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TMO Background Mode: Interview with SCC Director of Mobile App Development...

Tim DeBenedictis is the co-developer of the astronomy sky charting app SkySafari. He’s now the Director of Mobile Application Development at Simulation Curriculum Corp. Tim was first inspired by the...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Former Apple Sr. Manager & Entrepreneur...

Dan Burcaw is a former Apple Senior Manager and founder of several notable businesses. In 1999, Dan was the co-founder and CTO of Terra Soft Solutions, developers of the legendary Yellow Dog Linux....

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Managing Editor of the Backblaze Blog...

Peter Cohen is the managing editor of the Backblaze blog. Previously, he’s written for Macworld, The Loop and iMore. Peter talked about how, as a kid, he had a TI-99/4A with bit-mapped graphics. He...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive...

Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Founded in 1990, the EFF is a nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. The EFF champions user...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Omni Group Software Engineer Liz Marley

Liz Marley is a software engineer for the Omni Group. Early in life, there never was a time when Liz didn’t have computers. At age four, she started with her dad’s Apple IIGS, and she was encouraged to...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Thriller Novelist & Entrepreneur Joanna Penn

Joanna Penn is a best-selling thriller novelist. She’s published over 20 books and sold over 450,000 copies in 74 countries and five languages. She’s most famous for her ARKANE series described by...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Kanopi Studios WordPress Developer Julie...

Julie Kuehl is an expert WordPress developer for Kanopi Studios. But there’s much more. She built her first website in 1994. She’s studied economics, statistics and web design. She’s written for...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with MyMac Founder and Publisher Tim Robertson

Tim Robertson is the founder and publisher of MyMac. He’s one of the pioneers in our business. Tim tells the story about how, in 1995, he was more or less a jock, but realized that his daughter was...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Founder & President of Bombich Software,...

Mike Bombich is the founder and president of Bombich Software, the developer of Carbon Copy Cloner. It’s a backup app for the Mac that has saved the day for many users. He started his career at Bowling...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Allegis Capital Partner Jean-Louis Gassée

Jean-Louis Gassée is currently a V.C. partner with Allegis Capital. He’s best known, however, for taking over the Macintosh division in 1985, his startup of Be Inc. and his highly respected Monday...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Writer and Raconteur Bob ‘Dr. Mac’ LeVitus

Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus is a writer, book author and raconteur. He writes for the Houston Chronicle and The Mac Observer, and he specializes in the “Dummies” books about Apple products like the Mac, the...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Developer Community Manager Chuq Von Rospach

Chuq Von Rospach worked for Apple for nearly 20 years, starting in 1989. In the mid-1980s, he landed first at Sun Microsystems and worked on the launch of early Sun workstations. Thanks to that work,...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Author and Podcaster David Sparks

David Sparks is a business attorney, Macworld author, podcaster and all around Apple product expert. He’s one of those people who started on one path—an aerospace engineering student—then changed gears...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Fuccio

Mark Fuccio has had a distinguished career in tech. He started with an B.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. After graduation, he joined Philips Labs in Briarcliff, NY. He’s been a marketing...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Science Communicator Dr. Kiki Sanford

Dr. Kiki Sanford is a neurophysiologist with a Ph.D from U.C. Davis. She’s a popular science communicator and creator of This Week in Science podcast and radio show. She grew up in the country, and...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with Creator & Host of The MacCast Podcast...

Adam Christianson is the creator and host of the acclaimed MacCast podcast. Adam is also the very awesome webmaster for The Mac Observer. However, Adam didn’t start out in high tech. At an early age,...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with the Founder of olloclip Patrick O’Neil

Patrick O’Neil grew up in a family of photographers, and so designing a portable, add-on lens set for the iPhone was a natural thing to do. It all started as a Kickstarter project over five years ago...

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TMO Background Mode: Interview with DynAgility CTO Chuck Shotton

Chuck Shotton may be the CTO of DynAgility today, but he’s legendary in the Apple community for having created the original web server for the Mac back in 1992. That was when technical pros were...

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TMO Background Mode Interview with Nicholas Smith

Brydge Technologies makes outstanding aluminum, color matched keyboards for most iPads. Co-founder Nicholas Smith took over the original, failing company founded on Kickstarter and breathed new life...

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TMO Background Mode Interview with Mac Power Users Co-Host Katie Floyd

Katie Floyd is an attorney by day. By night, she’s the co-founder and co-host of the Mac Power Users podcast. Katie tells the story of her original passion to be a journalist. She edited the high...

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