About

Apple Matters provides original commentary on topics including the impact of Apple on our culture, exclusive profiles of people in Apple’s storied history such as Herbie Hancock and Guy Kawasaki, and product reviews.  Its talented, and somewhat-eccentric, editorial team include founder/publisher and editor-in-chief, Hadley Stern, Senior Contributing Editor Gregory Ng, Senior Writer Chris Seibold, and Writers Chris Howard and James R. Stoup.

Who

Founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief 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 has worked as a professional designer at Malcolm Grear Designers, Rykodisc Records, and Razorfish. He has worked on corporate identity projects, CD packages, web sites, Flash banner advertising, and a wide variety of print collateral.

When she was at the tender age of 10, the Apple IIe’s rainbow cord attracted Meiera Holz Stern, Executive Editor, to Apple like a fly strip catches flies. (She has always been a sucker for colorful graphics.) Other Maclights of her youth consist of using MacPaint in high school; writing college papers in a Mac lab at 3am at the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in English Lit with an emphasis in creative writing; and then attending the Rhode Island School of Design where she went to learn all about graphic design, and where her Mac-life expanded in new dimensions.

She met her future husband Hadley there, and has spent the past 10 years making space for his expanding Mac Museum. During this time she has worked as a professional designer and writer in the Boston area. Meiera has been with Apple Matters in various behind-the-scenes ways since Hadley founded it in 2002. Now she brings her love of English, graphics, and all things Apple to Apple Matters.

Gregory Ng, senior contributing editor, is a devotee of all things Apple and most importantly, his iPod. He’s also an advertising art director and proud father of two. (Two children. Not iPods.) Yet he still manages to find time for AppleMatters.com, where he focuses his cat-like reflexes on matters of music, culture, and customer service. Earlier quests for fame led to him to discover his alter ego: Chelvis, the Chinese Elvis. He was also DJ of a now-defunct radio show, Fresh Cuts from the Audiobarn. Easter eggs and other tantalizing delicacies can be found at http://www.GregoryNg.com

Chris Seibold is primarily a stay at home parent and secondarily a freelance writer. He is a proud contributor to iPod and iTunes Hacks and has written an ebook:  iMovie on the Cheap. Seriously interested in computing and particularly the Macintosh platform Chris has been using Macs since the introduction of the Mac Classic. While he has written for a variety of websites his columns can be found with regularity at AppleMatters on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Hobbies include making short films and very bad woodworking.

Chris Howard brings an Australian perspective to Apple Matters. Chris was an IT Manager in the Windows world until mid-2005 when he was given a surprise reprieve. He believes his unemployment has something to do with suggesting Macs once too often. He now provides freelance IT services and consulting (a euphemism for unemployed). He dreamed for 19 years of owning a Mac, from its launch in 1984 until finally achieving that goal in 2003. His plethora of children wish he'd display that much patience with them! Sometimes he feels like he's got more kids than a rabbit on fertility drugs, but it's just that his four happen to be the most energetic kids ever born.

Since becoming a Mac owner, his creativity has blossomed, with successes in writing, music and programming to add to earlier successes as a cartoonist. Being an opinionated git, it was only a matter of time before it was foisted upon a world not ready. Thanks Apple Matters! He can also be read on his own blog, www.qwertyrash.com, discussing topics such as blogging, writing, humor and of course, technology."

By day, Devanshu Mehta is a Boston-based network research engineer. By night, he writes about the things he loves: movies at WideScreen Glory, Star Wars at Galaxy Far Away, geek stuff at Science Addiction and Apple at Apple Matters. He grew up on an Apple IIc and continues that love affair with a G4 Powerbook.

James R. Stoup is a recent graduate in computer engineering. By day he is a humble employee of Dominion Power, by night he is a writer for this wonderous website, and by weekend he is the "lead production engineer/web developer" for his father-in-law's business, Homeworks Video Productions. A business that is based on Macs I might add (which I managed to talk him into in just five years of wrangling). In between all of this I manage to cook dinner, take out the trash and otherwise please my beautiful wife Maggie (whom I just married in April '05). As you can see I am a busy guy but please feel free to drop me a line if you take issue with anything I have written, want to compliment my deft use of wit and sarcasm or just to tell me that my kung foo is the best. God bless.

After years of putting up with the arduous task of maintaining Windows, Aaron Wright become one of the many switchers in mid-2005 after almost a year and a bit of admiring his shiny-white iPod.  With a love of reading and writing, as well as jamming away on his guitar in any spare time he has, Aaron devotes other areas of his spare time to writing for applematters.com for a Wednesday publication, as well as keeping his own IT and Media blog at http://www.jungalist.net .

Due to enroll on the AppleCare Technicians Training course in the Summer to add to his rather lacking diploma in IT, he’d love nothing more than to work for the big cats themselves.

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