Leo Laporte, The Tech Guy

About the show

SATURDAY, 2-4 PM (encore SUNDAY, 3-5 pm)

Your Go-To Gadget Guy Leo Laporte will keep you informed on the newest technologies from computers, the internet, iPods and cell phones to camcorders, digital cameras, gaming systems and home theatres. Leo Laporte provides entertaining tech talk that appeals to the inner geek in all of us!

Leo Laporte has worked as an author, speaker, and broadcaster in New Haven, Monterey, San Jose, San Francisco, and L.A., most recently focusing on technology coverage for radio, television, and the Internet.

Laporte has written software for CP/M, Macintosh, and PC compatible computers including the popular open source programs, QDial and MacArc for the Macintosh. From 1985 to 1988, he operated one of the first Macintosh-only computer bulletin board systems, MacQueue.

He was the co-author, with former ABC Technology Correspondent Gina Smith, of 101 Computer Answers You Need to Know, a computer book for beginners published in 1995 by Ziff-Davis Press. He has written about computer hardware and software for Byte, MacUser, and InfoWorld magazines, and he has contributed chapters to Dvorak’s Guide to PC Telecommunications and Dvorak’s Inside Track to the Mac, both published by Osborne/McGraw Hill. He has written four bestselling Technology Almanacs. Leo Laporte’s 2003 Technology Almanac was Pearson Publishing’s Book of the Year in 2003.

In 2000–2001, Leo was a Contributing Editor for Access Magazine, a Sunday newspaper magazine supplement with an estimated readership of 13 million in 80 markets nationwide.

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