Roundtable experts will include space luminaries such as Carolyn Porco, Louis Friedman and Stephen Maran.   The App will stream news from NASA, JPL and other major news sources and will include detailed background information on all space priorities via video, images, twitter feeds, articles and astronaut journals. We have included a few screenshots from the App below. If you have an interest in participating in our Beta Testing Program, please email us at buzz@theappcompany.com. Unfortunately, we only have a few spots left for beta testers so be sure to tell us a little about yourself, which iPhone or iPod Touch you own and why you believe you would be a good candidate to help us beta test the Buzz Aldrin Portal to Science & Space Exploration App.

it contains content that ridicules public figures.

This is ironic, since the public figure in question is President Obama, and the President has actually seen the App and loved it. We have a friend in the administration who showed it to the President and his wife Michelle at a recent fund raiser. Unfortunately, Mr. President, Apple didn’t love it quite as much as you did!

Take a look for yourself:

A week after submission, we received an ominous email from Apple stating that our app was going to take a bit longer than normal to review due to the nature of the app. We were at a loss because this was our most simple and straightforward app. It consists of one button as you can see from the screenshot to the right.

When the user presses the button a recording is played. If you haven’t guessed already, the idea of the app is to poke fun at Rep Joe Wilson’s outburst. It was never our intention to make any political judgments or take sides. The idea of the app is to have fun. It’s called satire. This Your Lie outburst has been joked about and debated to death zillions of times in every newspapers and talk show on the planet. In fact, hundreds if not thousands of Apple podcasts and iPhone news, video, twitter and blog Apps have undoubtedly featured the You Lie story.

What was Apple’s problem? They were nice enough to tell us when we received a personal phone call from Richard who works in the iPhone App Review Team. It turns out that they didn’t like the fact that 4 of 70 recordings included the phrase You Lie, Mr. President versus the simpler versions we use in the majority of the recordings such as You Lie, You’re a Liar, Liar and You’re Such a Liar. Richard claimed that using ‘Mr President’ is objectionable because it ridicules public figures. On a second call he had an issue with our App Description (see Banned App Description below) and we were forced to remove any mention of the event and of the names Obama and Joe Wilson. For some reason, Apple believes that it is their right to wipe the memory of the event clean and not allow any mention of it that is not a simple news story. We have to believe that there have been plenty of one-sided diatribes both for and against Wilson’s outburst within the walls of the App Store and Podcast areas, but of course Apple just had issue with You Lie. Not sure what to make of any of this, but we had no choice but to comply with Apple’s request if we wanted to give You Lie any chance of seeing the light of day.

• “Wow”
• “Crazy good”
• “It sent shivers down my spine”
• “Funny, funny, funny”
• “A bit loud and annoying, but worth the download”

Hey, Google wasn’t first but it’s the best and that’s the same strategy that we have taken with “Don’t Press the Red Button You Moron.” You get dozens of loud and obnoxious sounds all optimized to make you sorry you ever even considered pressing The Red Button.

Click here to download the FREE App.

Sounds include:

• Sirens
• Alien Alarms
• Horrific Warning Alerts
• Screams
• Groans
• Crying
• Annoying Nags

You have lots of choices in the Red Button category of Apps, but there is only one “Don’t Press the Red Button You Moron.” Don’t be fooled by imitations. You have found the original, just download it and see for yourself!

*** We will be adding loud and annoying sounds each week and all new sounds will be absolutely FREE to all users who downloaded this original “Don’t Press the Red Button You Moron” App for FREE!

Dude comes in both FREE and Deluxe flavors. To test drive Dude now, give DUDE LITE a try.

Click here for DUDE LITE!

DUDE DELUXE INCLUDES THESE ADDITIONAL MUST-HAVE FEATURES:

• More hilarious dude recordings!
• Save any Dude recording as a custom iPhone ring-tone
• Send any Dude recording as an MP3 file to friends. What better way to say hello in this internet age?
• Set Dude timers and alarms
• Surprise friends with Dude bomb attacks
• No annoying ads!

Click here to buy Dude Deluxe on the iTunes App Store — only 99 cents!

