link is safe to click … we are a PG-13 rated site … go elsewhere if you seek smut).

So pay attention … follow closely the thought process. Remember, this is a mensa moment – extra effort to comprehend is required.

danicapatrick In the Real World, sex sells:
Want to sell a hamburger … stick a bikini-clad, Bentley washing Paris Hilton in your commercial. Want to sell domain names … just feature Danica Patrick taking a shower. Want to sell a sports magazine … make a swimsuit issue.

In the iPhone App World, things are a little bit different, farts sell:
Want to become the #1 selling app … release iFart. Want to sell a Twitter app … make Tweetie the farting Twitter app. Want to sell a music app … make a farting piano like the Fart Keyboard app. Want to sell a children’s game … release the Simon Says Fart app. Want to build a community app … release a social media fart app like Rate A Fart.

Ok, to review … so far we have established Real World versus App World selling strategies. Now we must understand the difference between the two buying audiences.

The Real World audience are your non-geeks:
People who are clueless with terminology like url, SEO, cloud computing, etc. They can barely plug-in a usb device and call the Geek Squad to setup their home network.

geek The App World audience are your typical geeks:
The barely realize a world outside the Internet. They attend geekfests like SXSWi. They idolize people like Steve Jobs and Guy Kawasaki. They wear “Byte Me” t-shirts. They feel naked without their MacBook.

Now the unique phenomenon is the iPhone … where Real World (non-geeks) collides with App World (geeks). Both adore iPhones and their two worlds meld into one. This really is a grand notion and something the mensas at Meat Couch Productions (seriously, this is not a porn studio) discovered. They turned the concept into a formula for billions$$ … Sex (Real World) + Farts (App World) = $$$$$$$.

Why do we give all the credit to Meat Couch? Four words … the BIKINI FART app!

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March 20, 2009 | Filed Under Entertainment | 12 Comments 

Just Google Me

Guess what … we are brilliant! No seriously … we really are. We’ve just came up with the most awesome idea for an iPhone app … this is the type of app that will immediately skyrocket to the #1 position and make us million$$ billion$$. We’re quitting our day jobs and taking over the App Store … screw Pocket God.

Since y’all (sorry, spent 5 days in Texas at SXSWi) are loyal KRAPPS viewers, we’ll let you in on our secret. But please … SHHHHH … don’t go babbling our stuff to EA Mobile, Appy Entertainment (wait, scratch them, they haven’t even released an app yet) or some other fancy pants mega-developer. Our idea is epic – so just be cool and don’t blow our billion$$.

GoogleMe_Final So you know those one dollar bills you have in your wallet? Well check it … we’re going to sell an app that gives users step-by-step instructions on how to make a one dollar bill into a ring – the Dollar Bill Ring app. WOOT … told ya it was EPIC! Yeah, we came across this origami site that gives all the details. The site was so easy to find …all we did is Google “dollar bill ring” and boom, thousands of dollar bill ring making choices. Heck, there are even instructional YouTube videos. But you know … it was easy for us to find because we are brilliant … but for the common iPhone owner, no way would they ever find this info … so thus, we make billion$$.

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Internet-All-Star Not a good idea? Whatever hater! You see it’s all about “positioning”. We’ve been hanging on Twitter a lot lately and following all these SEO, SEM, Social/New Media, Make Money Online and Life Coach experts, strategists and evangelists (Internet All Stars) … so now we’re even more brilliant. Just check out our Dollar Bill Ring App spin (thanks All Stars!):

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And what do we charge for our Dollar Bill Ring app … why 99 cents of course … we’re going to sell crap-loads, so even if we charged 50 cents, we would still make our billion$$.

WHAT?!?! NO!!! SAY IT AIN’T SO!!! THIS BLOWS!!! ROTTEN BASTARDS!!! SOMEBODY STOLE OUR IDEA!!! IT’S ALREADY RELEASED!!! NOT ONE, BUT TWO DOLLAR BILL RING APPS!!! ARGH!!! NOT FAIR!!! MORE DAY JOB!!! WE SUCK!!! The freaking Eagle Ring and Pyramid Ring apps … THEY STOLE OUR BILLION$$!!

