Dan Frakes is a respected book author, tech writer, and computer expert, as well as an authority on iPods and portable audio. Dan is a Senior Editor and the "Mac Gems" columnist at Macworld; the Senior Reviews Editor at Playlist; and a contributing editor and columnist (and former editor) for MacFixIt.com. His books include two editions of the acclaimed Mac OS X Power Tools as well as Your iPod Life, an entire book — seriously — on iPod accessories. He is also the co-author of Ted Landau's Mac OS X Help Line, an editor/author of The Macintosh Bible, and an editor for TidBITS' Take Control series of ebooks. In a previous life, he wrote InformINIT, one of the first-ever ebooks.
Rob Griffiths is the Founder and "Chief Hintmaster" of macosxhints.com, the web's leading collection of OS X-related tips and tricks. For over five years, the site has been documenting all the "behind the scenes" tips that make using OS X (and its related applications) more enjoyable and productive. In June of 2005, Rob joined Macworld as a Senior Editor, responsible for the Mac OS X Hints website and various articles for both Macworld magazine and macworld.com
Rob has also written two OS X books for O'Reilly, collecting some of the best tips and tricks from the site into written form. He also presents on OS X subjects at various industry gatherings.
Janet Hill is a K-20 Education Development Executive for Apple Computer. She has extensive experience in the educational technology field. Formerly a math and science teacher, Janet has a strong tie to education. She has been called the "Mary Poppins" at Apple because of her love of technology and people.
Janet received her education degree from Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas. She has Masters Degrees in Biology, Instructional Technology and Gifted Education. Janet is an avid ornithologist and enjoys yearly trips to South America to study birds and ecology.
Janet's interest in teaching people how to utilize technology stems from her experience in the classroom as well as growing up in a family of educators. Janet's goal is to help other people find ways to make teachnology an invisible tool with which to explore the world.
Andy Ihnatko has maintained an uninterrupted 17-year streak of writing monthly columns for Mac magazines. This has afforded him the opportunity to pile up an ambitious series of experiences and acts of heroic stupidity, ranging from designing a set of plans for converting a Macintosh into a functioning aquarium to adapting an animatronic Darth Vader bank so that it could be controlled across the Internet via AppleScript. He's also The Chicago Sun-Times' longtime general-technology pundit, and is the author of a best-selling series of Mac books for Wiley Publishing.
Ted Landau has been writing about the Macintosh from as far back as when the entire Mac OS could fit on one floppy disk. He was a contributing editor for two pioneering (and now sadly defunct) Mac magazines: MACazine and MacUser. Presently, he is a contributing editor for Macworld magazine.
Ted is also the author of several books, including two of the all-time best-selling volumes on troubleshooting: Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters and Mac OS X Help Line: Tiger Edition.
In 1996, Ted created the MacFixIt Web site, which went on to become the premier site for Macintosh troubleshooting, garnering numerous awards along the way. He was the editor of the site for the next six years, and still writes a regular column (mac.column.ted) as well as frequent tutorials. In addition, he writes a monthly column (User Friendly View) for The Mac Observer Web site.
Ted is also a member of the MacNotables, a panel of "the Macintosh industry's best known and most visible personalities," that produces podcasts at least once a week. He has been a speaker at every Macworld Expo since 1998, as well as at numerous other conferences.
Ted Landau has been twice named in the MDJ Power 25 as one of the 25 most influential people in the Mac community.
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Ben Long is a freelance writer, photographer, and videographer based in San Francisco. A long-time computer journalists, he has written hundreds of features, reviews, and how-to's for magazines such as Macworld, Macworld UK, MacUser, MacWeek, Computer Graphics World, Maximum PC, and eMediaWeekly. He is currently a Senior Editor for CreativePro.com, where he writes a regular digital photography column. His most recent books include Apple's Pro Training guide for Aperture, Real World Aperture, Getting Started with Camera Raw, and Complete Digital Photography, 3rd edition. As a photographer and videographer, his clients have included Blue Note Records, the Pickle Circus, Global Business Network, Head Start, the Oklahoma Arts Institute, 20th Century Fox, and the National Endowment for the Arts. You can learn more about him and his work at www.completedigitalphotography.com.
Randal L. Schwartz is a two-decade veteran of the software industry — skilled in software design, system administration, security, technical writing, and training. He has coauthored the "must-have" standards: Intermediate Perl, Learning Perl, Learning Perl for Win32 Systems, and Effective Perl Programming, as well as writing regular columns for PerformanceComputing, SysAdmin, and Linux magazines. He's also a frequent contributor to the Perl newsgroups and the "Perl Monastery" community (perlmonks.org), and has moderated comp.lang.perl.announce since its inception. His offbeat humor and technical mastery have reached legendary proportions worldwide (but he probably started some of those legends himself). Randal's desire to give back to the Perl community inspired him to help create and provide initial funding for The Perl Institute. He is also a founding board member of the Perl Mongers (perl.org), the worldwide Perl grassroots advocacy organization. Since 1985, Randal has owned and operated Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.
Since 1992, Randal has been developing Perl courseware and providing training to Fortune 500 companies across the United States, and training other trainers to do likewise.
Sal Soghoian is widely touted as "the" AppleScript Guru and driving force behind the continued expansion and acceptance of AppleScript. He began scripting in 1992, after discovering AppleScript could automate the publishing-related tasks at his service bureau. After spending years as an early "online evangelist," Sal continued to serve the AppleScript community as the AppleScript Product Manager at Apple. Throughout his tenure, AppleScript's importance, use, and integration has grown, becoming the indispensable tool for automation and communication on the Mac.
Derrick Story is the managing editor of the O'Reilly Network, Mac DevCenter, and O'Reilly Digital Media. Derrick's experience includes more than 20 years as a photojournalist, a stint as the managing editor for Web Review, and a speaker for CMP, IDG, and O'Reilly conferences. He is the author of Digital Photography Hacks, Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Ed., and the PowerBook and iBook Fan Books. He coauthored iPhoto: The Missing Manual which is now in its fourth edition. Derrick likes to keep his shooting skills sharp by running his photography business, Story Photography. You can listen to his photo podcasts and read his tips at The Digital Story.
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