About the Authors
Edward C. Baig writes the Personal Technology column in USA TODAY, is a regular on USA TODAY podcasts and videos, and makes frequent media appearances. Ed is also the author of Macs For Dummies, 11th Edition (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) and cowriter of iPhone For Dummies, 8th Edition. Before joining USA TODAY as a columnist and reporter in 1999, Ed spent six years at Business Week, where he wrote and edited stories about consumer tech, personal finance, collectibles, travel, and wine tasting, among other topics. He received the Medill School of Journalism 1999 Financial Writers and Editors Award for contributions to the Business Week “Investor Guide to Online Investing.” That followed a three-year stint at U.S. News & World Report, where Ed was the lead tech writer for the News You Can Use section and also dabbled in numerous other subjects.
Ed began his journalist career at Fortune magazine, gaining the best basic training imaginable during his early years as a fact checker and contributor to the Fortune 500. Through the dozen years he worked at the magazine, Ed covered leisure-time industries, penned features on the lucrative dating market and the effect of religion on corporate managers, and was heavily involved in the Most Admired Companies project. Ed also started up Fortune’s Products to Watch column, a venue for low- and high-tech items.
Bob LeVitus, often referred to as “Dr. Mac,” has written or cowritten over 70 popular computer books, with millions of ...
