Not satisfied with merely covering a single medium, the written word, our daring front line columnists this month decided to join the hallowed halls of the nationally syndicated columnists like Rex Reed, Janet Maslin, and Siskel and Ebert. The results are more like Pinky and the Brain or Dilbert, but as we thought about it some, we were able to see the evil genius lurking behind their nefarious plot. They were hopeful that if they provided some insight into the movie-related resources available for Palm device owners, PalmPower would agree to authorize their travel request to attend the Oscar Award ceremony. We enjoyed this month’s column, but we’re getting more fun out of thinking of the two of them sitting at home, dressed in their rented tuxedos wondering why the limousine hasn’t arrived yet!

As publishers of both PalmPower and DominoPower Magazines, we’ve noticed a surprisingly high cross-over in interest between the two products. In fact, we’ve gotten requests from readers of both publications for more information about how to integrate Notes applications with Palm devices. As is often the case, your wish is our editorial content. In this fine article, Dan Velasco takes you through a complete application that lets you download your Notes address book information into your Palm device — and you can do it from your favorite Web browser. Just so cool.

The top dog in last month’s Editors Choice Awards, at least in terms of the number of products awarded awards (say that three times fast!), was TealPoint Software. TealPoint won three awards for TealPaint, TealScript, and TealMeal. Since the small shareware company offers a wide variety of cool tools, we asked our very cool contributing editor, Claire Pieterek, to look at all of TealPoint’s products. In this useful review, Claire examines each of TealPoint’s products and recommends ways you can get the most out of your Palm device.

We’re starting to see more and more great books about the Palm organizer being printed and published. In our new PalmPower Book Review series, contributing editor Bob Freud examines each book in turn, rendering his verdict with a stylus up or down. In this issue, Bob reviews Sams Teach Yourself PalmPilot and Palm III in 10 Minutes, a short, but very helpful little book.

For you avid readers of PalmPower who track Fredlet’s every move — and you know who you are — this month she’s awarding komodo dragons in her monthly review. For February, our hard-nosed contributing editor looks at Quicksheet, a fully-functional spreadsheet for your Palm organizer. How does Quicksheet stack up? Will it make bean counters everywhere topple over in fits of pleasure? Read this article to find out. And if you happen to have a favorite spreadsheet fiend you know and love, be prepared to do some serious catching. That guy’s gonna tip right over.

What can we say? We love it when you love us. In this installment of our semi-regular Letters to the Editor series, we reprint two letters which just gush all over about PalmPower. We also include a letter from a reader who’s concerned about the cost of replacement Graffiti stickers for the Palm device.

Programming technology editor Alan Jay Weiner is back — and better than ever before. In this fine continuation of our well-respected Programming Power series, Alan tells you about the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of programming with fields.

It’s a brand new year and change is in the air. In his February editorial, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz showcases some of the major changes that are in store for PalmPower and Component Enterprises, the company that publishes PalmPower and DominoPower. If you want to be the first to know about the exciting news, read this article.

It had to happen sooner or later. If you’ve been following the follies of our two intrepid columnists, they’ve talked about sex, they’ve talked about politics, and they’ve talked about religion. So when the subject of this month’s column came up, they did what anyone else does in a conversational lull, they turned to the weather! With their usual flair, our favorite columnists turn their attention this month to the controversial subject that’s plaguing everyone in the northern latitudes: winter. For those readers who dwell in warmer latitudes, they had all kinds of nasty suggestions for you and your balmy breezes, but being a family-oriented publication, they elected to exercise much-appreciated editorial restraint.

At PalmPower, we have a regular practice of scoring the best exclusives. We did it again this month. Marty Kacin, Director of Professional Services at AvantGo, has written a detailed guide about optimizing Web pages so they can be viewed on a Palm device. While this guide is most applicable to designing Web pages for use with PalmPower Product of the Year Award-winner AvantGo, it’s also quite valuable for designers who intend pages to be viewed by any handheld browser software.