Coming from a retail background, there was one thing I do miss – my employee discount.  Always being the bargain hunter, I search for news ways to stretch my dollar.  Considering all the app purchases I make these days on both my Mac as well as my iOS devices, I always try to keep a stock of iTunes credit readily available.  Buying iTunes gift cards  at a whopping 20% off is like an employee discount off the entire iTunes store.  You can now get a  $15 to $100 from BestBuy.  These cards are delivered electronically so you’ll have them ready for use rather quickly.  Coming from Best Buy, be sure to use eBates or FatWallet including Best Buy’s Reward Zone program and a rewards credit card to maximize the deal to the extreme.

Enjoy!

Welcome to 2012 fellow JAMMers!  2012 brings in a slew of new technology such as Ultra Books, 3D video recording and photography, and much much more.  This year we are looking forward to showing you DXG’s latest 3D camcorder, numerous app reviews such as Proloquo2Go text to speech, and much much more!  Happy new year everyone – and yes, we were a bit late to return from the partying as it’s already 7 days into the year.

Asphalt 6: Adrenaline is a racing game with excellent visuals.  I am currently downloading it and have not had the chance to try it out myself yet.  The average rating is 5 stars out of 7,782 in the app store –impressive!  Grab is while it’s free!  It’s available for the iPhone as well as the iPad.

Can’t think of what to get someone during this special time of the year?  Let them choose from the iTunes store by getting them a $50 iTunes gift card for only $40 from Walmart.com – they’ll be able to choose movies, music, and apps (iOS and Mac).  Limit 2 for this great offer.  Use Fatwallet or EBates to get additional discounts of 2%!  Savings to the max – I’m stoked!

People seem to take things way too far.  Check out this rebuttal by Chris Spera:

The news of the recommended ban of all in-vehicle mobile device use really just hit me the wrong way. I’ve published a response to it on Byte (yes, as in BYTE Magazine from back in the day).  You can see it at the link, noted below.

The NTSB Recommended In-Vehicle Cell Phone Use Ban – Technology Can Solve the Problem
Most responses to the NTSB’s recommended Nation-wide ban on in-vehicle cell phone use fails to do one important thing – address the root cause of problem.

http://www.informationweek.com/byte/commentary/personal-tech/smart-phones/232300537

GoodReader, the app we just reviewed got updated with Support for the  AFP Protocol.  Support for AFP, the standard protocol which all Mac computers use to share folders on a local network, makes it easier to connect from GoodReader to a Mac for sharing files between the desktop and mobile device.  GoodReader users have already been able to exchange files between their iOS devices and their Macs using other protocols, such as WebDAV, FTP and SFTP, but supporting AFP makes the process easier than ever because it is the native protocol for Mac OS and requires practically zero set-up. Users simply turn on file-sharing and they are ready to share files between their Macs and mobile devices for viewing in GoodReader.  Not only is AFP the Mac OS standard protocol for sharing folders on a local network, it is also used by Apple Time Capsule, a 1, 2 or 3 TB standalone hard drive with WiFi access that Mac users often use to wirelessly backup their Macs, as well as by a number of other 3rd-party network-attached storage drives. GoodReader’s support for AFP now makes it easier for users to exhange files with such drives directly from GoodReader, without using a computer.

The new version of GoodReader also makes it easier to find servers on a local WiFi network for wirelessly sharing files. GoodReader’s “Local Servers (via WiFi)” section now uses Bonjour to find local AFP, SFTP, FTP, WebDAV and HTTP servers automatically. The update also includes a host of other user interface improvements, including the ability to publish several iCloud files at once, and the new “Back to reading” button, which instantly takes the reader to the last read file, saving from the hassle of finding the file in the folder hierarchy.