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Note to Self: Jot It Down On Sticky Notes
iSmashPhone — ... So it was only a matter of time before SOMEBODY brought the Post-It concept to the App Store -- in this case, a little company called Air-O-Matic, with their Sticky Notes program.  As you might guess, using it is a no-brainer: write a note and stick it to your iPhone (more specifically, your iPhone's wallpaper, so it'll be the first thing you see when you unlock the phone) until the need for that particular reminder is past.  Air-O-Matic, who give every indication of NOT being deep-ponderers-of-the-meaning-of-life types, cheekily suggest some additional uses: ...

Pull My Finger's Triumphant Return - Apple Creating New Genre in App Store
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... app, that the previously rejected app is now available in the iTunes App Store. Praise the gods of flatulence! Developer Air-O-Matic got a call from a very nice Apple team member informing him that Apple was in the process of creating a new "Genre" of apps. This mystery genre allow the inclusion of some of the previously rejected apps. The Apple representative also confessed that, originally, they didn't want to reject the Pull My Finger app. Apple is still determining how this new genre of apps would be handled. This is good news for developers who have had apps rejected ...

Apple Approves Pull My Finger, Adds a New Genre!
Planet iPhones — ... , basically turns your iPhone into an “Electrnic Fart Machine” was originally rejected before but has now been accepted to the store. Here’s what the developer has to say:      “[Apple] told me that they are going to start approving a whole new “genre” of apps, and that Pull My Finger will be the first to be accepted in this genre. As of now Pull My Finger is available in the app store.      The very kind Apple Team Member told me that they didn’t want to reject it originally, but that they were sorting out how this “genre” of apps were going to be handled. She told me ...

"Pull My Finger" Brings Rude Noises -- And An NSFW Category -- To The iTunes Store
iSmashPhone — ... Air-O-Matic -- who'd previously given us the genuinely useful Sticky Notes app -- have now unleashed their inner John Belushi and unveiled Pull My Finger, a US$0.99 app which turns your iPhone into a (wait for it!) whoopie cushion.  Yes, you heard right: eighteen different selectable fart noises, with a Randomize function and a continuous-loop "Chorus" option.  Here's the little bugger in action: ...

Farting App Goes Number Two In The App Store
iPhone Savior — ... "Pull My Finger", the controversial iPhone app that launched on December 12th has gone number two in the App Store among the Top 25 paid apps less than seven days after its triumphant release. The wildly popular Pull My Finger has easily surpassed a list of over 16 farting apps currently floundering in App Store limbo. Most developers would sell off a kidney to gain the kind of attention and free press Air-o-Matic has generated around its unique iPhone gas passer. ...

Ten iPhone apps that didn't make the App Store
Macworld — ... ’s Pull My Finger —you know, the adolescent-aimed emulator of flatulent tones. (That’s the technical description, anyway). When Apple first caught wind of the concept, it said no thanks. Right away, the app’s originators sensed something didn’t smell right. “Their reasons for banning us really didn’t add up,” says developer Sam Magdalein. Apple initially said Pull My Finger had “limited utility,” Magdalein remembers, then went on to explain that it might offend some of the iPhone’s more sophisticated overseas shoppers. “After that, ...