The Big Four are the applications wired to the four round buttons on your PalmPilot: Date Book, Phone List, To Do List, and Memo Pad. In this helpful article, Contributing Editor Calvin Parker shares some handy tricks for making these applications even more useful.

What’s the best software for your PalmPilot? Of course, everyone has their own opinion. In this fun article, Contributing Editor Bob Freud shares his top picks for great add-ons.

Soup up your PalmPilot. One of the most useful capabilities of your PalmPilot is it’s ability to run additional software. There are hundreds of programs you can download and try. This important article shows you how to install, organize, and backup your add-on software.

It can happen to anyone. Data loss. Disaster. But it doesn’t have to ruin your day. PalmPilot support guru Chris Brown shows you how you can recover from virtually any PalmPilot data loss disaster.

Contributing Editor Bob Freud is really into his PalmPilot. Instead of showing off printed snapshots of his children, he pulls out his PalmPilot and shows digitized images of his kids on screen. It’s not entirely clear if he’s prouder of his kids or his PalmPilot! Now you too can be proud: download photos, maps, and even presentations into your PalmPilot.

Every day, we get mail from our readers. Most letters are posted in the daily Reader Mail pages, reachable from the "PalmPower News Center". But there are some letters that we think would be better served in a monthly letters to the editor column. This month: more on shopping lists and extending the built-in applications.

We continue our fascinating discussion with the the father of the PalmPilot in Part 2 of The PalmPower Interview with Jeff Hawkins. Jeff shares with us interesting insights into the design and execution of the PalmPilot, along with some ideas for the future.

If you write about the PalmPilot, whether it’s for publication or for internal corporate use, you’ll need to capture images of the PalmPilot’s screen. You’d be amazed at the hoops some authors jump through to capture Graffiti scratchings and PalmPilot screens. But once you read this article, you won’t have to jump through any flaming rings of fire because easy screenshots will always be a few taps away.

Our most popular article last month was about Graffiti shortcuts. Since this topic is so popular and universal, Contributing Editor Calvin O. Parker has put together a wonderful set of tips that will help you write even the toughest characters.

There’s an interesting new trend in the corporate world: using the PalmPilot as a motivational tool and a giveaway incentive. In this timely article, Contributing Editor Richard Echeandia explores how you can motivate and sell using the PalmPilot as a giveaway. He also points out some free contests where you can enter to win your own PalmPilot device.