Have you ever seen this message on your PC?

I’ll put it this way, you’ll only see that message if I’ve had a little time to sabotage your PC while you had your back turned. Believe me, I love PC pranks and jokes. I’ve been doing them for years – just ask my friends at work. Read on and I’ll tell you how to create one of the easiest, but most flexible pranks.

The VB Script Prank
First, open up your Windows Notepad or your favorite plain text editor. Now paste in the following text.

MsgBox “Windows has determined that you may not be smart enough to surf the internet. Click OK if you are stupid!”, 0, “Error”

Now save the file as joke.vbs

Finally, double click the file to test it. You should see the same message box I displayed above.

How does it work?
The VBS in joke.vbs, stands for Visual Basic Script. As far as I know, every copy of Windows can interpret Microsoft Visual Basic scripts. Visual Basic scripting is a powerful programming language that can work miracles or destroy your hard work. In this prank, all it does is pop up a harmless message window. VBS by itself isn’t evil. It depends on who the programmer is. So when you use it, be very very careful.

Can you change the message?
Yes, it’s easy to tweak this prank. Here’s a template you can use.

MsgBox “***YourMessage***”, 0, “***MessageBoxTitle***”

You can replace the text ***YourMessage*** with your message. If you want to change the title that displays in the window’s title bar, you can change the text ***MessageBoxTitle***.

Be sure that you keep the quotes.

How can you make people click on it?
Let’s say someone you know uses a shortcut on their desktop to run Internet Explorer. We’ll replace their shortcut with our own prank short cut.

1. Move their shortcut and your joke.vbs file to somewhere in a folder on the PC.

2. On the desktop, create a shortcut to your joke.vbs file.

3. Right click on the joke.vbs shortcut, select Properties, and choose the “Change Icon” button.

4. Now select the icon which looks like Internet Explorer.

5. Change the name of the shortcut to Internet Explorer.

6. Get ready to laugh at them when they try to go surfing.

If you’d like to learn more about the VB MsgBox function, you can read about it at vbtutor.

Do you have any questions about jokes, pranks or programming? Do you have any ideas you’d like to share? Be sure to add a comment below or email me. I’d love to hear from you.

Oh with lots of free time on hand we definitely need some sort of way to pass our time. If you enjoy driving your friends nuts by playing stupid pranks on them, then here are some more tools that will help you have some fun.

Reverse Text

Back in the days when I was in school we just to use a code language, the code language involved speaking text in reverse. We had a lot of fun using it since it annoyed the hell out of people who were around us.

If you want to do the same you can use the reverse text service to reverse the text order and then paste it as your Twitter or Facebook status message or even send them as emails or IM messages to your friends.

Flip Text Upside Down

How does the world look upside down? Well I can’t tell you that, but I can definitely show you a service called Flip Text that flips text upside down.

Just type in the text you want to flip and hit the flip button, send the flipped text to your friends to see them go nuts.

Shuffle Text

Though not exactly a prank, this was an actual experiment where it was determined that most users do not read entire words. Instead we just focus on the first and last letters in a word while reading. It does not matter what characters are in between them. Think SMS language :-).

Want to give it a try then check out the Shuffle text service.

Do you have any other similar services you use to play pranks on your friends? Don’t forget to share them with us.

It’s the time of the year when you pull pranks on your friends making a fool out of them, we did try our best to fool readers with a article we released just a bit earlier than April Fools’ Day, if you are not yet aware, our Microsoft Windows Goes Open Source post was a April Fool prank on you :-).

Well lets not leave it at that, there are several other blogs that pulled pranks on their readers, like last year’s April Fool pranks coverage we have coverage of the best April Fool pranks of this year too :-).

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CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity)

Google is known to come up with some seriously funny April Fool pranks, this year is no different and their April Fool prank involves the announcement of CADIE.

Since then progress has been rapid, and tonight we’re pleased to announce that just moments ago, the world’s first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) was switched on and began performing some initial functions. It’s an exciting moment that we’re determined to build upon by coming to understand more fully what CADIE’s emergence might mean, for Google and for our users. So although CADIE technology will be rolled out with the caution befitting any advance of this magnitude, in the months to come users can expect to notice her influence on various google.com properties.

Want to learn more about this prank, visit the CADIE landing page.

