About the PowerPage

The PowerPage was founded in December of 1995 while I was troubleshooting a problem with my Apple PowerBook 5300ce and a Global Village PC card modem. When I found the solution after several hours of technical support escalation I decided to post the solution on a Web site, which I called "O'Grady's 5300 Power Page." The PowerPage was born. The PowerPage has been publishing daily mobile technology since December 1995.

Jason D. O'Grady, Editor-In-Chief

Jason's first Apple computer was a Macintosh 128k although he used a Lisa before that.

He's never been able to get away from Apple and has written for many Macintosh trade magazines including Macworld, MacWEEK and MacPower (Japan). He has also contributed to the 8th and 9th editions of The Mac Bible by Peachpit Press.

Jason has been interviewed on ABC, NBC, NPR and BBC radio and has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Based in southern New Jersey, Jason's hobbies include surfing, wakeboarding and snowboarding. He's also an aspiring DJ specializing in deep and progressive house.

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Elizabeth is the PowerPage's mistress of fashion and good taste. She totes a MacBook Core 2 Duo (in black, of course) and her beat is MacBook bags and all manner of iPod and iPhone accessories. She's a also big on Windows virtualization and remote access so she's hip to Parallels Desktop and all about Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection. And Leopard? Please. Don't get her started!

When she's not being a Mac-head, she enjoys snowboarding, good live music and Dim Sum.

Chris Barylick, Managing Editor

Albeit still somewhat fascinated by his side-scrolling Microsoft mouse on several levels, Chris has written for several publications including Macworld, MacAddict, the Washington Post-Los Angeles Times news wire and the Washington Post.

A 22 year veteran of the Mac, Chris has lived and breathed the hardware and software for most of his life, despite two hard drives that weren't smoking and on fire before he got his hands on them. Chris' core interests lie in mobile technologies, new capabilities for the Mac OS X operating system, Apple hardware and video games.

An aspiring standup comedian, Chris has been involved in the D.C. standup comedy scene since January, 2005 and has formed The Geek Comedy Tour 3000, a nerd-based comedy troupe that probably knows more about video games and comic books than most women find to be attractive...

Rob Parker, Associate Editor

Rob Parker is Head JackBall at ParkerDigital, a small but powerful video and film outfit with world headqueaters in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Rob has won several prestigeous and semi-self-important awards including three Emmys and a bunch of other garbage.

On Sundays in the fall, Rob can be seen risking life and limb as he lays to celluloid the exploits of angry, 300-pound men wearing plastic weaponry. Such is the life of an NFL Films cinematographer.

In 1999, Rob and Jason formed the Philadelphia PowerBook User's Group (PPUG), a mobile-centric Macintosh fraternity that meets quarterly for booze, vittles and gadgetry. Rob lives with his lovely and talented wife Lisa and their equally lovely and talented Brittany Spaniel named Wembley.

Chuck Freedman, Associate Editor, Podcast Regular

Chuck lives in the suburbs of Detroit and has been an Apple Computer enthusiast since his parents bought him a birthday gift of a shiny Apple IIC when he was in high school. In college, Chuck began to realize that his trusty Apple II wasn't quite up to the task, and so in early 1991 he picked up an original Mac LC - his love affair with the Mac began!

Today, Chuck is a Senior Technical Analyst for the Mac Support team at JWT Detroit. He has been there since 1998 doing the setup, configuration and support of nearly 350 Mac creative users throughout North America. Chuck has also been an outspoken part of the company's Global Creative Technical forum.

Chuck spends considerable volunteer time supporting the members of MacGroup Detroit, the Detroit area's largest Mac User Group. He frequently contributes articles to MacGroup's magazine, MacNews.

Youngmoo Kim, Associate Editor, Podcast Regular

Youngmoo is a professor at Drexel University in Electrical and Computer Engineering whose research focuses on audio and music technologies. He received his PhD from the MIT Media Lab and has also served on the MPEG audio technical committee.

Some other past gigs have included time (well) spent as a software engineer at Digidesign (maker of the ProTools digital audio platform) and more recently at Nellymoser, Inc. working on audio technologies for console video games and mobile entertainment. Youngmoo's been an Apple user since the Apple ][+ and uses Macs extensively for his research and audio production.

David Klein, Reviews Editor

David grew up in Silicon Valley where he naturally developed his passion for the technology industry.  His first computer was a Macintosh LC, and he has owned Macs ever since.  He attended Cornell University where he received a Bachelors in Economics and a Masters in Computer Science.  During his summer vacations he had Internships at companies like Apple and Macromedia.  Now, he works at a start-up in Palo Alto, CA.  In his spare time he enjoys reading, exercising, and escaping to Sonoma county for wine tastings.  As a Powerpage Contributor he will review various hardware and online services.  He is an investor in Viddyou.com, and he is always looking for more investment opportunities.  His personal Web site and blog is at www.tehdik.com.

Neal Hoskins, Associate Editor

Neal Hoskins is the publisher at WingedChariot.com and a regular blogger for the Guardian National newspaper in the UK. He has owned an Apple since the early nineties when some guy form D.C asked him to take care of his powerbook for the weekend.

He loves and hates the Apple platform and has an increasingly frustrated relationship with HD gadgets. He knows this will all seems laughable in 50 years to any archivist reading this stuff.

Bart Hirst, Contributor

Bart is the PowerPage's man of mystery and proprietor of BartSource.com. Specializing in gaming, Linux and hacking, he's long gone to the dark side, but he's a hell of a mountain bike rider and I'd rather have him on my side than against me. I'd tell you more about Bart, but...

Shaun Redmond, Contributor

Shaun is the Manager of Information Services and Technology for the Wellington Catholic District School Board in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The district stands at the forefront of technology with a well developed fibre optic WAN infrastructure connecting 20 schools and 8,000 students.

Shaun has experience as a Systems Engineer in higher educartion and rorporate environments and is the President of the Ontario Catholic School Business Officials Association. Mobile technology has always been a passion all the way back to the PowerBook 100.

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