Floola

Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It's a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (Windows Vista is supported).

Floola supports all common used iPod features including photos, artwork, podcasts and smart playlists!

It automatically converts any incompatible audio or video file so that you can copy almost any file to it. It even allows adding youtube and myspace videos with a single click!

Palm OS II smartphones pushed to first half of 2009

While maintaining that its next-generation operating system will still reach completion by the end of 2008, Palm subtly changed the expected shipping date for handsets based on the Linux-based OS to the first half of 2009. During an analyst call last week, Palm reiterated that the OS--known as both "Palm OS II" and "Nova"--remains on track to make its debut by year's end, echoing promises delivered in May by CFO Andrew Brown. But while Palm smartphones were once expected to follow by early next year, the firm now estimates devices will ship sometime during the first six months of 2009. In the interim, Palm will continue offering devices running on the current incarnation of the Palm OS as well as Windows Mobile-based products.

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3d Sport Panoramics

Click here to check out 3d Sport Panoramic Photographs from the Library of Congress.

Overweight kids likely to have more headaches, study finds

By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY
The more overweight children and teenagers are, the more frequent and disabling their headaches, according to the first national study to look at possible links between obesity and headaches in kids.

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Grant Opportunity

Grants are available for schools and non-profit organizations for obesity prevention programs pertaining to youth. Grants will not be awarded to individuals or to religious or political organizations.

Application instructions can be found at: http://www.cigna.com/about_us/community/targeted_grant.html

Grant Opportunity

Hidden Valley Salad Dressings is accepting applications to its Love Your Veggies grant program. The purpose of the program is to help elementary schools develop fresh fruit and vegetable programs starting in April 2009 and lasting through the 2009-2010 school year.

Ten $15,000 grants will be awarded to elementary schools across the United States to support programs that help provide students with increased access to, and consumption of fresh, healthy foods made available through an on-campus vegetable consumption program. Each school grant will consist of $15,000 in direct funding.

Deadline: November 7, 2008

Application and information for applying can be found at:
www.LoveYourVeggiesGrants.org

Amazon to Sell Low-Cost Laptops

Amazon to sell low-cost laptops this holiday season

11:30 AM CDT on Monday, September 8, 2008

The Boston Globe

Low-cost laptops from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation of Cambridge, Mass., will go on sale at Amazon.com this holiday season, making the $200 computers available for the first time through a retail outlet.

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