Download Squad

Download Squad is part of the industry powerhouse Weblogs, Inc. network, and is affiliated with the AOL Tech family of sites. A sister to other popular WIN sites like Engadget, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Switched and Joystiq, Download Squad's primary editorial mission is to seek out the best in tools, utilities and applications, browser add-ons, distractions, time-wasters and other facets of your digital lifestyle.

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An Atari dork in the early 80s before becoming an avid Unix geek in the days before Linux. Grant parlayed a hobby that didn't make him popular with girls into a career that still doesn't make him popular with girls.

A full time agile support developer in addition to his duties as Lead for Download Squad. An avid tinkerer, amatuer maker, writer and TV fan Grant lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his fiancee -- former TUAW blogger and current Mashable staff writer Christina Warren -- in a house full of Macs, PCs, wireless gadgets and digital storage space.

A freelance journalist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Brad has been obsessed with gadgets, software, and figuring out why things work for as long as he can remember. His first computer was an Atari 800XL, and it does not still hold a warm fuzzy place in his heart.

In addition to writing about software for Download Squad, Brad edits Liliputing, a web site about netbooks and mobile computing. He also contributes regularly to NPR, WHYY, and other public radio news programs. You can find Brad's personal blog here.

Lee blogs from the middle of nowhere - north of the 56th parallel in scenic Manitoba, Canada. He's been repairing computers since 1993, when he provided support for an Amiga lab and helped IBM roll out an ultra-high tech token ring network at his high school. Today, he's known locally as "the computer guy" and spends his days pulling his hair out whilst repeatedly removing the same trojans from the same computers over, and over, and over....

The Commodore 64 was Jason’s first computer crush at the age of 9, and his infatuation with shiny, blinky things that go “bloop bloop” has never faded. While not writing for Download Squad and TUAW, Jason spends time with his wife and three kids aged five and under, and works at his day job as Manager of Technical Services for a software company near Vancouver, BC. He also enjoys playing ice hockey, reading, and plotting world domination.

Nik is the resident Brit on the Download Squad team, and by day works behind the scenes at a small Macintosh developer in southern England. When not in front of his Mac, he's found snapping the odd photo, plotting world domination and travelling to the US (harbouring ambitions to head there "someday").

Christina works from her home office in the sprawling metroplex of Dallas, Texas. After almost flunking out of college due to an addiction to a MUD (KoBra or Looney anyone?), she finally moved on with real life and became a journalist and then a high school English teacher. Somehow along the way she got hired to write for DLS even though she secretly knows nothing about computers. Well, except for the four or five in her home office, but most of those belong to her geeky husband.

Jay is another name for the common American freelance writer (Scriptus americanus). Native to Seattle, WA, Jay is a natural predator for topics including software (mostly OS X and iPhone), comics, pop music and productivity. Jay is among the most recognizable and popular of the blogging world's charismatic megafauna. Jay's range extends from Download Squad to Twitter, as far north as Geek Monthly magazine and as far south as the interviews section of Suicide Girls. Hunting of Jay is restricted in most countries, and selling of Jay parts is illegal under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

Based in the middle of no where, England, Sebastian finds his lonely, friendless-hobo existence to provide the perfect vantage point for bias-free, objective opinionation.

A gamer and engineer since a very young age (he famously took a VHS machine apart at the age of 18 months, and later started a school bus at 24 months), he not only likes to tear things to pieces, he also likes to find out what makes things tick.

He also travels, enjoys theatre and live music, sells his own fine-art photographs to make a living and -- despite popular consensus, and his dark, grizzly visage -- he is actually quite young.