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Mikkel Aaland is an award-winning photographer, popular workshop leader, and the author of ten books, including Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure (O'Reilly 2009), Photoshop CS3 RAW(O'Reilly 2007), Shooting Digital (2nd edition, Sybex, 2006), and Digital Photography (Random House, 1992). Aaland has ... Brian is a veteran in the nascent iPhone game industry, promoting games since the release of the iPhone in 2007. Before starting Appular, Brian was serving as the Director of Marketing for popular iPhone game maker Freeverse in New York City, where he launched over 15 of their titles, including s... Paul Bastide is an IT Specialist with the IBM Lotus ISV Technical Enablement team in IBM Software Group. In his current role he collaborates with business partners and customers developing solutions that leverage Lotus Symphony, as well as to provide education to partners and customers highlighti... Michael Bayer is president of Computer Telephony Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in highly customized small business solutions that integrate workflow and telephone call flow. He is also the author of the book "Computer Telephony Demystified" (McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-135987-7), the defin... Wayne Beech has a Bachelors of Science and a Masters of Science, both in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Kentucky. Wayne has worked for the University of Kentucky's IT department for 21 years, most of it spent as a UNIX Systems Administrator / Systems Programmer. Wayne also teaches... Wendi Berman is the Vice President of Development at Flying Chaucer Films LLC. David Biedny is a leading digital effects, graphics and multimedia expert. His writing, educational efforts, multimedia and special effects work have enjoyed global exposure. He’s a legend in the Macintosh industry, and was right there at the beginning - he got his first Mac on January 24th, 1984... David Blatner is the author of 15 books on topics such as publishing, aviation, and pi (p). He is the co-host of IndesignSecrets, the editorial director of InDesign Magazine, and the presenter of many InDesign videos at lynda.com. Over a half a million copies of his books are in print in 14 langu... John Braun contributes to Monday's Mac Gadget, Mac Geek Gab Podcast, and Editorial for The Mac Observer. I've been writing about Apple and its technologies since the latter days of the Reagan Administration for such publications as MacUser, MacWEEK, and Macworld. I pen Macworld's Mac 911 tips and troubleshooting column, the Mac 911 blog, the Playlist blog, and host the Macworld Podcast. Current book... Born and raised in Montréal, Québec, Jean-Francois Brissette is a musician, producer and arranger who spent 15 years conducting as well as playing bass and keyboards with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. His role as bandleader, musician and programmer allowed him to use his computer skills to creat... As Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems Incorporated, Russell Preston Brown facilitates the exchange between digital designers and software developers that is so vital to Adobe's product development. Russell's wacky and whimsical design work has been published in Design Graphics magazine, th... Daniel Brusilovsky is a 17-year old entrepreneur and student residing in the Silicon Valley. Daniel has been producing media content online since February 2007, and has hosted numerous podcasts along the way.
Daniel is also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Teens in Tech Network... Jeff Carlson writes about the Macintosh and technology issues as both a successful book author and as Managing Editor of the respected electronic newsletter TidBITS . He is the author of several books on iMovie, iDVD, iChat, Palm organizers, and Adobe GoLive. He is a frequent contributor to Macwo... Michael Carrera is the Senior Training & Support Coordinator at the Center for Technology in Music Instruction (CTMI) of Berklee College of Music. Clay has been a Mac and UNIX systems engineer since the early 90s, and was thrilled when NeXT bought Apple. He only recently stopped running BSD on a Quadra at home. Clay has worked in advertising and technology companies since 1996, and currently works for Google in NYC. Dr. Milton Chen is executive director of The George Lucas Educational Foundation based in San Rafael, CA, a nonprofit operating foundation that makes media–edutopia.org, documentaries, and Edutopia magazine–to share a vision of the future of learning. Its stories are based in real schools on the ... Wendy Cherwinski helps people excel on the podium. Through her