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March 19, 2009 | Filed Under Entertainment | 37 Comments 

Dumb And Dumber

dumb-and-dumber Have you ever seen the movie Dumb and Dumber? It’s a slapstick comedy film featuring the characters Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne. The movie follows their adventures and keeps the audience thinking – “who’s the bigger dumb ass, Lloyd or Harry”. Yeah, it’s a pretty dumb movie (pun intended), but entertaining none the less.

Well the developers at peekpoke seem to be big Dumb And Dumber fans. In honor of the movie, peekpoke has released two apps which are essentially Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne … the Kampi and Sales Kampi apps. Like the movie, these apps will keep you thinking, “which app is the bigger dumb ass?”

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Rather than describe these two apps (words can’t really do these apps justice), take a look at the instructional video below. While the video runs just over one minute in length, you really only have to watch about 6 seconds of the video to understand its point.

 

So what exactly is the point of Kampi and Sales Kampi? Uhhh – hmmm … hmmm – ok, our bad – not really sure what’s the point of these apps. They sort of remind us of the Nothing app we recently featured. Yeah, maybe that’s it – the point of Kampi and Sales Kampi is absolutely nothing! Got it … we are good to go. So now that we understand the point of all this is nothing, only one question remains … between Kampi and Sales Kampi … which one is Dumb and which one is Dumber?

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March 18, 2009 | Filed Under Business | 23 Comments 

Sliders App

By demand, KRAPPS will periodically review “legit” apps thru a network of guest authors.

Title: Sliders
Category: Games
Guest Author: Carolynn

sliders_logoGIF I really enjoy puzzle games. But there are a lot of games out there that seem to take a theme and beat it in to the ground without really changing anything. They slap on some different graphics and say it’s “new” when really it’s the same old game with glitter on it. So, when I’m combing though all these games, I’m pleased when I find one that’s not like all the others. One that has some of the same characteristics but adds a new twist. Something to make your puzzle fingers excited again. Well folks, there are games like this out there – breaking the mold and do something different. One of these new games is Sliders by Gnizama.

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Sliders is a game that brings something different to the Match-3 table. When you start the game, you are presented with a 5 x 5 board of brightly colored blocks. You then slide the blocks side to side or up and down to make matches of 3 or more colors. But, here’s where it gets different. In most Match-3 games, you must make a move that results in a match. In Sliders, you can slide the blocks where you want to as many times as you need to pick up big combos and Special Matches. Special Matches are certain block configurations that give you mega point bonuses! They are listed in the help section of the game. There are 3 different game modes; Timed, Strategy and Free Play. In Timed mode you are given 120 seconds to score as many points as possible. If you make a match of 4 or more blocks, or a Special Match, you will get extra time. In Strategy Mode you have 50 moves to get the highest score. As with Timed mode, if you make a match of 4 or more etc; you gain extra moves. Free play mode lets you play without timers or other distractions to practice getting those huge combos and Special Matches.

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What’s great about Sliders? It’s a great little game that changes the Match-3 game play up a bit. The graphics are very clean and polished. I am in love the sounds and the background music. It gives a great feel to the game, a lightness that’s enjoyable to listen to. The gameplay is simple, yet addicting. Trying to get the Special Matches is challenging and they really make you want to play more to get them. What’s not so great? There is no separate scoreboard included. The game only records your highest score in either Timed mode or Strategy mode. It’s displayed on the information page. There is also no in game Global Scoreboard. I’d also like to see more times added or the timer extended a bit so you can play timed mode longer. 120 seconds doesn’t seem like enough time to me. Or maybe it’s because I liked timed mode best and want to play it longer!

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My overall impression of Sliders: if you like puzzle games, then you really should give it a try. It’s a great pick and play game and you don’t need a lot of time on your hands to play. Unless you are the addictive type and end up playing for longer than you planned. Sliders can have that effect, so be careful! But do try it. Click here to purchase Sliders for $1.99 in the App Store or visit the web site for more information and demo video.

antikrappssealv2gif EDITORS NOTE: Putting a new spin on a classic is risky business. Remakes of movies, songs, automobiles, etc. can get tricky … propensity to fail is high as emulating a classic is tough. That’s why the folks at Gnizama did a marvelous job putting their spin on the classic Match-3 game … no fail for them as Sliders is a big win and thus 100% anti-KRAPPS Certified.

