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If you are interested in having your product reviewed in My Mac, please send email to , or send all postal mail to: My Mac Productions 110 Burr St. Battle Creek, MI 49015 Vendors wishing to advertise on the My Mac website can send email to: , or to the postal address above. My Mac Magazine #41 is due the first weekend of September, 1998   Tim Robertson is My Mac's originator, and also serves as Publisher and Editor in Chief. Tim has been a free lance Macintosh consultant, web page designer, database creator, and Macintosh instructor for third graders. Russ Walkowich is the Editor of My Mac. He also works for the government full-time, is a freelance writer, and is My Mac's editor for production and submissions. As his Macs age, he's becoming well-versed in RAM and hard drive installation, system maintenance, and troubleshooting. Adam Karneboge is My Mac's webmaster, and a computer graphics & design major at Dominican University in River Forest, IL, 2 miles away from the Chicago city limits. When Adam isn't hard at work on an assignment, or diligently working on the My Mac website, he can be found playing tennis, his favorite sport. Adam is also the proud owner of a brand new PowerBook G3. Adam loves email, so write to him anytime at . Jim Moravec is My Mac's Copy Editor and the proud owner of a Macintosh TV. Jim lives in a suburb of Chicago and is a salesman with two children. Mike Gorman Mike Gorman, a hard-core Mac fan, lives way up north in Waterville, ME. He is a freelance cartoonist who's work has appeared in such places as the NY Press, the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Mac Addict, and elsewhere. Stop by his playground of vices, the Scum Worm at: Pete Miner is a full-time truck owner/operator and freelance Macintosh columnist. Pete spends a vast amount of his life alone in his truck crisscrossing the United States, and likens it to solitary confinement with a view. Be sure to check out Pete's home page, The Macintosh Funnies, at . Jeramey R. Valley is a Network Administrator (LAN Manager, actually) for a medium-sized urban public school district. He services, installs, and maintains a couple hundred Macintosh and Compaq (NT 4.0) systems, and has worked on over 15,000 systems in his 8+ years in the business. Jeramey is also Apple Certified in every area that Apple offers. Computers and all things related suck up most of his time, but he does occasionally spend time with his loved ones and get a chance to do the things he likes (anything automotive or somehow related to motorized transportation). His home machine is a 7500/200 with 80 megs of RAM, 10 gigs of HD space, and both 16” & 17” monitors. Shay Fulton At 18, he currently operates , a Macintosh-oriented website with free Mac-only classified ads, Mac price-tracking, reviews, and more. He currently attends Temple College where he works part-time as a computer consultant in the campus library. Shay lives in Temple, TX. He can be reached at . Mike Wallinga is a college sophomore and Mac enthusiast. He encourages email at . He really does prefer Macs, Reeboks, and General Motors, but he's a Coke drinker for life! Barbara Bell Velazquez is a Marketing Communications Coordinator for a major healthcare device manufacturer in Massachusetts (say that five times fast!). She is an avid Mac fan and constantly fights the good fight of Mac vs. Wintel at work. She shares her life with her long time companion, James, and his two daughters, Krystal and Briann. Don't be shy about emailing your questions and comments to her at . She'll help you find the answer! Susan Howerter has been teaching special education for 25 years. Susan now has two Macs at home, a 5215 and a StarMax 3160, both with 48 megs of RAM and a couple of APS hard drives. Susan would love to hear from you, so be sure to drop her an email with your thoughts and comments. Fenton Jones known to his friends as Manavesh, lives in beautiful Santa Cruz, California, and works mostly in landscape construction with some design work on the side. He wants to do more designing in the future to justify spending more money on computer graphics. He's 47 and a single father with two girls. Ed Tobey is a licensed Apple Service Technician (A+ Certified,too) with almost 8 years in the field. He is currently deployed in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (Harrisonburg, to be precise) where he toils diligently repairing Apple IIe's to PowerMac G3's and anything in between. A father of two near-perfect children, he spends his leisure time relaxing in a calm round of Paintball and writing articles for his column (he likes to cook, too!). Check out the new Web page he just set up for his computer business at . John Nemerovski is a musician, photographer, outdoorsman, and Mac consultant residing in sunny Tucson, Arizona. He is an enthusiastic participant in the local and international Macintosh and Internet communities, and welcomes reader comments. Brian Koponen keeps a large place in his heart for Apple Computer. He believes that one day, their products will prevail. But until then, he keeps the spirit alive by promoting Macs whenever he can. Mark Marcantonio is a 7th and 8th grade parochial school teacher in the Denver area. Jason Kim is a high school student in Irvine, California. He's literally grown up with the Macintosh since his dad brought home a 512K when he was just 1 year old. Now his family has 4 Macs: that original 512K, a Macintosh IIcx, a PowerComputing Power 120, and a Performa 6400/200. Among many interests related to Macs, Jason likes to write his own software and dabbles in alternate operating systems (BeOS, MkLinux). Jason's home page is at . Mick O'Neil is a former columnist for PCW Magazine in the UK and a freelance writer contributing articles to a number of periodicals including Byte Magazine, MacUser and MacWorld (UK and Australia), and the Journal of Computing in Higher Education. Mick's home page is at Alan Dingman is a great artist. He welcomes all comments, and invites you to visit his Web page to view some of his great artwork! You can see his Web site at