I recently had the joy of deploying a new Meraki wireless network at a local school. I knew starting out that I needed a good floor plan for the Meraki Dashboard, and I might as well start paperless for the deployment. We'll start with the apps used in this article:

Evernote - Free, but I do recommend upgrading to the Premium Edition, first month free.
Skitch - Free
JotNot Scanner Pro - $0.99

We set out to determine how much network traffic gets generated when performing a video mirror stream from an iPad to an iMac running AirServer.

Details of the test network.

• iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1
• iMac Core2Duo, OS 10.6.8.  To make sure we were only monitoring the AirPlay traffic, we multi-homed the iMac.  Normal network traffic goes through the higher priority wired VLAN.  Only the AirPlay traffic goes through the wireless VLAN.
• AirServer 4.1
• Meraki AP MR16, 802.11n AP
• Traffic Reports through Meraki's dashboard

Here are my essential iPad apps for the System Administrator.  Replacing my preferred RDP and SSH apps from my iPhone apps.

I just bought a 2008 Chevy Impala. After seeing the dash damage I caused my 1999 Intrigue over the years, I was determined to to do the same to this car. My goals were simple, integrate my iPhone as cleanly as possible without too much modification to the car. Thankfully, companies have been working on solutions that work pretty well. My goal was obtained with two products, a vehicle specific mount (VSM) from PanaVise, model #751102305 and a stereo integration component from Neo Car Audio, PODGM1GV6.