Grant Robertson
An Atari dork in the early 80s before becoming an avid Unix geek in the days before Linux. Grant parlayed a hobby that didn't make him popular with girls into a career that still doesn't make him popular with girls; He now splits time between his day-career as a software developer and his off-hours life as the lead for Download Squad. An avid car nut, tinkerer, writer and TV fan Grant lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his girlfriend in a house full of Macs, PCs, wireless gadgets and digital storage space.
Brad Linder
A freelance journalist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Brad has been obsessed with gadgets, software, and figuring out why things work for as long as he can remember. His first computer was an Atari 800XL, and it does not still hold a warm fuzzy place in his heart. In addition to writing about software for Download Squad, Brad edits
Liliputing, a web site about netbooks and mobile computing. He also contributes regularly to
NPR,
WHYY, and other public radio news programs. You can find Brad's personal blog
here.
Christina Warren
An avid gadget-junkie and full fledged computer geek, with an affinity for interactive media and popular culture, Christina does her best to make geek chic. A Mac fangirl and a Crackberry addict, Christina lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her boyfriend and her DVD collection. Christina writes about technology and popular culture (her work has appeared in USA Today and other publications) and blogs for Download Squad, TUAW and StyleList. You can visit her personal site
here
Bloggers:
Adam Maras
When not getting himself into local political trouble (don't ask) Adam is a programmer by day and a user experience designer by night. Living in the fiery depths of Glendale, Arizona, Adam's favorite pastimes are poking fun at Microsoft while still loving their development tools, making pretty things in Photoshop, and taking some time out of his busy schedule to contribute to the local public school district. Adam's three great loves in life are education, technology, and getting people motivated. Oh, and he's only 18 years old.
Christina Clark
Christina works from her home office in the sprawling metroplex of Dallas, Texas. After almost flunking out of college due to an addiction to a MUD (KoBra or Looney anyone?), she finally moved on with real life and become a journalist and then a high school English teacher. Somehow along the way she got hired to write for DLS even though she secretly knows nothing about computers. Well, except for the four or five in her home office, but most of those belong to her geeky husband. Christina writes for Download Squad and Green Daily.
Dolores Parker
Gordon Finlayson
Jason Clarke
The Commodore 64 was Jason’s first computer crush at the age of 9, and his infatuation with shiny, blinky things that go “bloop bloop” has never faded. Even through his years attempting (and eventually failing) to make a living as a professional musician playing the acoustic bass, Jason found himself constantly tinkering with computers, and trying to make something work out of piles of cast-off parts, though lately he has become somewhat of a Mac aficionado. While not writing for Download Squad and TUAW, Jason spends time with his wife and three kids aged five and under, and works at his day job as Manager of Technical Services for a software company near Vancouver, BC. He also enjoys playing ice hockey, reading, and plotting world domination. You can visit his personal site
here.
Jay Hathaway
Lee Mathews
Lee blogs from the middle of nowhere - north of the 56th parallel in scenic Manitoba, Canada. He's been repairing computers since 1993, when he provided support for an Amiga lab and helped IBM roll out an ultra-high tech token ring network at his high school. Today, he's known locally as "the computer guy" and spends his days pulling his hair out whilst repeatedly removing the same trojans from the same computers over, and over, and over....
Nik Fletcher
Nik is the resident Brit on the Download Squad team, and by day works behind the scenes at a small Macintosh developer in southern England. When not in front of his Mac, he's found snapping the odd photo, plotting world domination and travelling to the US (harbouring ambitions to head there "someday").
Todd Ritter
A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, is a tech geek living by the motto, "Work smarter, not harder." He enjoys finding ways to use technology to make our lives easier and more productive. When not writing for Download Squad, he likes to play and coach volleyball, play Xbox 360, and serenade ladies with his guitar. Todd currently resides in Pennsylvania and is the IT systems administrator for a K-12 school district and an instructor at a local career institute. You can visit his personal site
here.