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, and News|Talk 710 KIRO, just to name a few, as well as in several print publications world wide. In 2006, Chip Chick branched out by developing Chip Chicklets, a blog geared towards technology for kids.

About our bloggers:

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“Chip Chick” Helena Stone, Editor in Chief

A native New Yorker, the Chip Chick holds a Masters Degree in Digital Imaging and Design from New York University. To pay the bills to fund her expensive gadget lust, Chip Chick works as an interactive designer. At any minute she can be found trolling J and R, Best Buy, Circuit City, or DataVision… hard at work at making the salesmen feel stupid.

iPod or Not: iPhone
Favorite Gadget: Nikon D90
Computer: Macbook (Late 2008), 24″ iMac, 20″ iMac

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Ali, Co-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. A vehement anti-macite, Ali prefers the world of PC and Microsoft. And she can knock X-box 360 controllers with the best of them. Her current obsession is Rock Band.

iPod or Not: iPod Touch 2G
Favorite Gadget: Blackberry Pearl Flip
Computer: Macbook Pro (Late 2008). She finally caved in. Damn Boot Camp.

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Tiffani Buteau

Tiffani is a Californian at heart who travels often and spends much of her time in a seaside Mexican town called Manzanillo. She is also cofounder of a popular travel blog for that city- www.manzanilloblog.com. Although an avid and adept PC user, she maintains an open mind. As a newlywed 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 Chicklets are a tasty diversion, less motivated by a need for incessant gadgetry, and more by the organic nature of the human need to invent and love gadgets.

iPod or Not: iPod Touch
Favorite Gadget: Moleskine Notebook (Like a palm pilot that doesn’t run out of batteries!).
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

Kevin Geter

Kevin currently lives in Maryland. He embarked on a journey in the I.T.field after spending several years in a career that was no longer fulfilling. Kevin has a MCSE Certification as well as a A+ Certification. However, he started out supporting Macs. Presently he is working in the Windows environment as a Network and LAN Administrator, but he’s a guy who appreciates the best of both worlds. To support his tech and gadget addiction he enjoys finding deals via the internet and some brick and mortar computer retailers. In his free time he enjoys playing computer games, and modding PCs.

Ipod or Not: Ipod Nano
Favorite Gadget: Sony Play Station Portable (Hacked all the way baby!).
Computer: My custom modded and tricked out, over clocked Water cooled Pentium

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Laura Mushnick

Laura is a born, raised and current Jersey Girl. She is currently enjoying the learning process involved in transitioning from a Dell to a Mac. Her favorite tech-related activities are blasting music from her iPod Touch on the subway for all to enjoy, running from homeless people who are attracted to her and her iPod, playing Social Distortion on Guitar Hero III and the photo booth application on her new Mac.

Favorite gadget: Wii
Computer: Macbook
iPod or Not: Her 2nd generation iPod was recently (and reluctantly) replaced by an iPod Touch

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Joseph Damanti

Dressed in his Yoda outfit, Joe is quite the man about town. An avid gamer, he enjoys playing with his Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS. Particularly Guitar Hero till his fingers begin to bleed, or he becomes blind from too much Star Wars Battlefront. Joe Skywalker also laughs in the face of new smartphones like the Blackberry Bold, he is content with his 5 year old Blackberry - especially after having survived a brief stint with Helio. Oh, and hockey is his life - but that is ok because the dude really is good at it.

iPod or Not: He prefers listening to the midi files on his 5, maybe 6 year old Blackberry.
Favorite Gadget: Lightsaber
Computer: Toshiba Protege