Hip-Hop Meets Bizzaro World

Title: Amulet
Category: Lifestyle

amuleticon This is the first time I came across an app and was absolutely floored by its total stupidity. Even the infamous I Am Rich app had some marketing brilliance. But the Amulet app is something special … zero redeeming qualities. At first, the name struck me as odd. Reading Amulet’s lengthy description, each sentence transported me deeper into Bizzaro World, exactly like the Seinfeld episode. “WTF” – I thought – “is this guy for real?” amulet_lilwayne3 Well, one good thing came out of discovering the Amulet app, I learned that an amulet is an  object that protects a person from trouble … bizzaro! To this day I still cannot determine if Amulet was published as a joke or a serious app, perhaps targeting the hip-hop likes of Lil’ Wayne.

Rather than continuing with my rhetoric, I will leave you the  distinct pleasure of experiencing Bizzaro World and reading Amulet’s absolutely amazing and amusing description. If you can bear the entire read, you will be rewarded by learning how to create your own iPhone neckholder … bizzaro!

Wear your iPhone or iPod touch like jewelery. Use a neckholder and let Amulet display the most splendid adornment. The application comes with a variety of virtual jewels and unusual decoration to express your mood. Keep it diffident or showy but always peculiar. You can configure Amulet to match your clothes even take a photo and adapt the jewelery to fit your personal style. Amulet is the uncommon attention getter for extraordinary occasions.

 

This first version of Amulet features nearly 20 peaces of jewelery, flowers, animals and insects to be carried around your neck. Gentle colour effects and animations purfle Amulets jewelery. More artwork will be available in further versions including video support and motion sensitivity.

 

Features:
-4 flowers
-7 pieces of jewelery
-7 animals

 

No neckholder at hand? Here is a little manual to build your own with as much as no effort.

 

First: Get yourself an ordinary sixpack of water, juice or whatever sorry but beer wont do and cut the handle in two halfs. Carefully tear of one half.
Second: Fold the non sticky part of the handle to stick to the glue strip. Use a puncher to make a hole to put the cord through.
Third: Attach the glue strip to the back of your iPhone. It is best to first clean the iPhone with some glass cleaner to make the strip glue even harder.

 

We tried it and it works all right.

Amulet Screenshot 1  Amulet Screenshot 2  Amulet Screenshot 3  Amulet Screenshot 4  

December 26, 2008 | Filed Under Lifestyle | 10 Comments 

Freaks & Free

testing … testing … is this thing on?
hello? is there anyone out there? hello?

(first the Free stuff)
sticky KRAPPS Welcome to KRAPPS and congrats, you are reading our inaugural post. To celebrate this historic event, FREE STICKERS! We are giving away high quality vinyl KRAPPS stickers  which you can proudly display on your laptop, skateboard, notebook, car or whatever. We’ll even pick up the postage to make this promotion totally free. To get your free sticker (sorry, a hoop to jump through) > >>

1) Follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/KRAPPS)
and we’ll follow you back …
2) Direct Message us with your mailing info and we’ll send you a KRAPPS sticker. 

No Twitter account? Open one now! Twitter is awesome and simple to use (even Shaq twitters). Click here for easy to follow instructions about how to set up a Twitter account from Twitip. Once you establish your account, go to twitter.com/KRAPPS … click the “Follow” button underneath the “KR” logo and you’re done. A simple process, less than 3 minutes.

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(now the Freak stuff)
Some people are Starbucks freaks, some are Mac freaks. There are car freaks, music freaks, video game freaks, shoe freaks or just plain ol’ freaks. We at KRAPPS are iPhone freaks. We post messages to discussion boards like iLounge and MacRumors. We read everything iPhone related on sites like Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, Mashable, The Mobile Experience, etc. App review sites like iPhoneAlley, 148Apps and AppVee – got it covered. We just LOVE our iPhones and everything about it (yeah, we basically spend way too much time on iPhone related activities – whatever)!

photo by Travis Hammond iPhone apps are genius. Amazing stuff like Shazam, Pandora, Google Earth, Tap Tap Revenge, Texas Hold’em, etc. But sifting through the 10,000+ apps available, we are continually amazed at the number of KRAPPS … and that’s where we come in. We focus on the krazy side of apps … call ‘em fail apps – slacker apps – suck apps … KRAPPS. The whacky & weird, stupid & strange … KRAPPS … we look at functionality, descriptions, titles, icons, sounds, user reviews, etc … all aspects of an app are open to discretion and ultimately, your laughter.

For every Shazam there is a Respect My Authoriti … release Diaroogle (think diarrhea + Google), sorry getting KRAPPS is just a given … release the “wear your iPhone as a necklace” app – you deserved to by whooped upside your head.

KRAPPS
not all apps are created equal

PS – if for some strange reason you want to learn more about us, click here.

December 25, 2008 | Filed Under News | 13 Comments 

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