company, Echelon Communications Inc. she writes speeches and presentations, teaches others how to write them and coaches both speakers and writers how to create and deliver outstanding speeches and presentations. She is also a confere... For more than a twelve years, Garrick Chow has been teaching computer software classes and seminars, covering a diverse range of topics, at private companies, state and federal agencies, colleges, and universities. He is the author of Dreamweaver CS3 Hands-On Training, as well as two Mac OS X Han... Adam Christianson is host of the popular and top rated Maccast podcast. Beginning in 2004 and each week since Adam has continued to offer insights and tips for all Mac fans. Adam's user to user approach and his ability to appeal to both beginning and advanced Mac users has made The Maccast an App... Sam Clegg is the head of airplay systems at Ideaworks Labs. A popular speaker for many of the past Macworld Expos, Sandee Cohen has written and edited numerous books and articles on all aspects of desktop publishing. In addition to teaching all the major desktop publishing applications for private clients, she is a frequent speaker at the Creative Suite C... Peter Cohen is the Executive Editor at The Loop. David Cohen is a host for the MyMac.com podcast. Chris Coleman is the Staff Technical Marketing Engineer at QLogic Corporation. This is not about us. This is about creating a brand new high school and digital middle school in the foothills of the Central Sierra. We are using every 21st Century/Web 2.0 tool we can and blending it an honest environment that emphasizes world class careers. We want to share our story. PERFORMING SONGWRITER/RECORDING ARTIST San Francisco songwriter Deborah Crooks is an intimate and edgy artist whose lyric driven and soul-wise music has drawn comparison to Lucinda Williams, Chrissie Hynde and Natalie Merchant. Singing about faith, love and loss, her lyrics are honed by a lifetim... Harold Davis is the author of "The Photoshop Darkroom". A former kindergarten teacher and school Director of Technology, Discovery Education’s Online Community Manager Steve Dembo is a pioneer in the field of educational social networking. Among the first educators to realize the power of blogging, podcasting, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 technologies t... Ara Derderian is the podcaster for the HDTV Podcast. Ron Diamond is the principal of Parade of Progress Productions, a Los Angeles software consulting, design & development firm specializing in the iPhone. He's also the founder of EditGroove, a provider of specialty software utilities & consulting services to the video post-production industry. Ron... Arek Dreyer travels the globe, providing training and consulting services related to Mac OS X Server and Mac OS X. He contributed material to "Mac OS X System Administration Reference, Volume 1," (Peachpit) which is used in several Apple training classes. He has been providing system administrati... Gene Driskell is the President of Driskell Photography. Charles began his consulting career working with Support Technologies, Andersen Consulting and Honda to name a few. Charles is now a partner at Three18, a boutique consulting firm in Santa Monica, California. At Three18, Charles has worked with Network Architecture and Design for film, commercial... Justin is one of the founding members of MacEnterprise.org. He has enjoyed working on Macs and UNIX for over 19 years, and as a Mac/Unix systems admin since 1995.
In 1999, he completed his Masters Degree in Computer Science and began working as a Senior Research Programmer at Penn State ... Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS and Take Control Books. He has written numerous books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many magazine articles - thanks to Contributing Editor positions at MacUser, MacWEEK, and now Macworld. His innovations include the creation... Gayle Fain, teaching 19 years, Middle School. Am currently involved with the creation of 2 new digital middle schools. Nick Floro is president of Sealworks Interactive Studios, a developer of innovative solutions for the web, cd and digital devices. Nick has over 20 years of experience designing e-learning applications. Nick is passionate about how technology can enhance learning and loves to share his knowledge ... Katie Floyd co-hosts the Mac Power Users podcast with David Sparks. After responding to more than 2,000 iPhone App development queries, Kevin Ford, President of Parliant Corporation has learned what makes a successful iPhone App Business. He will share the process they use to select the winners amongst the 95% of the ideas that were a waste of everyones’ time.
