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Updates from the SAD team

Really Artificial Intelligence™ Released

StupidApps enters the AI market with Really Artificial Intelligence™, a chatbot that answers any question, on any topic, faster than any thinking system can match. RAI™ achieves this by eliminating question-specific processing entirely — every millisecond spent considering your question is a millisecond you spend waiting.

Every answer is fully applicable to your question, and to all other questions, a property known as generality in which RAI™ leads the industry. Confidence is 100%, occasionally more. Powered by RAI-1: trained on nothing, ready for anything.

Flight Simulator™ Passenger Edition Released

The SAD team's second release of the day: Flight Simulator™ Passenger Edition, the world's most realistic flight simulator for the 99.997% of air travelers who are not flying the plane. Choose a seat, board, and then sit — through the safety demonstration you ignore, the turbulence, the neighbor named Gary, and the holding pattern.

Manage your rising thirst using the flight attendant call button, which may or may not summon anyone, and the beverage cart, which arrives on its own schedule and dispenses a small cup, mostly ice. The flight ends when it ends. Deplaning is by row.

Calculat3r™ Released

Our first new product in twenty-six years is available now. Calculat3r™ is a full-featured calculator supporting nine of the ten digits, and it runs directly in your browser on any device — no runtime, no installation, no app store.

The 3 key is cracked. It can still be persuaded to produce a 3, but only through sustained and repeated pressure, and we would gently suggest reviewing whether your calculation requires a 3 at all. Results remain unrestricted and may contain 3s obtained through legitimate arithmetic. Full documentation, including recommended workarounds, is on the product page.

StupidApps Reborn

StupidApps has undergone a complete redesign and moved to a new home. The site has been rebuilt from the ground up with a modern dark theme, and our legacy VB6 apps now have proper showcase pages with their original video demos and documentation preserved.

More importantly, new stupid apps are in development and will be available on modern platforms including the web and iOS. The SAD team is back and ready to solve problems you didn't know you had. Stay tuned.

StupidApps Facelift

StupidApps finally gets a facelift after 13 years of neglect. All content has been migrated and our SAD team has produced video demonstrations of every legacy app so you can experience them without needing the VB6 runtime installed.

The applications themselves still work if you can find a system to run them, but the videos are frankly the better experience. Check out each product page for the full demo.

ZDNet Reviews

The following reviews were received by ZDNet back in 2000 when the products were originally launched.

Logon Status Checker

"...this application has no real purpose, and no practical application." — ZDNet

Random Number Generator

"I saw no evidence of random number generation. What I did see was a display that shows a single number, which is incremented by 2. That's a far cry from random..." — ZDNet

Time Viewer

"...the clock at least needs to be functional in order for us to carry it. If you'd like to send us a new version of the program where the clock actually keeps time, we'll be glad to take a look at it." — Ted Tatman, ZDNet Reviewer