Barbara Boyd (Rome, Italy) has been a freelance writer since 2001 and currently writes about technology, food, gardens, and travel. From 1985 to 1990 Barbara worked at Apple, first as the right-hand assistant to John Sculley's technical guru and later as a member of the Technical Product Support group. Barbara is the coauthor of iPhone All-in-One For Dummies and Macs All-in-One For Dummies. Barbara moved to Rome in 2000 and she is a part-time professor at Rome’s first university, La Sapienza.