Tony Bove
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).REDIRECT Template:Unreliable source?This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name. For more information follow the category link.Tony Bove is also a co-founder and band member (harmonica, vocals, and songwriting) of the Flying Other Brothers rock band (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), to which John C. Dvorak added a foreword. Bove's book The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam Books, 1986) was reviewed by Erik Sandberg-Diment in The New York Times.Bove started doing multimedia development on personal computers in 1991. 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.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, and the Prodigy (online service), and a contributor to magazines including NeXTWorld, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and Whole Earth Software Catalog and Review.