Tony Bove | |
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Born | 1955 Philadelphia, PA United States |
Occupation | Author, Producer, Editor, Publisher, Musician |
Tony Bove, born in 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the author of more than two dozen computer-related books; the producer of the Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties CD-ROM; and the co-founder, editor and publisher of Desktop Publishing Magazine, User's Guide to CP/M, and Bove and Rhodes Inside Report (with Cheryl Rhodes).[1][2]
Tony Bove is also a co-founder and band member (harmonica, vocals, and songwriting) of the Flying Other Brothers rock band[3] (which included Roger McNamee, Pete Sears, Barry Sless, and G. E. Smith).
Robert Scoble reviewed Bove's book Just Say No to Microsoft (No Starch Press, 2005),[4] to which John C. Dvorak added a foreword.[5] Bove's book The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam Books, 1986) was reviewed by Erik Sandberg-Diment in The New York Times.[6]
Bove started doing multimedia development on personal computers in 1991.[7] Bove's Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties CD-ROM, produced with poet and San Francisco Oracle underground newspaper editor Allen Cohen (featuring music from the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane), was previewed in Wired.[8]
Bove also wrote iPod and iTunes For Dummies and co-authored iPad Application Development For Dummies with Neal Goldstein. Bove also co-authored The iLife '04 Book with Andy Ihnatko and wrote The GarageBand Book, and The Well-Connected Macintosh with Cheryl Rhodes, as well as Official Macromedia Director Studio and Adobe Illustrator: The Official Handbook for Designers.
Bove was the editor of Desktop Publishing Magazine, User's Guide to CP/M, Portable Companion (for Osborne Computer Corporation), and Jim Warren's DataCast, as well as a columnist in Computer Currents, Macintosh Today, NewMedia, Publish!, The WELL, The Chicago Tribune,[9] and the Prodigy (online service), and a contributor to magazines including NeXTWorld, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and Whole Earth Software Catalog and Review.