Apparently the famous Pull My Finger application, once denied by the AppStore, has been allowed past the front gate, smell and all.

Featured in the LA Times, Miami Herald, MacLife’s Top 10 Apple Influencers of 2008, Wired Magazine, The Guardian UK, CNET.com, and many others. (Thanks MacRumors, Ars Technica, and all the great Mac sites and fans who believed in our grand cause!)

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Smule, the creator of Ocarina (reviewed here), has announced a $10,000 contest if you think you can float a decent tune.  Good luck!  We suck at playing this thing, but it’s loads of fun.

Starting this morning, the Visa Mobile Application became available on the Android Market. We’re pretty excited because it’s the first financial application for Android from a “heavy hitter” and it offers some great features of which at the moment, only select Chase Visa card holders can take advantage.

The applications offers many different things.

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Strands, a popular social media location, has released an iPhone application.   Basically, the platform provides your and your friends a way to share interesting images, videos, websites, etc.

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“Santa Live”, an iPhone app that was launched into a storm of controversy back in mid November, has been pulled down from Apple’s wildly successful App Store by developer Adam Majewski after a recent string of complaints by users over the apps’ inclusion of the song “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”.

Majewski indicated that he was inundated with dozens of negative emails from iPhone users who took great personal offense to reports of payment being offered for positive reviews of his app.

via: iPhoneSavior

Have you ever wondered what you say when you’re sleeping?  Wonder what insane things you might utter in your sleep?  No longer!  As if the iPhone couldn’t do everything under the sun before, now it can record your sleep talk.  Nope, we’re not joking.

Price: $1.99

MobiStars: 7/10 - we’re not sure there’s a demand for this, but it does what it claims very well

One of the cool features that has always been on the iPhone is the handy notepad.  Now there are several options for expanding the notepad’s funcationality.  Some are good, some are junk.  We’ve taken a test drive with NoteMaster and we like what we see.

Price: $4.99

MobiStars: 8/10 - can use some upgrades, but the best note app we’ve found

One of the nice benefits of being an iPhone owner is that AT&T has provided thousands of WiFi hotspots around the country that can be used for free.  However, logging on can be a bit tedious.  You have to plug in your phone number, wait for a text from AT&T and then click that link.

Easy WiFi for AT&T is here to solve that issue for you.  Simply input your 10-digit AT&T telephone number into the app’s preferences, then fire up the application next time you want to jump on an AT&T network; Easy Wi-Fi will take care of the rest.

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The Google search application was the first to bring solid voice recognition to the iPhone, but unfortunately it’s only limited to searches.  What if you don’t just want to search, what if you want to call people, or look up maps, or even send a Twitter message without the burden of extra taps?

Vlingo recently announced the launch of its iPhone voice-recognition application, which aims to bring voice commands to several different facets of the iPhone’s interface.

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One of the dilemmas serious iPhone users have is whether to jailbreak their phones.  Jailbreaking is the process of “hacking” the phone in order to add applications that aren’t native to the AppStore.  Recently, the MobiRiot crew decided to break out of jail to bring you the top reasons to jailbreak.

Reason #3: Backgrounder

Let’s face it, the iPhone is a great machine but it has its shortcomings.  One of the bigger ones is the fact that 3rd party applications can’t run in the background.  (For the slow kids at the back of the class, this means apps like Pandora, Fring, AIM, etc, shut off when you close them.)  Wouldn’t it be great to listen to Pandora while surfing the net or leave Fring on so you could get Skype calls?  Well, you can… but you gotta jailbreak.

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