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My Mac Magazine #44 is due the first weekend of December, 1998   Tim Robertson is My Mac's originator, and also serves as Publisher and Editor in Chief. Tim has been a freelance Macintosh consultant, web page designer, database creator, and Macintosh instructor for third graders. Be sure to email him with any comments, or sponsorship / advertising information. 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. 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. Jim lives in Darien, Illinois, and is a salesman with two children. 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 . 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. 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. 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 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 . Mike Wallinga Mike Wallinga is a sophomore computer science student at Northwestern College. He can be contacted at mikew@mymac.com. He wishes everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, and encourages everyone to show their appreciation to their favorite shareware authors by paying their shareware fees. 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 48 and a single father with two girls. Mark Marcantonio Is a parochial middle school teacher in the Portland, OR area. He spends much of his free class time trying to keep the school's Windows machines running. In the meantime, the Macs at the school just keep going and going... One day he hopes to have Steve Jobs actually buy one of his advertising ideas. In the meantime, he'll keep spending his miniscule paycheck five minutes after getting it. 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 G3s 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 . 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! Ralph J. Luciani is Operations Manager at a medium-sized firm in Toronto whose job duties include cleaning toilets, removing garbage, graphic design and invoicing customers—in that order). Ralph lives in the quaint and picturesque small town of Oakville, Ontario, where he's rabid in his devotion to all things Macintosh, much to the chagrin of his long suffering wife, RoseAnne. Other family members are: Christian, a film major and mini-Mac fanatic; a G3MT; and an SE 30. He uses his own IIvx at work in place of the other OS. ("Productivity is important to me!”)   Digitek Specials! 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