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:

• “I know that Dude!” – Jeff Spicoli, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• “Dude Looks Like a Lady.” – Steven Tyler, Aerosmith
• “Dude, you gotta have a poker face like me.” – Bill & Ted (during their Excellent Adventure)
• “All the young dudes, Carry the news, Boogaloo dudes.” – David Bowie
• “Dude.” “Dude.” “Dewde.” “Doooode!” “I guess you got a point there.”- Trey parker and Matt Stone, BASEketball (towards the end, long after you had shut it off).
• “Don’t Call Me Dude!” – Scatterbrain

THE “DUDE” LEXICON (examples of each are included in this version):

Dude is one of the most versatile words in any language. John Swansberg of Slate identifies “at least six distinct usages” of dude:

• The admonitory dude: the dude deployed when your buddy won’t stop humming “Umbrella” on a long car ride. As in, “Dude, enough.”
• The interrogative dude: useful for ascertaining whether you’ve dropped a call. “Dude? Are you still there?”
• The deflated dude: the dude of bad news. “Dude. Tom Brady’s wearing a boot.”
• The exclamatory dude: the dude of good news. “Dude! Tom Brady is no longer wearing a boot!”
• The sotto voce (under one’s breath) dude: for classified briefings. “Dude: Here comes that tall drink of water from accounting.”
• The blissed-out dude: more accurately rendered as duhuhude. The dude issued upon rediscovering a long-lost (Grateful) Dead tape.

Our in-house Dude experts have identified several more usages:

• The “What were you thinking?” dude: When you are shocked by the stupidity of your best friend.
• The scary dude: What Shaggy might say to Scooby-Doo just before saying “RUN!” when the scary pumpkin headed ghost is fast approaching, duuuuuude!
• The “What’s up with that?” dude: When someone walks right into you on the street in New York.
• The “I’m Sorry” dude: dude (I’m sorry).

“Dude” is very famous as well, appearing in Bud Light commercials, headlining major motion pictures like “Dude, Where’s my car,” helping launch the career of Keanu Reeves and the other guy in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and appearing as the title character “The Dude” in The Big Lebowski.

So thank you for downloading this iPhone app, and to all of you who do, we say to you in the immortal words of Wayne and Garth, “Party On, Dude.”

COMING SOON:
* Multi language Dude
* Girl Dude
* Kid Dude
* Learn the meaning of each of our Dudes

REVIEWS

• SlapApp review of Dude Deluxe
  

** This is not simply a list of Nags. Nag-O-Meter Deluxe is a feature rich program that includes over 600 high quality custom Nags recorded by real people such as dads, moms, kids, girlfriends, teachers, bosses, etc. We even have hilarious foreign language Nags!

*** All Nags can be used as ringtones and sent as MP3 via email. That’s over 600 ringtones all included for the price of this App!

“The most fun I have had with an iPhone App! It’s hysterical and so spot-on. These guys must have a window into my life and an understanding of all the nagging that makes me crazy! Nice going.”
- iPhoneVenue.com

RINGTONE INSTRUCTIONS

If you’ve been sent a custom Ringtone Nag (Nag-Tone) and are not sure how to transfer the ringtone file to your iPhone or iPod Touch, please click here for complete instructions.

NAG-O-METER DELUXE FEATURES

• Over 600 high quality custom Nags. All Nags are recorded and sound great on both the iPhone and iPod touch.
• 11 current categories including Mom, Dad, Kids, Girlfriend, Wife, Husband, Teacher, Boss, Self, World English and World Languages. Did you ever wish to nag your friends in Japanese? No problem. We have you covered! New categories will be added in future updates.
• All Nags can be sent to your iPhone for use as custom ringtones using our Nag-Tone feature. These sound great too!
• Send MP3 versions of every Nag via our Nag-Mail feature, now included free. Great for Nagging friends or setting up Nags as calendar alarm sounds for the iPhone, Entourage, iCal, Outlook and other programs.
• Revolutionary, patent-pending — if we get around to filling out the forms — Nag-O-Meter offers three variations of each Nag. Choose from ‘passive aggressive’ version or more excitable ‘if-looks-could-kill’ option.
• Nag-Alarm allows you conduct sneak-attack Nags with a timer.
• Nag-Bomb lets you set a Nag and sounds that Nag when the iPhone is moved.

All of our Nags are recording in the highest quality format and are not only realistic, but are great fun. All of our actors have taken great pains to sound incredibly nagging, annoying and most-of-all, authentic. As our engineers say, “They’re not acting, they’re just extremely annoying naggy people.”

WORKING TO MAKE NAG-O-METER DELUXE EVEN BETTER

The current version of Nag-O-Meter Deluxe includes over 600 high quality custom Nags in 11 categories, but we are not resting. We are constantly recording new Nags — new Nags from different actors, new Nags in new languages and new English Nags with various accents. We even have a few surprises up our sleeves that we’re sure you’ll enjoy.

