Dave Caolo (lead)
For six years, Dave worked as the IT Director of a Mac-friendly, residential school in rural Massachusetts. Today, he's an independent technology consultant and writer. Dave has been blogging for TUAW since 2005, and believes that the benefits of technology should be accessible to everyone, not just an elite coven of geeks.
Dave also contributes a bimonthly article to The Journal of New England Technology.
Occasionally, Dave gets a quote in the press. Here is a short list of what he's done so far.
- Wall Street Journal quote
- AP article regarding NBC’s The Office
- Australian newspaper The Age
- The Scranton Times
A native of Scranton, Pa (Yes, just like on The Office), Dave moved to Cape Cod, Ma in 1994. Today he's got two kids, one dog, one wife and a basement full of legacy Macs.
Michael Rose (lead)
Mike has been writing for TUAW since 2006, and he's the usual host for the Sunday night live talkcast. With 20 years of experience as a publishing and IT pro, he's led many wandering PC users to the promised land of Mac nirvana. Day-job highlights include more than a decade at Time Inc. Magazines, with stints at Entertainment Weekly (where he helped shepherd the development of EW's original website/AOL presence in the mid-1990s, and got to interview Leonard Nimoy and Tom Hanks), and the monthly LIFE; he's currently a creative director for a Mac-friendly NYC marketing company. In his spare time (ha!) he enjoys acting and voiceover work; you can see him in the indie feature Unscrewed. Mike and his family live in Brooklyn, NY; his first Mac was a 512Ke "Fat Mac," way back at the beginning, and he's never regretted it.Steve Sande (lead)
One of the old guys in the group, Steve Sande has been a Mac user since late 1984 when he bought a 512K Fat Mac. He was the IT manager of an all-Mac shop for twelve years, after which he was sucked into the hell of IBM and Windows during an outsourcing. In 2005 he started up a Mac consulting firm, Raven Solutions, LLC, and has been happily working with Denver-area Mac users ever since. He's an Apple Certified Technical Consultant and involved with local and regional activities for the Apple Consultants Network. Steve is also a senior instructor in Business Analysis, teaching classes nationwide. He's attended Macworld Expo and the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference more times than he cares to admit, and was a Newton Developer for several years until he realized his programming skills were horrible.
Steve's online writing career started in 1986 when he started up a Mac and Apple IIGS bulletin board system. His first website was online between 1994 and 2007, focusing on handheld computing. Steve was thrilled to write the cover stories for the first issue of iPhone Life magazine, and has been writing for TUAW since April of 2008. He's also had several ebooks published by Take Control Books, and is an occasional guest on the MacJury podcast. Steve is hoping to have the first iPhone implant performed in the near future.
Steve lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, with his wife of 30 years and 14 year-old cat.
Josh Carr
Josh spent most of his childhood living in a world of Windows and BSODs, but is now a diehard switcher. Contrary to popular belief, he's not part of the iPod or iPhone halo effect... he switched as part of the creativity effect. Primarily a musician, Josh has always had a knack for computers, building his first PC at 8.
When college came around, he bought a MacBook for his music studies and began putting it through the paces. After a short amount of time, he got married to his wonderful wife and found himself working as a Mac Genius at the Park Meadows Apple Store Genius Bar. He's had the privilege to say "hello" to Steve Jobs and Ron Johnson while in Cupertino and during his tenure at Apple, even received congratulatory emails from them for a job well done.
Many leaps and bounds through the Mac world later, he owns a Mac repair company called Rocky Mountain Mac Repair. While he loves fixing all of the Apple pr0n, playing with gadgets and writing about it on TUAW, he hopes to finish his vocal performance degree in the not-too-distant future.
The Commodore 64 was Jason’s first computer crush at the age of 9, and his infatuation with shiny, blinky things that go “bloop bloop” has never faded. Even through his years attempting (and eventually failing) to make a living as a professional musician playing the acoustic bass, Jason found himself constantly tinkering with computers, and trying to make something work out of piles of cast-off parts, though lately he has become somewhat of a Mac aficionado. While not writing for Download Squad and TUAW, Jason spends time with his wife and three kids aged five and under, and works at his day job as Manager of Technical Services for a software company near Vancouver, BC. He also enjoys playing ice hockey, reading, and plotting world domination. You can visit his personal site here.