3-in-1-Google

Google Operating system, the blog you should follow for knowing anything and everything about Google, has come up with a prank, which suggests that Google will be adding two buttons to their homepage which will allow users to Search Yahoo and Live :-P, in the process doing away with the I’m Feeling Lucky button.

Alex also did a pretty neat job of re-creating the Google homepage with the said button, we suggest that Alex take up a Photoshop job :-). Checkout 3-in-1-Google.

YouTube Upside Down Videos

YouTube was not to be left behind playing pranks on its users, videos started to show up upside down, including everything else on the page.

The folks at YouTube proposed a new viewing experience, where you had to turn your monitor upside down, tilt your neck or move to Australia to view the videos properly :-).

You can view the new viewing experience by clicking on any of the featured videos on YouTube homepage, or adding a extra parameter &flip=1to the original YouTube URL.

Gmail Autopilot

Gmail users could not be left behind, and the announcement of Gmail Autopilot a feature that will allow you to automatically respond to messages.

Looking at the replies of the autopilot, I definitely would not want this thing anywhere near my Gmail account :-).

Floating Amazon Cloud Computing

Amazon has taken the literal meaning of cloud computing to its reality by designing the Floating Amazon Cloud Environment.

The FACE uses durable, unmanned helium-filled blimps with a capacity of 65,536 small EC2 instances, or a proportionate number of larger instances. The top of each blimp is coated in polycrystalline solar cells which supply approximately 40% of the power needed by the servers and the on-board navigation, communication, and defense systems.  The remainder of the power is produced by clean, efficient solid oxide fuel cells. There’s enough fuel onboard to last about a month under normal operating conditions. Waste heat from the fuel cells and from the servers is used to generate additional lift.

LOL, they sure know how to play their pranks.

Warner Bros Acquire The Pirate Bay

TorrentFreak reports that Warner Bros has acquired The Pirate Bay for over $13 billion realizing their folly of having sued them in the first place.

After years of hostility, lawsuits, police raids and heated invective between the two groups, the Pirate Bay has today announced they have settled their differences with US media conglomerate Warner Bros. The largest BitTorrent tracker has sold out to Hollywood and the two have agreed a deal.

LOL, now that goes a long way in legalizing all the filmy torrents out there :-;

In other interesting pranks, Expedia the travel agency is allowing flights to Mars from $99 on the other hand if you are bored living on earth, Hotels.com now offers accommodation on the Moon.

On the social networking front, Digg’s algorithm for reaching the frontpage has been cracked, everyone can now get their websites to Digg frontpages, Identi.ca has acquired Twitter, a really sad day for Twitter users, reddit has changed it design and now looks like a Digg clone also naming themselves as reddigg :-). Fark now have their own social networking site and no surprise that they have cloned Facebook to take the easy way out.

Woot is now selling crap today for $3 with a $1,000,000.00 shipping. Yahoo announces Ideological search, a groundbreaking new search filter that keeps controversy out of your search experience. The Guardian will be doing away with their print and online news and doing it the twitter way.

Phew, there are a lot more April Fools’ pranks we may have missed out here, do comment about the pranks that you came across and let everyone know about it :-), and BTW Happy April Fool’s Day from Techie Buzz team.

Some of the pranks were sourced from Techcrunch’s roundup of April fool pranks.

Welcome to another episode of Friday Fun where we take a break from the usual software reviews and tips and tricks to bring a bit of laughter to your face. This weeks Friday fun is a deadly ultimate fake virus which can be used to play pranks on your unsuspecting friends.

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The software in question is not a virus but acts like one and will definitely have your friends scratch their heads and sweat in horror as is goes about with its job.

Here is what the ultimate virus is programmed to do (everything it does is fake :-)). At first run, a progress bar appears, that informs the user that virus loading is in progress. Then, the taskbar and desktop icons disappears. A dialog box is then displayed containing three choices:

• Format Hard disk – If you click this button, a progress bar will appears that formatting is in progress but actually it’s not. If user click "Cancel" button, then a fake "Blue Screen Of Death" will appear!
• Delete Windows Folder – This program will scan all files and folders on your Windows folder. After that, a progress bar appears that displaying deletion progress.
• Delete All Contents on Local Disk – Similar to above, but it just scan folders on your root folder.

The horror does not end here and there are few more things that may drive your friends crazy. So go ahead and send the file to your friends and have fun.

Download Ultimate Virus