Due no doubt in part to the votes cast by TidBITS and Take Control readers, we were pleased to see that not just Adam, but also Tonya, were included in the MacTech 25 list of influential people in the Macintosh technical community. Apart from its use of public voting, the MacTech 25 differs significantly from the MDJ Power 25 in honoring people outside Apple who influence the Macintosh world via their technical contributions. The end result thus included writers who explain technical topics or maintain sites deemed key to the technical community, system administrators who spread their knowledge through writing and speaking, and programmers who help other programmers.

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MacTech chose not to rank the top vote getters, making for a flat list. Congratulations to everyone on the MacTech 25, which this year includes the following people (see the forthcoming August 2006 issue of MacTech for a full write-up of each person; if you don't currently subscribe, you can download a free PDF sampler of recent articles):

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• Aaron Hillegas: Author of Cocoa programming books; founder of Big Nerd Ranch

  <http://www.bignerdranch.com/>

• Adam & Tonya Engst: Publishers of TidBITS and Take Control

  <http://www.tidbits.com/>
  <http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/>

• Amit Singh: Hacker and author of "Mac OS X Internals"

  <http://www.kernelthread.com/>

• Andrina Kelly: Mac OS X system administrator for C.O.R.E. Feature Animation and contributing editor for afp548.com

  <http://www.afp548.com/>

• Andy Ihnatko: Author, speaker, prankster, and technology columnist for the Chicago Sun Times.

  <http://www.cwob.com/>

• Ben Wilson: Editor of MacFixIt

  <http://www.macfixit.com/>

• Brent Simmons: Creator of NetNewsWire and MarsEdit

  <http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx? ProdID=NetNewsWire>
  <http://ranchero.com/marsedit/>

• Dan Frakes: Author, Macworld Senior Editor, Senior Reviews Editor of Playlist, MacFixIt Contributing Editor, TidBITS contributor, and Take Control editor.

  <http://www.danfrakes.com/>

• Danny Goodman: Author of numerous programming books about HyperCard, AppleScript, JavaScript, DHTML, Dashboard, and more

  <http://www.dannyg.com/>

• David Pogue: Author, New York Times technology columnist, and creator of the Missing Manual series

  <http://www.davidpogue.com/>

• Drunkenbatman: Creator of the apparently defunct, but previously influential, DrunkenBlog

  <http://www.drunkenblog.com/>

• John Gruber: Writer of the popular and well-written Daring Fireball blog

  <http://daringfireball.net/>

• John Siracusa: Writer of incredibly detailed technical articles about the Mac at Ars Technica

  <http://siracusa.home.mindspring.com/john/ articles/ars/index.html>

• Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch: Hacker extraordinaire, developer, and TidBITS contributor

  <http://rentzsch.com/>

• Josh Wisenbaker: Mac OS X Server guru, speaker, and editor at afp548.com

  <http://www.afp548.com/>

• Michael Bartosh: Trainer and author of "Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration," who died in an accident in June

  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bartosh>
  <http://www.afp548.com/article.php? story=20060611204217263>

• Mike Breeden: Maintainer of theAccelerate Your Mac site

  <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/>

• Nigel Kersten: Senior Technical Officer for the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales and knowledgeable system administrator

  <http://blogs.cofa.unsw.edu.au/blog/nigelkersten />

• Ray Barber: Founder of the MacScripter site and MacDeveloper, a marketplace for outsourced projects

  <http://macscripter.net/>
  <http://macdeveloper.net/>

• Ric Ford: Editor of the Mac news and tip site MacInTouch

  <http://www.macintouch.com/>

• Rich Siegel: Creator of BBEdit and founder of Bare Bones Software

  <http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/>
  <http://www.barebones.com/company/history.shtml>

• Rob Griffiths: Macworld columnist and the guy behind the Mac OS X Hints site

  <http://www.macosxhints.com/>

• Rosyna Keller: Programmer at haxie developer Unsanity

  <http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000003.php>

• Scott Knaster: Long-time technical writer, Take Control author

  <http://foodisworse.typepad.com/this/>

• Wil Shipley: CEO of Delicious Monster, creator of Delicious Library, and Pimp My Code blogger

  <http://www.delicious-monster.com/company.php>
  <http://www.delicious-monster.com/>
  <http://www.wilshipley.com/blog/>