Jason D. O'Grady

Contributing Editor

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984. He started writing one of the first Web site…s 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).

Jason D. O'Grady is the creator and editor of O'Grady's PowerPage, which has been publishing mobile technology news since 1995. He maintains an advertising relationship with the following legacy advertisers on the PowerPage: Amazon Associates and Google Adsense. Advertising on the PowerPage is brokered by a third-party agency (BackBeat Media) and he recuses himself from these negotiations.

Latest from Jason D. O'Grady

Surface? Apple's got nothing to worry about

Sure the Surface looks nice, but price and availability are still unknown and iOS and the App Store have a two-plus year head start on Microsoft.

June 19, 2012 by Jason D. O'Grady in Microsoft

VBA to make its triumphant return to Excel 2011 for Mac

Microsoft discontinued support for Visual Basic for Applications (aka VBA) in Office for Mac 2008 -- but I've confirmed that VBA will make its triumphant return to Excel 2011 for Mac.

August 11, 2010 by Jason D. O'Grady in Microsoft

iWork '09 adds security to Web service

Apple's iWork '09 productivity suite ($79) enjoyed an upgrade to version 9.0.

September 30, 2009 by Jason D. O'Grady in Microsoft

Woz revises his "most astounding" Bing review

When Fudzilla posted a story under the linkbait headline yesterday that read Apple founder praises Microsoft I have to admit that I got sucked in. I was immediately skeptical, but really, who could resist a headline like that?

June 1, 2009 by Jason D. O'Grady in Microsoft

Microsoft's new "price" television commercial (Updated)

I finally watched the new MS commercial "Laptop Hunters - Lauren" TV commercial, the tagline: "On a strict $1000 budget, Lauren hunts around town for a big screen laptop."While mostly true (the only only 17-inch Apple notebooks cost $2,000-$2,800) the ads don't take into consideration the Windows notebook's Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

March 26, 2009 by Jason D. O'Grady in Microsoft

Microsoft releases first iPhone app: Seadragon

That sound you heard over the weekend was hell freezing over.On Saturday Microsoft's Live Labs released an application of the iPhone called Seadragon (iTunes, free) that allows you to view (and zoom in on) Gigapixel images.

December 15, 2008 by Jason D. O'Grady in Microsoft

Microsoft acknowledges the Apple threat in SEC filing

In their mandatory 10-Q filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for 2008 Microsoft acknowledges Apple's success, but without mentioning them by name.A competing vertically-integrated model, in which a single firm controls both the software and hardware elements of a product, has been successful with certain consumer products such as personal computers, mobile phones and digital music players.

August 3, 2008 by Jason D. O'Grady in Microsoft