Welcome to my personal site: it's about Deb, Macintosh, and Travel

Hi. I'm Deborah Shadovitz, better known as Deb.

I'm an author, speaker, instructor, consultant, event producer, and radio person — specializing in Mac, Internet, and Web.

Friends have always teased
    that I'm out to change the world — and I am.

I share tech skills to help people achieve.
I make computers easy for people.

Writing: I'm a Contributing Editor for Mac|Life magazine and pen Mac Efficiency™ — a free web site about using your Mac most efficiently. After years of writing only about Mac and Web stuff, I went back into travel and other writing, as with travel and people features in Valley Life magazine. (Cover feature on Beau Bridges in Jan/Feb issue.)

Radio: I'm a regular guest on Jeff Levy on Computers now on KRLA 870 AM.
You can hear some of my radio segments on my speaker page.

Events:

• MacDayLA — a new one-day Mac event each odd month or so.
• The MacGathering™ — a full-fledged Apple/Macintosh event.
  Custom-designed top-notch seminars & classes, plus unique social happenings.
  If you manage a venue and want to share it with the Mac community, please
  Want to attend?
  Want to exhibit an Apple or Mac-related product?
• Mac Mingle — a party during Macworld Expo, free to all, sponsored by some great Mac vendors and co-produced with Adam "MacCast" Christianson. (I created the Party For The People too; the first-ever invitationless Macworld party where everyone was welcome.) Leo Laporte heard it call "the best party of the show."

I’ve been asked to have a donation button for those who'd like to thank me for something learned here or for other help I’ve given. So, if I’ve helped you and you’d like to throw a couple of dollars into my MacBook Pro and Mac Events fund, I’d be honored.

So what can you do on this website?

• Get to know me through the Deborah and Travel menus.
  (Yes, those are menus on the left.)
• Send to me, Deborah Shadovitz.
• Learn about me as a speaker. I can talk about many things tech, teach at your event, or help your company with Mac or word processing efficiency.
• Invite me to write about computer use. I write about aspects of computer use making it understandable in ways that most people don't. People say reading my work is like having me standing over their shoulder explaining it.
• Contact me as an expert for your news piece or feature. The Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News came to me to learn about Apple and quote me. I've also been featured in Women's Day magazine. See those pieces here.
• Developers — contact me to check out or comment about your product. Many vendors have benefitted from my UI reviews. I also write or advise on manuals.
• Expand your Macintosh computer knowledge.
• Learn about world travel or about visiting LA or NYC through each respective menu.

Looking for my brother, David Shadovitz, the ColdFusion software engineer and bicycle mechanic?, You can reach him at

Looking for another Shadovitz? Chances are, he or she is a relative so to forward.

If you don't see menus on the left, you likely have JavaScript turned off. IE in Windows does this for security reasons. If you miss JavaScript consider switching browsers or give up on Windows. Meanwhile, you can use the Site Map to see what's here.

Thanks for visiting.
~ Deb