Kevin Harter
Kevin Harter was born and raised in Southeast Iowa, and continues to live in his hometown of Fort Madison, with his wife, Heather, and two kids, Mercedee and Nathan. As owner of Backslash Technologies, a computer and cell phone retail store, since 1998, he loves helping consumers and small businesses with their technology needs. He enjoys spending time writing for the tech news site, TechVi.com, and of course, TUAW.But Kevin wasn't always a Mac guy. He received his first computer, a Commodore 64, as a Christmas gift at the age of 8, and so began his dislike of Apple. It was a "Ford vs. Chevy" thing, mind you. After progressing from the Commodore platform into the stuffy IBM and Clones World through his formative years, he worked as a lab attendant and a "computer consultant" (read: help desk operator) for the University of Northern Iowa.
When he started working at a Cedar Falls, Iowa, computer repair and retail shop after college, the place was overrun with Macs. He was hired to develop the PC side of things but was always intrigued of those strange pizza-box looking machines he was selling, too. So much so, Kevin plunked down some cash and purchase his first Mac, a PowerMac 7300/180. (Yes, he knows that isn't a "pizza-box style" Mac, but that's what he bought.)
After working at and eventually managing that store for a few years, he moved back to his home town to start Backslash. The area didn't (and still doesn't) have much of a Mac population, so he shelved the PowerMac and started peddling PCs. The business grew and the PowerMac gathered dust.
Right after the original iPhone was released, Kevin was lucky enough to win one at an IT conference. As soon as a solution became available, he unlocked the phone and was enthralled by both its power and simplicity. Eventually, curiosity got the best of him, and he bought a Mac Mini. Six months later, he purchased a MacBook Pro 15" and switched to using it as his primary machine. And just recently, his wife joined him in the conversion by replacing her Vista laptop with a 13" MacBook Pro.
Even though his business is still primarily Windows-oriented, Kevin has become an unofficial evangelist for Apple's computers. He started writing about technology for the first time professionally at Obsessable.com, and currently writes for both TechVi.com and, of course, TUAW. While he isn't the most experienced Mac user on staff, his enthusiasm for the platform and unique perspective as a PC-based business owner make his posts interesting and insightful.
And, by the way, he still owns that ancient PowerMac 7300/180. It still continues to run Mac OS 8.1 just fine!
Mat Lu
Professionally Mat Lu teaches and writes philosophy; unprofessionally, he writes about the Mac and related technology. He is one of those half-mythical iPod halo switchers, having come to the fairer platform after purchasing a first generation iPod. Technologically speaking, in addition to Apple gear, he maintains an avid interest in console gaming as well as high-definition home theater. Philosophically speaking, he is a Thomistic Aristotelian in everything that matters.
Mat Lu has been writing for TUAW since December 2006 and regularly covers the Ask TUAW beat.
TJ Luoma
(Yes, I'm double jointed.)
TJ Luoma cut his computing teeth on NeXT computers back in the day when 16MB of RAM and 8MB of disk space was considered a big deal. He helped to maintain the PEAK FTP archive for NeXTStep and OpenStep software. In 2003 he got his first iPod. In 2004 he broke off a brief-but-unfortunate relationship with Windows 2000 and jumped into the Mac OS X world. In 2007 his contract with Sprint expired one week after the iPhone was released and his transformation to Mac user was complete when he ditched his Treo for an iPhone. (He formerly wrote for the Palm Addicts website.)
He and his wife are now the proud parents of an iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iPhone, iPhone 3GS, and an assortment of AirPorts and iPods.
Mel Martin
Apple guy since '77, Mac guy since '84.Grew up in Missouri, College in Iowa, Grad School in Ohio. Was a reporter for many years (2 EMMYs, 2 Columbia DuPont Awards for journalism), then a TV News Director.
4 Years at the BBC working on computer editorial systems for the news rooms. Consulted on web based content management systems.
Consult on News Automation. Wrote book on film producer Samuel Bronston (El Cid, Fall of the Roman Empire, King of Kings) and did commentary on DVDs for El Cid and Fall of the Roman Empire. Now finishing book on Digital Photography. Avid Amateur Astronomer, many photos published. Also tutor other amateurs on digital photographic processing.
Born helpless, naked, and unable to provide for himself, Robert Palmer eventually overcame these handicaps to become a graphic designer in San Diego, California. He started his career working nights in newspaper layout, and eventually rode the dot-com rollercoaster to earn a reputation as an indispensable jack-of-all-trades. In addition to work for Nestlé, TaylorMade-adidas Golf, and Hewlett Packard, he designed nearly all of Iomega Corporation's retail packaging for five years. He is a standards-compliant web developer, programmer, writer, company computer guy, and toilet repairman.
If you see Robert, remind him he has to go to work tomorrow.