Jeff Foster has authored and contributed to several Adobe After Effects & Photoshop tutorial videos and how-to books, including the "Photoshop Web Magic" series and "Special Edition: Using Photoshop" series. He is an Adobe Certified Expert and has appeared as an instructor for Photoshop World and... Dan Frakes is a Senior Editor and the "Mac Gems" columnist at Macworld, where he also coordinates reviews of iPod, iPhone, audio, and mobile gear. He was previously the Senior Reviews Editor at Playlist (now a part of Macworld) and an editor, contributing editor, and columnist at MacFixIt.com. Hi... Richard Galvan is the Product Manager for Flash at Adobe Systems. Formerly a Sr. Field Evangelist focusing on Flash he has been educating and consulting customers about interactive media and Flash technology’s since joining Adobe, formerly Macromedia, in 1999. He got his first taste of the Web in... Award-winning director, writer, and producer, Brian Gary heads Flying Chaucer Films LLC in Los Angeles. Under that shingle, Gary has directed/produced commercials for clients such as Verizon, Lucky Brand Jeans and Dow Jones./Reuters; independent feature films; television; new media content; and a... Phil Goodman founded Goodman Consulting in 1987, a computer consulting firm specializing in Mac OS X, troubleshooting, portable computing and database development. For many years, Phil was a faculty member and textbook author at UCLA teaching computer literacy and programming and he is also the f... Chuck Goolsbee is the VP of Technical Operations for digital.forest, a colocation, database and application hosting provider with strong roots in the Mac community. He has been a Mac Manager since 1988 and a Unix Admin since 1989. Chuck has managed corporate networks from local LANs to global sca... Ben Greisler, owner of Kadimac Corp Macintosh Integrators (kadimac.com), is an IT consultant, trainer and author/editor. He has traveled the world working on projects including the largest 1:1 laptop initiative in the US to helping migrating a bank in Japan to OS X. When not clicking keys, he can... Rob Griffiths is the founder and current editor in chief for macosxhints.com. He is also a writer for Macworld magazine and macworld.com website. 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... David Griswold, CEO of Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers has been using Apple products for his global business for almost a decade. He has presented at previous MacWorld conferences and participated in several Apple Web Training videos on Apple.com. Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers is one ... John Gruber writes and publishes Daring Fireball (http://daringfireball.net), a somewhat popular weblog ostensibly focused on Mac and web nerdery. He has been producing Daring Fireball as a full-time endeavor since April 2006.
He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and son. Amit Gupa is the founder of Photojojo. Frank Guttler is a film/video/media teacher, professional development trainer, graduate school instructor and consultant to the Los Angeles County Of?ce of Education. Frank was a TV/Film Producer and was Associate Director of the American Film Institute K-12 Screen Education Center. He is a Googl... Shellie is a recognized specialist in many phases of the graphics and publishing industry. During her 20+ years in the biz, she has done everything from traditional paste-up and film stripping to high-end computer-to-plate workflows. Her specialties lie within creative application training, asset... Dave Hamilton is President and co-founder of both The Mac Observer and BackBeat Media, and is producer and co-host of the popular Mac Geek Gab Podcast. A geek as long as he can remember -- he started on a Timex Sinclair 1000! - Dave has a unique talent for taking that which is overly-geeky and tr... Doug Hanely is a Mac support veteran of over 16 years and a user group founder. He is the President of MacTEK Consulting & Training, Inc., a computer consulting firm and Apple Authorized Training Center in Las Vegas (http://www.mac-tek.com), a member of the Apple Consultants Network. Doug is an A... Richard Harrington is an internationally published author having authored or co-authored 11 books including iWork ‘08 and iLife ‘08 in the Apple Training Series. He is a certified instructor for Apple and is a practiced expert in motion graphic design and digital video. He has also taught at the ... Michael has been administering, supporting and teaching Macs since 1992. He is currently the Senior