Steve Sande

One of the old guys in the world of Apple devices, Steve Sande has been a Mac user since late 1984 when he bought a 512K Fat Mac. He was the IT manager of an all-Mac shop for twelve years, after which he was sucked into the hell of Windows during an outsourcing. In 2005 he started up his own Mac consulting firm, Raven Solutions, LLC, and has been happily working with Denver-area Mac users ever since. He's an Apple Certified Technical Consultant and involved with local and regional activities for the Apple Consultants Network.

He's attended Macworld Expo and the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference more times than he cares to admit, and was a Newton Developer for several years until he realized his programming skills were horrible. Steve's online writing career started in 1986 when he started up a Mac and Apple IIGS bulletin board system. His first website was online between 1994 and 2007, focusing on handheld computing.

Steve was thrilled to write the cover stories for the first issue of iPhone Life magazine and then provide the first review of the iPad for the same, and has been writing for AOL-Weblogs, Inc.'s "The Unofficial Apple Weblog" (TUAW.com) since April of 2008. He's now part of the editorial staff at TUAW, and is proud to work with such a great group of bloggers. Steve's had several ebooks published by Take Control Books, and is an occasional guest on the MacJury and OWC Radio podcasts. Steve is hoping to have the first iPhone implant performed in the near future. If you're not doing anything on Wednesday afternoons, be sure to join Steve on his weekly TUAW TV Live broadcast.

In terms of non-technical writing, Steve is a two-time winner in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.org) and hopes to eventually have a fiction book published.

Steve lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, with his wife of 31 years and 15 year-old cat.