Negrino, Tom

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NEGRINO, Tom

PERSONAL:

Married; wife's name Dori Smith; children: Sean.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Northern California. Agent— 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer. MacWorld, San Francisco, CA, contributing editor, 1990—.

WRITINGS:

Upgrading Your Mac, Que (Indianapolis, IN), 1994.

(With Charles Seiter) Macworld Web Essentials, IDG Books (Foster City, CA), 1995.

(With Wendy Sharp) Macs for Kids & Parents, IDG Books (Foster City, CA), 1997.

Microsoft Office 98 for Macs for Dummies, IDG Books (Foster City, CA), 1998.

Quicken 98 for Macintosh, Peachpit Press (Berkeley, CA), 1998.

Quicken 99 for Windows, Peachpit Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

Quicken 2000 for Macintosh, Peachpit Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

Quicken 2000 for Windows, Peachpit Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

Quicken 2001 for Macintosh, Peachpit Press (Berkeley, CA), 2001.

(With wife, Dori Smith) JavaScript for the World Wide Web, Peachpit Press (Berkeley, CA), 2001.

Microsoft Office 2001 for Macs for Dummies, IDG Books (Foster City, CA), 2001.

(With others) Microsoft Office v.X: Mac: Inside Out, Microsoft Press (Redmond, WA), 2002.

Quicken 2003 for Macintosh, Peachpit Press (Berkeley, CA), 2003.

Macromedia Contribute for Windows: Visual Quick-start Guide, Peachpit Press (Berkeley, CA), 2003.

(With Dori Smith) Mac OS X Unwired, O'Reilly & Associates (Sebastopol, CA), 2003.

SIDELIGHTS:

Tom Negrino is the author of several software tutorial books and is also a contributing editor to Macworld magazine. JavaScript for the World Wide Web is a best-selling guide to the language of creating web pages. Macromedia Contribute for Windows is a "visual quickstart guide" of the Contribute software which allows individuals, who are not literate in HTML, to update their own Web sites. In a review for Library Journal, Chris Ziener called the book "a highly useful reference for users who require quick answers to pressing questions." Negrino lives with his wife, Dori, and their son, Sean, in Northern California.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, October 1, 1999, Thom Gillespie, review of JavaScript for the World Wide Web, p. 130; April 1, 2001, Chris Ziener, review of Quicken 2001 for Macintosh, p. 124; May 1, 2003, Rachel Singer Gordon, review of Macromedia Contribute for Windows: Visual Quickstart Guide, p. 150.

OfficeSolutions, April, 2000, review of Quicken for Windows 2000, p. 50.

Reference and Research Books News, August, 1999, review of Quicken 99 for Windows, p. 85.