Here at ZATZ, we’ve been fortunate enough to attract four wonderful Senior Technical Editors, Richard Echeandia, Claire Pieterek, Jason Perlow, and Dan Velasco. In this month’s editorial, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz explains the role of Senior Technical Editor and just how these four key people help to make the journal a success. Whether you’ve ever wondered what Senior Technical Editors do, or you’ve just been concerned with growing your own career, you owe it to yourself to read this article.

Are you a fan of Xena Warrior Princess? If you are, this month’s site of the month, Xena Fan Fiction for Palm devices, is for you. It’s a really fun site for Xena fans.

Can you combine the sleek, sexy contours of a Palm V palmtop with a sumptuous leather case? Sure, especially if it’s the luxury leather case from Ondata. Mark Asadoorian recently acquired one of these cases, and says it’s beautiful. Hand-stitched by craftsman in Riola, Italy, this case is simply a work of art.

The OmniSky 19.2K cellular modem and wireless Internet access service, now in widespread beta testing, allows your Palm V to take advantage of bandwidth-optimized Palm Web Clipping applications, fully browse the Web with AvantGo, and retrieve/send POP3 email when you re on the road. Is it the holy grail of wireless Internet access for your Palm V, or does it fall short on its claims? Contributing Editor Jason Perlow has the scoop.

"Let’s see. It’s four o’clock and I’m in Ridgewood at the doctor’s office. I’m meeting somebody at six o’clock for dinner. What should I do in the meantime?" Most of us ask ourselves these questions far too often. Life Balance, a new Palm OS program from Llamagraphics, encourages these kinds of questions, and even helps you come up with useful answers. When you buy a piece of software, you don’t usually expect that it’s going to ask you to think deeply about your life and what you want it to be about. Bob Freud shows us in this article, however, that Life Balance isn’t most software.

Over the last few weeks, rumors of a Palm device with color have been running rampant. In this article, News Editor Heather McDaniel discusses the latest news and tries to separate fact from fiction.

We’ve already seen the application of Windows CE in automotive technology with Clarion’s AutoPC. Now, Datus Inc., a subsidiary of Korean electronics giant Daewoo, brings advanced GPS navigation technology to your car with the Routefinder PNA 7000, the world’s first handheld auto navigation system. But is it an expensive yuppie toy or an indispensable navigation tool? Senior Technical Editor Jason Perlow gives you the scoop.

This month, BSQUARE’s Steve Makofsky explains how to determine if the SIP (Software Input Panel) API is available on a device at runtime, how to programmatically show or hide the SIP, how to create databases on a flash card, and how to create a hidden database.

Corporate America loves Adobe System, Inc.’s Portable Document Format (PDF). After all, most major layout and documentation software packages have the ability to save a file in this format. Soon, there will be a product from a company called Ansyr that will allow you to view PDFs on your handheld. In this exclusive beta watch report, Contributing Editor Clifford Brooks tells you whether Ansyr is the answer.

Somehow, our intrepid leader managed to get Bill Clinton, Milli Vanilli, Karen Carpenter, cigars, loincloths, IBM, Eudora, pointy-eared Vulcans, flush-toilets, and Charlemagne all into one reasonably lucid editorial. What can we say? Read it and see if he somehow succeeds in pulling it off.