Early hands on with the iPad 2

Nothing like early hands on with new tech! Just 341 days ago last April, I first got my hands on the original iPad. Today, loading CNN.com on an iPad 2 and laughing at how slow the original iPad was, it was iPhone 3 vs iPhone 4 all over again.

Rogue Amoeba Airfoil: Send any audio to Apple TV

When I hit a webpage with an audio clip – Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil app $25, makes it trivial to route this audio wirelessly from my laptop to my Apple TV 2  $99, and play the sound through my TV's sound system. Yes, iTunes' AirPlay does the same thing for free but only for audio from iTunes.

Cloud Computing's Counter Trend: backing up The Cloud

Every trend it's said contains within it, its counter trend. For

Easy meeting scheduling with Doodle.com

Scheduling meetings across multiple organizations where the participants don't share a common calendaring system is tedious. Enter Doodle.com – an example of a web-based service that makes finding a meeting time as easy as mailing everyone a link. They open your link and mark their