Systems Administrator at the Ventura County Star newspaper in Ventura, Ca. He has previously been the Reviews Editor at MacTech Magazine. When not immersed in the industry, he can be found enjoying... Gerard Hickey works for Kinetic Compute Services. Scott Highton is one of the pioneers of virtual reality (VR) photography. He was the first outside photographer brought in by Apple to test and help develop QuickTime VR back in 1994, and has worked on a number of landmark VR projects since. His career as a photographer spans close to three decad... Beau Hunter has been working professionally with Apple technologies since 1999, and has been supporting businesses running the Mac OS for over 9 years. Throughout this time, he has developed a strong skill set supporting and securing Apple OS X Server in multiple capacities; clustered web and dat... Rushton Hurley is a high school teacher and the founder of Next Vista for Learning, an educational nonprofit building a free library of videos by and for teachers and students everywhere. In addition to presenting at NECC and regional conferences in Florida, Texas, Colorado, Ohio, Indiana, and Ne... Chicago Sun-Times technology columnist Andy Ihnatko is also a longtime Macworld columnist and contributing editor. The latest title in his best-selling series of Mac books for Wiley Publishing is "iPod: Fully Loaded," which shows you how to cram your iPod to the gills with any sort of media or da... Chuck is the producer and host of a series of Mac-focused internet audio and video shows known as The MacVoices Group that includes MacVoices, MacVoicesTV, MacNotables and The MacJury. With ten years in internet media, Chuck and his guests deliver shows that both entertain and inform, delivering ... Paul serves as CEO/Lackey for Rogue Amoeba, makers of fine audio products such as Airfoil and Audio Hijack. When not developing software, Paul cracks wise about technology and life on Twitter and the web, and he's thrilled to be placed above Guy Kawasaki on this admittedly alphabetical list of sp... Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop, an "online magazine rack" on the web and a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of nine... Joe Kissell is Senior Editor of TidBITS, a Web site and email newsletter about the Macintosh and the Internet, and the author of numerous print and electronic books about Macintosh software, including the best-selling Take Control of Mac OS X Backups. He’s also a Senior Contributor to Macworld an... Chris Kitchener is the Senior Product Manager, InDesign, at Adobe Systems, Inc. Robert Kite is a Apple Business Consultant with SARCOM. He has designed and deployed a large number of bandwidth intensive Xsan installations throughout the United States and Great Britain, at facilities ranging from the largest broadcast, media, and game development companies and universities t... Julian Y. Koh is the Manager of Network Transport for Northwestern University's Telecommunications and Network Services, where he has worked for the past 13 years, concentrating in the areas of network security, remote access, VPN, wireless networking, and multicast digital video distribution. Ju... Having worked at three large universities Karl Kuehn has developed his talents deploying and scripting MacOS X. As an open source developer he has contributed to a number of projects, most notably on the InstaDMG project. His code there, and in other projects, is in use on thousands of computers ... Scott Kurtz is one of the most successful creators working under the world of PVPOnline, his popular Mac-produced webcomic, which includes a daily strip with books, merchandise, and even animated cartoons...and a one to one relationship between readers and creator. Chuck La Tournous (twitter.com/RandomMaccess) is a writer, marketer, musician, speaker, podcaster, pundit, art director, web developer and all-around geek. In addition to being a marketing executive for a big insurance company, he's worked as a wedding band singer, radio producer and short-order ... Ted Landau is a Senior Contributor for Macworld magazine, writer of the Bugs & Fixes column as well as numerous other features. He is also a columnist for The Mac Observer, writing the User Friendly View column and User Friendly Blog. In addition, Ted is the creator and original editor of MacFixI... Leo Laporte has worked as an author, speaker, and broadcaster in New Haven, Monterey, San Jose, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, most recently focusing on technology coverage for radio and television.