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March 17, 2009 | Filed Under anti-KRAPPS, Games, Guest Authors | 18 Comments 

Too Much Information

There are things in life that you simply do not discuss in public. Ever hear of the saying …
3 things you do not talk about at work – Religion, Sex or Politics. (I guess Fight Club could be a fourth) It’s true. These subjects are to delicate for general public consumption – much better to keep these matters private and only share them with family and close friends.

Same holds true with the iPhone … some apps, no matter how tempting, should not be installed. Take for example the six apps below – which of the following locator apps do not belong on your iPhone?

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exactly … the FIND A GYNECOLOGIST app … wth?!?! Maybe we are just skewed by our male perspective … but seriously …

obgyn-kenobi Do the ladies really need to locate a gynecologist at a moments notice? – And if you do need a gynecologist at any given moment, don’t you have some serious health issues and better off staying near you primary physician? – And wouldn’t the ladies prefer a gynecologist they are familiar with than some random obgyn? – And gynecological matters, aren’t they a bit too personal to be front and center on your iPhone?

So many questions are swirling through our male minds. We would love to pick the brains of the developers at iHealth Ventures who released this gem. I mean we can understand the Locate My Parked Car app or the Find A Pizza app … but Find A Gynecologist …
whoa, iHealth Ventures … too much information bro!

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March 17, 2009 | Filed Under Health | 24 Comments 

Brown Note

Ever hear of Brown Note? It’s actually quite popular … Brown Note has been featured on the television shows MythBusters and Brainiac: Science Abuse. The character Echo DeMille from the NBC series Heroes is able to produce a Brown Note to escape from some of his pursuers. The band Ben Folds have incorporated Brown Note into their concerts. And probably the most popular Brown Note reference was in an episode of South Park …

Simply put, the Brown Note is an infrasound frequency that is said to cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance. eww! And of course you know where this is going:

What’s great about the iPhone is that if you want to make people crap their pants,
there is an app for that …

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Yes – of course there is an app for that … Apple approves apps for just about anything … including the Brown Noise app … the app that theoretically makes people crap their pants. Thank you Apple for consistently approving apps we really need.

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March 16, 2009 | Filed Under Entertainment | 11 Comments 

Facebook Connect For iPhone, Now Live

Well, well, well … look what we have here
FACEBOOK CONNECT FOR iPHONE HAS LAUNCHED!
How do we know? Cuz we smart!

facebook-mum As customary in Casa de KRAPPS, we were tinkering around on our iPhone and noticed one of our favorite apps, Binary Game [App Store], had an update waiting for download (click here to read why we <3 this game). We immediately opened the screen and began reading the update’s details. There was all this mumbo-jumbo about Facebook and how Binary Game is now so much cooler because it’s integrated into Facebook. Then it dawned on us, after 8 months of waiting, Facebook Connect for iPhone has finally launched!

We first learned about this upcoming Facebook/iPhone feature on July 23, 2008 via Gizmodo and TechCrunch. Per the Gizmodo article:

At Facebook’s annual f8 conference this afternoon it was revealed that iPhone app developers will be able to integrate apps with Facebook Connect—in other words, apps will be able to link up to and share data with your Facebook account, so your identity will be consistent and linked across apps through your Facebook account (and you won’t have to create separate accounts for every app).

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What this now means for Binary Game (besides the fact that it’s an even cooler game):
Facebook users who play Binary Game can login to Facebook (from within the game) and compete directly against their friends. When a new high score is achieved and a user has defeated the score of their friends, they will now be able to post a social action on Facebook telling all their Facebook friends of their achievement.

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Initially Facebook announced that Facebook Connect for iPhone would be released in Fall 2008. Obviously a delay, but good things come to those that wait. We can only assume the Binary Game is not the only iPhone game being integrated into Facebook Connect. We suspect we hear an official announcement from Facebook, including all “phase 1” Facebook enabled iPhone games, within the next 12 hours. More specifically, since it’s SXSWi time, where major announcements always occur, we believe Facebook employee, Dave Morin, makes it official in his “The Search For A More Social Web” SXSWi presentation at 11:30am CST. Attending SXSWi? Make sure you are there for Dave’s presentation and witness first-hand this MAJOR NEWS … hopefully he has some swag to hand out.

update: Tap Tap Revenge 2 is now also Facebook enabled

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March 13, 2009 | Filed Under Games, News | 13 Comments 

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