About the Author
Joe Hutsko is the author of Green Gadgets For Dummies. Joe lives in Ocean City, New Jersey and blogs about green gadgets for the Green Inc. section of The New York Times. 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 Macworld, PC World, Fortune, Newsweek, Popular Science, TV Guide, The Washington Post, Wired, Gamespot, MSNBC, and Salon.com. You can fi nd links to Joe's stories on his tech blog, JOEyGADGET.com.
As a kid, Joe built a shortwave radio, played with electronic project kits, and learned the basics of the BASIC programming language on his fi rst computer, the Commodore Vic 20. In his teens, he picked strawberries to buy his fi rst Apple II computer. Four years after that purchase (in 1984), he wound up working for Apple, where he became the personal technology guru for the company's chairman and CEO. Joe left Apple in 1988 to become a writer and worked on and off for other high-tech companies, including Steve Jobs' onetime NeXT. He authored a number of video game strategy guides, including the bestsellers Donkey Kong Country Game Secrets: The Unauthorized Edition, and Rebel Assault: The Ofcial Insiders Guide.
Joe's fi rst novel, The Deal, was published in 1999, and he recently rereleased a trade paperback edition of it with a new foreword by the author (tinyurl.com/hutskodeal).
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