Laporte has written software for CP/M, Macintosh, and PC compatible computers including the p... Steve Leebove has worked as a top Los Angeles-area Macintosh Consultant since, 1988. His firm, MacRescue, provides support to a wide variety of clients, including design firms, record labels, entertainment organizations, and creative professionals. A member of the Apple Consultants Network (ACN) ... Benjamin Levy has used the Macintosh since it was introduced in 1984, and has been working as a consultant for more than 20 years. Solutions Consulting, Ben's company, serves clients in all fields, including Graphic Design, Fine Art, Manufacturing, Sci-Tech, Health Care, Photography and Entertain... Tom is an internationally recognized author and speaker. His books include the new second edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration (Addison-Wesley), Time Management for System Administrators (O'Reilly), and The Complete April Fools' RFCs (Peer-To-Peer). Tom works for Google in... My professional experiences include 8 years as a middle school teacher for subjects including English Language Arts, Math, and Computers. For the last 6 years I have been an Educational Technology Professional Development provider and led workshops on topics including Podcasting, Digital Cameras,... Ben Long is a freelance writer, photographer, and videographer based in San Francisco. A long-time computer journalist, he has written hundreds of features, reviews, and how-to's for magazines such as Macworld, MacWeek, Macworld UK, MacUser, Computer Graphics World, Maximum PC, and eMediaWeekly. ... David S. Long is the founder and president of v.2 Consulting, Inc.. He has been working in the IT industry for over 12 years, previously as a Project Manager with Ziff-Davis over-seeing MacUser and MacWeek magazines. He founded v.2 Consulting, Inc. in January 1999 where they provide support and I... Andrew began his career as a high school math and technology teacher, teaching in suburban Chicago for nine years. In that time, he took on the role of technology coordinator, but never left the classroom until 2001, when he began working as a K12 Senior Systems Engineer for Apple. After five y... For eight years, Oscar Magro has managed the IT systems for Sustainable Harvest and its importing operations. Magro led the creation of the company's pioneering business tracking software to manage the supply chain logistics and business operations. Most recently, Magro redesigned the company's s... Ed Marczak owns Radiotope, a technology consulting practice that focuses predominantly on the audio and video post production markets. He has worked for Computer Associates, Coopers and Lybrand, Viacom and others. Ed has worked through MVS, DOS, Mac System 4, Netware, Windows, HP/UX, Linux and no... Matt Marshall is the executive producer of DEMO, and the editor and CEO of VentureBeat. Steve Martin has over 12 years of experience as an editor, producer and trainer. He has taught workshops at NAB, Macworld Conference & Expo, DV Expo, QuickTime Live and the American Film Institute. He is also a lead instructor for Apple's certified training program as well as president of Ripplet... Tony Marvuglio is the Asst. Vice President for Academic Technology at Berklee College of Music. Michael is a Senior Product Manager for IBM focused on application development offerings and the developer ecosystem for Lotus software. He spent his first 7 years at IBM in development with extensive experience in both Mobile and Eclipse-based offerings. 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 4,000,000 downloads of his popular weekly show delivering video tutorials on Appl... Duncan McCracken is the CEO and Technical Director of Mondada, a developer of Mac deployment solutions for enterprise. Duncan has a background in UNIX, and since 1996 has worked as a consultant focussing primarily on Apple systems in heterogenous environments. His experience covers the complete s... I am a professional commercial artist, with over 15 years experience as an Art Director, animator and illustrator in the fields of multimedia, board/card game illustration and comic books, working with such companies as Marvel Entertainment, Wizards of the Coast, Upper Deck, Sony Online Entertain... Carol Anne and her students host an exciting International project called, "Rock Our World!" Students from over 65 countries on all seven continents have collaborated to make movies, compose original music with GarageBand, and meet each other via iChat! This has resulted in three TV one-hour spec... Philip Michaels is the executive editor for Macworld.com. Rich has twenty years experience in information security, physical security, and risk management. He specializes in data security, application security, emerging security technologies, and security management. Prior to founding Securosis, Rich was a Research Vice President at Gartner on the secur... The son of poor Oklahoma sharecroppers, John and his family were forced off their land in the 1930s and set out for California in a vain attempt to find work. No, wait, that was Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath. John Moltz was born in a Connecticut suburb and spent his formative years developing a... Bert Monroy was born and raised in New York City where he spent 20 years in the advertising industry as an art director and creative director for various agencies as well as his own. Upon discovering computers with the introduction of the Macintosh 128 in 1984, he embarked on a new digital career... Macworld Associate Editor Dan Moren has owned six Macs, six iPods, and three iPhones in the last ten years, but only one car. He's worked in IT, web development, and as a freelance writer, and was the co-editor of MacUser.com prior to his stint at Macworld. Bruce Nazarian, "The Digital Guy," has had two common threads running through his life - Macs and media. As a musician, he made the transition to being a Digital Musician very early on - embracing musical sequencing even before MIDI, and then taking MIDI to heart from day one. Although Bruce has ... Scott M. Neal has been utilizing Apple technologies since the wild and wooly days of the Apple ][, migrating to Macintoshes, NeXTCubes, and beyond. A specialist in programming (Cocoa, WebObjects, scripting), Scott is also a system administrator (OS X Server, Solaris, Linux, and Active Directory),... Tom Negrino is a book author and instructor who has written extensively about the iWork suite and Microsoft Office. He is a longtime contributor to Macworld and other magazines. Randy Nelson has a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the University of Santa Clara. As a teenager, a passion for animation led him to computer programming.
