About Cult of Mac

By Craig Grannell (2:02 pm, May. 04, 2010)

Cult of Mac is a daily news website that tracks Apple and the people who use its products. Our goal is to provide timely news, insightful analysis, helpful how-tos and honest product reviews about Apple and Apple-related products.

The staff is an international team of Apple experts, blogging around the clock, who have also written for Wired, Scientific American, The Guardian, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanic, Mac|Life, The New York Times, Newsweek, Daily Telegraph, the BBC, MacUser and Macworld.

We often break stories and are becoming a primary news source on the tech web. Our stories often picked up by mainstream outlets like the L.A Times, Wall Street Journal and Wired.

Contact the editor Leander Kahney at leander@cultofmac.com.

Submit news tips and rumors to news@cultofmac.com.

Submit anonymous submissions to private@cultofmac.com.

Send website feedback and article corrections to feedback@cultofmac.com.

iPhone, iPod touch and iPad promo codes should be sent to craig@cultofmac.com for review consideration.

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Our team

Leander Kahney

Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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Traci Dauphin

Traci Dauphin is the Managing Editor at Cult of Mac. She keeps the trains running on time. Traci also writes product reviews and shoots great galleries of events like Macworld.

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Sayam Aggarwal

Sayam Aggarwal is a 17-year-old student living in India who has been an Apple fan for almost 5 years. He has worked with ModMyi, one of the leading iPhone communities, as an author for more than a year. He spends most of his free time on the Internet fetching the latest news regarding Apple and its entire product range. Follow him on Twitter!

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Killian Bell

Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also writes for iDownloadBlog.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell, or through his website.

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John Brownlee

John Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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Cate Defrise

Cate Defrise is an earth and health-conscious American foodie who is developing indie mac games and apps in France. Her site is Mac Games And More. Follow Cate on Twitter.

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Craig Grannell

Craig Grannell is Cult of Mac's designer and an occasional contributor. He also runs iPhoneTiny.com, a Twitter-driven reviews site for iPhone apps and games. Follow Craig on Twitter @CraigGrannell and visit his website, Snub Communications.

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Lonnie Lazar

Lonnie Lazar is a writer-musician-web designer-attorney. He writes about Apple for Cult of Mac and Mac|Life, and about VoIP and telecommunications for Voxilla. Follow Lonnie on Twitter @LonnieLazar, join the Cult of Mac on Facebook, and find Lonnie's photos on Flickr.

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Buster Heine

Buster Heine was born and raised in Roswell, NM, but lives in Phoenix where he spends his hours as a student/writer/seeker of epic fun. Generally speaking, there are three major loves in his life: Apple products, burritos, and himself (because narcissism is the new black). Website: bust3r.com; Twitter: twitter.com/bst3r.

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David W. Martin

David W. Martin has more than 20 years of experience in the industry as a programmer, systems and business analyst, author, and consultant. David has written for CNET's iPhoneatlas.com and MacLife.com he currently writes for CultofMac.com and BYTE.com. He comes to Cult of Mac's website with deep knowledge and passion for the all things Apple. Follow David on Twitter @david_w_martin.

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Nicole Martinelli

Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco who has lived in Milan and Florence, Italy. She's written for Wired.com, The New York Times and Newsweek. You can find her on Twitter and Linked in. Like Mark Zuckerberg's puppy, she has a fan page on Facebook.

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Leigh McMullen

Leigh McMullen leads the Advisory Services & Strategy practices for the professional services arm of one of the Big-Five firms. He has written several books that would cure any insomnia you might have, and is an avid Mac junkie.

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Eli Milchman

When he was eight, Eli Milchman came home from frolicking in the Veld one day and was given an Atari 400. Since then, his fascination with technology has made him an intrepid early adopter of whatever charming new contraption crosses his path — which explains why he's Cult of Mac's technology editor. He calls San Francisco home, where he works as a journalist and photographer. Eli has contributed to the pages of Wired.com and BIKE Magazine, among others. Hang with him on Twitter.

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Will Moore

Will Moore is a freelance writer based in the UK - He specializes in consumer technology and is a long time Apple fan. As well as cultofmac.com, Will also writes for a number of popular european tech sites such as techradar.com, electricpig.co.uk, The Gadget Show and more. He is married and lives in Maidstone UK, with his wife, Lydia. A keen amateur photographer and videographer, Will can often be found around the UK coastline documenting one of his loves - the sea and UK surf scene.

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Pete Mortensen

Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete's particular Apple avocations are both around design--interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!

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Adam Rosen

Adam Rosen is an IT consultant specializing in Apple Macintosh systems new and old. He lives in Boston with two cats and too many possessions. In addition to membership in the Cult of Mac, Adam occasionally writes for Low End Mac and is curator of the Vintage Mac Museum. He also enjoys a good glass of Pinot Noir.

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Ed Sutherland

Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.

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Giles Turnbull

Giles Turnbull is a freelance writer in England. He writes for the Press Association, Time Techland, and The Morning News. He has a website you can ignore and a Twitter account you needn't follow.

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