Tony Bove

Who is 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.

Tony Bove is also a co-founder and band member of the Flying Other Brothers rock band.

Tony Bove with Adam Osborne, 1983

Mickey Hart and Tony Bove, 2006

Robert Scoble reviewed Bove's book Just Say No to Microsoft, to which John C. Dvorak added a foreword. Bove's book The Art of Desktop Publishing 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, 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.