Although many of us don’t admit it, we all love playing games on our PalmPilot device. Programming technology editor Alan Jay Weiner continues his popular Programming Power series with this fun article. If you’ve wondered how games are built on the PalmPilot, or you’ve been interested in how to make use of the Palm device buttons in your own programs, this is the article for you.

Whenever Microsoft enters an established market, everyone notices. Well, Microsoft has plopped it’s 300-pound gorilla smack dead center in the middle of Palm’s handheld computer market by introducing their design for the Palm-sized PC and licensing the design and software to computer makers. One of the first such licensees is Philips, with the Nino 300. We wanted to know how the Nino compares to the Palm platform devices. In this very objective, no-holds-barred review, Jason Perlow compares the hardware of the two devices. You may be surprised by the results.

Amazing as it may seem, the Palm device is quite musical — and a friend to musicians, composers, and other musically inclined individuals. Hiding behind the mild-mannered persona of contributing editor David Pogue lurks the secret identity of an accomplished composer and conductor. Blending his two worlds (that of the computer and of music), David introduces us to music on the PalmPilot. And, surprisingly, there are some wonderful solutions, including a songwriter’s helper, an electronic metronome, a tool for determining pitch, some nice melody makers, and even a tool for budding guitar players. If you’re musically inclined, this is the ultimate article for you.

With the successful introduction of the iMac, it’s been a big month for the Macintosh faithful. This month, contributing editor Jim DeLaHunt takes you on a fun and helpful tour of the best online resources for those Palm organizer users who are also Macintosh fans.

We covered the Palm III organizer in considerable depth in March. And we’ve talked about the 2MB Upgrade Card. But we’ve never really discussed, in detail, the techniques for upgrading a PalmPilot organizer to a Palm III device. Until now. Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz bit the bullet and performed upgrade surgery on his own PalmPilot. The process turned out to be more difficult than expected. In this important article, David explains what went wrong and provides a very valuable, step-by-step procedure for reinstalling applications if the upgrade doesn’t work on your first attempt.

As technology users, we get jazzed by new hardware and software. So when PalmPower Managing Editor Denise Amrich got the new Brave Palm catalog from New World Technologies, she was ready to dig in and find some cool new goodies. Her enthusiasm lasted mere seconds, when it was replaced by a weary feeling of deja vu. The world of the PalmPilot organizer had seemed so enlightened, so empowering. But there, on the cover of Brave Palm, was a minimally clad woman floating in the water, so pale, she almost looked like a drowning victim. Inside were other pictures, few showing women as capable professionals. The cheap tactic of using sex to sell had reached the PalmPilot. In this important article, Denise looks at where Brave went wrong and provides suggestions that will help companies learn how to get it right.

Despite the Palm organizer’s relatively small screen, many owners have taken to downloading entire books into their device. It’s certainly more convenient to carry a number of reference works in your PalmPilot device, rather than in your backpack or briefcase. Recognizing this interesting trend, Craig Froehle and John Swain, keepers of well-respected e-text repositories, have started a new Book-of-the-Month Club column in PalmPower. This month, they review The Art of War and Two Years Before the Mast (two must-read classics) and provide pointers to a variety of useful business documented including a guides to holidays, investment, and travel.

David Pogue has contributed his first article as a newly minted PalmPower contributing editor. He’s also the author of a brand-new O’Reilly & Associates book called "PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide", which we’ve wanted to review in PalmPower. Of course, the problem was how to do it. We needed to make sure that our association with David as a contributing editor didn’t influence the content of the review. We solved the problem by asking our toughest reviewer, Claire Pieterek, to read the book. Claire’s tough. Claire’s fair. She answers to no one. And she reviewed David’s book. Should you run out tomorrow and buy David’s book? You’ll have to read this review to find out.

At PalmPower, we just love getting the inside scoop from the experts. Especially when it’s exclusive. It makes us especially warm and fuzzy when we can get incredibly useful inside information that helps us save money. And if we can save money by spending less on taxes, that just makes it all the more fabulous. So it’s understandable that we’re insufferably proud of this article. Shannon Pekary is the developer of a software product called Trip, which helps you track travel expenses. Understandably, he’s also an expert on ways you can reduce your taxes by tracking those expenses. In this article, Shannon tells you how you can use Trip and other travel tracking programs to save money on your taxes. Unless you like giving your good ol’ cash money to the IRS, you’d better read this article right away.

PalmPilot email is a very hot topic. Last month’s email tutorial was one of our most popular articles ever. Therefore, by popular demand, we’re running another great email article this month. One of our favorite and best-informed Palm enthusiasts, Fredlet, spent some serious time with JP Systems’ OneTouch Communicator and this is her in-depth report. Communicator’s an interesting product that does some things the other email products we reviewed don’t. So if you’re considering having email in the Palm of your hand, you need to read this article.