This is off topic, but we wanted to pass it along anyway. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and five Bay Area bands are putting on an afternoon of live music and outdoor fun at EFF’s second annual Share In. The festival will be held in Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse Bandshell on Saturday, September 14 from noon to 5 p.m. The celebration of independent music will be hosted by Grateful Dead lyricist and EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow, and former wife of the late great Jerry Garcia, Mountain Girl Garcia.

Artists participating in this event will permit recording of their performances by those in attendance in support of EFFs Open Audio License (OAL). Musicians performing at the event include: the Box Set Duo – clown princes of folk-rock, the classic funk band Funkmonsters, celtic world-fusion group Hy Brassyl, harmony based folk-pop band Atticus Scout, and Berkeley-based party band Shady Lady.

In addition to music, the Share-In will feature performers including Ashley Foster the One Wheeled Wonder, the Existential Circus, Frantastic Hands, the Metronome Dancers, and Willy Bologna and his Sideshow Circus. Bring your family and friends!

MilliKeys has been released. It’s a free program that implements a customizable virtual keyboard on the silkscreen area of a Palm OS device. It supports multiple key layouts editable on the handheld itself; previewing on the screen; macros to start programs or input keys; and more.

Astraware Ltd announced the release of Rook’s Revenge for Palm Powered and Pocket PC handheld computers. Rook’s Revenge is a raucous, real-time chess game that is more about being a fast thinker and mover than a grand master. While the game features a standard checkered board and chess pieces–all moving according to traditional chess rules–and the objective is to kill the opponent’s king, this is where the similarities cease. Instead of taking turns at moving their pieces, the players can move them as soon and as often as they like. Other new Astraware games for Palm OS handhelds include Link Letters, What Word, T-Blaster, and Candy Cruncher.

Royal Philips Electronics and Intel Corporation announced that the two companies have collaborated to create a new digital multimedia reference platform called Pronto++ Software & Systems. This platform should enable Philips and its original equipment manufacturers to create next-generation interactive, digital audio and video devices running on Intel PXA250 rocessors. This platform brings two sets of solutions: fully integrated hardware devices that include software and services, and software-only solutions for other devices, including PDAs, Smart Phones, and notebook PCs.

HandStory is having a Back to School Sale on its HandStory Suite. It’s been marked down to $14.95, 25% off the regular price of $19.95. HandStory Suite 2.2 includes HandStory Converter, HandStory Browser, and HandStory Clip Editor.

nReach has selected NetShift

Chapura, Inc. announced the release of KeyContacts 1.1 software, which has been updated for more integration with select Palm OS software and hardware devices. A new feature is the ability to view all populated contact information fields from the “View” screen, without entering “Edit” mode. This decreases the number of taps required to see detailed information, such as any one of 19 phone numbers, three email addresses, or three street addresses. In addition, phone numbers and email addresses in KeyContacts are now searchable from other applications, such as Date Book, To Do List, Memo Pad, and Mail.

CNET News.com reports Handspring is warning customers outside of New Zealand and Singapore to not install a software upgrade that allows its Treo Communicator to run on next-generation cell phone networks. According to the article, a similar upgrade should soon be made available for Treo customers worldwide, but the current version is designed only for those specific markets.

Palm Digital Media released its list of August’s top 10 best-selling ebooks.

NOVASIB, LLC released a new version of Silkyboard, a Graffiti area keyboard for Palm OS handhelds. Silkyboard II Virtual Edition is designed for Samsung SPH-I300 and HandEra E330 devices with virtual Graffiti area.