When making a purchasing decision, especially on a company-wide basis, you must evaluate your Return on Investment. In this article, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz explores the entire ROI issue as it pertains to Palm handhelds. He offers a number of real world examples of companies that have seen enormous ROI benefits and provides several guidelines to follow when trying to figure out what your ROI might be before you invest in Palm handhelds.

Since the release of the Palm m500 series, equipped with it’s own expansion slot, a number of applications have been created to manage applications and data on the expansion cards. Contributing Editor Chris Phillips provides a brief survey of what’s available to help you take better advantage of this valuable expansion technology.

Gaining access to your most important Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files anytime, anywhere allows you to bring the productivity of the Palm OS to a new level. In this article from our sponsor, you’ll learn how Documents To Go 4.0 by DataViz allows you to use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on any Palm OS handheld.

Everyone seems to want more time. Your Palm handheld is an excellent time management tool. Right out of the box, it’s equipped with two powerful resources: the Date Book and the To Do List. In this article, Kimberly Bryant, a business and personal success coach, will show you how to use your Palm handheld to create more quality time in your life.

In order to encourage you to learn more about our fabulous advertisers, we’re offering a second installment of the Official PalmPower Scavenger Hunt. Why not take a 5-minute break and play? It’s your chance to win a snazzy new LAVA lamp provided by AppForge, Inc.

In this month’s Letters to the Editor, a reader responds to Contributing Editor Bob Draper’s question about building a handheld from various parts. Another reader offers a solution for using Pocket Quicken with versions of Quicken used outside the U.S. Finally, Editor in Chief David Gewirtz answers a reader’s concerns about motherboards.

With the MyPalm portal, Palm is closing the loop between Internet-based calendar services and personal information devices. In his second article on the MyPalm portal, Ray Rischpater delves deeper into its functionality, covering synchronization, sharing, groups, RSVP, and the Publish feature. He also takes a look at the MyPalm Web clipping application that lets you take your Internet-based PIM on the road.

You may not know it, but you can "tweak" the Palm OS. Using a hack manager, you can install "hacks" that modify the behavior of your handheld in all sorts of nifty ways. In this article, Sam Kleinman introduces you to the world of hack managers and surveys some of the most popular applications in this area.

As well designed as the Palm OS is, you may wish to tweak the functionality to your own whims. To do this, you can make use of system extensions, otherwise known as hacks. In this article, Sam Kleinman will introduce you to several popular hacks that will allow you to alter the way your system runs in some interesting (and occasionally dangerous) ways.

Everybody loves to play games, but the question you have to answer is, how much memory are you willing to sacrifice to maintain your personal arcade? Pocket Express has a solution. Chris Phillips reviews the Pocket Express Entertainment Pack, a collection of six popular Palm OS games conveniently stored on a Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard for the Palm m500 series.