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.
Josimar is a visual and fine artist who has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Computer Animation, is certified in digital film production, an Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Professional, and is currently a Creative and personal trainer for Apple in its retail stores.
Josimar's knowledge and experience with Apple's products and services has earned him an Apple Certified Product Professional Award for the several consecutive years he's been with the company. He throughly knows how to maximize each of the hundreds of features within iLife and iWork to educate anyone who wishes to take all their current digital or analog media and convert them to create magnificent showcases of their professions, lives, and family to share and present to others.
Having had the foturnate opportunity to work with, literally, thousands of people, Josimar has gained "untold" experiences he looks forward to sharing with the MacMania group
Outside of his professional life, Josimar loves to draw, paint, and has a growing flute collection which he plays from time to time.
Lesa Snider King is on a mission to teach the world to create (and use!) beautiful images. An honors graduate of the Art Institute of Dallas, she's been speaking at conferences and writing easy to follow, step-by-step tutorials at GraphicReporter.com since 2001. She is also a stock photographer and chief evangelist for iStockphoto.com and works with David Pogue on many projects. Lesa is the coauthor of Photoshop CS3: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, 2007), and writes regularly for NAPP, Macworld Magazine, Elements Techniques, and Layers.
When she's not parked in front of her Mac, you'll find Lesa perched atop her motorcycles, exploring the countryside with husband Shawn King. They live in Westport, CT with two very spoiled cats.
Don McAllister is the host and producer of the successful weekly video podcast — ScreenCastsOnline. As one of the Podcasting pioneers, Don has been producing ScreenCastsOnline since August 2005 and has achieved over 3,500,000 downloads of his popular weekly show delivering video tutorials on Apple Mac software to a global audience.
In March 2006, Don gave up his day job in Corporate IT and became a full time podcaster and introduced one of the first paid for premium subscription based podcast services. Don combines his weekly show with podcasting consultancy and the production of video tutorials for corporate customers including Apple, SWSoft (Parallels), The Omni Group, 37 Signals, RealMac Software, Smile On My Mac and many, many others. Dons video tutorials are also regularly featured in the UK iCreate and MacFormat magazines.
Gaining a growing reputation as a popular and engaging speaker and trainer, Don has spoken at many International Events including Macworld and the Podcast and New Media Expo along with many training sessions and seminars in the UK.
As well as his own podcast, Don is a regular member of The Mac Roundtable, MacVoices, and The MacJury podcasts as well as a contributor to many other popular podcasts.
Don still lives in Liverpool in the UK, his home town, with his wife Barbara, two teenage children and two cats.
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Randal L. Schwartz is a renowned expert on the Perl programming language (the lifeblood of the Internet), having contributed to a dozen top-selling books on the subject, and over 200 magazine articles. Schwartz runs a Perl training and consulting company (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc of Portland, Oregon), and is highly sought-after speaker for his masterful stage combination of technical skill, comedic timing, and crowd rapport. Schwartz is also infamous amongst the System Administration community for his arguable 1995 criminal conviction while performing activities for the Intel Corporation, and publicly advocates for appropriate computer crime laws. Randal is also a pretty good Karaoke singer, winning contests regularly.
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.
Since his origin as interstellar dust 15 billion years ago, Bebo White's interests have included computational physics, high energy physics, networked information retrieval, and programming languages, high performance computing, grid computing, and physics event visualization.
White has been described as "a historical Web artifact" because of his seminal involvement with World Wide Web technology and the introduction of the first website in the United States at the Stanford (University) Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). More precisely White is an information specialist who spent two decades addressing the computing challenges of the SLAC physics community.
Mr. White is internationally recognized as one of the pioneers of the World Wide Web. He was introduced to Web technology during a sabbatical at Geneva's European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1989. His 1991 team participation in implementing SLAC's website, early advocacy for the Web, and his intense and ongoing involvement in Web technology have earned him the tag "the first U.S. Webmaster."
The 1996 MicroTimes 100 listed Bebo White in the ranks fof those making outstanding contributions to personal computing. He is a member of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), and has been cited by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as having made significant contributions to the development of WWW. White became a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in April 2002.
White's current research and passion focuses on Web Engineering (he is a Managing Editor of the Journal of Web Engineering) and Semantic Web applications. He serves as Chair of the IEEE Working Group on Web Engineering. Additional information can be found at http://www.bebowhite.com.
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