The Villages MUG (The Villages, FL; April 29, 2012)—Take Control of iCloud

MacMania 14 (Rhine River from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Basel, Switzerland; April 12–19, 2012)—Getting to Know Your First iPad, Coloring Outside the Lines with Your iOS Device, iPad Kung Fu for the Extreme Mac Geek, Speeding Up Your Mac

New MacVoices interview: I appeared on MacVoicesTV (video; audio version also available) to discuss Take Control of CrashPlan Backups. (April 9, 2012)

My bags are packed! My iOS devices are synced and charged! I’m leaving tomorrow morning for a couple of days in Amsterdam before departing on the MacMania 14 cruise down the Rhine river, visiting various German, French, and Swiss locations before ending in Basel a week later (and then—super excited about this—a tour of CERN and some free time in Geneva).

As I said when I first wrote about this cruise just over a year ago, I’ll be teaching classes about interesting things you can do with iOS devices and Macs, and I’ve got all kinds of cool stuff planned. Time and energy permitting—wouldn’t that be a change?—I’ll try to post some photos and impressions of the cruise over the next couple of weeks.