Randy was one of the founders of the juggling group the Flying Karamazov Brothers, and worked in live theater, film and television... Michael is a veteran teacher and educator who has previously taught English, Journalism, Yearbook, Video Production, Leadership and more. In the previous 10 years prior to becoming principal at Minarets High School, he served as a Director of Student Activities and Assistant Principal at two lar... Doug Nomura is a consultant with Ories Scientific providing networking, security and business development consulting to select clients. Doug has spoken at Macworld Expo since the early 1990's. During his early Macworld speaking career, he spoke about the Mac in science and engineering. He's a for... Patrick Nugent is a product manager for Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, the leading provider of consumer, professional and embedded CD and DVD authoring products such as Roxio Toast for Mac and Easy Media Creator for Windows. As a self self-proclaimed digital media enthusiast, Patrick has p... Kevin O'Connor has been a photographer, graphic designer and color specialist for several decades, long enough to know the most efficient and effective ways to do digital color. His Irish wit and laughter make his presentations as entertaining as they are educational. A self-described "lazy man",... Dan O'Donnell began working with computers as a physics student in the days when the Apple || was all the rage and a portable computer meant a PDP in a rack on wheels. He first laid hands on a Macintosh in August 1984 and got his first job as a Mac administrator in 1992. He got his first job in t... Jason D. O’Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got a 128 KB Mac in 1984.
He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O’Grady’s PowerPage; www.powerpage.org) in 1995 and ... Eric Otchet is the Lotus Symphony product manager. He has over 20 years experience with IBM. During his career he has held positions in various technical and sales organizations. In addition, he has managed multiple products in various IBM business units. He is a frequent speaker at many IBM even... Naomi Pearce is a well-respected public relations expert, Internet pioneer and technology enthusiast. She began Pearce Communication nearly a decade ago on the basic premise that representing clients related to what you love is not only more enjoyable, but ultimately more successful. Thus founded... David Pogue is the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times, a job he took after having written 10 years' worth of the award-winning Desktop Critic column for Macworld magazine. With over 2.5 million books in print, David is one of the world's best-selling how-to authors, having writ... Sara Porter is a QA Engineer at Musician's Friend. I’m a Clinical Psychologist by profession. Attending professional development training, conferences, and updating my qualifications in recent years has exposed me to all manner of presentation sins. After one particularly bad weekend of Powerpoint-poisoning during a post-grad class in Knowledge M... I am a user experience researcher in the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft. As a user experience researcher, my job is to understand our users and try to improve their experience with our software. I focus on Entourage and PowerPoint, as well as some cross-suite initiatives. Tim Robertson is the podcaster for Other World Computing. Frank Rohmer has 14 years of experience in professional and broadcast video production. He has created video projects for EA Sports, Oakley Sunglasses, Callaway Golf, SONY Electronics, Microsoft, Nestle, Hampton Products, T-Mobile, AT&T and HTC to name a few. He is also an Apple Certified Trainer... Combine a passion for music with deep organizational skill sets and you’ll have Justin Rummel. Justin is Senior Project Leader at Qivliq with responsibilities for Apple. Graduating from Ball State University with a BA in Music Engineering and a Masters in Information Communication Sciences, Justi... Lenny is a Multi-Function System Analyst with Lockheed Martin. He has been working with Macintoshes in the government space for 11 plus years. He has handled project deployments including the roll out of new operating systems, hardware and software, training and coordination with logistics, phon... Randy has 9 years of experience working on the IT side of educational technology at the K-12 level. During this time, he has integrated OS X systems with Novell eDIrectory, 3rd Party email services, and Google Applications. Beyond these directory services extensions, focus has been in ensuring th... Kurt is the Senior Mac Evangelist in the Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, Kurt worked at Connectix where he was the vice president for Macintosh products, including Virtual PC for Macintosh. He also worked at Apple for over ten years, primarily in