About Us

Established in 2004, Chip Chick was a pioneer in the blogosphere, becoming amongst the first sites to focus on technology for women. The goal of Chip Chick has always been for women to have a site that helps them keep up with the latest technology trends and how to make these trends more fashionable and customizable. Our reporters run the gamut of different types of stories: we cover events, report on interesting Web 2.0 technologies, write products reviews, and we love sharing the latest cool software and hardware.

Over the years, Chip Chick has been featured in People Style & Watch Magazine, The Boston Channel, CNN, Reuters, Cnet, Woman’s Day magazine, and News|Talk 710 KIRO, just to name a few, as well as in several print publications world wide. Chip Chick is also recognized as one of the top 25 most influential female voices on the web, in addition to being one of Technorati’s top 100 Gadget and Technology blogs, a top site in the tech media universe, as well as one of Wikio’s Top 100 Technology blogs. In 2006, Chip Chick branched out by developing Chip Chicklets, a blog geared towards technology for kids.

The Team

Helena Stone,  Editor in Chief

Noticing that there was a void of female influence in the technology blogosphere, Helena started Chip Chick in 2004. A native New Yorker, Helena holds a Masters in Digital Imaging and Design from NYU and she has a background in the interactive and social media fields. She has been featured on MSNBC, Woman’s Day magazine, and other major news outlets. Helena also serves as an Intel Advisor as well as a Virgin Mobile Ambassador. And when she is not busy testing out new gear, she can be found trotting the globe, looking for the next hot gadget.

iPhone or Not: iPhone 4S
Favorite Gadget: iPad 3!
Computer: MacBook Air 11″, 27″ iMac

Ali Heriyanto, Managing Editor of Chip Chick,  Editor for Chip Chicklets

Ali resides in New York City and is proud to be one of the few ladies out there with MCSE and A+ certification, though somehow she ended up working in corporate real estate. Once a vehement anti-macite, Ali now prefers the world of Macs, but still has a fondness for PCs. She can also knock Xbox 360 controllers with the best of them, and is super obsessed with sound quality when listening to headphones or speakers. Her current obsession is attempting to get some sleep!

iPhone or Not: Nokia Lumia 900
Favorite Gadget: Sony NEX-5N
Computer: MacBook Air 13″

Zara Rabinowicz, Reporter and European Correspondent

Zara hails from the cold city that is London Town, but finds the horrible weather a great excuse to stay in and play on her XBOX. She has been involved in the technology world for many years now, and finds that her day can be easily brightened by a (tastefully) diamante encrusted USB stick or a new Android device. She’s an expert on all types of gadgetry, with a particular penchant for eReaders, compact cameras and PMP’s. She believes the future of technology will be application based, and that social media is going to change the way that businesses behave. You can find her musing about non gadget related goodness on her blog www.AlmostZara.com or updating you on her dinner plans via her Twitter feed (follow her @AlmostZara).

iPhone or Not: iPhone 3GS
Favorite gadget: Elonex Ebook
Computer: Temperamental Lenovo Thinkpad

*Scott Schaen, Senior Reporter

Scott resides in hipster-town Brooklyn, New York. He is a 24 year old technophile who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Aside from his day job, he lives a very social lifestyle, commonly going out in Williamsburg or New York City. Reviewing products for Chip Chick is “a dream come true” for Scott, the young professional with a heart of a child and the curiosity of a cat. He is often seen giving out free hugs to Chip Chick readers and taking them out for expensive steak dinners (…but not really[...or at least not yet...]).

Catchphrase: “Technology…Cool!”
iPod or Not: iPhone 4S
Favorite Gadget: Sony NEX-5N
Computer: 1st Gen Unibody 13″ MacBook

Tiffani Buteau, Reporter

Tiffani is a Californian who travels often and collects hobbies, among which are painting, surfing, learning languages, and writing an Indian Mexican fusion cookbook. Although an avid and adept PC user, she maintains an open mind. She finds her horizons being broadened by the cunning and witty antics of her new Mac enthusiast husband to “think different,” and “come to the dark side.” Reviews for Chip Chick are a tasty diversion, less motivated by a need for incessant gadgetry, and more by a fascination with the organic nature of the human need to invent and love gadgets.

iPhone or Not: iPhone 4
Favorite Gadget: Dr. Who’s Sonic Screwdriver, it works on everything!
Favorite Tech Joke: “Apple has issued a recall on several models of Mac laptops because the battery can over heat and catch fire. Experts say a Mac fire is just like a PC fire, except it’s more hip and condescending,” – Conan O’ Brien

Chance Kinney, Reporter and Asian Correspondent

Originally from Modesto, California, Chance received a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from UCLA. He now lives in Taiwan, teaching English to elementary students and continuing his newly launched writing career as a copywriter and a reporter for Chip Chick. When he’s not in a bowling alley or in the kitchen, Chance is keeping himself updated on everything tech, especially in the mobile world. Video games always take center stage though – he has eight different consoles in the care of friends while he is abroad. Also, basketball. Anything basketball related.

iPhone or Not: The iPhone 3G Steve Jobs forgot
Favorite Gadget: Amazon Kindle 3G
Computer: A badly overheating Sony VAIO, soon to be replaced by an Acer Aspire

*Scott Freedlun, Contributor

Scott is a born gadget aficionado from the Bay Area, California. He finds ways to turn the ordinary into an experience worth reliving, through the mediums of photography, film, gaming, and good ol’ fashioned storytelling. He also appreciates tech that encourages and enables research and study projects into the things that fascinate him. Currently residing in Tanzania, Africa, his primary focus is on his volunteer work with his lovely wife July. Crossing the worlds of California techy and African adventurer, he offers a fresh perspective with his reporting style.

iPhone or Not: iPod Touch 2G
Favorite Gadget: iPad 2
Computer: Overused Toshiba Qosmio

* It turns out that our male writers are actually state of the art apps that feature artificial intelligence.