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  • DIY-IT Project Guide

    The DIY-IT Project Guide is the comprehensive guide to all our DIY-IT projects, from the DIY video studio to super-slick Google Voice hacks to small business tips, plus a lot more. If you’re working on a DIY project of your own, this is a good place to start.

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David Gewirtz

David Gewirtz
In addition to hosting the ZDNet Government and ZDNet DIY-IT blogs, CBS Interactive's Distinguished Lecturer David Gewirtz is an author, U.S. policy advisor, and computer scientist. He is featured in The History Channel special The President's Book of Secrets, is one of America's foremost cyber-security experts, and is a top expert on saving and creating jobs. He is also director of the U.S. Strategic Perspective Institute as well as the founder of ZATZ Publishing.

David is a member of FBI InfraGard, the Cyberwarfare Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism & Security Professionals, a columnist for The Journal of Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, and has been a regular CNN contributor, and a guest commentator for the Nieman Watchdog of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He is the author of Where Have All the Emails Gone?, the definitive study of email in the White House, as well as How To Save Jobs and The Flexible Enterprise, the classic book that served as a foundation for today's agile business movement.

About DIY-IT

Part mad scientist, part celebrity author, and part shadowy government advisor, CBS Interactive's Distinguished Lecturer David Gewirtz warps space/time with neat hacks, cool do-it-yourself projects, business survival tips, and commentary that peels paint.

  • How to convert your book from InDesign to Kindle in 10 minutes or less

    By David Gewirtz | February 28, 2012, 5:00am PST

    End-to-end, I was able to go from InDesign document to Kindle document live and running on my Kindle in six minutes.

  • Better know a blogger: Jason Perlow (video)

    By David Gewirtz | February 26, 2012, 6:38pm PST

    ZDNet’s Jason Perlow is the first to sit under the hot lights of Skype in our Better Know a Blogger series. Think you know Jason? Think again.

  • 9 things you don’t know about the iPad 3

    By David Gewirtz | February 22, 2012, 5:00am PST

    In the spirit of guessing about products we have no real information about, here are 9 things you don’t know about the iPad 3.

  • Three ugly, middle-aged men argue about Windows 8

    By David Gewirtz | February 13, 2012, 5:11am PST

    You will have the unparalleled and unprecedented opportunity to watch us pontificate on the future of Windows 8. Bring popcorn. There will be fireworks.

  • Ode to manual typewriters

    By David Gewirtz | February 9, 2012, 7:51pm PST

    Manual typewriters are back, and they’re all the retro rage. This article contains stories from leading technology journalists about their relationship with manual typewriters.

  • Why Windows 8 matters for real work, and so will Windows 9

    By David Gewirtz | February 7, 2012, 10:44am PST

    The bottom line is this: to do real work with real computers you need a real operating system. You need Windows. Nothing else, really, will do.

  • Amazon reduces S3 prices, because $0.11 is too much to charge

    By David Gewirtz | February 7, 2012, 2:48am PST

    If you’re using a ton of S3 space, your bill’s going down next month. Even if you’re not using a ton of space, your bill is probably going down. Can’t beat that with a stick.

  • Green screen lighting in the Skype Studio

    By David Gewirtz | February 5, 2012, 1:04am PST

    There are a number of challenges when setting up lighting for green screen in a small studio space. Here’s how DIY-IT’s David Gewirtz solved them for his Skype Studio project.

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