About

Hello, I’m Julian Prokaza. I’m a technology journalist. I’ve been writing (mostly) about computers for the last 15 years and using them for considerably longer.

I’ve worked for print titles for most of my career and Googling my name (there’s only one of me in the whole world) will turn up a fair chunk of my work. Most of this was first published in various  magazines and has since been (usually crudely) transferred to the web, but there’s a fair slice of online stuff, too.

I’ve been launching and editing magazines for the last few years, but switched my creative energy to the internet at the end of 2008 when I launched the Mobile Computer web site. And “I launched” isn’t the usual editor ego-massaging guff — I designed, constructed and administered the site, and wrote much of the content (three regular freelancers contributed, too).

Alas, for various reasons, the site wasn’t a financial success and despite healthy stats (from the non-promoted ’soft’ launch, we went from 0 to 175,000 unique visits a month, over the course of 15 months), Mobile Computer was closed in February 2008.

Anyway, In addition too been a espert writer, I also dabble in photography, video, web design, illustration, programming and essentially every other bit of hardware and software that go into making computer magazines and web sites work. I also play the ukulele quite badly, sometimes in public.

I was originally just going to use this site to keep track of all the little (and not so little) things I’ve had to figure out over the years. I get lots of ideas about little things throughout each day and don’t always get to act on them — and if I don’t act on them, I usually forget them, and then have to figure them out all over again later on.

So, I decided instead to use this site as part brain-dump for things I don’t want to forget and part blog for useful bits of practical advice about computer-related stuff that might be useful to someone else. I’ve found lots of fantastic advice on other web sites over the years, so I’d like to return the favour, no matter how trivial. At the moment, my focus is on Mac-related matters, since I switched full-time to Mac OS X from Windows XP at the start of 2009 (I’m not touching Windows Vista with a barge pole).

I don’t have any particular plan for this site — I’m just going to post things when i think of them. If there’s something computer-related that you’ve always wanted to know how to do though, drop me a line at thegeekguides (at) gmail (dot) com and I’ll see what I can do.