Quickies: Palm Tipsheet, Free eBooks, 340 MB Springboard

This month's Palm Tipsheet is now online. It offers ideas for keeping handheld data protected should it be lost or stolen, and ways to prevent the worst from occurring. They also talk with German Palm handheld user Leonard Burtscher in the Tipsheet Interview. -Mike Rohde

Fictionwise.com is giving away three 2001 Hugo Award nominated stories as free eBooks. The available titles, which will be free for a limited time, are “Kaddish for the Last Survivor” by Michael A. Burstein, “The Elephants on Neptune” by Mike Resnick, and “Redchapel” by Mike Resnick. -Scott Pendergrast

Bruce Nadro of pdaLight has found a way to use the 340 MB IBM Microdrive in the Matchbookdrive Compact Flash adapter for the Visor, according the VisorCentral. When he gets the design fully developed, he plans to offer a version that runs on rechargeable batteries or plugged in to the wall