Chris Rawson is a lifelong Mac user, whose earliest computing memories involve using the Apple IIe in kindergarten waaaay back in 1982. He is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in English down in New Zealand.
From 1995 to 1999, Chris served in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear-rated Electrician's Mate, where he performed watchstanding and maintenance duties on the electrical subsystems of an aircraft carrier's two nuclear power plants. Subsequent to leaving the Navy, he spent two years working as a Radiation Health Physics Technician in the private sector until a contamination accident convinced him to seek work in a different field. He was thoroughly disappointed when the radiation from the accident failed to give him any superpowers whatsoever.
From 2007 to 2008, Chris worked as an editor for PR Newswire in Cleveland, Ohio. While working for PR Newswire he gained a modest appreciation for the workings of the U.S. media. He also amassed an amazing repertoire of anti-Cleveland jokes.
Chris and his gorgeous wife, who at 6' 2" is six inches taller than he is, moved to New Zealand in July of 2008. Neither of them have ever regretted it.
Mike Schramm
Mike Schramm is just a gamer and a techhead who really, really likes to write. He pens some of the stranger articles at TUAW in between his work leading and writing on two other Weblogs, Inc. websites, WoW Insider and Massively. He also really enjoys podcasting, and can be heard periodically on the TUAW Talkcast, the WoW Insider Show, and many other podcasts around the 'net. You can find out even more about him (probably more than you'd ever want to know) at his personal website, mikeschramm.com.
Brett Terpstra
Brett Terpstra has been tinkering with computers since he first hooked up a cassette recorder up to a PC Jr. to back up his LOGO programs. A silicon journey through Commodores, Trash-80s, and a plethora of PCs finally led him to take a new look at the Mac, which he hadn't had much experience with since OS 9. Shortly after the initial release of OS X, he was ready to make the switch. Happily leaving behind BSOD's and disk defraggers, he has replaced the six PC's in his home with 5 Macs (2009 MacBook Pro, 2007 MacBook Pro, 2 minis and a G4 PowerBook) and only looks back when he has the unfortunate task of testing websites in Internet Explorer.
Brett makes his living as a web developer and graphic designer, and spends the money he earns on indie software and as many peripherals as he can lay his hands on. In what some would consider free time, he avidly pursues knowledge in the areas of design, programming, hardware hacking, personal productivity and other things that make him unpopular at parties. He does not enjoy long walks on the beach, or sleeping.
Aron Trimble
Aron was born in Texas and never plans on leaving. Despite a Windows-only childhood, he purchased an iPod (his other MP3 players all failed) and quickly learned of the greatness of Apple hardware and software.
He currently spends his days working for a software company specializing in enterprise management applications. It is neither glamorous nor entertaining and unfortunately keeps him chained to the world of Windows. In addition to his own Mac/iPhone obsession, his entire immediate family are all owners of some form of MacBook and iPhone
In his free time Aron can be found reading TUAW, Engadget or Autoblog as well as occasionally posting to his own blog aron cares. Passionate about technology, Apple, and the many communities around them, he also enjoys photography and is a self-proclaimed HD-addict.
Chris Ullrich
Chris began his professional career working in the entertainment industry as a writer, production manager and producer. During that time, he also became a member of the Director’s Guild of America. He has extensive experience producing and managing feature films, series television, commercials and many other types of projects and media.
Chris now spends the majority of his time writing. He is a contributor to some of the most popular and respected sites on the Internet including The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), ComicMix, Comic Book Resources, Cinematical, Download Squad and the LA-centric site LAist, where he served as Technology Editor. In addition, he also writes his own blog and is working on a bunch of other cool writing projects including a TV pilot and several comic books.
In his spare time, Chris likes to take pictures, work with the latest gadgets and tech (especially from Apple), read comic books, play video games, go to lunch, sleep and drink at least one iced grande soy one pump no whip mocha a day. Although, he’s seriously considering a switch to ice coffee (with soy) just to mix things up.
Chris is also very fond of bios written in the third person, which make him sound far more important than he actually is. He lives in Los Angeles.
David Winograd has a Ph.D. in Educational Media and Computers from Arizona State University and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has been playing with online communication and Apple Computers since 1979. David started one of the first themed Bulletin Board Systems in New Jersey on an Apple ][ and 6 Disk ]['s and later wheedled a decade long gig with the CompuServe information service where he did everything from file checking to running the Macintosh Community Clubhouse Forum where his first Mac was an SE/30 with an external screen. His interests include home theater, film, live theater and just about anything that plugs in and lights up. He currently lives in Woodbury, NY and loves writing in the third person.
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