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 event production & face-to-face 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.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.
Christina Warren (deputy lead)
Christina Warren is an avid gadget-junkie and full fledged computer geek, with an affinity for interactive media and popular culture. A true "switcher," Christina has finally committed to using the Mac as her primary computing platform, after years of trying to tread the Mac/PC divide. It is now her mission to convert fellow PC-diehards to the world's best computing platform. When not academically pursuing film and business marketing, Christina writes about technology and popular culture (her work has appeared in USA Today and other publications) and blogs for TUAW, DownloadSquad and StyleDash. She also co-hosts DownloadSquad's weekly online videocast, The Squadcast.
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.
The old guy 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 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 Support Professional 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.
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. Steve is hoping to have the first iPhone implant performed in the near future.
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 hooked his first cassette recorder up to a PC Jr. to back up his LOGO programs. A silicon journey through Commodores, Trash-80s, the Apple II alphabet and a plethora of PCs finally led him to embrace the rainbow apple. He 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.
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.
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.
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.
Todd first starting using Apple products when he was an intern for a school district's technology department. Now he is the systems administrator for a different school district where he is responsible for a few hundred Macs. He also teaches computer-networking technologies at a local career institute, and he writes for our sister site Download Squad.
When he finds time to avoid the 1's and 0's, Todd likes to play and coach volleyball, trash talk on Xbox Live, and play the six string.
His personal site is here.
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