Phillip Shoemaker, director of Apple’s App Store, has been known to be Apple’s enforcer when it comes to denying apps that do not meet the store’s Terms of Service. Interesting enough, he owns a business that develops iPhone applications that are questionable to Apple’s (invisible) App Store guidelines.

While, the company has no official application submission guidelines, developers pretty much know their limitations. That’s why it’s interesting that Shoemaker’s company, Gray Noodle, develops urination and fart apps.

Gray Noodle’s apps in question, the fart app called Animal Farts and the urination simulator app called iWiz, and the company’s other apps range from $1 – $2. The two apps received two-star ratings, one of the apps received one star, and the others have zero reviews according to Wired.

Apple claims that Shoemaker’s company developed all the apps, and that the apps were approved, before Shoemaker took his current position with the company.

“Phillip’s apps were written, submitted and approved before he became an Apple employee,” said a spokeswoman for Apple. “His experience and perspective as a developer is one of the valuable things he brings to Apple’s developer relations team. Apple’s policy allows for employees to have apps on the App Store if they’re developed and published prior to their start at Apple.”

However, three of the seven apps developed by “Graynoodle LLC” were published after Shoemaker first tweeted that he was hired by Apple in March 2009. The last app developed by Shoemaker and his company was approved April 17, 2009.

Evan Doll, a former senior iPhone software developer for Apple, told Wired that most Apple employees are not allowed to sell apps in the App Store unless they have permission from an executive. Doll left Apple a year ago to start his own company, which develops the popular Flipboard iPad app.

iTunes and the iTunes Store has revolutionized how we use and update our mobile phones, and Microsoft is following in Apple’s footsteps with its upcoming Windows Phone 7 and Zune marketplace.

Screenshots have surfaced on WMPoweruser.com showing something very similar to that of a Microsoft application store. The website compares the screenshots of the program to the iTunes Store. The website also notes that “on Windows Phone 7, the Zune desktop client will take the same role as iTunes  with the iPhone.  This includes allowing the purchase of applications from the desktop. At the moment, the selection of software is fairly limited, but that should soon change.”

One feature that is planned is the ability to purchase applications from the desktop and have the apps installed to your device over the air, instead of USB syncing like an iPhone.

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When Mozilla submitted their first application for Apple devices on July 30, it seemed as if the Steve Jobs-led corporation would nix any and all applications that would interfere with Safari usage. However, not even a month later, Apple has accepted Firefox Home.

The first and most common misconception is that the free application is a full-fledged Mozilla Firefox browser — it’s not. The application allows you to sync up with your desktop’s Firefox browser and view the tabs, bookmarks, and web history of the browser. While, with the Awesomebar, you can visit other Web pages, it’s not an actual browser and viewing websites is like viewing them in Facebook’s app.

To use and sync your desktop browser with the mobile application, you must download and install Firefox Sync, a free add-on for Firefox. Once installed, just register and a few more clicks and you’ll be ready to go.

Mozilla also made the point to state on Firefox Home’s FAQ that the non-profit organization would not be creating an actual browser for the iPhone, stating that the reason is because of “constraints with the OS environment and distribution.”