Many of you know that some years back Editor-in-Chief David wrote a pretty well-received book called The Flexible Enterprise, which was all about how businesses can manage and thrive in a changing economy. Over the past week, we’ve gotten a bunch of letters from readers asking about how all the economic fuss we’ve been experiencing will affect their jobs, their businesses, and the world of tech. In this important article, David shares with you some background that can help you understand the situation better. He also provides some coping strategies that will help you make it through this thing and come out solid on the other side.

One of the most anticipated games of 2008 was Stars Wars: The Force Unleashed from LucasArts. In it, the player takes on the role of Darth Vader’s secret apprentice in an effort to hunt down remaining Jedi, carrying out secret missions of espionage and destruction on behalf of the Dark Lord. Resurrecting our WE GOT GAME! column, Editor-at-Large James Booth takes his Force powers with me wherever he goes with a hands-on look at the PSP version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

As a writer, Heather Wardell tries to have access to her works-in-progress at all times so she can revise a sticky section or just re-visit a part she particularly liked. Of course, her files are all on her laptop, but she doesn’t take her laptop everywhere. Her Palm, though, is an ever-present companion, and DataViz’s Documents To Go allows her to work anywhere she chooses. Should you add Documents To Go to your kit bag? Read Heather’s review and find out.

With gas prices through the roof, and no relief in sight, many people are trying to drive less, or at least be more efficient about how they use their vehicles. But how do you know if your changes are having any effect? WakefieldSoft’s AutoFile lets you see exactly how you’re doing. Is it worth your money? Heather Wardell’s review will clue you in.

Do you want to create an ebook, whether for sale or free distribution, but have no idea where to start? If you answered yes, after reading this article you should be able to make your very own ebook.

Contributor Jorge Sosa says that while he appreciates the Prius as a sensible transportation appliance, it has absolutely none of the traits that made him fall in love with cars as a wee Gen-X toddler. Fortunately, it’s not too late to de-emasculate himself — and there’s hope for the rest of us as well. This is a smart article that’s also funny as all heck.

How many times have you been in a situation where we buy the latest handheld communication device, only to find it becoming obsolete in a few months? What seemed like a cool gadget at the time of buying now looks like a thick and heavy stone slab, which you’re carrying around. In this article, Harikrishna S. Aravapalli proposes a new kind of handheld device.

Now that $4-per-gallon gas is here — and, although fluctuating, it’s showing no signs of going away soon — the time is high for Detroit to learn once again that small is beautiful. Sadly, it appears the Big Three aren’t quite hip to that yet — and they might not be for some time.

In addition to his job here at ZATZ, David Gewirtz is also the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals and a columnist for The Journal of Counterterrorism and Homeland Security International. As you probably know, Russia has attacked Georgia (Tblisi, not Atlanta) with tanks and troops. However, before the physical attack, there was a cyberattack against many of Georgia’s online resources. First indications seemed to imply the cyberattack originated as a Russian offensive, while later analysis by some sources dispute that, claiming that "script kiddies" are behind the assault. David wrote this article for the current issue of Counterterrorism. Given the timing of the Georgia attack, we felt it’d also be of interest to our Computing Unplugged and OutlookPower readers and are reprinting it here with permission.

Heather Wardell recently discovered the joys of using a RSS reader program to consolidate all her favorite blogs, and wondered if she could somehow get the same features on her Palm. Stand Alone, Inc’s Quick News promised, but did it deliver? In terms of base functionality, yes. Its advanced features, though, need more work.