their Advanced T... Mike Sebastian is the director of IT at Connexus, Inc. Guy Serle is a host for the MyMac.com podcast. Andrew Shalat is the author of Mac Design Out of the Box (Peachpit), CNET's Do It Yourself Mac Projects (with Joli Ballew, on McGraw-Hill), and How To Do Everything with Online Video (McGraw-Hill). He is a designer, writer, author, and instructor. He is heard weekly on InsideMac Radio, giving gra... Steve Simon has been passionate about documenting life through photography since he began taking photographs at age 12 in his home city of Montreal. He has participated as a guest lecturer and workshop leader at various photography and arts events in Canada, The United States, and Argentina, incl... Dori Smith is the best-selling co-author of "JavaScript & Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide," "Dreamweaver: Visual QuickStart Guide," "Styling Web Pages with CSS: Visual QuickProject Guide," and "Mac OS X Unwired". She also wrote "Java 2 for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide," recorded the... Smith has spent the last fifteen years as a writer/director making CLERKS, MALLRATS, CHASING AMY, DOGMA, JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK, JERSEY GIRL, CLERKS II, ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO, and most recently, A COUPLE OF DICKS, with Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis.
Mystifyingly, Smith also ... William Smith is a technical analyst in the Twin Cities supporting Macs in a Windows world and a seven-year Microsoft MVP helping users with Microsoft Office products. He enjoys educating folks that Macs and Windows really can get along. Zack Smith has been working as an IT consultant his entire adult life. He has consulted for insurance companies, entertainment companies, medical organizations, and governmental agencies. Zack holds an Apple Certified Trainer position where has taught at Apple and various market centers in Boston... Jason Snell is the editor-in-chief of Macworld and has been covering the Mac industry for more than 10 years. He is also one of the pioneers in the field of Web publishing, launching the first of a series of online publications in 1991, and taught Web publishing at UC Berkeley's Graduate School o... Jason Snell is the editor-in-chief of Macworld and has been covering the Mac industry for more than 10 years. He is also one of the pioneers in the field of Web publishing, launching the first of a series of online publications in 1991, and taught Web publishing at UC Berkeley's Graduate School o... Lesa is on a mission to teach the world to create--and use!--better graphics. She’s a stock photographer and chief evangelist for iStockphoto, and founder of the creative tutorial site GraphicReporter.com. Lesa is the author of Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual (Pogue Press/O'Reilly) and many vid... Sal Soghoian is an AppleScript Product Manager, Worldwide Product Marketing for Apple. He 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 publis... John currently manages the IT Site Lab web technology development group at the University of Kentucky where he has been a regular staff member since 1994. Intent on becoming a Biologist, John purchased a Commodore Vic-20 in the 80s to help keep tabs on his many aquariums, by the time he upgraded ... David Sparks is a trial attorney by day and Mac geek by night. David publishes the MacSparky.com web site that features Mac software reviews, screencasts, and punditry. David is also a co-host of the popular Mac Power Users podcast and regular participant on the Mac Roundtable podcast. David has ... Mark Spencer is a freelance producer, editor, teacher and writer based in the Bay Area. His company Day Street Productions is a production and post studio focused on corporate video. He is an Apple-certified instructor for Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and Motion, teaching for organizations such... Hadley Stern is a designer, writer, and photographer residing in Boston. He has written for WebMonkey, American Photo magazine, and O’Reilly Media, and is the author of the O’Reilly book, ‘iPod and iTunes Hacks.’ Since graduating in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design, Hadley ha... Derrick Story is a professional photographer, writer, and instructor. He's authored "Digital Photography Hacks," "Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Ed.," and co-authored the popular series, "iPhoto: The Missing Manual" with David Pogue. Derrick's photo articles are a regular feature in Macwor... Paul Suh has been working with Macs since 1985, when he wrote programs on them in Pascal and assembly language, and helped to teach programming classes on them. Since then he has worked as an economic consultant for Deloitte & Touche and LECG, and as a WebObjects developer, trainer and curriculum... Given his enviable resume and illustrious