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An app that brings to your smartphone a completely (not) interactive text-only story (or possibly ZX81 type graphics, only horizontal lines rendered very slowly).
In glorious monochrome it tells the classic tale of of how the Greco-Trojan war was inadvertently started with Helen selecting the wrong
"Paris" on the navigation app of her tablet, while driving a chariot.
I'm not getting caught up in all that "Yeah, but did Homer actually write it?" bit, just because it doesn't mention doughnuts at any point is not incontrovertible proof one way or the other.
Suspect very, very early ver of Apple Maps.
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Coming next, iLied, in which the computer feeds you deliberate misinformation. Also iLeider, the classical snob's MP3 library app. And finally iLiner, a special adapter that plugs into your smartphone's data port and which has an algorithmically extruded mascara applicator. |
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iLaid, an app to keep track of your amorous conquests. iLead, universal power supply. iLead, pencil core containing microcircuitry for some obscure geeky functionality. iLido, an ultrasonic cleaning tank for your smartphone. iLlness, a strange Welsh affliction from over-use of fashion electronica. |
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Personally I prefer iNfamy, as in Caesar's speech "iNfamy, iNfamy, they all have it iNfamy". |
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The iiiiiMnotYourSteppingStone app, which would seem to be some kind of pre-nup boilerplate generator. |
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i[Marked-for-deletion], a smartphone app that automatically detects stupid ideas and annihalates them. (Swiftly followed by a 50% reduction in internet traffic I suppose....) |
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iRon. An application which removes creases from your
clothing. |
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I think I'm still ahead on points, having got 4 i's in there. |
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Ahh, by dint of using a sash clamp, I managed to get all four leading i's on a triple letter score square. |
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And mild re-edit of original idea. |
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iLdl - online, bargain-price supermarket for poor typists. |
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iBid : department of eBay for stuff that isn't moving. |
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iEye : nautical navigation app |
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iVan : Russian delivery service |
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ILluminati - an app that finds the cheapest lightbulbs from a range of online retailers. |
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iNoCorrida - a program that rates dodgy France-Japanese films. |
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//iKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer |
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Also useful for the heavy drinker and other people with memory lapses. |
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Also useful for the heavy dr...hang on.. |
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iPatch, iI, and iCnoships, a trio of nautical navigation apps. |
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West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
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iSteddfod, only works in Welsh though. |
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iOftheTiger, enables you to track Sylvester Stallone's "acting" career. |
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iHaveNoIdea how to end this thread. |
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