MacMania 6 Speakers

Alaska • May 26th — June 2nd, 2007

 

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JESSE FEILER

Jesse Feiler is the author of a number of books on Mac OS X, FileMaker, the Web-based enterprise, and home offices. His books on OpenDoc, Cyberdog, Apple Guide, and Rhapsody are now collector's items. His most recent book is FileMaker 8 @ Work: Projects You Can Use On the Job.

A member of the FileMaker Solutions Alliance, he regularly consults on FileMaker and develops FileMaker solutions for small business, non- profits, art, retail point-of-sale, publishing, marketing, and other markets. He has specialized in "rehabs"Ñupdates to existing FileMaker solutions including FileMaker 7/8 conversions.

He has worked as a developer and manager for companies such as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (monetary policy and bank supervision), Prodigy (early Web browser), Apple (information systems), New York State Department of Health (rabies and lead poisoning), The Johnson Company (office management), and Young & Rubicam (media planning and new product development).

He is also the first author of a technical book to be published both on paper and on an e-book. Virtual Training Company (www.vtc.com) publishes his 8-hour video training courses on Mashups, Mac OS X Automator, Dashboard, FileMaker 7, Mac OS X, and AppleScript Studio.

He has previously sailed on Geek Cruises Mac Mania I and Mac Mania III to Alaska and the Caribbean.

Active in the community, he is past president of the Mid-Hudson Library System, Chair of the Philmont Comprehensive Plan Board, founder of the Philmont Main Street Committee, and Treasurer of the HB Playwrights Foundation and HB Studio as well as member of the board of the North Country Cultural Center for the Arts. He is a regular on public radio WAMC's Roundtable program.

ROB GRIFFITHS

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

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.

TED LANDAU

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.

BEN LONG

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.


MICHAEL RILEY

Mike Riley is a frequent contributor to several technical publications and specializing in emerging technologies and new development trends. Previously employed by RR Donnelley as the company's Chief Scientist, Mike was responsible for determining innovative technical approaches that improved the company's internal and external content services. Mike was also the co-host of Computer Connection, a technology enthusiast show broadcast on Tribune Media-owned CLTV. Mike was also a contributing author to the Open eBook Publication Structure Specification. Prior to joining RR Donnelley in 1997, Mike was Executive Vice President of what is currently known as the Ziff Davis Media Game Group.

JOSEPH SCHORR

Joseph Schorr is the senior product manager for Apple's Aperture. Before joining Apple, Schorr was a contributing editor and columnist at Macworld Magazine and co-authored eight books about the Mac, including two editions of iPhoto: The Missing Manual.

RANDAL L. SCHWARTZ

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

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.

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