fifteen+ year career, it is difficult to imagine that platinum-selling artist, visionary producer, film composer and technologist BT may only now be beginning to create the best work of his career. An internationally-renowned recording artist himself, he ... Prior to working at GridIron, Angie ran her own successful business for twelve years as a freelance animator and designer for film and television. Angie's creative work involves producing animation, visual effects and motion graphics for television, film, video and the web. Notable projects inclu... As the Communications Director for Sustainable Harvest, Tilghman oversees the global brand strategy for the company, managing brand communication to distinct audiences -- including coffee suppliers, the specialty coffee industry, and Foundations -- across the United States, Europe, the Americas, ... Marco Torres has been recognized locally and internationally for his accomplishments in the classroom, creative program building, administering complex budgets, and for the use of technology to empower minority students. He has received honors and awards from the government, educational leadershi... John Turner has over 20 years of experience as a system administrator and software developer. Currently John works with McNatton Technologies, a small consulting group in North Carolina. John has a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky. John is also the founder of Assi... PJ is a technology consultant, trainer and developer based in South Africa. PJ recently co-founded tech startup Glucode, a boutique iPhone, Mac software development company that provide development services to enterprise clients. PJ has extensive experience in enterprise IT and consult to compani... Roger is best known as the creator of HyperStudio. He coined the phrases "copyright friendly" and "multimedia writing". He led the way in multimedia literacy and clearly predicted the popularity of social networks in contrast to Internet portals. Roger continues to share new ideas that are based ... Zachary Waibel is the CEO of Tricky Software, Inc. Chris Fitzgerald Walsh is an experienced K-12 educator, media producer, and entrepreneur. He is a popular speaker and trainer focused on the ways that social media can improve teaching and learning. His past projects include Edutopia’s Digital Generation Project, the U.S. Dept. of Ed's "Doing W... Ge Wang is the Co-founder, CTO, and Chief Creative Officer of Smule (a.k.a. SonicMule, Inc.), a developer of interactive sonic media. Smule’s mission is to intensely explore expressive audio, enabling creativity for a wide population and new social interactions. Dr. Wang is the designer of Ocarin... John is, among other things, the head of IT for The Zimmerman Agency, (http://www.zimmerman.com/), one of the three...cabarellos...behind Angry Mac Bastards, (http://angrymacbastards.blogspot.com/), a contributor to Macworld.com, (http://www.macworld.com/), and a member of the steering committee ... Susan Wells has: - 25 years in public education - taught elementary, middle, high a nd university level students - five years as central office administrator - nine years as a school-based administrator - worked building collaborative communities in and out of schools - brought technology into th... Steve Werner is a trainer, consultant, and author. He is co-author of Real World Adobe Creative Suite (with Sandee Cohen) and Moving to InDesign (with David Blatner and Christopher Smith), both from Peachpit Press. He has worked in the graphic arts industry for 30 years, many of them as a print p... Kevin M. White has dedicated most of his life to mastering Apple technologies so he can share them with the world. He has been an Apple Authorized Trainer since 2000, providing guidance to audiences that range from small corporate and education groups to sold-out crowds at Macworld Expo. In 2005 ... Dr. Bill Wiecking's first work with Apple began in 1978, and as soon as Apple released the first Airport, his first response was to take the unit apart. Some of these first modified units still function in a wireless network covering some 800 square miles of the Big Island of Hawaii, where he liv... Eric Wilde is a Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe Systems, Inc. Rick is the CEO of Key Options Technology, a Mac OS X professional services provider based in Australia. Rick has provided Apple based consulting and training since 1988, he also has a background in Unix. Since the release of XSAN, Rick has delivered over 30 XSAN courses around the world. Not ... Rick is the CEO of Key Options Technology, a Mac OS X professional services provider based in Australia. Rick has provided Apple based consulting and training since 1988, he also has a background in Unix. Since the release of XSAN, Rick has delivered over 30 XSAN courses around the world. Not ...
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