Mauricio Pastrana

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Mauricio Francisco Pastrana
Born	October 4, 1982 (1982-10-04) (age 25) Bogota, Colombia
Nationality	Colombian
Education	Florida Atlantic University (BSc.) University of Sydney (MEc.)
Occupation	Web Developer, Consultant, Programmer at Via-the-internet

Mauricio Pastrana, (born October 4, 1982 in Bogota, Colombia) is a Colombian internet web developer. Mauricio received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Masters degree in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Sydney. Mauricio has been in the web industry since 2000 ^[1]^[2].

He has had some involvement on EHR development for the medical industry, and worked closely in the past with Jose Sanchez (the first person to integrate a web-based health record system with the Florida Department of Health^[3]).

[edit] Apple TV Hack

In 2007, Mauricio found and published^[4] a way to enable the Apple TV to output color through composite video^[5]. Albeit not a product-changing modification; this hardware-based hack, which requires of inexpensive hardware to trick the built in operating system^[6] enabled users with non-HDTV TV sets, for which the AppleTV was originally designed for^[7], to connect Apple TVs to them^[8].