Griffin Technology

According to All Things Digital’s Media Memo, there are 6.6 million iPhone apps currently being sold each day, Peter Kafka wrote:

…let’s note that the velocity of apps Apple (AAPL) is delivering is increasing: It took Steve Jobs and company a little more than a year to serve up the first 1.5 billion apps, which averages 4.1 million downloads per day. But Apple moved the next 500 million apps within 76 days. That’s a 6.6 million-per-day average.

Today Apple sent out a press release stating that two billion apps have been downloaded to date. There are now 85,000 apps in the App Store.

Not including the apps that iPhone includes, what’s the one app you can’t live without? Why?

Photo by: mind on fire

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tagged: All Things Digital, apple, iPhone apps, Media Memo, Peter Kafka

Ben Zimmer of the New York Times recently wrote a great article on the history of FAIL. That’s FAIL the interjection not the verb.

Zimmer wrote:

In July 2003, a contributor to Urbandictionary.com noted that fail could be used as an interjection “when one disapproves of something,” giving the example: “You actually bought that? FAIL.” This punchy stand-alone fail most likely originated as a shortened form of “You fail” or, more fully, “You fail it,” the taunting “game over” message in the late-’90s Japanese video game Blazing Star, notorious for its fractured English.

Read the rest of the article here.

What has also made FAIL so popular online is the hilarious Fail Blog, a site where users submit images and videos of everyday examples of failure (like the one in this post).

FAIL has even touched us at Griffin. We were so inspired by the phenomenon that we created FAIL Maker, a free iPhone app to help you share those special moments of defeat.

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tagged: Fail Blog, Fail Maker, iPhone, iPhone apps, New York Times

Have you ever found yourself driving with a friend in a different city with no idea where to tune your radio? Have you ever wanted to purchase a song you heard on the radio, but couldn’t remember the name or artist?

Check this out…

The iFM Radio Browser app is available now for free from the App Store.
Don’t forget to check out Navigate Inline Remote, which let’s you listen to the radio on your iPhone or iPod.  You’ll never have a driveway moment again.

For more information visit: www.iFMapp.com or download it now.

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tagged: driveway moment, ifm app, ifm radio browser app, iPhone apps, navigate

Are you ready to deposit checks with your iPhone? A mid-sized bank, USAA, has released the first iPhone app that can scan and deposit checks. In the demo below you can see how you simply snap a shot of the check and hit the send button.

The original post from Matt Marshall on DigitalBeat wrote:

The feature requires a customer to photograph both sides of the check with the phone’s camera. All you’ll need is a cellular connection to send the image.

Once you send the images, you no longer need the paper check — you can simply discard it. USAA’s system takes over. The company has been developing a mobile strategy for some time: Three years ago, the bank introduced the option of depositing a check from home using a scanner. USAA plans to offer the feature on other phones later this year, according to the Times.

ZDNet’s Matthew Miller was also kind enough to remind his readers that our Clarifi case will be the perfect accessory for folks trying to snap a clear shot of their checks.

This updated iPhone application should be a faster and simpler solution than having to scan in the check’s front and back though and I look forward to trying it out.

The iPhone and iPhone 3G do not take very good close up photos so I wonder if an iPhone 3GS is required to use this service. You could also use a Clarifi case from Griffin Technology that I have used before with Evernote to take better close up photos.

What about you? If your bank makes this available will you deposit checks using your iPhone?

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tagged: Clarifi, deposit checks, Digital Beat, evernote, iPhone apps, iPhone banking, Matt Marshall, Matthew Miller, USAA bank, USAA iPhone app, Venture Beat, ZDNet

Our very own Director of Product Development, Mark Rowan, was featured in a recent Nashville Business Journal article about the business of iPhone and iPod applications.

The article is well timed, because we just celebrated our one year application anniversary since releasing our first app, 5 Card Touch.

Read Companies hope to create next iPhone hit to learn more about the behind the scenes world of applications.

Check out our product page for a full lineup of our available apps.

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tagged: 5 Card Touch, griffin technology, iPhone applications, iPhone apps, iPod applications, iPod apps, iTunes apps, Mark Rowan, Nashville Business Journal