Professional biography
He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.
After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.
O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press).
In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.
Latest articles from Jason D. O'Grady
Encrypt your OS X email and files the easy way
GPG Mail from GPGTools protects your email from prying eyes by using public key encryption via OpenPGP. It's by far the simplest and easiest way to encrypt email (and files) on the Mac.
My iBooks mea culpa
Back in early 2012 I wrote that iBooks would never come to OS X, but I was proven wrong when Apple announced OS X Mavericks at WWDC last week.
BMW: We won't be changing the architecture of our cars for Apple (Update: OK, maybe)
A BMW spokesperson dissed Apple's iOS in the Car technology, implying that its own in-dash entertainment offering is superior. Then corporate threw it into reverse and went into damage-control mode.
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