SAMPLE OF NAG-O-METER DELUXE’S NAGS

Nag-O-Meter Deluxe’s Nags range from classics such as:

• Are we there yet? play nag
• Pick up the phone when I call? play nag
• Are you listening to me? play nag
• Don’t talk back! play nag
• Take out the trash! play nag
• You need to make more money! play nag
• Stop biting your nails! play nag

To the more cutting:

• Your friends are such losers! play nag
• Did you just fart? play nag
• You’re leaking all over the toilet! play nag
• Don’t look at other women (Scottish)! play nag
• Watch what you eat! play nag
• Why didn’t you text me? play nag
• What am I paying you for? play nag

We even include a SELF Nagging category with Nags like:

• I am such an idiot! play nag
• I am not good enough! play nag
• I can’t believe I said that! play nag

RECENT PODCAST REVIEW

We recently received a funny review on Crazy Mike’s Podcast. We have included a link to the podcast here: listen now!

“The Big Lebowski would get a kick outta this one! This app is very basic, though i must admit curiosity got the best of me as i found myself compelled to repeatedly press the big red DUDE button. The app developer’s claim is simple: “Laugh out loud with the most versatile and popular word in the English language, “Dude”. The functionality is summed up in one sentence: Press the BIG RED DUDE BUTTON and hear recorded phrases of the word “Dude”. Every time you press the button, you will get a different recording. dude, dUdE,, DuDe, DUDEEE!!! From the stoned surfer expression, to the swanky chick, the Dude button delivers.”

Head on over to slapapp.com to read the entire review.

When the user presses the button a recording is played.  If you haven’t guessed already, the idea of the app is to poke fun at the recent outburst by Rep Joe Wilson when he shouted “You Lie” during an Obama Presidential speech on healthcare.   It was never our intention to make any political judgments or take sides.  The idea of the app is to have fun.  It’s called satire.  This Your Lie outburst has been joked about and debated to death zillions of times in every newspapers and talk show on the planet.  In fact, hundreds if not thousands of Apple podcasts and iPhone news, video, twitter and blog Apps have undoubtedly featured the You Lie story.

What was Apple’s problem?  They were nice enough to tell us when I received a personal phone call from Richard who works in the iPhone App Review Team.  It turns out that they didn’t like the fact that 4 of 70 recordings included the phrase You Lie, Mr. President versus the simpler versions we use in the majority of the recordings such as You Lie, You’re a Liar, Liar and You’re Such a Liar.  Richard claimed that using ‘Mr President’ is objectionable because it ridicules public figures. 

On a second call he had an issue with our App Description (see Banned App Description below) and we were forced to remove any mention of the event and of the names Obama and Joe Wilson. For some reason, Apple believes that it is their right to wipe the memory of the event clean and not allow any mention of it that is not a simple news story. We have to believe that there have been plenty of one-sided diatribes both for and against Wilson’s outburst within the walls of the App Store and Podcast areas, but of course Apple just had issue with You Lie. Not sure what to make of any of this, but we had no choice but to comply with Apple’s request if we wanted to give You Lie any chance of seeing the light of day.

** Apple did finally approved the App in early November once we complied with their demands. Click here to try it our for FREE!

Banned App Description

On September 9, 2009 Representative Joe Wilson (Republican-South Carolina) shocked many observers and caused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Democrat- California) to shoot off a death glare in his direction, when he shouted; “You lie!” after President Barack Obama denied that health care legislation would provide free coverage for illegal immigrants during his speech to a joint session of congress.

The truth behind the outburst, and what nobody realized at the time, was that Representative Wilson never really said a word. Instead, bored and holding his tongue, Rep. Wilson was playing with his iPhone and not realizing the mute button was not off, he hit the red button on the YOU LIE app and caused a national stir.

With this “spontaneous” event, YOU LIE became one of the most popular phrases in our language. A meaningful expression, YOU LIE has moved to the front of our pop culture as a powerful way to represent and question yourself and the world around you. YOU LIE is a tool to continue to study, enjoy and reflect on this now world famous expression.

WHO SHOULD USE THIS APP?

If you are frustrated with your boss, your kids, your wife or your government, this app should feel right at home in your hands; the hands of someone ready to speak out.

We are living in difficult times and everyone seems to be lying to us these days. What better way to defend our freedoms and dignity by calling out liars. There is no better method of doing this than with the official YOU LIE App.

The next time a professional athlete says “I had no idea that the supplement I was taking contained a banned substance” we will all be there with our YOU LIE button.