Rochester, New York (PRWEB) December 31, 2011
With the gift-wrap already recycled or on the trash heap, many new iPhone and iPad owners are searching the Apple iTunes Store for exciting and useful apps to enhance their new tech marvels. But with so many apps to choose from and with searching for apps notoriously a very hit or miss proposition on the Apple iTunes App Store, it’s good to have some help in making choices. Fred Burger, the developer of “The Gift of Laughter” app has selected 6 other popular humor oriented iPhone/iPad apps that can turn an iPhone or iPad into a great resource for fun. What better way for a user to get started than with a new and powerful gift?
1. The Onion
Price: Free Works with: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
The Onion, one of the best satirical news sources, is essentially an iPad magazine, although it’s available on the iPhone and iPod touch as well (the iPad version is called The Onion Tablet, while the iPhone/iPod touch app is simply named The Onion). The grid-style layout on the front page will be familiar to users of apps such as The New York Times. Navigation is reasonably quick, if a little jerky at times.
Once The Onion app has downloaded the week’s content from the site – of which there’s a decent amount – one can read it whether online or not, which makes it useful for comedy fans without a mobile data connection. But certain features, such as video, take a while to download.
At its heart it’s still The Onion, which means it’s satirical genius at its best, and the app rolls in almost the same amount of content as the physical newspaper. The text stories in it are cuttingly sharp, and the info-graphics are high-resolution and hilarious.
One of the greatest features though, is the parody video reports, aping the 24-hour news networks with a constant churn of ridiculous stories. Production values in these videos are surprisingly good, and a reader will chuckle to himself and want to share them with friends and co-workers.
2. 18,000 Cool Jokes
Price: 99
