About the Authors

Joe Hutsko is the author of Green Gadgets For Dummies, Macs All-In-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition, and The Deal: A Novel of Silicon Valley. For more than two decades, he has written about computers, gadgets, video games, trends, and high-tech movers and shakers for numerous publications and Web sites, including The New York Times, Macworld, PC World, Fortune, Newsweek, Popular Science, TV Guide, The Washington Post, Wired, GameSpot.com, MSNBC, and Salon.com. Before becoming a writer, Joe worked at Apple from 1984 to 1988. You can find links to Joe's stories on his Web site, JOEyGADGET.com.

Drew Davidson purchased his first film camera at a garage sale (an 8mm Kodak Brownie) and has since enjoyed all types of home and professional filmmaking. That first purchase opened the door to the wide world of filmmaking: from editing to camera work, from stop motion animation to documentary cinéma vérité, from complex computer-controlled motion control cameras to cameras duct taped to his mountain bike on his many mountain biking forays around the world. As a professional editor and cameraman, some of Drew's credits include Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch. Clients he's worked with include GameSpot.com, Time Inc., The American Museum of Natural History in New York, The New York Historical Society, the Intrepid Air and Space Museum, and the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. His video work is represented by Getty Images, ...

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