PalmPower contributing editor Jeff Carlson has found what we’ve all needed for a long time. If you’ve ever needed to capture and report expenses in the hopes of getting an expense reimbursement, you should check out this review. Jeff looks at Palm Expense Creator from Shana. This handy little program doesn’t replace your Expense application on the Palm device. Rather, it provides a whole host of reporting options you can use from your PC and, yes, your Macintosh.

PalmPower scores another exclusive this month with this important article by Motorola engineer Brian Smith. If you’ve been wondering how Palm managed to make the Palm V so small, now you can find out. Although by nature technical, this article makes understanding the functions of the processor inside the new Palm V and Palm IIIx devices clear to everyone.

Macintosh users are finally getting rewarded for their platform loyalty. BrainForest is a well-respected outliner for the Palm device. Now, there’s a companion application for the Macintosh desktop. In this interesting article, contributing editor Bob Freud shows you how you can write your outline on your Palm device and edit it on your Mac.

If there’s one common characteristic of Palm device users, we’re all gadget lovers. While some of us like gadgets that are more arcane, all of us tend to go for the cool, well-designed, perfectly integrated slick devices. While the Seiko Smart Label Printer isn’t the coolest of the cool, it’s certainly a slick add-on to your computer’s hardware portfolio. In this clearly written review, contributing editor Claire Pieterek reviews the Smart Label Printer and gives you an overview of how it works. Can you say click and print?

Once asked what serial communications was, a young programming student thought long and hard. Then he said, "Get a box of Captain Crunch, open it, and wing the cereal at the kid at the next desk." Needless to say, the young fellow was destined for programming fame and fortune. If you want to learn how to make your program communicate over the serial port without excess battery consumption and without starting a food fight, you should read Programming Technology Editor Alan Jay Weiner’s latest Programming Power column.

If you’re like most Palm device users, your Palm organizer keeps track of your contacts, appointments, tasks, and notes. In short, the Palm computer makes an excellent PIM. But, as John Kuo shows us in this fascinating First Look at PocketLog, the Palm computer really is a general purpose computing machine. PocketLog is a data acquisition program. Basically, PocketLog allows a Palm user to go around a factory floor doing inventory, or an engineer to take measurements, or a quality control expert to record data. So, if you want to know how you can build great data collection applications (and yes, now you really can count the number of stars in the sky), you should check out PocketLog.

As editors, we help guide authors with article topics. But until the article is turned in and in our hot little hands, we never really know whether it’s a line drive or a home run. This one’s a home run. In this amazing article, Jason Perlow compares the core elements of Microsoft’s Windows CE operating system to the Palm OS. The article is detailed and technical, yet completely understandable by anyone with a small amount of computer experience. If you’ve ever been even slightly curious how Windows CE and the Palm OS differ, this is THE article. Not only is the article clear and understandable, but it’s also completely unbiased. Bookmark this now.

Palm Computing has shipped its latest crop of new machines: the Palm IIIx and the Palm V. You may have heard the buzz, but what’s the real story? Are they worth getting? If you’re a Palm device owner now, should you hand-me-down your current machine and rush, cash in hand, to the nearest retailer? Just how good are they? Just how cool are they? If you’d like the answers to these questions, look no further. Claire Pieterek, our hard-testing, take-no-prisoners, product reviewin’ contributing editor has put both machines through the torture test. The results? You’ll just have to read this article to find out.

Finally, Macintosh users are seeing light at the end of the tunnel. While they’re not iCandy-colored iMacs, the new releases and betas from Palm Computing’s Macintosh development workshops are showing real promise. In this very helpful article, contributing editor Jeff Carlson, author of "Palm III & PalmPilot Visual QuickStart Guide", gives us a guided tour of the new goodies, including IR HotSync, AppleScript functions, new Expense and Mail conduits, and more. If you use a Mac and a Palm device, this is going to be the best article you’ve read anywhere in months

Welcome to our March, 1999 issue. This issue marks the first in which we’ll be covering the new Palm V and Palm IIIx devices. In his editorial this month, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz talks about product naming and branding, discusses a letter he received from a developer about the Palm brand, and then ends by getting on his little soapbox and pontificating on the Palm V and Palm IIIx names. By the time he’s done, we figure he’ll have ticked off, annoyed, or otherwise offended just about everyone. It’s a job. Somebody’s got to do it.