Digital Hub Holiday Bundle

Jim Heid is one of the most admired writers and instructors in the Macintosh community. A contributing editor of Macworld magazine since 1984, he also covers personal technology for the Los Angeles Times, as well as presiding over numerous Thunder Lizard Productions conferences, including Web Design World, Web Builder, and Macromedia Web World. He recently co-founded Avondale Media, where, as editorial director, he oversees the planning and production of DVD-based courses on all manner of computer applications. An indefatigable digital media maven, Jim co-hosts "Point & Click Radio," a weekly call-in show on KZYX, Mendocino (CA) County Public Broadcasting, and he's the onscreen host of several Avondale Media training DVDs.

Adam C. Engst is the the editor and publisher for TidBITS, one of the oldest and largest Internet-based newsletters. TidBITS is distributed to hundreds of thousands of readers via email, the Web, and other methods. Adam has written and co-authored numerous Internet books and magazine articles, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series. In addition, he has collaborated on several Internet educational videos and has appeared on a variety of nationally broadcast television and radio programs. He has yet to be turned into an action figure.

John's graphics background includes working as a designer, art director, and illustrator at advertising agencies and as a freelancer. The majority of this experience was gained in Dallas, but the lure of adobe houses and snow-covered mountains brought him to Santa Fe. There he continued designing, art directing, and illustrating, and of course started using a Macintosh. Now there's one factor present that wasn't there before: Now it's fun. Now he can experiment. He can change his mind. He can play. John read once that all creativity is a form of play. He didn't believe it at the time. Being creative was work. But now, as he looks out the window at the fresh snow on the mountains, he wonders: Should he go skiing or should he boot up the Mac?

Robin Williams is the author of dozens of best-selling and award-winning books about the Macintosh, including the groundbreaking The Little Mac Book and Robin Williams Mac OS X Book. She is an icon in the Mac community. Through her writing, teaching, and seminars, Robin has educated and influenced an entire generation of computer users in the areas of design, typography, desktop publishing, the Mac, and the Web.