December 17, 2003 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ historic 59-second powered flight. This is an event that truly heralded a change in our society. I’d like to honor that flight (and the accomplishment of the two brothers who stuck to their project through all the ups and downs) by running a series of articles about flight in the December 14th issue of each of the ZATZ magazines.

There are some simple ways to install a new Palm Desktop and handheld. Usually you do a HotSync operation with the old handheld, install the new desktop (often right over the old one) and then do another sync. Unfortunately, this often brings some old carry-overs, ghost files from the old machine to the new machine. If you want a fresh install, with just your old data and no "ghosts," read this important article.

It became clear that there was a need for a comprehensive course in what, exactly, a digital camera is, what it can and can’t do, and guidance in how to purchase the right one. Rather than providing a set of reviews for cameras that change each week, we decided to create a program to help you truly understand digital cameras, how they work, the tradeoffs involved in any purchase, and how to get the most productivity and enjoyment out of them. Learn about our new audio workshop in this article.

If you like to go to sleep with the dulcet tones of your iPod in your ear, nothing’s worse than discovering it’s been playing all the while you’ve been sleeping, completely draining the battery. In this helpful tip by Senior Technical Editor, we show you how to sleep with the iPod and still get respect in the morning (or at least, battery power).

In the panoply of natural disasters, fire has got to be one of the most terrifying — and yet most beautiful at the same time. I’ve always been something of a pyro, a fire bug, and so my awareness of the fire’s incredibly destructive nature would conflict with my artist’s appreciation of the epic beauty inherent in the flames. In this Site of the Month, we send you to a site that’s right in the middle of the event.

This week, we’re going to finish up our discussion of megapixels and your first digital camera with a short discussion of those little memory cards upon which you store your images.

In this issue, we’re going to look at some important concepts of image compression that you’ll need to know in order to understand how to capture and save images at the best quality.

Sometimes my job comes with some very special perks. This is one of those times. My mom recently wrote a charming little story about, well, a family friend. When she read it to me, I realized it was a story nearly all of our readers would be able to identify with. And so, it brings me great pleasure to announce the ZATZ publishing debut of my mom, Marilyn Gewirtz. — David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief

In this article, we review three new Palm handheld and go into detail about each model. Each model is quite nice, and we were most pleasantly surprised by the pricing, which is in tune with the rest of the handheld industry and provides good value for the money spent.

No discussion of digital cameras (or any camera) can really be complete without talking about cropping. In this helpful article, David Gewirtz shows you how to plan for cropping in your digital camera purchase.