MacNotables started in 2005 as the podcasting home to some of the Macintosh industry’s best known and most visible personalities . Over the years, the members have taken on projects of their own, but still return to be part of the “MacNotables on MacVoices” series that is part of the overall MacVoices presence.
The panel includes:
Christopher Breen has been writing about Apple and its technology since the latter days of the Reagan administration for such publication as MacUser, MacWEEK, and Macworld He was a Macworld senior editor and host of the Macworld Podcast, is author of The iPhone Pocket Guide, Sixth Edition (6th Edition)
Bryan Chaffin began using Apple computers in 1983 in a high school BASIC programming class. He started using Macs in 1990 when the Kinko’s guy taught him how to use Aldus PageMaker, finally buying a Power Computing Power 100 in 1995. Bryan is the cofounder of The Mac Observer and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and coauthored Incredible iPad Apps for Dummies with Bob “Dr. Mac†LeVitus. You can find out more about Bryan at his personal site, GeekTells.
Jim Dalrymple is the founder and Editor in Chief at The Loop. You can follow him on Twitter, you can follow his alter ego, The Beard as well, or join Jim Dalrymple Fans on FaceBook. He is a guitar player and dog lover who has been reporting on Apple for almost 20 years. You can find his blog at Sometimes I say things.
Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS and Take Control Books. He has written numerous books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many magazine articles – thanks to Contributing Editor positions at MacUser, MacWEEK, and now Macworld. His innovations include the creation of the first advertising program to support an Internet publication in 1992, the first flat-rate accounts for graphical Internet access in 1993, and the Take Control electronic book series. His awards include the MDJ Power 25 ranking as the most influential person in the Macintosh industry outside of Apple every year since 2000, inclusion on the MacTech 25 list of influential people in the Macintosh technical community, and being named one of MacDirectory’s top ten visionaries. And yes, he has been turned into an action figure. Want more? Follow Adam on Twitter for 140-character musings on a variety of topics.
Dan Frakes is a respected technology writer, book author, and editor, as well as an authority on digital media (including the iPod, iPhone, and iPad) and consumer audio. His current editorial home is at The WireCutter. Dan is a former Senior Editor and “Mac Gems†columnist at Macworld. He was previously Senior Reviews Editor for Playlist magazine and Website and at various times an Editor, Contributing Editor, and columnist for MacFixIt.com. His blog is at DanFrakes.com and you can follow him on Twitter.
Andy Ihnatko is the technology columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and a senior contributor to Macworld. Andy hosts of his own podcast, The Ihnatko Almanac, is a regular on MacBreak Weekly and also does Material on RelayFM. He shares his thoughts and wisdom on his blog, Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth You can connect with him on Twitter and Google+.
Chuck Joiner is the host of MacNotables and MacVoices. With a long-standing enthusiasm for technology in general and Apple in particular, Chuck brings a curiosity-driven approach to talking to some of the most important people in the Apple space. He is an Apple User Group President, Editor-in-Chief of The MUG Center, and former chair of the Apple User Group Advisory Board. He curates MacVoices Magazine on Flipboard and blogs (occasionally) on The MacVoices Blog. You can follow him on Twitter.
Ted Landau pens Ted Landau’ User Friendly View column at The Mac Observer, is a former Senior Contributor for Macworld, is the author of several Mac and iPhone help books, and is the founder of MacFixIt. He blogs on Ted Landau’s Slanted Viewpoint, and you can follow him on Twitter.
Bob LeVitus, often referred to as “Dr. Mac,” has been considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the Macintosh and Mac OS for nearly twenty years. A prolific author, Bob has sold millions of books worldwide in a dozen languages. His recent titles include: iPad 2 For Dummies, Incredible iPad Apps For Dummies, iPhone 4S For Dummies, and Mac OS X Lion For Dummies. He’s been a tech columnist for the Houston Chronicle since 1996 and writes regularly for The Mac Observer web site. His hobbies include playing guitar with the infamous Macworld All-Star Band, engineering audio recordings (mostly of classic rock songs), and budget video-making. Bob also has a Macintosh computing consultancy that offers expert technical help, training, and pre-purchase advice to Mac users via phone, e-mail, and/or Internet-enabled remote control software. You can find him on Twitter and Google+.
Dennis Sellers is is the founder of The Apple Daily Report, an Apple news site that reflects Dennis’ extensive experience and background in covering technology news. “Dennis has been a newspaper/editor reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 3,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. Sellers has written about comic books (Amazing Heroes), fitness (Muscular Development), photography (Rangefinder, Digital Camera Magazine), caving (Tennessee Conservationist), education (EdTech News, Teachers in Focus, ParentGuide News), parenting issues (Nashville Parent, Vermont Parent & Child) and many other topics. He’s had eight short stories published. Sellers has also covered the Mac and tech industries for a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute, Macsimum News, and Mac News.
Jason Snell is the founder and editor of SixColors. He was the lead editor for Macworld for more than a decade. For a couple of years he also oversaw editorial operations for PCWorld, and launched TechHive and Greenbot. All told he worked for IDG for 17 years and Ziff-Davis for three before that. That adds up to two decades of doing technology journalism and covering Apple at close range. During his time at Macworld, he covered every major Apple product release, including every version of OS X, the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and much more. He has written breaking news, interviewed executives (including Steve Jobs), reviewed major products, written how-to articles, penned award-winning editorials, shot and edited videos, produced podcasts… you name it. He left IDG in 2014 to start SixColors. He also hosts The Incomparable, Clockwise and Upgrade. You can follow him on Twitter.
Robin Williams is an icon in the Mac Community, having authored dozens of best-selling and award-winning books about the Macintosh, including the groundbreaking The Little Mac Book, The Mac Is Not A Typewriter, Design for Non-Designers and The Robin Williams Mac OS X Book. She is a professional speaker with over twenty years of appearances all over the world. Robin is also know for her work in identifying Mary Sidney as one of the possible authors of the Shakespeare canon of plays. You can visit her personal site.